The 21st Century Classroom: Exploring the potential for instruction & learning

Exploring the potential forinstruction & learning

alejandra m. pickettassociate director

suny learning networkfaculty development and instructional design

The 21st Century Classroom

2001 Sloan-C Award for Excellence in ALN Faculty Development

The SUNY Learning Netowrk

© Alejandra M. Pickett Becerra • 2009 • Chile, S.A.

SUNY Learning Network 30 of the 64 campus participate in SLN. 3,000 online faculty. 107 online degrees offered. 100,000+ online student enrollments. 4,000 + fully online courses.

Average 90% student & faculty satisfaction. CC account for 67% of student enrollments.





SLN Awards2000 EDUCAUSE Award for Systemic Progress in Teaching and Learning

2001 Sloan-C award for Excellence in ALN Faculty Development

2002 Sloan-C award for Excellence in Institution-Wide ALN Programming

2003 Sloan-C Award for Excellence in Online Teaching

2006 USDLA 21st Century Best Practice Award - Online Technology - HigherEducation

2009 NUTN Distance Education Innovation Award



Things to Consider TodayWhat makes an effective learning

environment?Why might technology-enhanced

instruction be worth talking about?Keep in mind “the effects of

informational technolgies on Higher Ed.”



Name that tool!1

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Web 2.0

http://www.appappeal.com/web-2-0-application-world-mosaic/



My top 10 list! in January 2008:

1. Twitter2. SecondLife3. Voicethread4. Ustream5. Audacity6. Del.icio.us7. Skype8. edublogs (wordpress)9. jing



My top 10 list! Top 10 list for 2009:

1. seesmic2. the flip video3. youtube quickcapture4. diigo & groups5. Slideshare & groups6. polldaddy7. mogulus8. Facebook groups and pages9. Flickr & groups10. rockyou, animoto, wordle, prezi



Social Bookmarking http://diigo.com

http://groups.diigo.com/groups/ETAP687

Social bookmarking examples. http://del.icio.us/alexandrapickett http://www.diigo.com/user/alexandrapickett

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Twitter http://twitter.com

microblog community of practice communication support professional development

http://twitter.com/etap687 http://twitter.com/alexpickett

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Blogs http://edublogs.org http://wordpress.com

Blog hosting tools. http://etap687.edublogs.org

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Voicethread http://voicethread.com

an online media album of any type of media (images,documents and videos).

make comments in 5 different ways voice (with amicrophone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with awebcam).

and share them with anyone you wish.

Icebreaking activity example:http://voicethread.com/share/450225/

http://voicethread.com/share/524903/

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Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net

Audio editing/recording. http://sln.suny.edu/sln/public/original.nsf/dd93a

8da0b7ccce0852567b00054e2b6/543a6ea4d75d0e0e852571c40061a368?OpenDocument

Bonus cooltool http://tinyurl.com/5l83or

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Jing http://jingproject.com/

Screen-capture/screen casting.

http://www.screencast.com/t/whCXu3oj4b -clarification

http://www.screencast.com/t/gvb43kilynw -how to..

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Did you know?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-

faeTLfcgBA



So, what are the effects ofinformation technologies on

higher ed?How will they affect your educational

institution?



??Any Questions?



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http://slurl.com/secondlife/SUNY%20Learning%20Network/128/128/0 Skype: alexandrapickett

Join my networks!



Thank You!alejandra m. pickett

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