Here are the links from Eva's presentation on 8/24/06


Infusing Technology into the Curriculum
Eva Smith and Michele Royer
NWCET/Washington Working Connections
Summer Institute, August 24-25, 2006

Objectives of this Course

• Navigate the current "landscape" of technologies available for teaching
• Recognize different learning models and how to best integrate technology into curriculum
• Engage in hands-on use of specific digital technologies
• Discover innovative uses for digital technologies through hands-on experience, examples, lesson plans and group discussion
• Practice "infusion strategies" by mapping technology and online resources to specific interest and curriculum needs

Why Infuse Technology?

• Prepare students for the workforce
• All workers will need technology skills
• Global workforce depends on collaborative technologies
• Learning styles of "Digital Natives"
• "Millennial students" are between the ages of 18 and 26 are" *
• Digital Natives approach information and learning differently
• Problem-based and Case-based learning
• Provides tools for information exploration
• Students learn how to "construct" knowledge actively
• Students develop higher level thinking and life-long learning and information literacy skills

• have developed hypertext minds and leap around in the process of accessing information.
• don’t think in linear thought processes
• are visually skilled, preferring graphics before text
• prefer inductive discovery, multitasking (shifting attention from one task to another rapidly and in parallel fashion.)
• respond quickly and are prolific communicators.
• prefer to work in teams (collaboration) and find peers to be more credible than their instructors in determining what is worth paying attention to
• like instant gratification and frequent rewards.
• prefer games to "serious" learning.
• "This generation has: spent 10,000 hours with video games; sent or received 200,000 emails; spent 20,000 hours watching television and 10,000 hours on the cell phone; but less than 5000 hours reading."*

Marc Prensky, "Engage Me or Enrage Me, What Today’s Learners Demand," Educause, September/October 2005, pp 61-64

Current Landscape































(Mostly) Free Tools for Teachers
Productivity and Content Creation Tools

• Open Source Software
• Shareware, Freeware and Subscription Software
• Audacity

Multimedia Content

• OpenCourseWare
• Multimedia Content: PodCasts, WebCasts and Newsfeeds
• Learning Objects
• eBooks and online texts
• Online Training, Tutorials

Communication Tools

• Voice-over-IP
• Instant Messaging
• Video Conferencing Software

Social Networking and Collaboration

• Online Communities
• Blogs and Wikis
• Social Bookmarking

Tools – Open Source
What is Open Source?

• Also known as "free open source software" or FOSS
• A community of developers
• Maintained by the "community"
• A philosophy
• A method of licensing and distributing software
• Free for your use and freely modified
• Open Source Initiative: http://www.opensource.org/

What about Copyrights?

• Creative Commons and Free for Education
• Special copyrights – "some rights reserved"
• Open source is generally free for use and modification
• Give credit where credit is due

Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/

Productivity/Content Creation Examples
OpenOffice:A free office suite that is incredibly like MS Office. Reads & Writes MS Office files. http://www.openoffice.org/
Audacity: Sound editing software. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Integrated course management

• Moodle
• Open Source (http://moodle.org/)
• Blackboard
• WebCT

Communication Tools

• Voice-over-IP
• Skype (http://www.skype.com/)
• GoogleTalk
• Instant Messaging
• Microsoft IM, Yahoo! Chat, Google Chat
• Trillian (http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/)
• Video Conferencing Software
• Webex

Open Source Content

• MIT OpenCourseWare Project
• http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
• World Lecture Hall (Univ. of Austin)
• http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/
• MERLOT
• http://www.merlot.org/Home.po
• International Open Source Network for Education http://www.iosn.net/education/foss-education-primer/

Open Content - Multimedia

• Audio Content: Podcasting
• Many Education Resources
• Still Mostly Free
• Webcasting
• News stories
• Online conferences
• Microsoft Webcasts (training and information)
• Library of Congress / Other Library resources
• Syndication - RSS

Other Multimedia Content

• Google Video
• Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/)
• Multimedia Search Engines (http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2156251)
• Podcasts(http://www.pod101.com/)
• Podcast Sample: Creativity Show

