tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81663596427185186032011-11-26T13:41:48.672-08:00The blog for the 2008 Graduate Student Summer Workshop on Using Technology to Enhance Your Coursetanyanoreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166359642718518603.post-42564016590763103562008-08-08T05:56:00.001-07:002008-08-08T05:58:29.745-07:00In case you didn't get the email, there will be a Sandbox session offered on Friday, August 22, in the Arc Lab (south half of the computer lab where we met - by the window):<br /><br />Time will be 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.<br /><br />As with the May sandbox, this is an opportunity for you to play around with the varoius tools we discussed, and to get hands-on support on any of those tools, if you like.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8166359642718518603-4256401659076310356?l=gssw2008.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>tanyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166359642718518603.post-442994426729554132008-05-26T07:50:00.000-07:002008-05-26T07:52:56.797-07:00Hi everyone!<br /><br />Stacy and I really enjoyed the workshops last week, and we hope you got a lot out of them, too.<br /><br />As we mentioned,, this blog will remain available. I've cleaned it up a bit and will continue to post resources and other things occasionally. Please feel free to add to the conversations here!<br /><br />To start with: I just heard about this website, which links to free (and not-so-free) technology tools for teaching...<br /><br /><a href="http://c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/index.html">http://c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/index.html</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8166359642718518603-44299442672955413?l=gssw2008.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>tanyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166359642718518603.post-19614790873978200642008-05-20T08:50:00.000-07:002008-05-20T08:54:14.064-07:00This is new to me. But blogs seem very well suited for student cultural reports, personal journals, or discussion forums on speaking points.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8166359642718518603-1961479087397820064?l=gssw2008.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>p.g.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01175959137722027850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166359642718518603.post-91988159268746766472008-05-20T08:42:00.001-07:002008-05-20T08:56:11.777-07:00I had a professor once who had a little too much fun with the kitschy features of PowerPoint. All of her graphics and photographs appeared with animations; all of her bullet points flew in one way or another. Moreover, the animations were often accompanied by sound effects: whooshes, squeals, machine-gun ratatatatats. The audio-visual equipment in the large lecture hall had a few glitches, and the sound effects would often come late, seconds after the graphics or text had appeared; thus, we were often subjected to surprise blasts of echoing gunfire sounds. I don't know for sure whether the professor did this to keep students awake and attentive. It certainly did wake me up a few times when I was getting drowsy, but more than once it interrupted the professor mid-sentence. You might think that the professor would have realized what a terrible distraction this was, but the sound effects and animations continued all semester.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8166359642718518603-9198815926874676647?l=gssw2008.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Fordnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166359642718518603.post-15323985904844768472008-05-19T09:06:00.000-07:002008-05-19T09:07:18.867-07:00Here are the notes from the whiteboard for the question<br /><br />What challenges do you face/have you faced in the classroom? Things to work on?<br /><br />motivating and engaging students <br />overplanning/underplanning: the need for flexibility, but not too much <br />successfully managing multi-level classes --> balancing info/level info to meet student needs <br />keeping student attention (and keep them from running off track!) <br />"unteaching" students - redirect/corect the knowledge they came into class with <br />getting students to talk/answer questions <br />balance in information-giving: how detailed do you get? <br />finding new ways to teach things <br />keep class from being too teacher-centered <br />setting goals and acomplishing them <br />structuring course information/content appropriately <br />planning/maximizing class time <br />knowing how YOUR course fits into a larger sequence of courses <br />integrating activities/assessments coherently <br />keeping your OWN attention <br />how to make it interesting/relevant <br />student knowledge retention<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8166359642718518603-1532398590484476847?l=gssw2008.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>tanyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166359642718518603.post-2520981685586990392008-05-01T10:20:00.000-07:002008-05-01T10:21:03.997-07:00Welcome to the 2008 GSSW Teaching with Technology sessions!<br /><br />More to come soon...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8166359642718518603-252098168558699039?l=gssw2008.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>tanyanoreply@blogger.com0