The list below contains links to some of the information and resources to be discussed at the CELT presentation to be given on Wednesday, March 24 in MLIB 31 at 2:00 p.m.
The Horizon Report – a report from the New Media Center that “charts the landscape of emerging technologies for teaching, learning and creative inquiry…”
Mobile Computing Example 1 year or less San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Mobile Tours
This application provides a multimedia gallery tour to allow visitors to explore SFMOMA’s extraordinary collection through a handheld touchscreen device.
Open Content 1 year or less eScholarship: University of California
eScholarship provides a suite of open access, scholarly publishing services and research tools associated with the University of California.
Electronic Books 2 – 3 years DeepDyve
DeepDyve is the largest online rental service for scientific, technical and medical research.
Augmented Reality 2 – 3 Years The Virtual Time Machine “allows people to see and discover much more than they would normally be able to by overlaying information and images in real time on photos and video taken using a mobile device.”
Gesture-Based Computing 4 – 5 Years Microsoft Surface for Students The Surfaces, coffee-table-sized computerized devices that respond not to a mouse, but to fingertips are now at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Google
Google Moderator is an application that lets audience members decide which questions, suggestions or ideas interest them most. Submitted questions are then voted upon by the audience and the most popular questions rise to the top.The voting box at the top of page focuses attention on submissions recently added and on the rise, making it simple and easy to participate. It is a perfect way to include people in lectures, interviews and collaborative work situations.
Application Resource
Go2Web2.0
Go2web20 is one of the biggest web2.0 directories on the Internet. This site enables people to stay up to date with all the new & hot applications that arrive daily on the Internet.
CSU Chico will proudly host the first South West Blackboard Users Group (SWBUG) reception in Second Life on March 16 at 4pm Pacific time. We have Kelvin Blue Oh, a blues guitarist playing live from Texas, free tee shirts, mugs, dancing, and lots and lots of conversation. So make some time to come meet folks from other universities as well as people from Blackboard. Students are welcome too!
How To Participate:
You will need a Second Life account. Go to http://www.secondlife.com and look for the join button top right.
Create your avatar when you create the account. Use an easily spelled and remembered name and an email account that you check (your offline messages go to it). Pick a password you can remember.
Download and install the client (viewer). The new Linden viewer V2 (beta) is out. It is still very new and sometimes buggy. There are alternate clients like Emerald. I am using Emerald, which is a lot like the original viewer but with some awesome features. Don’t forget to download the voice patch if you choose this route. Hippo is also another client used by many SL residents.
You need a decent computer to access a 3-D environment. SL is no exception. Once you learn about the client, settings can be tweaked to maximize graphics performance.
Start up the Second Life client and enter your avatar name and password. You will land in the new people area. You can find very limited support there, however here is the page with the 800 numbers.
What: The California Arts Podcast Project
Who: Asa Mittman, professor with the Art and Art History Department
When: Pre-recorded on Wednesday, March 10 at 3:30 p.m. pacific time
Where: An Archive Online in Wimba Classroom
This talk will focus on the use of Wimba Podcaster to allow students to
have a more lasting impact than in traditional assignments, to take
their work beyond the grade I give it, so that it is has a real-world
use. The assignment is for the students to make their own short online
lectures based on a work of art they must visit in person. They
photograph of it, locate it on a Google Map, and publish a podcast of it
on a public California Art Podcasts website I created at Netvibes:
Students write and record a two-minute podcast discussing the work of
art, using the Wimba Voice Podcaster Tool link in our Blackboard Vista
course page, and paste their text into the Wimba tool to provide closed
captions for the hearing impaired. Through an RSS feed, the podcasts
are automatically uploaded to the Netvibes site.
In contrast, this assignment gives students a change to publish their
efforts, to reach toward a much broader audience. There work creating
these podcasts was not merely an exercise. It was a finished product.
I wondered how the students would react to this experimental assignment,
and was delighted by the ways in which they rose to the challenge. Many
produced excellent podcasts. As a class, they have produced a resource
for the public, an audio guide to public art in the region. I also
wondered, though, if anyone would use this resource we were creating. I
have been most gratified to see that the site has had more than three
thousand hits since its launch only two months ago. This is solid
quantitative indication of the impact that the assignment has been able
to have. I plan to use this assignment again when I next offer this
course, and will simply allow the Netvibes site to grow with ever semester.
What is TILT?
The Technology in Learning and Teaching consortium is an informal research and interest group consisting of faculty, staff, and others with interests or experience in technology as it relates to learning and teaching. You can attend these faculty presentations in person, live online through the Internet, or via a later archive. For more information, visit the TILT Web page: www.csuchico.edu/tlp/tilt. Presentations take place on Wednesdays in MLIB 031, in the basement of Meriam Library.
Viewing a TILT Symposium Online
Participant Logins do not require a password for this presentation.
For questions, information or suggestions for future TILT sessions please contact Ann Steckel at X6780 or asteckel[at]csuchico.edu.
