Hypothetical Mash-up for Teaching

As part of the discussion during the seminar we are teaching with a wonderful group of post-docs from the FIRST program, a question was presented about an instructor's ability to annotate (comment and mark-up) student assignments on blogs. One possible solution is to use diigo to comment on the student's blogs and then to share them with each student and with the class. This mash-up might actually work. Now all I need is for this group of instructors to use this in their classes and report back on the success (or lack thereof) of these tools.

from Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able

"Managing" technology in the classroom (mediascape). Creating students that are knowledge-able is a key to the future of learning. What about creating, or molding faculty into knowledge-able. This is a part of the presentation by
Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Kansas State University given at ELI 2009. You can read more excerpts at the Digital Ethnography blog from Kansas State University (http://mediatedcultures.net).

ELI 2009 Meeting Discussions

An interesting blog discussion regarding if the blog is dead? Take a look - http://eli2009.wordpress.com/. Is it true that the only "good" blog is not a Blackboard tool? Can't the CMS-based systems be used as a level (if it is the correct learning curve) to the "cool" outside open-platform systems?

Track Experiences in ECIT

Over the past year Brian Croxall was ECIT's Woodruff Fellow. Brian's activities including his experiences with technology and pedagogy (including experimenting with a handful of funky technologies) can be read about on the blog he created.

http://ecitadventures.blogspot.com/

To clicker or not to clicker, that is the question

Can we change the idea of using clickers, or PRS (personal response systems) in a class of 200 students to instructors thinking that using clickers is a viable way to increase interaction and student engagement?

How much collaboration is enough?

Collaboration is and has been "all the rage" in learning and instructional technologies are playing a larger role in the activity. There are many studies on both the physical space and the digital applications that support collaboration - specifically, in higher education. How can better identify how the physical and the virtual fit together to promote collaboration between students, between teachers, and between researchers?

Teaching and learning with, or without technology

Engagement vs. entertainment - Are they different?

Questions from NLII

Is our (Instructional Technology partners) job to bring faculty who are using IT together and facilitate experiencial learning among faculty? How can we “guide” the learning?

The Multi-Million Dollar Question

How about starting with the age-old question regarding tehnology and teaching. Is all this technology, and the costs involved in supporting them, making a difference in today's teaching? For all that we (those involved in instructional technology) try, there remain few statistically significant studies showing how much better technology has made the teaching and learning process. There are lots of people who say it does, but few with real numbers supporting their claim. Hopefully, this blog will be a place where the ideas of more or less technology in teaching get their day in the sun.