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www.tltgroup.org/10YearsBack10MonthsForward.htm Light Small Candles ACA Tech Summit 2007, Abingdon, Va. Steven W. Gilbert gilbert@tltgroup.org The TLT Group, Inc. October 19, 2007. 10 Years, 10 Months. ACA Tech Summit TLT Group Thanks to Alice Brown & ACA. “A Vision of Students Today”.
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www.tltgroup.org/10YearsBack10MonthsForward.htm Light Small CandlesACA Tech Summit 2007, Abingdon, Va. Steven W. Gilbert gilbert@tltgroup.org The TLT Group, Inc.October 19, 2007
10 Years, 10 Months • ACA Tech Summit • TLT Group • Thanks to Alice Brown & ACA
“A Vision of Students Today” • Digital Ethnography, Ed Wesch, Asst. Prof. Anthro., Kansas State U. • YouTube 4 ¾ Minuteshttp://youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o&mode=related&search= • Thanks to Bonnie Mullinix THIS MORNING!
Purposes: Head, Heart, Hand, and Foot http://www.flickr.com/photoskruse/223679930/in/set-72157594273387904/ http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=905120&size=s http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=746522675&size=s http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=191673375&size=s
HHHF • Head: Conceptual, Knowledge • Heart: Caring, Why it matters, How it connects with …teachers and learners, Inspirational • Hand: Competency, Skills • Foot: Practical empowerment. How can we use this – soon, easily?
Fundamental Questions • Information technology can be the excuse and the means to make almost any kinds of change in education and elsewhere.As you think about the kinds of change that might happen, try to answer each of these Fundamental Questions for your students, your colleagues, your institution, and yourself: • What do you most want to gain? • What do you most cherish and want not to lose?
Activity – Last 10 Years • Think quietly about your own answers to these questions – 1 minute • Discuss with 1-3 colleagues; try to identify 2 or 3 instances that you agree were important – 3 minutes • Present one of your findings – 3 minutes • [Continue these conversation later!]
Ursula Franklin SHOW BOOK! • "Because of the impact of modern technology, things considered normal or ordinary in the past become rare or extraordinary, while things once considered rare and unusual become normal and routine." - Excerpt from "Silence and the Notion of the Commons," (1993, 2000) Ursula Franklin, p. 162, The Ursula Franklin Reader - Pacifism as a Map, Between the Lines, 2006
Activity – Last 10 Years (cont.) • Last 10 years…. Information technology has already served as a means and an excuse to make many changes in education. • Think of 1 or 2 examples of information technology that were important to you as an educator. • What was gained? • What was lost?
Think Quietly • About your own answers to these questions • 1 minute
Discuss • With 1-3 colleagues • Try to identify 2 or 3 instances that you agree were important – • 3 minutes
Present • One of your findings • Please stand, speak clearly, loudly • 3 minutes
Continue • These conversations! • Here today, tomorrow. • back home!
Brief Hybrid Workshops • We just did one • http://www.tltgroup.org/TLT5.htm • Help us develop, improve, share more • Why? TMI/TMO/TLT
5-Minute eClip • Pre-recording produced as a single computer file. • Sound, images, text, etc. • For independent individual use or for group activities such as workshops.
5-Minute Workshop • Originator: Todd Zakrajsek, CMU • Face-to-Face • Outcomes • Interaction • Leader/facilitator • Preparation • Follow-up • Duration – 5 Minute or Less!
Brief Hybrid Workshop (BHW) • Includes Internet-accessible eClips AND other files, activities, documents, plans, guidelines, etc. • Helps a group of people do something useful to them. • Participants interact • eClips < 5 minutes; Total < 15 minutes
Brief Hybrid Teaching/Learning Module (BHTLM) • BHTLM same as BHW EXCEPT purpose and audience: help students learn something in a course (usually undergraduate).
Important Differences:Review 4 Choices • 5-Minute Workshop • 5-Minute eClip • Brief Hybrid Workshop • Brief Hybrid Teaching/Learning Module
Complementary and Supplementary Resources • Before • Invitation, Marketing, Preparation, Orientation • During • 1-pager, Activities, Guidelines, Resources • After • Feedback, Follow-up, Recycle?
5 or 15 Minutes? • Brief or REALLY BRIEF? • Run BHW within someone else’s meeting: e.g., dept meeting • Run BHW within faculty development event (Face-to-face? Online? Brown-bag lunch? Coffee hour? ½ Day Workshop? Etc.)
Last 10 Years – Sort of • Information R/evolution • Digital Ethnography, Ed Wesch, Asst. Prof. Anthro., Kansas State U. • YouTube 5 1/2 Minutes • http://youtube.com/watch?v=-4CV05HyAbM
Used Book Market • Don’t keep books • Don’t write in books • Don’t read books? • [Writing in books = Active learning!]
Hybrids Always Win • Not only eClip • Not only Face-to-Face • Not only Online • Not only Synchronous
Low-Threshold • New Skill, Info • Refresher • Controversial • Heads-Up
Next 10 Months • Cautions, Principles, Hopes • Requests • Visions Worth Working Toward • Light Small Candles
ATM Roland Tanglao via FLICKRhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/roland/45361875/
Educational ATM Roland Tanglao via FLICKRhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/roland/45361875/
Learning by Teaching; Learning by Working CollegiallyLearning by Doing Research • Undergrad student research • STA, ITA • Lifelong Learning – for ALL of us!
Voice(s) • “Chat” need not be only text!
Brief Hybrid Workshops, Modules • Develop, share, improve 5-minute eClips & Brief Hybrid Workshops • Develop guidelines, strategies, models & policies • Constructive Feedback: More Clinics! • Participate in FridayLive! • Host an Online or Regional Pilot Workshop
No Re-Ossification • Course Management Systems are Transitional
Purposes: Head, Heart, Hand, and Foot http://www.flickr.com/photoskruse/223679930/in/set-72157594273387904/ http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=905120&size=s http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=746522675&size=s http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=191673375&size=s
Final Frontier(s) for Teaching Learning • Collaboration, Time, Space
Collaboration • How can we work together, even for five minutes, to make the world a better place? • Do the Fundamental Questions!Let’s fumble forward together.
For more info, to participate, support…. TLT-SWG FridayLive!
5 Recommendations for ACA Faculty 10/18/2007 Alice Brown!