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Introduction to Teaching with Technology in Liberal Education
Millsaps CollegeOctober, 2007
NITLE workshop
0. Introductions and overview1. Resource aggregation2. Publishing to the web3. Discussion areas4. Multimedia pedagogy
First, liberal education
Inherited models
Artes liberales – Skills– Practice, yet theory– Multiplicity
Literacies– Multiple– Productive– Media vs
information
Different weavings from the cloth
• Pure learning for learning’s sake• Student-centered pedagogy• Preparation for democratic
citizenship• Institutional typology and heritage
-Jo Ellen Parker, “What’s So “Liberal” About Higher Ed?” (Academic Commons, 2006)
Millsaps’ core
Abilities:• Reasoning
(quantitative, scientific, ethical, aesthetic)
• Communication • Historical
Consciousness • Social & Cultural
Awareness (Image from CodeCutter, via Flickrhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jmarkb/1133112464/)
Digital, not analog?
Differences, enhancements• Student’s schedule• Repeatability, scrubbing,
segmentation, transferability• Iteration
(Desire path,Vermont, 2006)
Further affordances
• Social software– Triangulation– Presence
• Temporality– Synch versus asynch– Two archival tendencies
Practical tendencies
• Timeshifts within the classroom
• Classroom vs. the rest of spacetime
• LazyWeb meets DIY• Archival teaching for
the professor(Middlebury College,
January 2006)
The relief of history
Adrien Baillet, Jugement de Paris
Resource aggregation
• Eroding, but semiarchived (http://archive.org)
• Vast• Growing
(Bookstore in Fes,Morocco, 2007)
Requirements• Search (classic, social, Web 2.0,
media)• Aggregation (del.icio.us,
Scholar.com, H2O)• Information literacy• Social aggregation, or digital
citizenship
Away from the wild Web
• e-reserves • Databases
(ARTSTOR)• The oldest
information profession(Denison Library,
Claremont Colleges)
Publishing to the web
“Web 1.0”• Enormous publication• Vast, semiarchived (archive.org)• Needed: editor and host
• Euclid’s Elements, Interactive Presentation. http://math.furman.edu/~jpoole/euclidselements/euclid.htm
• Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive. http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/home.html
• Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature. (WWI archive) http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/
• Visual Elements Periodic Table. http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/pertable_fla.htm
“Web 2.0”• Social
software• Microconte
nt• Open • Platforms
Web 2.0: blogs• Public intellectual• Research record• Personal expression
• Collaborative blogs• Scholarly discussion
– Formal and in-
• Emergent interest
(Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Pomona CollegeLMS conference, Reed College, 2005)
Web courseware (Moodle, Blackboard, Sakai)
• Class (not course) only
• Copyright shield (TEACH Act)
• Integration with e-reserves
(Martin Dougiemas, via PeskyLibrary on Flickr)
Discussion areas
• Blogs– Posts– Comments– On-campus and off-
(“Blog-based communities,”James Farmer, from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elifishtacos/90944651/)
Wikis• History• That encyclopedia• Two challenges• Wikis not called
wikis
Modes of use• Discussion• Annotation• Collaborative
writing
Multimedia pedagogy
– Learning styles– Active engagement– Changing population, literacy– Long, long tradition
Images• Visualization• Compositions• Presentation (ppt)• Social (Flickr)
(Image from “LordSutch” via Flickr,http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordsutch/19444718/)
Audio• Sound objects• Social sound:
podcasting (James Phfrem)
• Embedded sound (Web, video)
• Synchronous: VOIP(Aaron Prevots, French,Southwestern University)
PodcastingPedagogies• Profcasting• Studentcasting• Public intellectual• Field work
Video • Video objects• Social video (Web)• Synchronous (Video conference)
Digital cartography• GIS • Web mapping, a/k/a virtual globes• Synchronous? Watch Google
Multimedia syntheses• Presentation tools (PowerPoint,
Keynote)• Media: text, images, sound, video• Ease of use• Danger: death by PowerPoint (cf
Tufte)
Multimedia syntheses• Virtual worlds
– Virtual reality– Social-emotional bandwidth
Multimedia syntheses• Gaming
– Pedagogies (Gee, 2003ff)
– Literacy– Compositions
And text!• Web 2.0• Nearly every digital affordance• Synchronous: chat, IM
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