LET Community Final Spring Meeting

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Cheridy Aduviri

Joihttp://www.flickr.com/photos/caroslines/3233935386/sizes/q/n us on June 3rd from 9-11 (note the early meeting time) in Furman 404 for our LET community meeting. Since this is our last community meeting before the summer break, we splurged and ordered Cheese Blintz’s with Warm Berry Compote & Whipped Cream plus coffee. Our topics of conversation will include final thoughts on Canvas templates, and sharing of problems and success in ed tech use over the term. Come enjoy good conversation and food!

If you can’t make it, we will meet again in the Fall.  Join our community of learners on the Tech’d Out Learning Facebook group.

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The Brainwaves Video Anthology

Posted on May 2, 2015 by Cheridy Aduviri

Check out the Brainwaves You Tube Video Anthology by Bob Greenberg.  It’s loaded with short videos that feature leaders in global education.

Here’s one with Sir Ken Robinson where he talks about his new book, Revolutionizing Education from the Ground Up.

Here are a few of many others I’ve either watched or look forward to viewing soon!

Subscribe to The Brainwaves Video Anthology to stay notified of the latest uploads.  Consider ways you can use them in your courses or as a springboard for conversation.  Hey LET Community members, perhaps we can use a few of these in upcoming meetings.

Happy viewing!

*Cross-posted on When Tech Met Ed

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Learning Technologies with Language Learners

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Cheridy Aduviri
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Here’s access to my presentation Why? How?When? and Which Tools? Learning Technologies with Language Learners. It’s divided into two parts. Part 1: Frameworks to view technology integration. (The why, the when and a bit of the how.) Part 2: The tools with some examples.

Don’t miss the “challenge” at the end.  1. Explore one of the categories interesting to you under the toolbox on When Tech Met Ed Resources. 2. Create something that may be used in your instructional setting. 3. Share your creation and the tool’s usefulness in supporting learning on this Padlet! Enjoy!

What framework(s) do you use to guide your integration of technologies in supporting language learning and/or content learning?

*This presentation was given to a group of university English instructors and to pre-service teachers in the College of Education.

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Recorded Ecampus Spring Faculty Forum

Posted on April 20, 2015 by Cheridy Aduviri

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If you missed the Ecampus Spring Faculty Forum, you can view recorded sessions here. I somehow missed the Ecampus Test Kitchen. They’ve posted a copy of the tech recipes.

Enjoy!

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LET Community May 6th Conversation

Posted on April 18, 2015 by Cheridy Aduviri

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Join the LET Community (Learning Educational Technologies) Wednesday, May 6th 10-11:50 in Furman 404. Our goal is to share and learn together surrounding learning technologies.

We don’t have a specific topic, but will leave discussion open to topics such as the following:

  • Our experiences with Canvas, continuation of our discussion about templates, and Canvas resources.
  • Ecampus Faculty Forum take-aways.
  • Learning technology resources you want to share.
  • Assignments with learning technologies in your class that are headed in an exciting direction.
  • Questions you have about ways to integrate a learning technology in a way that supports learning.

It is suggested you bring a laptop or let us know if you need one. Bring your curiosity, questions, and resources. We expect to have fun sharing and working together. Coffee and chocolate chip scones will be provided! 

Hope to see you there!

Cheridy and Jennifer

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Ecampus Spring Faculty Forum April 15

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Cheridy Aduviri

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Join me and other Ecampus faculty at the Ecampus Spring Faculty Forum on April 15th.  Several College of Ed instructors will present.   At 10:00 am, Kok-Mun Ng will be on a panel entitled How Quality Matters Improved my class. I’ll be a part of a panel entitled Active learning that yields real world results.  Eric Weber will be on an Innovative teaching: A showcase of hybrid courses panel at 2:30 pm.

The forum runs from 8:00 am, starting with breakfast, to 4:15 and includes lunch.  See the complete schedule and register.  I’ve presented and attended for the past few years and have benefitted from doing so.  I’ve always walked away with new ideas for my online courses and enjoyed networking with other instructors across campus.  See you there!

Also, be sure to check out some of the Ecampus online resources: Ecampus Inspire Blog and Online Education Trends.

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LET Community Focus Canvas Templates

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Cheridy Aduviri

LET PictureCollege of Ed Instructors: Join the LET Community (Learning Educational Technologies) Wednesday, April 1 & May 6: 10-11:30 in Furman 404 . We will be sharing our experiences with Canvas and how we have set up our Canvas courses. We will also be working on templates that we hope to share across the college. Bring a laptop or let us know if you need one. We expect to have fun sharing and working together. Coffee and snacks will be provided! 

Canvas Templates: Can’t make it, but curious about the Canvas templates? Check out the OSU On-Campus Canvas template and Canvas’s own sample course templates.

