Using Technology to Improve Upon
Your Best Teaching Practices
Andrew Wright, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of CIS
andrew.wright@louisville.edu
louisville.edu/faculty/alwrig01
Tegrity, Twitter, and Facebook!
Oh my!
Alternate Title
Objectives
 Participants will:
 discuss different types of technology that can be used to engage
students in learning and dialogue
 apply these ideas to their teaching context and practice
 examine the advantages and challenges these technologies
present
 As we go through the presentation, feel free to share your
own experiences using these (and other technologies)
 At the end of our session, I’ll ask you to share which
techniques you think you’d like to try and why
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Overview
 Student Engagement
 Tegrity
 Clickers 2.0
 YouTube
 Facebook
 Twitter
 Privacy
 Blackboard
 Purdue
 Your Turn!
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Student engagement
“Student engagement is perhaps the key element for almost
any learning context. When engaged, learners are
enthusiastic and excited about the subject. Their work is
informed by the enjoyment of discovery. Engaged learners
work willingly, instead of by coercion, and approach their
assignments as something that matters to them personally.
The spirit engendered by engaged learners in a course is
infectious, spreading among and sustaining all participants. It
follows that devising techniques, supported by technology, to
capture, retain, and sustain student engagement should be at
the forefront of course design.”
Brown, Malcolm, et al. A Dialogue for Engagement. EDUCAUSE
Review, vol. 45, no. 5 (September/October 2010).
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Student engagement
 Students are more engaged when:
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they are knowledge creators and not just knowledge receivers
there is a feeling of producing work for a wider audience
there are alternative venues for expression
there is a sense of a learning community
Brown, Malcolm, et al. A Dialogue for Engagement. EDUCAUSE
Review, vol. 45, no. 5 (September/October 2010).
 Technology can help with all of these!
 Digital media project that gets put on YouTube
 Facebook group where students in your class may connect with one
another (and you) beyond classroom interaction
 Using a blog for journaling about their studies and discoveries
 Creating a repository of guest speaker videos
 And many more!
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What is Tegrity?
 Tegrity is UofL’s class capture tool, though recordings can be
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made just about anywhere
In summer 2008, ATC recommended Tegrity and IT agreed
to fund
Soft rollout in Fall 2008 with wider adoption beginning
Spring 2009
Summer 2009, UofL wins Rapid Response Award at Tegrity
Users Conference
Spring 2010, UofL hosts the Tegrity Users Conference and
Gale Rhodes receives the President’s Award
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Amount retained
Why class capture?
Time elapsed
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Teachers speak an average of 120 words per minute
Students write an average of 20 words per minute
Students must decide whether to write or listen
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Why Tegrity?
Easy capture – no change in teaching
methods required to use
Capture, Store, Index with click of a button
Three buttons: Start, Pause, Stop
OPTIONS
Voice Recorder
Only
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Demonstrations
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Instructor Video
Tablet PC for
Annotations
Review anywhere, anytime
PC Browser
Mac Browser
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Enhanced Audio
or Video Podcast
Mobile Access
Example
 http://tegr.it/y/246c
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Tegrity usage at UofL
 In one-year period from Fall 2008 – Summer 2009
 Had over 35,000 hours of online viewing of Tegrity sessions
 Had over 27,000 downloads made to iPods, MP3 players and other
devices
 Had over 2,500 recordings made available, representing more than
2,100 hours of class sessions and supplements
 As of 7/15/2010
 Had over 88,000 hours of online viewing of Tegrity sessions
 Had over 100,000 downloads made to iPods, MP3 players and other
devices
 Had over 7,000 recordings made available, representing more than
6,000 hours of class sessions and supplements
 Usage continues to grow
 Viewing increased by 64% in Spring 2010 compared to Fall 2009
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Can Tegrity be used to
increase engagement?
 If I record all of my class sessions, won’t students stop
coming to class?
 It all depends on what you do in the classroom!
 Our experience with Tegrity suggests that how you conduct
your class makes all the difference
 If your teaching style is more passive and lecture-based
 Students might find reviewing a class recording equally as
informative as attending class
 If your teaching style is more interactive
 Students will probably find that class recordings are not
equivalent to the in-class experience
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Can Tegrity be used to
increase engagement?
