Oh, dear, dear, dear....I SO want your suggestions, Sue. I just meant to indicate that your offerings have been so rich that I hardly know where to start and fear I will have overlooked something.
Thank you for contributing. I think the workshop desires are for all of your suggestions. Beth Benoit On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Frantz, Sue <sfra...@highline.edu> wrote: > > “I know Sue Frantz and Michael Britt have many, many offerings. But…” Does > this mean you don’t want my suggestions? =) > > > > I don’t know which of these are rich media and which are merely social > media. (Is social media a kind of rich media?) I’ll let you, the reader, > sort it out. > > > > The webconferencing tool Annette referred to is Elluminate. Not free. But > there are some free options. DimDim is the one that most closely mirrors > Elluminate. There are a couple online whiteboards that are good: Scriblink > and Dabbleboard. If you want a quick and easy way to collaborate just on > text, in real time, try Etherpad. > > > > I would also recommend looking at social bookmarking services, such as > Delcious (share your bookmarks), Diigo (share your annotated bookmarks; can > create a ‘closed’ class for this), and WebNotes (annotate websites and share > with people who don’t have WebNotes). > > > > A clicker alternative is PollEverywhere, where students use their cell > phones (or internet-connected computers) to ‘click’ in. Free for up to 32 > students at a time, I think. Standard text messaging rates apply. > > > > The easiest-to-use stand-alone wiki software is PBWorks. Highly > recommended. That’s what we’re using for the new STP wiki. > > > > For collaboration, Google Docs and Zoho are good options. If students are > working on a group paper, you can see who edited what and when. For sharing > files, my personal favorite is DropBox. > > > > For in the classroom, I use Classroom Presenter instead of PowerPoint. CP > Is a free product from the Univ. of Washington. They designed it for Tablet > PCs, but works with any PC. If you’re connected to a network and students > have laptops connected to the same network, they see your slides on their > computers. They can type notes on the slide. The very cool feature is that > students can type stuff on a slide, then with the click of a button, send > the slide to you in real time. You can then look through, and display to > the class the ones you want. CP also has built-in ‘clicker’ functionality. > [Combine CP with a Wii remote and infrared light pen to create a smartboard: > http://sfrantz.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/the-smartboard-alternative-for-40/] > > > > Diane Finley spoke at NWToP, and she suggested using Audacity to audio > record feedback to students instead of typing/writing comments. Save it as > an MP3 and email it to your student. > > > > I’ve attached the handout I created for a poster at the most recent APA > convention. Most of what I written here is in that handout. > > > > > > -- > Sue Frantz <http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/> > Highline Community College > Psychology, Coordinator Des Moines, WA > 206.878.3710 x3404 sfra...@highline.edu > > Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology, Associate Director > > Project Syllabus <http://teachpsych.org/otrp/syllabi/syllabi.php> > > APA Division 2: Society for the Teaching of > Psychology<http://teachpsych.org/otrp/syllabi/syllabi.php> > > > > APA's p...@cc Committee <http://www.apa.org/ed/pcue/ptatcchome.html> > > > > > > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > > --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
