New Tools For Teaching

1. New Tools For Teaching Andrew L. Wright, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of CIS andrew.wright@louisville.edu louisville.edu/faculty/alwrig01

2. Agenda • SafeAssign & Plagiarism Prevention • Overview • Using SafeAssign • Tegrity • Overview • Supporting Pedagogy with Tegrity • Using Tegrity • Blogs and Wikis • Conclusions

3. Overview of SafeAssign

4. What is • SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention service integrated with the Blackboard Learning System™ • It is delivered by Blackboard at no additional cost to the institution • It uses a unique originality detection algorithm to run a comparison of submitted papers across a large collection of databases

5. What does check? • SafeAssign compares submitted papers to: • Internet • Index of billions of documents available to public • ProQuest ABI/Inform database • Millions of current articles, updated weekly, many with full-text • Institutional Database • Papers submitted by users from UofL • Global Reference Database • Papers that were volunteered by students at other institutions

6. Sample Report

7. Plagiarism Prevention

8. SafeAssign is not Enough • SafeAssign cannot replace faculty judgment • SA report does not prove that student plagiarized work • SA won’t detect all forms of plagiarism • But SafeAssign can be used for creating teaching opportunities

9. Catalog Statement • From current Undergraduate Catalog • Plagiarism defined as "representing the words or ideas of someone else as one’s own in any academic exercise” • “Plagiarism Prevention: Instructors may use a range of strategies (including plagiarism-prevention software at the university) to compare student works with private and public information resources in order to identify possible plagiarism and academic dishonesty. Comparisons of student works may require submitting a copy of the original work to the plagiarism-prevention service. The service may retain that copy in some circumstances.  Academic units or programs may establish a more rigorous standard of review or consent, which will be noted in the relevant guidelines.”

10. Preventing Plagiarism through Pedagogy • Syllabus • Assignment Design • Teaching: process-based view of writing • Teaching: research skills

11. Teaching: Using Process-Based View of Research and Writing • Conducting preliminary research/reading • Selecting a topic • Preparing a working bibliography • Drafting research questions • Developing a working thesis (or hypothesis) • Creating an outline • Writing the first draft • Revising, editing, and proofreading • Producing the final draft • Writing a reflection of the process

12. Using SafeAssign

13. Modes of Use • SafeAssign may be used in two primary ways • Creating SafeAssignments • Like a regular Assignment in Blackboard that routes student submissions through plagiarism service • In normal mode, papers added to Institutional Database automatically with student opt-in for Global Reference Database • In draft mode, performs text matching but paper isn’t retained in any database • Direct Submit • Faculty may directly upload papers • May add to Institutional Database but not to Global Reference Database

14. Supported Document Types • SafeAssign supports several types of document • .doc Word 97-2003 (but not new .docx) • .pdf Adobe PDF • .rtf Rich Text Format • .txt Plain Text • .html Web Page

15. Demonstration • Easier to show in actual system

16. Resources • Delphi is building resources for SafeAssign:http://delphi.louisville.edu/help/safeassign/ • Includes: • Overview documents for students and faculty • Step-by-Step directions for creating a SafeAssignment • Step-by-Step directions for using Direct Submit • Offers complete training: http://delphi.louisville.edu/faculty/technology/safeassign.html • Also, check out Blackboard’s site:http://www.safeassign.com/ • Has manuals, how to’s, FAQs, and more!

17. Overview of Tegrity

18. Why Class Capture? 120:20 Principle Amount retained Time elapsed Teachersspeak an average of 120 words per minuteStudentswrite an average of 20 words per minuteStudents must decide whether to write or listen

19. Why Class Capture?

20. Why Tegrity? • Easy capture – no change in teaching methods required to use • Capture, Store, Index with click of a button • Three buttons: Start, Pause, Stop OPTIONS Voice Recorder Only Demonstrations Tablet PC for Annotations Instructor Video

21. Review Anywhere, Anytime Enhanced Audio or Video Podcast Mac Browser PC Browser Mobile Access

22. Enhanced Podcasting Mktg303 Tegrity Podcast 1/26/06 European Union Automatically push lectures to the iPod for on-the-go learning Students easily navigate to specific parts (chapters) of their classes using text titles and images Automatic, chaptered, easy to subscribe

23. UofL Pilot Summary • 90% of students indicated that Tegrity would enhance at least some of their other courses • 73% of students indicated that Tegrity contributed to their learning course material • 66% of students indicated that studying with Tegrity was more effective than studying without Tegrity • 59% of students surveyed indicated that Tegrity improved their overall course satisfaction • 56% of students indicated that Tegrity allowed them to focus on the most important learning goals of their course • 55% of students indicated that Tegrity improved the DEPTH of their learning • 52% of students indicated that Tegrity helped their course grade • 50% of students indicated that Tegrity saved time spent on the course • 43% of students indicated that Tegrity increased their motivation to study

