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My insight: Snapchat As A Tool For Teachers : NPR Ed. What's the first step of learning?
Paying attention. Which may be hard for students to do when they're constantly peeking at their phones. So, as the adage goes: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. One app that teachers are embracing is Snapchat. That's the one where you send a video or picture, and then it disappears 10 seconds after you open it. For some teachers, it makes sense. And so, Michael Britt thought, why not go there? Since last fall, Britt has built Snapchat videos into his introductory psychology class. "The best way to learn new material is to try to personalize it to your life," Britt says.
My insight: Notes on Teaching with Slack – Zach Whalen. Slack is communication software popular for handling workplace information flow, project management, customer support, and all kinds of other things.
It’s useful for professional teams, but it’s also convenient for just about any other community that needs a quick place for synchronous and asynchronous conversation and collaboration. Last semester, I started using Slack with one of my classes in an unofficial, low-key experiment — basically just a backchannel during class and a place to dump files and links. That was fun, so this semester I’ve gone even further. For Digital Studies 101, where my colleagues Lee Skallerup Bessette and Jesse Stommel are also teaching sections, we’ve got a single Slack domain for all 100+ of our students. My insight: Using Facebook Live in Higher Education Teaching: Successes and Failures. This has been one of those extraordinary weeks in teaching.
I have been edified by what I've observed about my students' experiences in my classes this semester. This week, my consumer behavior classes showed off our learning through a poster sessions event (originally inspired by Doug McKee’s experiences in his economics courses). I’ll be writing more about the poster sessions event, overall, once the pictures are in from the photographer we used.
In the meantime, I thought I would share about my first experience using Facebook Live, in conjunction with the poster sessions. Facebook Live Successes I’ll admit to being somewhat reluctant to try out Facebook Live. It’s hard to look at these sample Facebook Live videos of Jane Goodall, Martha Stewart, Seth Myers, Adam Grant, and Amy Cuddy and not think that maybe this stuff is best left to the professionals. My insight: The Twitter Essay - Hybrid Pedagogy.
Consider the tangible violence technology has wrought upon grammar.
We rely on automated grammar and spell-check tools in word-processing software (so much that they’ve become a crutch). E-mail shorthand fails to live up to the grammatical standards of typed or handwritten letters. And many believe our language is being perverted by the shortcuts (and concision nearly to the point of indifference) we’ve become accustomed to writing and reading in text messages and tweets. For many teachers and writing pedagogues, this is a travesty, a torturous fact of modern life that we all must contend with and defend against in our classrooms. However, I would argue that we are at a moment in the history of the English language where the capacity for something wondrous is upon us. The evolution of written language is speeding up at an exponential rate, and this necessitates that we, as writing teachers, reconsider the way we work with language in our classrooms.
What is the posthuman? 1. My insight: Professors experiment with Twitter as teaching tool. Facebook may be the social medium of choice for college students, but the microblogging Web tool Twitter has found adherents among professors, many of whom are starting to experiment with it as a teaching device.
People use Twitter to broadcast bite-sized messages or Web links and to read messages or links posted by others. It can be used as a source of news, to listen to what people in certain groups are talking about, or to communicate with experts or leaders in certain fields. Marquette University associate professor Gee Ekachai 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. Instructor Linda Menck, who also teaches at Marquette, encourages students to include social media as a strategy in marketing campaigns for clients. Twitter is helping these professors build community in their classes in a way that appeals to some members of a Facebook-addicted generation.
Live tweeting More informal. My insight: OnlineCollege.org TwitterChat. My Insight: Cataloging course resources using PKM. One of the compliments that students regularly give me is that I use current examples in my classes.
Generally speaking, they quickly follow the compliment with an example of another professor who shows dated videos in his class with regularity. I suspect that when others get it wrong, I get to look that much better than I actually am… Of course, I always remember the time I showed a video in class about Kodak's marketing approach and one of my beloved students texted me from the back of the room. He shared that on that very day, Kodak had filed for bankruptcy. My insight: Testing out a new communication tool this semester. My insight: