ELI: Flattening the Classroom: Building Collaborative Learning Environments
Date:
09/23/2009 - 11:00am - 4:00pm
09/24/2009 - 11:00am - 4:00pm
Location:
3190 Grainger
Join us to tune in as a group to the following session and to discuss what it means for UW-Madison.
Net Gen students are active and prolific participants in flat-world phenomena in their personal lives: posting updates to Facebook friends scattered around the globe, playing online games with teams crossing international time zones, and collaborating on digital works bearing the imprint of multiple contributors. At the same time, the global economy demands students who can think creatively, build collectively, and adapt willingly to change. Are we fostering those skills in the classroom?
Join us September 23–24 for "Flattening the Classroom: Building Collaborative Learning Environments," the 2009 ELI Online Fall Focus Session. Hosted in Adobe Connect, this virtual event will be much more than just a "usual" online seminar. You’ll exchange ideas and collaborate interactively with the ELI community—all without leaving your campus. You'll also receive all the resources and guided activities you need to help frame discussion and organize team events.
Tom Christopherson also attending
Tom Christopherson, C&I grad and MERIT PA also plans to attend.
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Catherine Stephens
Instructional Technology Services Coordinator, MERIT
School of Education, UW-Madison
608-263-5949
http://merit.education.wisc.edu/
Anyone can sign up
Tom (or anyone else, for that matter) can sign up using the signup form at this page.
We need to keep numbers official, so we appreciate everyone using the same system.
Thanks!
Twitter hash
Feel free to post thoughts on Twitter via our ComETS hash tag, #uwcomets
Or, share w/ all of the particpants at #elifs09
Cool collaborative tools
A few tools were mentioned in sessions and in our breakouts. Here's a start at trying to list them--please add or add a brief description in the comments below!
TokBox - http://www.tokbox.com/
EtherPad - http://etherpad.com/
VoicePad - http://voicethread.com/
Wilder Collaboration Factors
Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory, a free online collaboration assessment : http://wilderresearch.org/tools/cfi/
Sample Voice Thread: http://voicethread.com/#q.b99673.i508132
Wiki tips: http://dpmi09.wiki.zoho.com/
CMap concept map tool - http://cmap.ihmc.us/conceptmap.html
Map relationships for ideas to construct theories and philosophies of development. Tool either asynchronous or synchronous.
Zoho Tools - http://www.zoho.com/ -
Notebook, and Zoho Pools for peer feedback.
http://www.polldaddy.com/ - Polldaddy
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Catherine Stephens
Instructional Technology Services Coordinator, MERIT
School of Education, UW-Madison
608-263-5949
http://merit.education.wisc.edu/
More on tools...
Here are voicethread samples that make use of the "doodle" tool which can help the "audience" follow along.
http://voicethread.com/#q.b3352.i28616 (Art Appreciation)
http://voicethread.com/#q+rivera.b28303.i154945 (Spanish example)
I noticed the link to polldaddy. If you are looking for poll software, it is also worth taking a look at polleverywhere.com which allows embedding easily into most any website, realtime response graphing, call in, tweet in, and/or computer based responding options.
Add to that now that I have seen the assessment session in the archives, check out http://rubistar.4teachers.org which is a great way to get started in making rubrics. You can pick a similar type project and auto-fill criteria that can then easily be edited to better match what an individual teacher wants to assess. I also encourage people to change the scale from 4,3,2,1 to using meaningful words as Janet used in her presentation. Then have those levels of achievement represent a range of points to differentiate the extent to which different students achieve.
So many tools, so little time...