24. Supporting Pedagogy with Tegrity

25. Classroom-based pedagogies • Promoting cognitive elaboration • Modeling think-aloud-problem solving • Changing student’s current mental models • Enhancing critical thinking • Capturing a case-study discussion • AcousticMagic array microphones in CoB classrooms • Providing feedback • Group presentations recorded and available for later critique • Feedback on accuracy of note taking

26. Techniques • Full class capture • Supplemental recordings • Use of tablet/SmartBoard/Sympodium for annotation and math/chemistry/physics equations, diagrams • Audio only – MP3 and WMA input • Incorporation of document camera sources, microscope output, webcam video • Examples

27. Using Tegrity

28. Student Platforms PC Mac Minimum Requirements CPU: Pentium 4 or higher Memory: 512 MB Operating System: Windows Vista or Windows XP SP2 Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 Minimum Requirements CPU: PowerPC 1.4 GHz or Intel 1.4 GHz Memory: 512 MB Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or 10.4 (Tiger) Browser: Safari 2.0, Safari 3.0, Firefox 2.0 Other platforms: Unix / Linux supporting M4V files

29. Instructor Platforms PC Hardware: Minimum Requirements CPU: Pentium 4 or higher Operating System: Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista Memory: 512 MB (Windows XP SP2) or 1 GB (Windows Vista) Hard Drive: Free space about 4 GB At a bare minimum, Tegrity requires only a computer and microphone for the instructor and access to the server via the Internet or local network. Any additional multimedia hardware can be connected and captured if desired. Similar to WebEx, there is no need for IT support and there is also no need for proprietary hardware.

30. Instructor Platforms PC Functionality Two recording modes: Standard Recording mode: Lowest resource usage (CPU and disk) recording. Records with PowerPoint with a dedicated OLE solution, annotations with a dedicated engine and screen recording and video. Enhanced Recording mode: Captures entire recording as a screen recording. Enables instructor video throughout the recording.

31. Instructor Platforms PC Functionality Standard Recording mode: Pros: • Small disk footprint for recordings • Shortened post-processing time • Reduced bandwidth needed for playback Cons: • Does not support PowerPoint animations and ink or embedded video • Does not capture software running over PowerPoint (like Clickers)

32. Instructor Platforms PC Functionality Enhanced Recording mode: Pros: • Captures any software running over PowerPoint (like Clickers) • Instructor video available throughout the recording Cons: • Uses more disk and CPU as recordings are captured as screen recordings • Higher bandwidth needed for playback • Post-processing takes more time as there is more recording data to convert

33. Instructor Platforms Mac Hardware: Minimum Requirements CPU: PowerPC 1.4 GHz or Intel 1.4 GHz her Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or 10.4 (Tiger) Memory: 512 MB Hard Drive: Free space about 4 GB

34. Demonstration • Easier to show in actual system

35. Tegrity Recorder

36. Selecting a Course

37. Recording Settings

38. Course View

39. Class Expanded

40. Tegrity Player

41. Tegrity Player – Smart Slider

42. Action Menu

43. Course Settings

44. Resources • Delphi and IT are building resources for Tegrity:http://delphi.louisville.edu/help/tegrity.html &https://docushare.louisville.edu/dsweb/View/Collection-7039 • Includes: • Overview documents for students and faculty • Faculty and student guides • Offer complete training: http://delphi.louisville.edu/faculty/technology/tegrity.html

45. Blogs and Wikis

46. What is a Blog? • DailyBlogTips.com offers: • “A blog is basically a type of website, like a forum or a social bookmarking site. As such it is defined by the technical aspects and features around it, and not by the content published inside it. • The features that make blogs different from other websites are: • content is published in a chronological fashion • content is updated regularly • readers have the possibility to leave comments • other blog authors can interact via trackbacks and pingbacks • content is syndicated via RSS feeds”

47. What is a Blog? • DailyBlogTips.com offers:

48. How Blogs are Used • Blogs in Blackboard are often used for personal reflection (private journals) and community discussions • May set up in any content area • May also set up a course level blog used by instructor to communicate with class • Think Announcements with student comments

49. What is a Wiki? • The Wikipedia article on Wikis suggests: • “Ward Cunningham, and co-author Bo Leuf, in their book The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web described the essence of the Wiki concept as follows: • A wiki invites all users to edit any page or to create new pages within the wiki Web site, using only a plain-vanilla Web browser without any extra add-ons. • Wiki promotes meaningful topic associations between different pages by making page link creation almost intuitively easy and showing whether an intended target page exists or not. • A wiki is not a carefully-crafted site for casual visitors. Instead, it seeks to involve the visitor in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the Web site landscape.”

50. How Wikis are Used • Wikis in Blackboard are often used with team projects • Members of the team collaborate to produce online site • Also empowers the instructor with assessment details such as student submissions and percentage of participation within the group