Collaborative Knowledge Develoment
May 12, 2008
Two, they develop collaboration skills and technology skills that are current at this time in our society. They learn to use online, shared document services. They learn to communicate in synchronous and asynchronous ways with a variety of students (I suggest you not let them self-select groups). This can be very frustrating for them… just like their jobs will be once they graduate (committee work anyone?).
Suggested guidelines for use in class:
- As a group, pick the 5 most confusing topics from the material for your designated exam.
- Share media in the Google document that will aid all of our understanding about the material.
- Pick websites that have simple explanations (and detailed explanations).
- Try to find material that is both verbal and visual and…
- If applicable, find a simulation or material that will allow us to have a phenomenological experience with the construct/theory/idea/task/etc…
- Organize the material so that it is easy to read and easy to use as a study aid. Usability is important! Remember that this is a public document and a variety of individuals may come to the site looking for knowledge.
- When you remix information from another site (words, images, simulations, etc.) you have an ethical responsibility to cite and credit the creator of the content. It will be much better for you to paraphrase how the material on a website can aid our understanding and then provide a link, than to copy the material.
- Plagiarism will result in a failing grade for the entire group, so monitor the groups work and help each other with APA style citations.
- Pre-Test Review! The last class period before the exam I want each group to share what you have done with us as a serious and engaged study session. You might want to create a presentation document to aid in this endeavor. I will be happy to help you copy handouts to aid any simulations (for example, you might want to recreate a classic experiment in class). Each document and presentation should improve over the semester as we learn from the previous groups mistakes.
How Tos and other stuff to make you a Google Doc expert.
- Videos to grow your expertise!
- The famous Google docs in plain English video (watch me first for inspiration)
- A very well organized series of how to videos from expert village (RSS )
- Google doc videos on YouTube… select from a variety of channels
- Text based help to make you an expert!
Does anyone use twitter… follow me and I’ll do the same
January 28, 2008
NGCSU FALL COMMENCEMENT 2007
December 14, 2007
I have no idea why… but I am giving the fall commencement address at NGCSU.
It’s really hard to decide what to say so I fell back on what comes naturally. I’ve stolen remixed almost everything in my speech from the Internet (YouTube, websites devoted to commencements, site that collect quotes…etc.) and I’ve remixed them for me and my audience. I’ve tagged many of them on delicious with the tag, commencement.
I also created a website on my University space for this graduating class (and anyone else that needs it). It’s full of classic stuff to entertain and inspire. Check it out here. I hope to put a copy of my speech there too, It’s still in rough shape right now, as a Google document of course.
The speech will mostly be about collaboration, networking, and the future of communication. I’ve borrowed liberally from the educational technology blogs that I aggregate. Thanks! I hope to give everyone credit during the speech. I got a great lead on a futurist article in the Guardian from Derek’s Blog. I am greatly impressed and inspired by Demo Girl… I can’t get enough of what she has to share.
Mad references go out to Barry Vercoe, Maurice Lévy, Biz Stone, Peter Norvig, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
RSS Workshop Today and Wednesday @ CTLE
November 13, 2007
- Get a Google Reader Account (if you don’t have one)
- Set Firefox Preferences to add RSS feeds to Google Reader
- Let’s add some different types of feeds:
- Google news search
- eBay search (help Santa find you a good deal)
- find a conference website or journal/find your association
- add a blog
- add the NGCSU info page (does anyone read it?)
- free time to add your stuff and get organized
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Now playing: Neil Young - Dirty Old Man
via FoxyTunes
RSS Presentation
November 6, 2007
This page was create to go a long with a presentation on RSS feeds. You might find some of the links useful as a resource… but it’s better with me there 
Feel free to comment with suggestions and changes… prof_chuck
What is RSS?
- wikipedia: link to RSS article, feed
- 7 thing you should know about RSS, PDF from EDUCAUSE
- RSS: A Quick Start Guide for Educators, PDF from Will Richardson
- What is RSS blog? blog, feed
Metaphors for understanding it…
- My computer is a TiVo!
- Customized newspaper
- Head funnel with a fun filter, should we worry about the dangers of ODing?
