CI 597C: Disruptive Technologies in Teaching and Learning

Food for Final Session

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:27:12 -0500

Please leave a comment to this post related to the food and drink you'll contribute to the final class.

Final Assignment

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:40:55 -0500

Hard to believe, but it is time to share the final assignment for the semester. This is a two part assignment ... the first is to be completed on an individual basis while the second will be completed in your teams. This week we'll give you over half the class to work with your teams, so come prepared with any questions you may have. Also, it is important that you get close to completing the first part prior to class Thursday.

Individual Assignment (Part 1)

You will make three separate blog posts that are designed to be a synthesis your own work from the past semester. We'd like you to draw upon your own posts and synthesize your thoughts around our three themes -- community, identity, and design. Each post will be about one of the themes. Please take time to link to your own posts and to draw upon the work of your classmates that may have influenced you over the course of the semester. When you do draw upon any examples please take the time to link to the originating content.

Team Assignment (Part 2)

As a team, you will be asked to create a single wiki page that will provide a meta synthesis of the 5 core technologies the teams covered in class:

podcasting
wikis
youtube
facebook
twitter

We'd like you to discuss the 5 core technologies in terms of the of the affordances they provide and their relation to the three themes of the course. We'd like you to draw upon your individual responses from the first assignment as well as from other external sources.

We've created wiki pages for each team that you will use to create your final team synthesis. We will ask you to discuss these in class the last week.

Reading Assignment for 04.10.08

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:14:33 -0500

The rest of the Wenger book has been posted to ANGEL. Please read 173 - 221 for next week. That rounds out Part II on Identity. That also means that we should take up identity next week in a pretty serious way and also that you should focus your blog posts on that same concept. The last section is on Design. Feel free to dig into it if you have reading time, but you will need to finish up the rest of the book in the next couple weeks either way. Have a good weekend and I will see you on Thursday.

Post YouTube Video URLS

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:02:59 -0500

Drop them as a comment here.

Some TLT Symposium Questions to Consider

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:27:09 -0500

In your teams, take some time to discuss these questions and be ready to share your thoughts.

What do you see as the higher education translation into k-12?
You've all been to traditional conferences, did the back channel conversations (powered by social media) change the experience? What are some takeaways as it relates to your own future learning environments?
Characterize your identity and relationship to the other TLT participants
Did you get a sense that there was a clear TLT community based on your interactions with the people there? What sort of evidence can you state as to whether it is a community?

Reading Assignment for 04.03.08

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:49:09 -0500

Made you look. Actually, thanks to bburns you will not have readings this week. Please post on your experience at TLT symposium this weekend (or whatever alternative activity you were involved in). Obviously, you should try and connect to the three themes (identity, community, and design if you forgot). Next week I will post another section of the Wenger book along with an interesting article about the Web 2.0 mindset and its impact on education/learning. Hopefully you all enjoyed and learned from your TLT experience and will insights to share. See you on Thursday.

TLT Symposium Tag Team Signup

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:17:32 -0500

Please sign up for the TLT Tag Team. This is the stuff we'll be asking for you to be helpful with:

Tag your photos [Flickr]
Tag your writing [blogs@PSU]
Tag your web sites [del.icio.us]
Tag your activity [Twitter]
Tag yourself [stickers]

Twitter in Plain English

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:02:00 -0500

Those of you still trying to figure out what Twitter is should watch the new Twitter video from the folks at Common Craft. Those of you hooked into the "TwitterStream" can leave comments here about why you have gotten engaged -- I know some of you are Twitter people, so let's hear from you!

For Class Thursday

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:28:58 -0500

Hi all ... Bart Pursel from the College of Information Sciences and Technology will be in class on Thursday to talk to you a bit about virtual worlds and how they play out in a learning landscape. Bart maintains a blog that you might want to take a look at it. He also passed a link along to a PDF he'd like you to skim over. It should be a fun and interesting discussion, so please try to come ready to participate.

Podcasting Activities: Trying to Think Big

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:49:38 -0500

It was painful, but we were able to come up with five somewhat interesting uses for podcasting:

Discover and share podcasts within specific areas of interest
Formal or informal interviews with students, faculty, professionals
Focus group related to a specific topics
Brainstorming and capturing group thinking
Guiding people through tasks (audio only, screen cast, video cast)

We'd like you to share links to your podcasts as a comment here and help us think about how we can start to use these technologies over the long haul.

Reading Assignment for 03.06.08

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:08:41 -0500

Just in time for our visit from the master of serious games, we get to the chapters in Wenger where he starts to talk about identity. So we have been in the community space almost exclusively so far. A few people (Becci you know who you are) have dropped the I word into the mix, but we have really not gone after it. So, here are Wenger's thoughts. There are lots of ways to think about identity, so don't get tied down to this one, just try to evaluate it. Some questions to think about (really whenever you are examining an explanation of identity): Who defines it? How is it constructed? Where does it reside? What is its relationship to the community / context?

Adding Analytics: PSU Blogs

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:47:18 -0500

Take a look at this little screencast that shows you how to add Google Analytics to your PSU Blog.

Teaching with Flickr

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:17:34 -0500

So we spent some time looking at Flickr today ... what we'd like you to do is take the next step and actually create a Flickr photo set that you can use for teaching. Once you've done it, please write a brief description of what you decided to teach and the approach you've taken on your personal blog. Today in class we looked at a few examples:

Flickr

Web 2.0 Storytelling

Web Storytelling via Interesting Snippets

Worth a Look

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:20:02 -0500

A Flickr set from the 1975 book, And the Changes to Come. Looks like we made it ...

Questions for 02.21.08

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:26:24 -0500

laggard = peripheral participant?

“An obvious principle of human communication is that the transfer of ideas occurs most frequently between two individuals who are similar.”

"learning takes place not so much through the reification of a curriculum as through modified forms of participation that are structured to open the practice to nonmembers" (p100).

Diffusion of Innovation and the Tipping Point - Who is Paul Revere?

Are department heads and deans the kinds of leaders we should target in higher education? What about K-12?