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IT Resources in Business and Economics Teaching
Geoff Riley FRSA, Tutor2u and Eton College
Dubai, May 2013
A Selection of Tools for Continued Professional Development and Teaching / Learning in Economics and Business
Geoff Riley FRSA, Tutor2u and Eton College
Dubai, May 2013
Welcome! Warm Up Quiz Question
Which is the only country which can by typed on a QWERTY keyboard using just a single row of letters?
PERU
Smart Searching!
Which country is expected to have the highest rate of unemployment in the world in 2013?
Greece?
27%
Djibouti
59%
A generation has grown up digital
Unlike some of us
Teaching Networks Really Do Matter!
Networked Teachers with Sharing Culture
“Austrian Airlines has become the latest carrier to start taking bids-for-beds, Passengers buying cheap tickets for long-haul flights via Vienna are invited to bid for an upgrade to the business class cabin”
Network – Silicon Valley
“The smartest person in the room isn’t the person standing at the front lecturing us, and isn’t the collective wisdom of those in the room. The smartest person in the room is the room itself” David Weinberger
Student Blogs or
other narrative
Collaborative Apps Online
Practicals and
Simulations
Student Apps
Mobile Online
Revision
Quizzes – Games for Learning
Flipped Classroom Resources
Problem Based
Learning
Ultimate Aim: Free Spirited
Learning
This is the age of shared learning
Many tools ... Here are a few I use
Wordle in Action from an A2 essay
Is the UK better off outside the Euro?
Snag-It – Screen Capture – Resource Creation
Survey Monkey: Polls
Student surveys on courses Gathering opinions on a topic, an issue in the
news
Zondle: The JCB Quiz
Zondle – Currencies of the World
Discover Your Inner Twitter
Twitter: Connecting with a Community
Twitter: Connecting with Subject Experts
Twitterverse for Economics and Business
Keeping Pace: Investor Relations Sites Often provide excellent market / industry
research Rich seam of data for class assignments /
discussion Free alternative to expensive commercial
research
Example: RyanAir & Low Cost Airlines
RyanAir
Info Graphics
Info-graphics Tools: E.g. Info Gram Range of free tools
for creating info-graphics
Have good data! Experiment with
adding online video content, photos, extra text
Save in different formats
Flip – task the students to create their own!
Competition for the best info graphics
Prezi: An Alternative to PowerPoint
Student Support and Enrichment
Many opportunities for departments to embrace social media to provide study support for students
Exam confidence Background resources / lesson materials Subject enrichment University advice Student voice & engagement
You Tube Channels – Lesson Starters Short clips to stimulate discussion Bridging clips for consolidating concepts Link to an old fashioned activity like “talk
about it”
The Power of Clips and Images
News and Analysis Podcasts
Resource and Data Rich Websites
CEP: http://cep.lse.ac.uk/ OECD Observer World Bank Data and Research Project Syndicate:
http://www.project-syndicate.org/ IMF Finance and Development Magazine BBC World Business Report Vox: EU http://www.voxeu.eu/columns/topics Trading Economics:
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/ FT: Beyond the BRICs:
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/
The Open Web of Learning is Here