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RESOURCES FOR TEACHING IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET

Alark Joshi

Course Website

Course Website – an extremely helpful resource!

Classesv2 is amazing Not the norm at most schools Blackboard is not as easy to use

Develop and maintain your own course website Not as hard as you think Options to Regularly back up website Complete control of the content

Course website

PBWorks – An online wiki-based resource to easily design and manage a course Widely used in a large number of high schools and

universities – Hosts 300,000 educational workspaces

Wiki-based design Ensures Backup and ‘audit’ trail Giving students write access can enrich the

overall experience as they may contribute Control the access level of your students for the

entire workspace – Reader, Writer, Editor, Administrator (TA’s can have rights that students don’t)

Wiki-based Course Website

Wiki-based course webpage allows students to comment on required reading

Example course at UC Berkeley: http://vis.berkeley.edu/courses/cs294-10-sp10/wiki/index.php/Discussion_of_Good_and_Bad_Visualizations

Course Website

Demo PBWorks.com – http://coep-cg09.pbworks.com

Plugins to add multimedia content such as images, videos, photo slideshows, and more!

Posting Slides online

Students can refer to slides after class Slideshare – http://slideshare.net

Students do not need to download the slides We don’t have to worry about others editing

your files PBWorks allows linking in Powerpoint

slideshows on Slideshare

Newsgroups for class

Channel for communication amongst students, TA’s and instructors – Very useful for big courses

Yahoo Groups Google Groups

Alternatives

Google Sites: http://sites.google.com/ Lacks robustness of PBworks for

educational purposes

Weebly: http://www.weebly.com Easy to setup Fine-tuned for personal/commercial website

development Lacks educational focus

Student Feedback

If you are anything like me, you want feedback from your students Ideally after every class Anonymous feedback allows students to

communicate what works/doesn’t work Feedback about which group activities were

found to be effective Instructor’s teaching

style/accent/preparation

Online Surveys

SurveyMonkey Set up an online survey within minutes Free version allows only 10 questions

Qualtrics An excellent online source to setup a

survey of any kind Free for Yale students/faculty Unlimited questions and configurable

answers

Scheduling Optional Sessions Scheduling optional sessions can be a

pain Large number of emails going back and

forth

Doodle – http://www.doodle.com When Is Good - www.whenisgood.net

Screenshot for Doodle poll

Laptops in the Classroom

Electronic Devices can be a major distraction

Laptops can be used constructively Class Website can be updated before

class to include links to case studies, papers, processed data for analysis

Direct students in class to links and design group activities around it Data analysis Research and present results to the class

In-Class Activities

Discipline-Specific Sites Chemistry, History, Physics and so on

Data Analysis Tasks IBM Many Eyes – Upload data and analyze it http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/

manyeyes/ Demo Examples –

http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/obama-state-of-the-union-2010

http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/geographically-visualizing-the-aid

Collaborative Editing

For collaboratively editing documents Syllabus with a co-Instructor, Teaching

Assistants Creating Handouts, Quizzes or Exams Research Papers

Etherpad – http://www.etherpad.com Google Docs - http://docs.google.com

Blogs to Engage Students

Have students create their own blog Students post their weekly reading

response to their own blog Students in the Data Visualization class

designed their own blog and regularly post to their blog

Allows other students to keep up with the field and read each others point of view

Learn from each other and enrich material

Online Quiz/Tests

ClassMarker - http://www.classmarker.com/ Easy to use quiz maker that marks your

tests and quizzes for you. ProProfs – http://www.proprofs.com

Easy to setup Polls, Flash Cards, Forums etc.

Academic Social Network

Create your own customized social network for the class

Ning – http://www.ning.com Course blog Discussion board Events – Exams, Quiz, Invited Speaker talk Instant messaging (Chat) Post Photos/Videos

Demo of a sample social network for this class http://futuresciencefaculty.ning.com/ Classroom 2.0 - http://www.classroom20.com

Summary

Plethora of resources for the modern teacher Great ways to

get feedback keep the students involved in the class material help students with assignments

Innovative uses of technology can turn it into a boon for your course!

Text-messaging still a curse though!!