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Innovation in Action

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LEARNING AND CREATIVITY

 

Only five months after the initial workshop session, CGCC and PC faculty – both residential and adjunct  -- are:

  • Polling students in class by using student cell phones, rather than a Student Response (‘clicker') system.

 

  • Using more media (audio, photo, video) -- from copyright-safe sources – in both face-to-face and online settings. The usual text-heavy announcements pages on the course management system now have YouTube videos, creative-commons licensed photos from Flickr, and even instructor-voiced animations that can be either simple announcements, or the seed for media-rich discussion boards.

 

  • Providing their students with these same technology tools for presentations, discussions, and projects.

 

 

Specific Examples of TT/FFF Web 2.0 Tools in Action:

  • Economics – Using free online polling tools and students’ cell phones, instructors conduct both multiple choice (“My research country falls in the ____ income group.”) and open-text response polls (“What is the per capita income for your research country?”) to evaluate class comprehension of a specific topic/concept, to do a data comparison from case studies assigned for homework, or just to clear up a concept from a previous class.

 

  • Sociology– Students collaborate on a multimedia project (“The Complaint-Free Challenge”) using a wiki for small-group collaboration.

 

  • Chemistry – embedding videos demonstrating techniques for laboratory activities on Blackboard weekly announcements for organic chemistry classes, rather than directing students to URL's.

 

  • Biology – Instructor embedded Vokis to introduce how to navigate his online Blackboard classes. Avatars provide video instruction for orientation and assignments.

 

  • Creative Writing – Students use a wiki to list upcoming events and embed media.

 

  • Sign Language – Program directors use Jing to create tutorials for students who will use a new software program in their program of study. Instead of using step-by-step written instructions, the faculty walk and talk the students through the process, which has proven to alleviate anxiety and to help the students grasp the process more easily.

 

  • Applied Business – students developed a group wiki for their final cumulative class project.

 

 

 

Multidisciplinary applications:

  • CGCC One Book – Faculty developers collaborate on Oil on the Brain events and resources using a wiki.

 

  • Honors projects – Honors students use wikis to build pages that other students can use for research, to embed media (videos, audio, photo slideshows) to illustrate concepts from their projects, and to survey other students in the class.

 

 

The Future: Faculty and Students on the Same (Technological!) Page

Workshop participants report that students enjoy the additional interactivity and personalization that comes from using the workshop tools. Even in cases where students don’t immediately embrace the technology (as was the case for a sociology teacher last fall, who assigned the use of PBwiki to her students for a small-group project); the students ultimately take a lot of pride in the final collaborative product. One faculty member recently suggested that Technology Tuesdays could be extended to students – especially ESL or re-entry students, who may be timid about their technological skills.

 

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