Collaboration

• Blogs
• Google Blogger – free weblog space
• Newsgroups / Community Spaces
• (Yahoo! Groups, Google Groups, etc.)
• Wiki
• PBWiki (http://pbwiki.com/)
• PBWiki Example: nwcetwiki http://nwcetwiki.pbwiki.com/?pwd=GTMCiDKsSk
• Wet Paint (http://www.wetpaint.com/)

Blogs
A weblog, which is usually shortened to blog, is a type of website where entries are made (such as in a journal or diary), displayed in a reverse chronological order.
Blogs often provide commentary or news and information on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. (Source: Wikipedia)


Google Blogger Activity

• Google Blogger Demonstration:
• http://bimblog2006.blogspot.com/
• http://nwcetwc2006.blogspot.com/
• Create your own blog:
• http://www.blogger.com/home
• Sign in as: nwcetwc2006
• Password: nwcet4test
• Gmail account (for other exercises as well)
• nwcet2006@gmail.com
• password: nwcet4test

What is a Wiki?
From Wikipedia: "a type of website that allows users to easily add, remove, or otherwise edit and change some available content, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative authoring." Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
WikiBookshttp://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipediahttp://www.wikipedia.org/
Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
PBWiki (http://nwcetwiki.pbwiki.com/)

Social Bookmarking
Also known as "folksonomies" because they are taxonomies created by the masses Social bookmarking sites generally organize their content using tags. Social bookmarking sites are an increasingly popular way to locate, classify, rank, and share Internet resources through the practice of tagging and inferences drawn from grouping and analysis of tags. (source: Wikipedia)

Popular sites:
Del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/)
Demonstrate – Login: nwcetwc2006, PW = nwcet4test
CiteULike – (http://www.citeulike.org/)

Free Online Texts/eBooks
WikiBooks – OpenSource Concept
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
Collection of Math Texts Online
http://us.geocities.com/alex_stef/mylist.html
Science & Technology
http://www.techbooksforfree.com/science.shtml
PinkMonkey.com (modern version of CliffNotes)
http://www.pinkmonkey.com/index2.asp

Training/Tutorials

• Try before you buy tutorials
• Software vendor training
• Google search – many sites
• Tools: Shareware or Freeware Freeware is software allowed to be distributed free by the author, but often with certain conditions applying (ie. the software cannot be modified etc). Shareware is "try-before-you-buy" software distributed on an honor system. It can usually be used free for a limited period of time. Subscriptions are membership based sites that allow free downloading of software to members.
• Shareware or Freeware Sites Association of Shareware Professionals provides consumer information and a catalog of software for download http://www.asp-shareware.com/programs/education-list.asp PC Magazine Shareware Library has a categorized listing of programs for education.
• http://shareware.pcmag.com/category.sub.php[id]333[SiteID]pcmag Download.com has an extensive library shareware and freeware and provides reviews
• http://www.download.com/

WARNING: The Free Stuff You Don’t Want!

• Spyware and Adware, also called "Malware"
• files made by publishers
• allow them to snoop on your browsing activity, see what you purchase and send you "pop-up" ads.
• They come along with other stuff… without you knowing it.
• Spyware Removers
• http://www.spywareremoversreview.com/

Other Cool Sites

• SurveyMonkey – http://www.surveymonkey.com
• ENC – Collection of links
• http://www.enc.org/?ls=bc
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• http://www.doaj.org/
• International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) – a very comprehensive list of links to online resources
• http://www.inasp.info/peri/free.shtml#1
• List of Learning Object Repositories
• http://elearning.utsa.edu/guides/LO-repositories.htm

Take a penny, leave a penny…
Free stuff exists because somebody gets something out of it… recognition, sense of accomplishment, free advertising…
Take advantage of what’s out there and give appropriate credit to others
Be a contributor! Share your own stuff
Support OpenSource communities by providing feedback or getting actively involved

Foraging Activity
Our Wet Paint site http://nwcetwc2006.wetpaint.com/

• Work in teams or individually
• Pick a page to complete
• Forage for resources and add content – describe usefulness to teaching and/or activities
• Decide on the "rules"
• Show and Tell

Discussion

• Types of learning activities where technology can be infused?
• Using the teaching style continuum….
• What are the learning objectives?
• How can these tools be used?
• Ideas….