Class digital storytelling example from Virginia Tech

Here is an example of a class using a Digital Storytelling class assignment. You can view the classes YouTube channel and see the student created videos.

A vision of students today

Digital natives as learners:"Engage them, don't enrage them". This is a video (7:52) that explains some of the issues related to 'Digital Native' students in a non-digital school structure.

"Formerly hosted by the UNC TLT Collaborative, this year the TLT Conference is being hosted by UNC-Pembroke, with support by the UNC System, and will be held April 13-15, 2010 in Second Life. The presentations and demonstrations will be held on the five NC Education WeBIEE islands. NC Education is a Second Life group funded by the community colleges and open to all of North Carolina education. Registration for the 2010 UNC TLT Conference is free! You can attend from your home, office, library . . . anywhere you have a broadband internet connection -- for free!!"

An example of a educational technology conference held in Second Life. Many of our community will attend - Hope to see you there!

"Wired released a video show their magazine on the iPad"

Here is an example of how Wired Magazine is using the new 'affordances' of the iPad to distribute reading content.

"Dr. Drew Polly, College of Education, UNC Charlotte, joins Maria again to talk about using social bookmarking tools. Drew describes what social bookmarking is and how your students can use the tools to meet a course goal. He also emphasizes the importance of taking the time to evaluate, analyze and annotate the bookmarks so they'll provide valuable and useful information."

A terrific podcast about Social bookmarking

"Biomedical PowerPoint Toolkit Suite All 8 PowerPoint Toolkits with over 2,000 professionally designed and ready-to-use slides and diagrams to help you create professional presentations All diagrams are vector-based and placed in PowerPoint slides already. They can be freely edited, adjusted, scaled and colored in PowerPoint. Download Demo Slides "

While not free, these graphic diagrams could be a real benefit to your teaching practice.

"... information on the process of planning and executing student video assignments as a guide for other faculty... This document outlines their thoughts... on best practices for using video in student assignments." A must read for any faculty considering or preparing a video assignment, which could include video journals, digital story-telling, or anything dealing with YouTube, FlipCams, or VoiceThread.

"Qualitative Research Online resources to aid in conducting, finding, using, synthesizing, and teaching qualitative research in the health sciences."

comprehensive collection of materials to help nurse educators understand and conduct qualitative research

Newman's "Make great powerpoint presentations" Diigo List. This is a collection of good powerpoint help sites

"I start with a brief explanation of the next concept or topic. I then present the students with a short puzzle or problem incorporating this concept. The students discuss the problem in small groups of 2-4, and then vote using polling hardware or "clickers" similar to TV remotes. After everyone has voted, the results appear on the screen at the front of the class. A well-chosen problem is one for which about 70% of the students get the right answer"

Faculty explains using the 'Peer Instruction' technique promoted by Eric Mazur of Harvard. The technique uses clickers to facilitate active learning in large classes.

The NCLOR is an online library of instructional resources for North Carolina's K-20 educators

The NCLOR (North Carolina Learning Object Repository) is available to all for finding materials to use in your class.

A way to make your online classes with interactive 'Games' and activities. Requires registration but there is a free account that includes ads on the activity pages.

Another example of using Jing, a previous iNET featured tool, to give student feedback. Jing is a free and simple to use screenrecording application, which is perfect for recording short 'screencasts', tutorials, instructions, and annoucements.

Helpful screencast on how to find images for your presentations. Explains Creative commons searching on compfight.com

This screencast may be useful if you plan an activity that requires students to make presentations. Also useful for your class presentations

For the Nurse Educator hoping to incorporate the QSEN competencies into student learning experience, this site lists strategies (submitted by users) to be used in planning.

Educause's introduction to Social Bookmarking...

A good introduction (in 6 video segements) of the ADDIE instructional design process. I wish I had this before I started with instructional design.

Blog post from Duke's CIT explaining the use and features of Zotero and CiteULike