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Q UICK H ITS FOR T EACHING WITH T ECHNOLOGY
Quick Hits for Teaching with Technology
SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES BY AWARD-WINNING TEACHERS
Edited by ROBIN K. MORGAN and KIMBERLY T. OLIVARES
Contributing Editors MARCIA D. DIXSON, ANDREW D. GAVRIN, MICHAEL C. MORRONE, JOAN ESTERLINE LAFUZE, and ANASTASIA S. MORRONE
Foreword by MICHAEL A. MCROBBIE
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CONTENTS

Foreword by Michael A. McRobbie
Welcome to Quick Hits: Teaching with Technology
Introduction Student Success Is Our Mission by David J. Malik
1 Promoting Engagement
Promoting engagement in an online course: It can be done, but wisely!
Introductory poem for online course
Using e-Rewards to promote engagement and re-engagement in the online classroom
YouTube reviews
Promoting online courses student engagement and group cohesion through the use of chat-rooms
Using team-based learning to engage students in online courses
That s why they call it YOU-Tube
Reading in Context for networked engagement with course readings
Scavenger hunt
Just-in-Time Teaching: Using the web to engage students in the classroom
The simple visual mapping tool for thinking aloud
Combining learning communities with electronic self and peer assessments to increase student engagement in discussion-based courses
A source for lecture launchers: Mining public media for accessible illustrations
Hearing Every Voice: Promoting engagement through electronic discussion
Creating with intentionality: Using a personal multimedia narrative to emphasize writing process
Designing authentic cross-class collaboration by focusing on activity
Using a business strategy simulation
Engaging students through a virtual child simulation
Social engagement
Building a sense of community in an online environment: Student autobiographical videos
Online art galleries and clinical stories
2 Providing Access
To podcast or not to podcast
Some assembly required: Teaching online with good instructions
The Open Source Physics Project on ComPADRE
Use of Team Viewer software to assist students
Utilizing existing gigapixel panoramas for virtual fieldtrips
Service-Learning at the Seal Indiana Mobile Program
Developing medical education teaching applications for mobile devices
Making technology-enhanced classroom presentations accessible to students with sensory impairments
Blogging in the classroom
Virtual Microscopy as a Real and Effective Tool for Teaching Histology
It s a small world after all: Using technology to internationalize curriculum
The inverted hybrid science classroom
The Physlet Project
Podcast technology self-directed lecturing for fluoride toxicity
Using web-based videoconferencing to extend the F2F experience to distance learners
University/school partnership: Using technology to collaborate with middle school writers and create more informed teachers of writing
Doppelg nger Professor: High-touch delivery to low-density populations
3 Enhancing Evaluation
Google-Doc surveys for teaching Hispanic culture
A class wiki for the physical sciences
Using multiple-response clicker questions to identify student misunderstanding
Grading discussion forums in the online environment
Sometimes less is more
Using Prezi to produce creative critical thinking assessments
Information literacy: Building critical skills for learning and communicating about research on the web
Enhancing teaching and learning through technology
Guest Cam in the classroom - Making speeches real
Using personal response devices (clickers) in humanities classes
Let students design the test
Personal sales pitch: Video assignment
Using discussion forums as a learning tool
Using clickers to promote participation
Technology-mediated feedback
WebQuests: A gateway activity for online teaching and learning
Use of SoftChalk Software to create interactive content
4 Becoming More Efficient
Juvenile Justice Wiki Project - Constructivism through technology
Mitigating the workload and increasing student satisfaction with online discussion threads
Techiquette: The etiquette of technology
Prezi and the decoding of history
Images for education-Crime free!
Chats: A mess or a must?
Using audience response systems for classroom post-test reviews
Fostering e-learning discourse among professional networking groups
Blogging to promote robust class preparation
Spreadsheet modeling optimization problems
Using podcasts for added instructional effectiveness
Implementation of and feedback on the use of a web-based homework management system
Group work online
Teaching professional communication through email
Coupling visual metaphors with discussion forums to enhance reflection and inquiry
Using technology to improve empirically based clinical practice
Embedded feedback in video recorded student assignments
Using cartoons or short movies to engage students
Annotated Bibliography
Contributors
Index
FOREWORD

I am delighted to welcome you to Quick Hits for Teaching with Technology, a publication of Indiana University s Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET). The current volume, like its predecessors, offers an accessible and user-friendly collection of approaches, strategies, and tactics for effective instruction, developed by master teachers both within Indiana University and across the nation. The volume explores both the advantages and potential pitfalls of using technology in the classroom.
The importance of technology to the teaching and research missions of IU cannot be overstated. As the Principles of Excellence explain, IU is committed both to adopting innovative modes of teaching and learning that improve the educational attainments of students, and to ensuring that information technology is pervasively deployed at IU by leveraging and continuing the support of the university s long-standing and internationally recognized excellence in information technology services and infrastructure. Excellence in the use of technology in instruction is therefore a natural subject for an IU publication on excellence in teaching.
This volume is particularly timely because information technology, both inside and outside of the classroom, is a rapidly moving target. Current and future faculty will be expected to adapt to this fluid environment in order to maximize their effectiveness when using technology as a teaching tool. The current generation of students, reared on information technology and often more comfortable with it than their instructors, increasingly expect a technologically sophisticated academic environment.
One challenge facing university faculty will be to ensure that injecting technology into the classroom doesn t merely represent the latest bells and whistles, but that such innovations prove their worth pedagogically. In this volume of Quick Hits, seasoned instructors, representing a multitude of academic disciplines, describe their innovative efforts to use various technologies to achieve effective, course-specific learning objectives.
The use of technology in education inevitably demands that we return to fundamental questions about pedagogy - always a healthy undertaking. Virtually all aspects of course development and delivery can be altered by the technology available to faculty today. As discussed by the authors of this volume s entries, the adoption of technology by faculty will require careful planning, identification of educational goals, anticipation of possible unintended consequences, and ongoing assessment of student learning. These are familiar issues, but the use of new technologies gives them added urgency. How and how much technology should I bring into the course or the classroom? Should I teach an online course or a hybrid? Will distance learning lead to the same outcomes as face-to-face teaching? Should I test online, and if I do, how do I ensure the integrity of the students work? Do online chat rooms and discussion forums afford the same kind of active learning as in-class group work? And these are but a sample of the appropriate and unavoidable concerns that instructors confront as technology becomes an expected part of the educational experience. The purpose of this volume is to equip instructors to identify and answer these questions as they relate to the technologies of today and t