I’ve got my computer… now what?
Colin GrahamSubject co-ordinator for Study Skills and Strategies
School of Foreign LanguagesAbdullah Gul University
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Contents
• Background about the University• A – Z of some issues• Questions
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Background – Who are We?
• State university supported by private funding
• All teaching done in English• Inaugurated 2010• 4 schools• 13 graduate and
undergraduate programmes• Cited among the
preferences of 21,534 high school graduates nationwide and as number one choice of 3,046 of these future students
• First students 2013-2014 academic year
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D is for… Diigo
• Research• Collaboration• Filtering• Organizing
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E is for… engagement
• How does it happen?• Is it guaranteed each time?
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F is for… flipped classrooms
• Not a new idea• Change of methodology• Not just replacing the
textbook with a video
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G is for… games
• Gamification• Measurement of
achievement
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H is for… help!
• Is it available?• Is it appropriate?
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I is for…
• “Is there anywhere on earth exempt from these swarms of new books?”
– Erasmus, 1525
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I is for… information
• Paralysis through analysis• Intellectual laziness• Impulsive & flighty
consumers• “A little learning…”
• Internet of “things” – the second digital revolution
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J is for… Jing
• Self-made tutorials• Student-made tutorials
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K is for… knowledge
• Language• Technology• Application
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L is for… LiveBinders
• Research• Presentations• Collaboration
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M is for… motivation
• Element of self-pacing• Delivery and content• Affect
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N is for… note-taking
• Effectiveness• Techniques• Paper vs digital
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O is for… organization
• Finding things quickly• Time management
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R is for… reference tools
• Monolingual• Bilingual• Visual• Collocation• Thesaurus
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S is for… Schoology
• Resource bank• Administrative tool
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T is for… technology
• When it’s not there?• Appropriate?• Pencil and paper…
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U is for… university
• New ‘culture’• Independence• Expectations
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V is for… vocabulary
• Recording methods• Choice• Lexico-syntactic structures
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W is for… Wikipedia
• Principled referencing?• Over-reliance • Primary sourcing
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X is for… a gratuitous picture of Hugh & Halle
• Mutation or evolution?
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Y is for… YouTube
• Availability of material• Quality of material• Student-generated content?
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Z is for…
• Zyxt is listed as the last word in the online Oxford English Dictionary, an obsolete Kentish word that is the second singular indicative present form of the verb see. The next-to-last is zyxst, an obsolete word meaning 'sixth'.
• Several online dictionaries list the word zyzzyva, a tropical American weevil, as the last word in the letter Z.
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Am I the last word?