Instructional Technology: How’s That Working For You?

Instructional Technology:

How’s That Working For You?

Cephalonian Method

Strongly encourages audience participation.

More about Cephalonian Method.

Slide credit: Char Booth, ACRL Immersion

Gadgets …

ADA

“JAWS” readers (optical char. Recognition): Websites Databases?

Office of Disability Services

Web/IT Librarian

Campus Committees

Favorite Instr. Tech tools:

Canvas (CMS)

SMART Board w/ Adobe Captivate

(screen capture) Camtasia/Jing

“Clickers” (some free) Socrative Poll Everywhere

Browzine ($)(Web version soon)

Voice Thread ($)

Padlet (free)

Badging (Mozilla Backpack)

Space …

Assessment

“Clickers”FREE: Poll Everywhere Socrative Kahoot (game ish)

$$:

Turning Point, etc.

iClicker

CMS: Insight; Net Op

Synchroneyes

Lan School (pop ups on student screens – in a network)

Game tools (word blasters)

Back-up Plans:

Handouts

“Catalog Cards” to imitate database searching

Boolean logic w/candy w/characteristics

Test your technology beforehand!

Paper votes (hold numbers close for polling)

Use tech fails as “teaching moments”

Use “Frameworks” for discussion

Chalkboards

Dropbox, etc.

Infrastructure …

Instructional Design

Plan learning outcomes first; match technology to them. “backward design”

ILI listserv

Ask colleagues; listservs STS-l ACRLFrame (listserv on Framework)

Phet (interactive lesson plans)

PRIMO

“Designing Courses for Significant Learning” L.D. Fink

Support:

ALA Connect

STS-L

Bonnie.fong@rutgers.edu