Amy Garrett Dikkers

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• Posted Video anticipatory sets to Faculty Technology Day
  In previous semesters, I would start the class with a PowerPoint presentation where I would introduce students to the content of the course. In the Active Learning Classroom, one simple shift I made was using a free online video...
• Posted Student Multimedia Anticipatory Set to Faculty Technology Day
  One cross-impact of the focus on video in the course I redesigned for the Active Learning Classroom was that I started thinking of ways to bring the power of video into other classes I teach. In my Comparative Education class...
• Posted Video Six: Instructor engagement to Reflective Praxis - Video interviews as part of course redesign
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• Posted Video Five: Video as an instructional technique to Reflective Praxis - Video interviews as part of course redesign
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• Posted Video Four: How Team-Based Learning was different from previous experiences to Reflective Praxis - Video interviews as part of course redesign
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• Posted Video Three: Team-Based Learning success to Reflective Praxis - Video interviews as part of course redesign
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• Posted Video Two: My first experience in the Active Learning Classroom to Reflective Praxis - Video interviews as part of course redesign
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• Posted Video One: The impetus for teaching in the Active Learning Classroom to Reflective Praxis - Video interviews as part of course redesign
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• Posted EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference to Conversations about Emerging Learning Environments
  We just returned from EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference in Chicago. Four of the fellows attended the conference and three of our Digital Media Center colleagues were also in attendance. This was the first time at this particular conference for most...
• Posted A field of opportunity to Conversations about Emerging Learning Environments
  One of the most beneficial parts of the Faculty Fellowship Program for me (so far) is the collaboration and conversation. From one-on-ones with consultants in the DMC to our regular meetings as a group to the weekly planning meetings I...
• Posted Race cows with the Educational Technologists Fourm - Dec. 11 to U-TELL
  [Note: This UTELL is not the same as my U-TELL. Can it be that we came up with the same acronym for two different purposes? :) It's a nice acronym, don't you think?] Dear members of the Educational Technologists Forum,...
• Posted The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Goes Digital? to Conversations about Emerging Learning Environments
  The more time I spend thinking about my own faculty fellowship project (redesigning curriculum for a new learning space, specifically the active learning classroom) and attend Faculty Fellowship Program meetings, the more I think what we are really doing is...
• Posted Online course for Spring - Human Rights Education to U-TELL
  Human Rights Education Online via Moodle Educational Policy and Administration EdPA 5080: section 002 course number 91675 Approved Leadership Minor Elective 3 credits or 40 CEUs Who protects and advocates for our Human Rights? How urgent is the need for...
• Posted Online portfolios to U-TELL
  Language Center iTeach Workshop: Cuaderno: Online Notebook and Writing Portfolio Tuesday, November 18, 12:20-1:10 p.m. Jones 35 Presenters: Frances Matos-Schultz, Pablo Viedma, and Jose Fernandez The Spanish department has developed Cuaderno, a system for creating and managing web-based writing portfolios....
• Posted TEL Seminar tomorrow! iTunes U and Beyond to U-TELL
  Please join us tomorrow for the second session of the 2008 Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) Seminar Series. "iTunes U and Beyond: Perspectives of Faculty� will be moderated by Billie Wahlstrom, Distributed Education & Instructional Technology, SVPP and Ann Hill Duin, OIT....
• Posted FYI - problem with comments to Conversations about Emerging Learning Environments
  FYI, if any of you, our loyal readers, have attempted to post a comment any time lately, it seems as if we are having some comments get filtered out as junk and we, as moderators, never receive notice of them....
• Posted Wimba VoiceTools on Moodle - Friday to U-TELL
  Language Center Presentation: (CARLA) Wimba VoiceTools on Moodle Friday, October 24 3:35 - 4:25 p.m. Jones 30 Three of the Wimba Voice Tools are now available on the University Moodle course management system. They are Voice Board, Voice Presentation and...
• Posted Using VideoAnt for Feedback - Today! to U-TELL
  Using VideoAnt for Feedback Wednesday, Oct. 22, 12:20 - 1:10 p.m. Jones 35 Instructors often provide written comments about student presentations. However, these comments can prove difficult for instructors to complete in class, and students may not understand what elements...
• Posted TEL Seminar - Oct. 15 - U of M Learning Spaces to U-TELL
  Please join us tomorrow as we commence the 2008 Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) Seminar Series. The first session, “U of M Learning Spaces: Physical, Virtual, and Mobile,� will be moderated by Ann Hill Duin, OIT and Robert McMaster, Undergraduate Education, SVPP...
• Posted The Wired Campus article - students want to chat to U-TELL
  October 13, 2008 Dear Professor, Students Want to Chat With You When asked what kind of educational technology they wanted most, students—replete with iPods, laptops, and social-network pages on Facebook—say the thing they don’t have and wish for most is...
• Posted EDUCAUSE wants YOU (to respond to their survey) to U-TELL
  Take the challenge! Weigh in with the top teaching and learning challenges in IT Assessment. Learning space design. Changing student and faculty practice. When polled, focus groups within the EDUCAUSE teaching and learning community identified their top “challenges� in teaching...
• Posted Innovate Online - new issue published to U-TELL
  _Innovate_ (www.innovateonline.info [1]) is published bimonthly as a public service by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University and is sponsored, in part, by Microsoft. The October/November 2008 issue includes a landmark interview describing important...
• Posted Mellon Seminars in Digital Humanities - join in via SecondLife to U-TELL
  [Email text I received regarding an opportunity to "try out" SecondLife.] We are happy to announce that during this academic year, 9 Mellon Seminars in Digital Humanities taking place at UCLA in real life (RL), will be “broadcast� via live...
• Posted EndNote Q&A Session to U-TELL
  Advanced EndNote Q&A Next Thursday (October 2 ) the Science and Engineering Library will be hosting an Advanced EndNote Workshop taught by a representative from EndNote. EndNote trainer Doug Nguyen will be in Walter Library, Room 310 from 12:30-1:30 providing...
• Posted To 3D or not to 3D? to U-TELL
  I just posted a blog entry on my Digital Media Center Faculty Fellowship blog, Conversations about Emerging Learning Environments, about our meeting last week about 3D immersive learning environments. You can find that post here....
• Posted To 3D or not to 3D? to Conversations about Emerging Learning Environments
  That was the question we started asking last week when we met with Liz Wendland and Peter Moore, two developers of Croquet, a 3D immersive environment just starting to find a place at the University of Minnesota. We had lots...
• Posted SMART Learning Commons Open House - 9/24 to U-TELL
  SMART-WALTER GRAND OPENING SCHEDULED FOR 9/24 The grand opening of the SMART Learning Commons and Library Media Services in Walter Library will is scheduled for: Wednesday September 24 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Walter Library Room 204, East Bank Come...
• Posted Online Teaching and Learning Conference - Oct. 6 and 7 to U-TELL
  Publisher Jossey-Bass is sponsoring an online conference on, of all things, online teaching and learning. More information is here....
• Posted Tech in Language classrooms to U-TELL
  From the CLA Language Center: Wimba VoiceTools on Moodle Thursday, September 18, 10:10 a.m. Room 30 Three of the Wimba Voice Tools are now available on the University Moodle course management system. They are Voice Board, Voice Presentation and Podcaster....
• Posted Croquet, anyone? to U-TELL
  I am currently in a meeting of the DMC Faculty Fellowship Program where we are going to learn about Croquet, a 3-D virtual environment (similar to SecondLife?) and how it can be used in teaching in learning. I am sure...