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Effective Classroom Management
"Ensuring that your classroom lessons run smoothly, establishing rules, motivating students to participate, maintaining discipline, and creating an environment in which students can succeed are all factors that contribute to effective classroom management. Turn to Faculty Focus for tips and techniques."
Fans and Fears of 'Lecture Capture'
"Attendance is much more contingent on whether the professor is an engaging lecturer, said Jennifer Stringer, director of educational technology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, at one of the sessions. “Well-attended lectures were well-watched; poorly attended lectures were not watched,” Stringer said, pointing to research she had conducted at Stanford. "If you’re bad, you’re bad. If you’re bad online, you’re bad in lectures, students don’t come.”"
Hotseat at Purdue University
"Hotseat, a social networking-powered mobile Web application, creates a collaborative classroom, allowing students to provide near real-time feedback during class and enabling professors to adjust the course content and improve the learning experience. Students can post messages to Hotseat using their Facebook or Twitter accounts, sending text messages, or logging in to the Hotseat Web site."
Students Unimpressed with Faculty Use of Ed Tech
"Students also rated that lack of understanding as "the biggest obstacle to classroom technology integration."
Best Practices for an e-Classroom
Not all classes need to use the mobile computing environment (wireless notebook). After weighing the advantages and disadvantages, faculty interested in adopting or experimenting with notebooks, may find these points helpful:
Laptop Use in the Classroom
As the availbility of laptop computers and wireless access in NMU's classrooms has grown so have the opportunities for students' attention to "wander" away from classroom activites. The Educational Technology Resources and Policy Committee (ETRPC) and the Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee (TLAC) have collected from their colleagues the following syllabus statements, classroom techniques, philosophies, and concerns of cheating on the use of laptops to provide guidance to other fauclty.
Advice for Faculty
You may be teaching a large lecture and look out into your audience and see 10 or 20 students using laptops. Some may be using them to take notes, while others may have needs which require adaptive technology such as a laptop to perform well in a classroom setting.
The following are some strategies to help you set expectations and reduce distractions:
Backchannel via Twitter
First, however, I’ll point out that given the fairly broad definition I like to use for “classroom response system,” the use of Twitter in the classroom is most definitely on-topic for this blog!
Can Tweeting Help Your Teaching?
Twitter won't change your life, but it might make your job more fun and a little easier.
Educator.com, or the pros and cons of video-lecturing
The fact that the web is increasingly (a) providing best connectivity, access, searchability/findability, ease of use and capabilities of storage, and (b) more social tools so that people can collaborate, has made the debate around video-lectures worth revisiting.
11 Reasons Why a Tablet PC is Better
Once educators realize that they do everything a laptop does PLUS you can draw in the screen, then the next obvious question becomes, “How does this help me in class?” I have some practical examples to share...
LiveScribe Pencasts- Now With Sparkly New Embed!
Right after I got the pen, I packed it for my trip to Vancouver for Northern Voice 2009. During my presentation on Say/Blog it in Pictures I did something smart- I gave it to someone who can actually draw well- Nancy White - who took some amazing notes in my LiveScribe notebook. But up to now I only had a PDF of the notes and a separate audio file.
Professors experiment with Twitter as teaching tool
Marquette University associate professor Gee Ekechai uses Twitter to discuss what she's teaching in class with students and connect them with experts in the field of advertising and public relations.
SMART Table
One touch on the SMART Table screen is never enough. Young students are drawn to its surface, where work and play come together in hands-on, collaborative activities.
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