PRESENTED BY: MODEANE WALKER PH.D.

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY - ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

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If we teach today as we taught yesterday,

we rob our children of tomorrow.

-John Dewey
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Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of

1974
 http://appl003.lsu.edu/slas/registrar.nsf/$Cont
ent/Tutorial+for+Faculty+and+Staff?OpenDocu
ment
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The principle goal of education is to create

men and woman who are capable of doing
new things, not simply repeating what
other generations have done.

-Jean Piaget
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Expectations
 Graded, rubric, optional tool, assessment
Writing style
 Formal, informal
Requirements
 Mandatory comments twice a week
Initial reactions, comment after
Start
 Beginning of semester, before final, after midterm
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This is not…
 MySpace, Facebook
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Ads
 Trade-off for being free
Here today, gone tomorrow
 Make sure there is a export option
Free one moment, fee the next
 Find educational accounts (sometimes free upgrade on
storage or full-service)
Search and crawl
 Accessed through web search engines
 Controversial topics, maybe not?
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Interactive comment session

 Instructor posts initial comment, article, narrative, etc.
 Students posts comments
o Reaction comments, number of comments
Post hot-, trending, controversial topic, case study
 Moderate, moderate, moderate
Each one, teach one
Reverse
 Blog your experience with teaching, in general
Study tools
 Question blog, quiz hints, mid-term/final exam
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Join forces
 Connect with a colleague at another university and
collaborate between classes
 Design (web, interior, art)
o Post a piece of work and have students critique
State your case…the great debate!
 Make a statement without supporting information
o Allow students to support or refute but they MUST include
references
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Syllabus
 Convert assigned readings into active links
Vocabulary Story
 Great for foreign language
A-Z
 Everything related to your discipline
Brainstorm
Great for group projects!
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http://edublogs.org/

https://www.blogger.com/start
http://home.spaces.live.com/

http://www.weebly.com/
http://www.typepad.com/

http://www.tumblr.com/
http://wordpress.com/
https://posterous.com/
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https://plans.pbworks.com/signup/edubasic20

http://wikisineducation.wetpaint.com/

http://www.wikispaces.com/
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The need to know the capital of Florida

died when my phone learned the answer.
Rather, the students of tomorrow need to
be able to think creatively: they will need to
learn on their own, adapt to new challenges
and innovate on-the-fly.
-Anthony Chivetta
High school student in Missouri
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Teach the process of writing and thinking

Writing is collaborative
Wikis provide proof of participation through tracking
Effective integration = YOU
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All students know technology

I’m the first
Wiki = engagement
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Blogs in Plain English

 http://youtu.be/NN2I1pWXjXI
Wikis in Plain English
 http://youtu.be/-dnL00TdmLY
Learning Styles Don’t Exist
 http://edupln.ning.com/video/video/show?id=4241570%3
AVideo%3A22752
David Wiley: Open Teaching Multiplies the Benefit but
Not the Effort
 http://chronicle.com/blogPost/David-Wiley-Open-
Teaching/7271
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Group Chemistry
 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/10/02/chemist
ry
To blog, or not to blog (in the classroom)
 http://edublognology.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/to-
blog-or-not-to-blog-in-the-classroom/
Blog Basics
 http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/blog/blogbasics.cfm
Step by step: Opening doors to a class blog
 http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/blog/openingdoorsbl
og.cfm
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