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Lindsay Davidson

Teach naked?

Perhaps not, but the title did get your attention!

More accurately, teach without Powerpoint. Here's a great article on some instructors who are doing that, and succeeding.

http://chronicle.com/article/Teach-Naked-Effort-Strips/47398/

TED talks for educators.

http://www.bachelorsdegreeonline.com/blog/2009/25-incredible-ted-talks-for-educators/

Good resources here on social media and tangential references throughout to active learning.

http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/

Team based learning - intro presentation

Here's a short video on TB learning, courtesy of UBC.

http://teambasedlearning.apsc.ubc.ca/v/may11final.html

Hi everyone,

I was looking for a way to add audio annotation to PDF files and found this on the York U. CTL site. Essentially it explains how to do this using Adobe Acrobat Pro.

http://www.yorku.ca/cst/dotelblog/?p=120

We can get that software at the Campus Computer Store for cheap...what appeals to me as someone who hates marking and printing papers, is that audio annotation is faster, more detailed, and generally more personal. I wonder (though expect) that it will create the basis for a longer discussion with students about their performance rather than just annotate same as I've been doing for a decade or more.

Cheers, Doug

Article on professors posing as students in online environment

Parry, M. (2009). Online Professors Pose as Students to Encourage Real Learning. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 55(38), 10.

ipod touch applications will rescue the world and make teaching and learning way funner!!!

I think the applications associated with mobile devices like the touch - that are coming at us fast and furiously are finally putting us on the cusp of transforming the traditional classroom into group learning interactions. for example, my five second download of the app skitch - linked to from Doug's magazine article - creates a website for me that enables me to screen capture, share, edit, collaborate, etc...simply and quickly.

iPod used for Learning?

I wonder if there's a way to use this common technology in an active learning context? Regardless, here's an online magazine that identifies uses and apps for the iPod in learning.

http://issuu.com/ktenkely/docs/ilearn_2

Doug

Great post on using Twitter in the classroom.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_one_teacher_uses_twitter_in_the_classroom.php

Doug
@douglasreid

a poem about class participation

Hi all: I noticed that several of you had active class participation as one of your learning objectives. Here's a poem about being present in or absent from class. The poet cautions however, that he stopped reading it to students. It made them more aggressive. So read it just for yourselves to know that this happens to all of us...:)

Did I Miss Anything
Tom Wayman

Originally from: The Astonishing Weight of the Dead.
Vancouver: Polestar, 1994.
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/wayman/poem5.htm

articles and sites by physicists Wieman and Mazure

Hi all: As promised, here are articles by Physicist Carl Wieman (et al), Eric Mazur (Peer Instruction) and articles on how to assess concept maps.

best,
Sheila

1. Some articles by Carl Wieman:

• STLHE Conference Keynote summary: http://www.mcmaster.ca/stlhe/documents/Number%2047.pdf
• Professor My Brain is Full: http://update.estrategy.ubc.ca/2006/02/06/professor-my-brain-is-full/
• C.E. Wieman, K.K. Perkins, W.K. Adams. (May, 2008). Oersted Medal Lecture 2007: Interactive simulations for teaching physics: What works, what doesn't, and why. American Journal of Physics, 76, 393.
• C. E. Wieman and K. K. Perkins. (2006). A Powerful Tool For Teaching Science. Nature Physics, p. 290-292 , May.
• C.E. Wieman and K.K. Perkins (2005). Transforming Physics Education. Physics Today. 58: 11.
• And, going back a bit, Wieman acknowledges R. Hake, "Interactive-engagement vs. traditional methods: A six-thousand-student survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses," Am. J. Phys. 66, 64-74 (1998).

2. Here is Eric Mazur's website about Peer Instruction, where students solve problems collaboratively after 10 minutes of lecture:

• http://mazur-www.harvard.edu/education/educationmenu.php
• and Peer Instruction: Ten Years of Experience and Results http://web.mit.edu/jbelcher/www/TEALref/Crouch_Mazur.pdf

3. How to assess Concept Maps:
Please see:

• Classroom Assessment Techniques: Concept Mapping: under Analysis and Scoring Concept Maps:

http://www.flaguide.org/cat/conmap/conmap4.php

• Ruiz-Primo, M. A. (2004). EXAMINING CONCEPT MAPS AS AN ASSESSMENT TOOL Procedures of the First International Conference on Concept Mapping. Spain.
  

http:// cmc.ihmc.us/papers/cmc2004-036.pdf
There is a rubric on page 4, figure 3, that is useful.