What: “Grading Portfolios Collaboratively in Vista” and “Online Student Presentations with Wimba Presentation”
Who: Cindy Ratekin, of the Child Development Program
When: Previously recorded on Wednesday, March 10 at 2:00 p.m. pacific time
Where: Archive that is Online in Wimba Classroom
In this archive Cindy Ratekin discusses two separate Vista experiences that were initiated in the Fall 2009 semester that allowed student assignments to
be transferred to an on-line format. The first involved the Child Development Senior Seminar course. This course uses 6 different Child
development faculty to review and grade Senior Portfolios electronically. The second experience involved moving student
presentations that were previously done during class sessions into an electronic format.
What is TILT?
The Technology in Learning and Teaching consortium is an informal research and interest group consisting of faculty, staff, and others with interests or experience in technology as it relates to learning and teaching. You can attend these faculty presentations in person, live online through the Internet, or via a later archive. For more information, visit the TILT Web page: www.csuchico.edu/tlp/tilt. Presentations take place on Wednesdays in MLIB 031, in the basement of Meriam Library.
Viewing a TILT Symposium Online
Participant Logins do not require a password for this presentation.
For questions, information or suggestions for future TILT sessions please contact Ann Steckel at X6780 or asteckel[at]csuchico.edu.
“Pe-CHAK-cha” — Pecha Kucha is a new way of thinking about delivering instruction. It reduces the lecture to small bite size pieces or 20 slides in 20 seconds. That’s six minutes and 40 seconds. (It is Japanese for “chit-chat”.) Think of this as a quick presentation, for faculty or students. This rigid format provokes critical thinking to be concise and to the point and very focused. Visit “A Guide to Making a Pecha Kucha Presentation: Overview, Felix Jung.”
It is recommended that brainstorming happen first, then writing a script, and timing it. Next step is presenting. You can use Lecshare Pro. It is hard at first to think of limiting yourself to 20 seconds per slide. But very effective.
What: “Tweaking Vista for Big Pay Offs”
Who: Robert C. Jones, Department of Philosophy
When: Previously recorded on Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Where: Online as an Archive
One of the biggest challenges facing professors in reading-heavy disciplines such as Humanities and Social Sciences is getting your students to read the required materials. Classroom discussions based on assigned readings that few students have taken the time to study can be less-than fruitful. Further, students who are required to take tests and quizzes on these readings often end up having to “cram” for these exams. However, if you use Vista (which you should), incorporating just a few key tweaks in the design of your course can bring big payoffs for you and your students. In this presentation Robert Jones will show you some of those tweaks and discuss the substantial benefits that have resulted since my implementing them just two semesters ago.
What is TILT?
The Technology in Learning and Teaching consortium is an informal research and interest group consisting of faculty, staff, and others with interests or experience in technology as it relates to learning and teaching. You can attend these faculty presentations in person, live online through the Internet, or via a later archive. For more information, visit the TILT Web page: www.csuchico.edu/tlp/tilt. Presentations take place on Wednesdays in MLIB 031, in the basement of Meriam Library.
Viewing a TILT Symposium as an Archive
Using this archive link, enter your name into the box labeled participant. Participant Logins do not require a password for this presentation. View This Archive
For questions, information or suggestions for future TILT sessions please contact Ann Steckel at X6780 or asteckel[at]csuchico.edu.
During the fall semester, the College of Communication, Arts, and Sciences took on an important pilot project which featured capturing the lectures in a large lecture hall. CMST 131 is a course with a large population of several hundred students. To accommodate all of them and still provide rich and engaging content, the group decided to broadcast the live lectures given in the classroom to another group who watched live and participated from a distance. A third group which could not attend class synchronously as a result of tight scheduling was given the option of attending asynchronous via the recorded archives.
During this presentation recorded on Wednesday, February 10, 2010, Dr. Justus details his experiences, successes and also his challenges.
To view the archive you will need a Web browser, the Java plug-in, and computer speakers to hear the audio. At the login window type your name into the box. No password is needed.
Click to view the archive of the presentation.
Recently we have received several inquires as to how to view statistics associated with a question used in an assessment given in Vista. William Middlebrook, a student staff worker in the TLP lab recently wrote out the steps to share how easy this process is. If you like this VISA tip and would like to see more, please check out our Vista Knowledge Base or our tutorials and demos.
Viewing Assessment Stats in Vista
1) Navigate to the teach tab.
2) Select the assessment manager tool and click on the name of the quiz you wish to view statistics for.
3) Next to the blue title of the quiz there will be a grey drop down action links arrow. Click the action links arrow and select view reports.
4) Next select overall statistics button and click run report.
5) As the default, the report will be displayed “by student”.
6) Above the last name column Show: View by Student will be selected. In order to view by question select View by Question.
7) You will see numeric stats for each question.
8 ) Click Printable Statistics View and the stats will include graphs.
William Middlebrook, Student Staff
Technology & Learning Program
898-6167
