Active Learning Technology Tools!

1. Active LearningTechnology Tools! Presented by Linda Hefferin lhefferin@elgin.edu Elgin Community College at the 2010 NISOD conference

2. Types of Technology Tools

3. Why should we care? Is social media just a fad? http://socialnomics.net/2010/05/05/social-media-revolution-2-refresh/

4. Top Ten Signs Technology Has Taken Over Your Life….. 10. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

5. Top Ten Signs Technology Has Taken Over Your Life….. 9. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

6. Top Ten Signs Technology Has Taken Over Your Life….. 8. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.

7. Top Ten Signs Technology Has Taken Over Your Life….. 6. You’re talking to someone and you ask them to text or email you the information they’ve just told you.

8. Top Ten Signs Technology Has Taken Over Your Life….. 5. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.

9. Top Ten Signs Technology Has Taken Over Your Life….. 4. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.

10. Top Ten Signs Technology Has Taken Over Your Life….. 3. You start tilting your head sideways to smile : )

11. Top Ten Signs Technology Has Taken Over Your Life….. 2. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.

12. Top Ten Signs Technology Has Taken Over Your Life….. 1. You are too busy to notice there was no #7 on this list.

13. Session Objectives Share information on active learning technology tools. Find out how others use technology in their courses. Have some fun!

14. "In education. . . we have not really seized upon the power and the tools that are now available to us in the Internet age.“ Eric Schmidt, Google CEO http://www.google.com/events/digitalage/index.html

15. "We can no longer ask our students to live in a world where they are immersed in technology in all parts of their lives except when they go to school. We must rewire education or we risk losing this generation of media-immersed, tech-savvy students.” Larry D. Rosen, Psychology Professor at California State University Author, , Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and How They Learn YouTube - A 2.5 Year-Old Has A First Encounter with An iPad

16. “The vast majority of structured learning is content-rich and interaction-poor." Charles Jennings, Learning Performance Consultant http://charles-jennings.blogspot.com/

17. Active Learning A pedagogical technique that uses activities designed to actively engage students with …

18. Free tools to make learning visual….. Wordle http://www.wordle.net/ Related images http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com Concept Mapping www.prezi.com & www.mindomo.com Create charts http://www.google.com/squared How would you use them?

19. Free tools for screencasting….. Jing http://www.jingproject.com/ Camstudio www.camstudio.org Real www.real.com Screentoaster www.screentoaster.com How would you use them?

20. Free tools to collaborate, conduct research, and create. . . Google for educators http://docs.google.com http://wave.google.com http://groups.google.com http://knol.google.com http://labs.google.com How would you use them?

21. Free tool to create webinars, have guest speakers. . . Skype http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/home How would you use it?

22. Free tools to print from the web Print What You Like http://www.printwhatyoulike.com/ Page Zipper http://www.printwhatyoulike.com/pagezipper Booklet creator http://bookletcreator.com/ PDF creator http://www.cutepdf.com/ How would you use them?

23. Free tool to highlight and share web-based text Awesome Highlighter http://www.awesomehighlighter.com/ How would you use it?

24. Free tools to access content. . . iTunes University www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/ YouTube for educators www.youtube.com/education?b=400 Teacher Tube: http://teachertube.com Next Vista: http://nextvista.org Zamzar (play videos w/out internet) www.zamzar.com How would you use them?

25. Free tool to use as a timer... Timer http://www.online-stopwatch.com/ How would you use it?

26. Free tool to learn Chinese language and culture. . . Enter Zon http://enterzon.com/# How would you use it?

27. Free tools for finding and sharing photos… Shutterfly http://www.shutterfly.com/ Flickr http://www.flickr.com/ Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/ Morguefile http://morguefile.com Photobucket: http://photobucket.com/ How would you use them?

28. Free tools for bookmarking. . . Delicious http://delicious.com/save How would you use it? http://delicious.com/lhefferin

29. Free tool to record video using the camera on your laptop. . . Ustream http://www.ustream.tv/get-started How would you use it?

30. Free tools for editing images… GIMP (similar to Photoshop) www.gimp.org Picnik (online photo editing, make GIFs) www.picnik.com Unfreez (make animated GIFs) www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez How would you use these?

31. Free tools for audio editing… Audacity www.audacity.sourceforge.net dSpeech (text to speech) http://dspeech.en.softonic.com/ Free music: http://jamendo.com and http://www.podsafeaudio.com/ How would you use them?

32. Free tools for making videos… Movie Maker (on PCs) iMovie (on Macs) Tutorials: www.apple.com & www.microsoft.com www.youtube.com (Audacity, Jamendo & more) www.google.com

33. Free tools to shorten URLs . . Bitly http://bit.ly/ Tiny URLhttp://tinyurl.com/ How would you use them? http://www.chinatour.com/currency/currency.htm http://bit.ly/c2u8Oh

34. Free tool to get all the results of encyclopedia entries on one page… Mashpedia http://mashpedia.com/ How would you use it?

35. Free tool to troubleshoot computer problems… ShowMeWhat’sWrong http://showmewhatswrong.com/ How would you use it?

36. Free tool to get rid of clutter… Readability http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ How would you use it? http://diversityinc.com/cgi-bin/cms/seoDepartment.cgi?browse=1&id=33&letter=

37. Free tools to conduct surveys… Wiffitti http://wiffiti.com/ Poll Everywhere http://www.polleverywhere.com/ How would you use them?

38. Free tools to create websites… Google: http://sites.google.com Kompozer (for online web development, to create and edit HTML) www.kompozer.net iSpring (convert PPTs to web friendly versions) http://www.ispringfree.com/ How would you use them?

39. More fun stuff… Put yourself and your students in the picture http://sendables.jibjab.com/ Periodic Table of the Internet http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2007-06-23--periodic-table-of-the-internet.html

40. Free Technology for Teachers http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ All My Faves http://edu.allmyfaves.com/ Free Office/Productivity software http://www.sourceforge.net/ http://www.openoffice.org

41. How Did We Do? Did you learn and share information on active learning technology tools? Did you get some ideas you can use in your courses? AND most importantly, did you have some fun?!

42. In Conclusion. . . "Technology is a vehicle, not a destination. . . Rather, aspects of technology — like all components of an effective course — should be chosen according to how they help meet the learning objectives.“ -Nine principles for excellence in web-based teaching by Jim Henry and Jeff Meadows http://www.cjlt.ca/index.php/cjlt/article/view/179/177