• Angelo, Thomas A. and Cross, K. Patricia (1993). Classroom assessment techniques: A handbook for college teachers. 2nd edition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

• Austin, L.B. and Shore, B.M. (1995). Using concept mapping for assessment in physics. Physics Education 30 (1): 41-45.

Assessing for learning quality

Here is a link to the article, Teaching for Quality Learning at University-Assessing for learning quality: II. Practice by John Biggs. The article has a great section on diverse strategies (like gobbets) for assessing in large groups. Enjoy! Gobbets!!

Student Perspectives on Instructional Strategies

Andrew Kirk's research on student perspectives on various instructional strategies used in Engineering.

Visual presentation of quantitative data

Perhaps the best resource is the collected works of Edward Tufte.

Another great presentation is Hans Rosling's talk at TED a few years ago...I believe his software is now available via Google.

What are UUDLES

From the York University website:

"The Ontario Council of Academic Vice-Presidents has issued new guidelines on University Undergraduate Degree Level Expectations (UUDLEs–pronounced “oodles”). This web site is designed to share resources on how to develop UUDLEs and do curriculum development consistent with the OCAV guidelines. We encourage you to post information you have found useful for curriculum development to this web site, including examples of UUDLEs and curriculum development in your program, or on your campus."

It is a great site, see more here...

Creating a Syllabus

This process is outlined here by Dr. Elaine Van Melle on the CTL website.

Twitter

Two of the Course Development Projects suggest a use for Twitter. I am painfully ignorant as to how this could happen but am learning. Here is a link that came out of one of Bobbi Kerlin's links (see Project Quest post) introducing how one prof has begun to use it.

Good Stuff from Project Quest

Bobbi Kerlin has shared with me some of the resources used in Project Quest which I will collate here. There are lots of great ideas about using technology in teaching:

Sink or swim: taking advantage of developments in video streaming
Karen Fill and Roger Ottewill, University of Southampton, UK. Innovations in Education and Teaching International
Vol. 43, No. 4, November 2006, pp. 397–408.

Talk the talk: Learner-generated podcasts as catalysts for knowledge creation.
Mark J. W. Lee, Catherine McLoughlin and Anthony Chan. British Journal of Educational Technology Vol 39 No 3 2008 501–521.

Podcasting for e-learning, communication, and delivery
J.P. Shim and Jordan Shropshire, Mississippi State University
Sungmin Park and Howard Harris, Department of Information Systems, Computing of Maths, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK, and
Natalie Campbell, Mississippi State University

Digital Storytelling: An Emergent Method for Health Promotion Research and Practice.
Aline Gubrium (Department of Public Health at the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst Massachusetts). Health Promotion Practice, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 186-191, April 2009.

7 Things You Should Know About Digital Storytelling (ID: ELI7021)

Twitter Literacy (I refuse to make up a Twittery name for it)
Howard Rheingold



Controlling Curriculum Redesign with a Process Improvement Model
Drinka and Yen
Curriculum was redesigned to have a project-centric focus with each course in the curriculum contributing to the success of students’ learning experiences…..This paper presents a description of the authors’ experiences in implementing a curriculum redesign from one based on a traditional course-based design to a project-centric design using the Capability Maturity Model as a process improvement tool.

A Web-based eLearning Course: Integration of Pathophysiology into Pharmacology
Tse and Lo
This paper presents the development, utilization, and evaluation of a web-based elearning course for nursing students learning pathophysiology and pharmacology.

Good stuff from the 2009 CTL Course Design Workshop

Here is a free tool for concept mapping: Freemind

Cory Laverty's eLearning wiki for librarians (which she used a concept map to help develop) is here.

Information behaviour of the researchers of the future - A British Library / JISC Study

Denise Stockley's introductory presentation is linked from the E2QUATE resource site on the Course Design Workshop page.

Sheila Pinchin's presentation about instructional strategies. Lindsay Davidson's examples of two types of instructional strategies: clickers and TBL.

Survey Monkey - a quick, easy, free (US-based) way to develop and conduct online surveys. This is a great way to do a needs assessment of your students or to learn more about them. NB Because the info you gather resides on a non-Canadian server, there are issues about using this tool to conduct research. I have heard that GREB will not allow it. Just something to be aware of...