Hope to see you there!

Cheridy and Jennifer

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Exploring Web Literacy with Thinglink

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Cheridy Aduviri

Guest post by S. Horton, a K-12 educator in Cheridy Aduviri’s Winter 2015 Ed Tech class.

Web literacy is important for students to learn, regardless of their age.  Alan November’s website has a ton of resources on web literacy. When tackling this topic in the classroom, my students were falling asleep at the thought of reading another article. They demanded pop, fun, interaction, and creativity. I needed a way to get the information across while engaging them.  What was I to do? Create it!  My students and I created this user friendly, super fun Thinglink using a joined effort of Easel.ly and Thinglink.  It’s interactive. Click on the icons and explore!

 

How to use the Thinglink The tags have the answers to 13 questions on web literacy.  Some of the tags have follow-up activities that the students perform while reading the Thinglink creation. They click on an interactive link and then interact. Thus, the once bored students are no longer bored, but happily participating in web literacy skill improvement.

 

How I created the Thinglink First, in Easel.ly, an infographics site, I made the base picture. Then, using the snipping tool on the computer, to take a “picture” of the Easel.ly poster, I saved it as a jpeg file. Next, I uploaded the picture into Thinglink, a great site for creating interactive images. Then, I used the information on the November’s learning website to create tags on the poster.

You too can bring topics such as web literacy alive.  Give it a try! Check out related posts on When Tech Met Ed: Exploring Social Justice with Thinglink and Ways to Use Thinglink in Education. A thank you to S. Horton and her students!
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Winter Canvas Migration Series for On Campus College of Ed Instructors

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Cheridy Aduviri

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3/12 Update: Thanks to all who attended and a special thanks to the Technology Across the Curriculum team! Stay tuned for upcoming workshops.

The Technology committee invites all on-campus College of Ed instructors to a series of three workshops this winter term designed to migrate your courses to Canvas.  Even if you don’t use Blackboard and don’t think you need Canvas we encourage you to migrate your course and create a presence in Canvas. We are timing these workshops to support spring term course migrations, but if you would like to migrate a summer or fall course, you are welcome to attend.

On-Campus instructors — If you teach on-campus this spring please attend and let us help you! All meetings will be in Furman 404. Bring a laptop or let us know if you need one for the workshop. 

  1. Jan 29, 11:45-1:15 — Lynn Greenough from the Technology Across the Curriculum (TAC) will give us an overview of Canvas and the migration process.  (This will include learning to copy courses, creating and deleting elements, checking links, etc.)  There will be time to get started in your own course with TAC staff on hand.
  2. Feb 5, 11:45-1:15 — Work on your course in a workshop style with your colleagues in the College of Ed.   At this point you may be ready to rethink and rebuild elements that did not transfer well (blogs, wikis, tests, journals, nested folders, multiple prompt discussion forums).
  3. Feb 26, 11:45-1:15  —  Technology Across the Curriculum staff will once again join us. They will be available to answer questions as we continue building our courses.  Plan to continue to rebuild your course or add new elements that were not available in Blackboard. We can share the work we’ve done and learn together. 

You can come to all sessions or drop in for any amount of time during one session. If you can’t make it, check out other hands on migration workshops TAC is offering.

Ecampus instructors —  Ecampus will do much of this work for you. Please register for an Ecampus Migration Workshop that takes place on or before Feb. 26 to initiate the Ecampus support process and to have the course ready in time for spring term. Or fill out an Exception Request. This helps Ecampus keep track of which courses are in which system and better support students, especially in that first week of class.

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LET Community Begins

Posted on January 2, 2015 by Cheridy Aduviri

LET PictureWe are pleased to announce the beginning of a learning community surrounding educational technologies in the College of Ed!  Winter term, Cheridy and Jennifer worked with the Center for Teaching and Learning in planning.

We hope this will be a collaborative community where we have time to share, learn together, and have fun! Coffee and snacks will be provided! Within our first few meetings, we will collaboratively shape a direction for our community.  The initial focus will be on learning technologies in instruction and learning. As we get started, we will call this the LET Community (Learning Educational Technologies Community). Here’s a sneak peak into a Prezi that will serve as a starting place.

This is an ongoing invitation to join us. Together, we will LET Community building begin around educational technologies.

Currently, we have reserved the first Wednesday of each month from 10-11 am in Furman 303 Winter/404 Spring 

  • Wednesday, Feb 4 – Furman 303
  • Wednesday, March 4 – Furman 303
  • Wednesday, April 1 – Furman 404
  • Wednesday, May 6 – Furman 404

Jennifer and Cheridy look forward to community building with you around one of their favorite topics—learning technologies in education! Stay updated on meetings, events, etc. on this Tech’d Out Learning Site.

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