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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 Podcaster.
Contact Jian Wu at wuxxx015@umn.edu to RSVP
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 of their presentations are referenced in instructors’ comments. These problems are solved with VideoANT, an Internet-based tool which synchronizes instructors’ written annotations with students’ videotaped presentations. See a demonstration of this technology and learn about the opportunities and challenges it creates.
Presenters: David Atterberry currently teaches in the Minnesota English Language Program at the University of Minnesota, where he completed an M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language in 2005.
Catherine Clements is a teaching assistant, Instructional Technology Fellow and MA-ESL graduate student at the University of Minnesota.
Cosponsored by the Language Center and the ESL Forum
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 and will take place in 105 Cargill Building on October 15, 12:00-1:30 p.m. We invite you to attend and join in the discussions in person or online via UMConnect Meeting.
In preparation, check out http://dmc.umn.edu/spotlight. Spotlight articles are published a few days before each seminar session. The page will include an overview of each topic with citations to related readings and information about relevant campus resources, plus instructions about how to participate via UMConnect Meeting. After each session, we will add on this page a link to the UMConnect recording of the event. The seminars also will be podcast after each event.
The TEL Seminar Series is sponsored by the Office of Information Technology (OIT) and cosponsored by the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost (SVPP) and the panelists’ units. All University faculty members, staff members, students, and members of the general public are invited to attend at no charge. For more information about the series, please see: http://dmc.umn.edu/issues.shtml
*U of M Learning Spaces: Physical, Virtual, and Mobile*
October 15, 2008, 12:00–1:30 p.m., 105 Cargill Building (St. Paul)
Experience the use of innovative, flexible, mobile learning devices designed for today’s students. Faculty, staff, and student panelists will demonstrate teaching and learning opportunities and the associated challenges as they implement innovative learning spaces and conduct new forms of scholarship.
Moderators: Ann Hill Duin, OIT • Robert McMaster, Undergraduate Education, SVPP
Panelists: Robin Wright, College of Biological Sciences • Aimee Whiteside, OIT • Earl Schleske, OIT• Steven Manson, Geography
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 an online chat with their professors.
In a survey released today by CDW-G, the technology vendor, 39 percent of college students say they want regular online chats with faculty. The surveyors contacted 401 students to get this information.
The students are likely to be disappointed, according to the report. Only 23 percent of IT staff surveyed—there were 301 of them—said their campus offered that kind of electronic faculty-student contact.—Josh Fischman
Do any of you chat with your students? I have set up online office hours before, but more often than not spent the time surfing, emailing, or facebooking while waiting for students to contact me.
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 and learning with IT. But how does your list compare? What big issues are dominating your campus conversations and water cooler debates? What challenges would you add?
This fall, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) is kicking off a new community effort to list the biggest "Challenges" in teaching and learning with technology and to aggregate resources that can help to address them. Through online brainstorming, face-to-face sessions at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, and a community-wide vote later this fall, participants will identify their top five issues. With the list in hand, the community will begin building content around each challenge, creating dynamic resource pages in wikis within EDUCAUSE Connect, and joining collaborative working groups on the Challenges Ning Network.
But first, we need your help to generate the initial list of challenges.
Take the community brainstorming survey and decide which challenges are most important to you. Then, add your own suggestions and join us at the EDUCAUSE Annual Meeting when we reveal results and roll out this new community project.
Take the survey now:
http://survey.educause.edu/eli_t&l_challenges/
_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 developments in technology-enhanced learning plus two articles on e-learning, experiential learning, and reflective participation. In our remaining articles, one reports on a study on the use of student response systems to increase classroom engagement while the other describe an analysis of student assessments of important elements in department Web sites.