Examples of using it at the academy…
- student blogs
- student bookmarking
- facebook (it’s a giant aggregator)
- constant searches
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Let’s choose an aggregator…
google reader
- how to: lifehacker how to, google’s quicktour, 7 tips from Johnny, google reader blog, Use your kids Wii to read feeds,
- get an account
- see chuck’s public pages, feed
bloglines beta
- how to, demo girl’s screencast, youtube screencast, the about page,
- get an account
- see chuck’s public pages,
Let’s practice getting feeds into our aggregator… (you can always watch how to videos on YouTube )
identifying feeds
Diversity! search Flickr for “RSS icons” under creative commons
searching for feeds
options with FireFox
let’s look at the preferences tab
let’s make it easier
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Now playing: Bruce Springsteen - 10-Long Walk Home
via FoxyTunes
Podcasting resources for CTLE presentation
June 12, 2007
PODCASTING RESOURCES
Dr. Chuck Robertson, NGCSU
1. Learn About Podcasts by Listening:
Tradition lectures in Psychology—
Science Friday
NPR
A list of lectures from various disciplines and Universities!
Podcast on how to podcast
2. Podcasting How Tos:
Podcasting Tools (Lots of info on this site).
Beginners Guide from Podcasting News
3. Some Podcasting info from Apple Inc.
For Podcast Makers
For Podcast Fans
4. Platform Specific tutorials
PC–
How to create your own podcasting show on Windows (zehhemel.com)
Mac–
Excellent tutorials from Atomic learning for the iLife Suite, ($$$ you will need to pay)
Linux—
5. Opensource Podcasting Software:
6. Cool stuff you can do with your iPod:
Technorati Tags: podcasting resources NGCSU
Just tooting our own horn…. Several Cognition and Gerotechnology Lab students went down to the Apple Digital Campus Leadership Institute (ADCLI) this spring and shared two of the projects that we are working on that integrate their life as students today with our current technology.
Hanna Stepp and Courtney Winterbottom presented our departmental approach to academic advising using enhanced podcasts. Katie Scoglietti and Christopher Hilton shared how we develop information literacy skills (and learn more about cognition) by demonstrating and explaining our social bookmarking project for Cognition (PSYC 3310).
In addition, they all made a presentation and participated in a question and answer session at the conference. You can download a podcast of their session here. Just subscribe to the day one podcasts. There session is entitled, “What can they do and what do they want?” The slides that they used in their presentation are available for download here. (download pdf of slides)
Hanna
Courtney
Katie
Christopher
very kewl….
www.ajaxwrite.com — more toys for group projects
April 17, 2006
Check this out…group projects anyone?
Functionality
AjaxWrite is a streamlined word processor, comparable to Microsoft Word. To keep the program lean, we left out some obscure advanced features; you’ll find the functions you use most often, right where you’d expect them to be. (We’re still working on the spell checker.) You can import and export documents in all popular formats, including documents with graphics. The save function lets you save your work to a drive on your computer. Also, since you run ajaxWrite from your web browser, it is platform independent and can therefore be used with any operating system.
Technorati Tags: web 2.0
Giving the students what they want: Short, to-the-point e-lectures » HigherEd BlogCon
April 17, 2006
an excellent little how to on screencasting with Camtasia.
Giving the students what they want: Short, to-the-point e-lectures » HigherEd BlogCon:
Giving the students what they want: Short, to-the-point e-lecturesMark E. Ott
Jackson Community College
http://www.docott.com
This presentation discusses two methods of web lecturing: podcasting and screencasting. What are the pros and cons of each? What is the best approach for students? Podcasting is starting to catch on as a way to deliver class lectures, but screencasts containing slides, onscreen examples, and an audio track covering the core lecture material may be more helpful for students as a way to reinforce the classroom experience.
View the screencast (14:49); will load directly in a Flash-enabled browser.
i d e a n t: Wiki Evaluation Methods
February 11, 2006
I’ve got to take a look at this and give it some serious thought. I’m teaching a lifespan developmental course this summer and I’d love to split the students up and have one group develop a pre-school project and another group develop a senior center project. A Wiki seems like the logical place for them to put up a proposal with research and a solid outline for success.
i d e a n t: Wiki Evaluation Methods:
Wiki Evaluation Methods (Updates at the end of the post) I’m trying to put together some criteria for the summative evaluation of wikis as a learning technology in higher-ed courses. Perhaps you can take a look at what I have just brainstormed and provide some suggestions.
Technorati Tags: pedagogy
