1. Name and position at Sweet Briar
2. What technologies you use on a daily basis
3. What technologies (if any) you would like to use more often/learn more about
4. What you would like to learn about Millennials and how to teach them
I will do my best to address 3 and 4 in my presentation on Thursday.
Thank you!
1.John Gregory Brown
ReplyDeleteEnglish professor/Director if Creative Writing/Novelist
2. Google Drive/Calendar; Dropbox; WordPress blogs; Tumblr; Instagram
3. I have been on an endless search for a program that would easily and effectively aggregate student critiques (as well as my own) of student workshop submissions without allowing students to see one another's comments while creating their own.
4. I'm eager to learn ANYTHING bout millennial that might help me teach them. I am now, sad to say, older than the students' parents. Before too long, I'll be as old as their grandparents.
1. Katie Glaeser | Librarian
ReplyDelete2. Google Scholar & tools, Wix, databases, web-scale discovery layer, citation manager (CTFM), dropbox, mobile apps (notability, etc.), SpringShare suite, ...
3. Game-based learning applications; collaborative learning/collaborative research tools
4. Everything. I feel particularly challenged by the level of distraction or lack of focus. Students seem to be mentally multitasking almost constantly, with smartphones and social media taking up a substantive part of their bandwidth. What can I do to better cut through the noise?
1. Mike Davis, Assistant Professor of Biology
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3. N/A
4. How to best engage them and get them to learn material that has traditionally been taught in a lecture-based format (Biology, Chemistry, etc.)
1. Raina Robeva, Professor of Mathematical Sciences
ReplyDelete2. Google tools (mail, drive, calendar, hangouts, cast...); Dropbox; Slack; WebEx, Zoom, and other remote-meeting software; Overleaf for LaTeX typesetting; Canvas/Moodle; WordPress blogs; Twitter; Mobile apps
3. Some online instructional/homework systems for mathematics, e.g., WebAssign and WeBWorK. I have decided to use WebAssign for a class next semester, so I'll be learning it, I guess :-)
4. What is it that keeps them engaged? What do they respond to? I am sure technology can play a role, but I would like to know what the most efficient use of technology would be for providing the desired type of experience.
John,
ReplyDeleteI found this article on the University of Melbourne's LMS, it does not specify what they use but I looked it up and I believe it is Blackboard. Could be food for thought?
Katie, Mike and Raina,
We'll talk more today about the questions you posed, as they are the primary target of my presentation :)
Thank you all for your feedback! It is much appreciated.
http://www.hamilton.edu/documents/spa_assessment_guide.pdf
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