 See TUC 2010 Student Panel in iTunes U
 http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/
louisville.edu.1455575780.01455575784
 Michelle – "Before Tegrity was used in classrooms, I
was too busy taking notes to actually listen to and
understand the professor’s lecture. Now, knowing that
I can rely on Tegrity outside of the classroom, I am
much more engaged in the lecture in the classroom
and I don’t bother taking notes. After each class, I
review the lecture in Tegrity and take any notes that
are necessary. Before Tegrity, taking classes was more
just an exercise in getting the A. Now, I can actually
understand the material and be engaged in the
classroom, and get the A. Tegrity allows me to be a
much more effective student."
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If this isn’t engagement, what is?
 Jeanne - “Tegrity is an amazing educational tool. I wish all
my professors were required to use Tegrity. Tegrity is what
made the difference between facing a failing grade, and
turning that grade into a B. A few weeks after the start of the
semester, my son suddenly became ill, and spent over a week
in the [hospital]. I hadn’t left his side for three days, nor
would I while steady streams of specialists were visiting him.
After he was stabilized… I started to think about the world
outside of the hospital. Among those thoughts was the sudden
realization that I was horribly behind in my computer
programming class, and the withdrawal deadline had past.
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If this isn’t engagement, what is?
 Jeanne - “After a brief moment of panic, I called and had my
books and laptop brought to the hospital. For the next few days, I
would put in my ear buds and play the Tegrity sessions, while my
son slept in his hospital bed. Even after my son was out of the
hospital, sometimes my mind was not entirely focused on class
lectures. Tegrity is invaluable for clarifying lecture notes. One of
my favorite features is the ability to add my own bookmarks and
comments while the session is playing. This allows me to review
selected portions before completing an assignment or while
studying for a test. With hard work and determination, I was able
to successfully complete the semester, but I could not have
accomplished that without Tegrity.”
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Tegrity
Bookmarks
 Students can add
comments or mark
sections that are
important or unclear
 Can also send link
directly to these
locations
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Tegrity
Connect
 Real-time
chat from
within Tegrity
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Tegrity iPhone App
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Tegrity settings put you in charge
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Tegrity techniques
 Full class capture
 Supplemental recordings
 Problem sets/solutions
 How-to demos
 Guest speakers
 Incorporation of document camera
sources, microscope output,
webcam video
 Student recordings
 Grading sessions
 Use of tablet, SmartBoard,
 Record to private course and send
student the link to recording
Sympodium for annotation and
 Tegrity Connect – live chat
equations, diagrams
 Audio only – MP3 and WMA input
Examples online at: http://louisville.edu/faculty/alwrig01/
presentations/tegrity-examples.html
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Clickers can add engagement but…
 Students have to buy them, and remember to bring them to
class, and have a working battery, etc.
 They all seem to have cell phones with them at all times…
 And they seem quite adept at texting on them…
 So, why don’t we let them use their cell phones to participate
in polls in class?
 We can!!!
 And we will in this session!
 There are many tools available online that allow you to set up
polls that use text messaging but I’m going to use
PollEverywhere
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How To Vote via Texting
TIPS
1. Standard texting rates only (worst case US $0.20)
2. We have no access to your phone number
3. Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling do
How To Vote via Poll4.com
TIP
Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling do
Tegrity Poll
Poll Everywhere Plans
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What about YouTube?
 One way to use YouTube is simply by linking to relevant
videos on the site
 Sometimes, can make a point far more effectively with a video
 The Machine is Us/ing Us, Did You Know 3.0, Did You Know 4.0
 Selective Attention Test
 There is an EDU area in YouTube: youtube.com/edu
 Don’t forget the Research Channel
 Another way is as an outlet for student projects
 Instead of always having students write a term paper, I let them
choose more creative outlets including digital media projects
 Security Video Contest Winners – my students participated but
didn’t win 
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YouTube Poll
Why is everyone talking about
Facebook?
 Students (and everyone else, it seems) spend a lot of time
using Facebook
 According to the Pearson Social Media Survey 2010, just over
80% of surveyed faculty are social media users and 30% use
social media to connect to students (with FB leading the way)
 LinkedIn is for professional networking but far fewer use it
 Facebook reports more than 500 million users, with 50% of
active users logging in daily
 Over 200 million users access through mobile devices
 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
 More than one million developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180
countries
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How can I use Facebook for class?
 Break down barriers between you and your students and get
to know each other (virtually)
 Need to have an account first!
 Should I use a separate profile? Probably
 Unless you are a FB privacy ninja, it can be hard to keep track of which
group/list can see what items… Oops, I just let my students see my
drunken Vegas pics!
 That said, I don’t use a separate profile
 Students that friend me (I don’t initiate friending of students) get to see
some of my personality
 I don’t mind them seeing that I like obscure Japanese anime or the
Louisville AIDS Walk or a random post about my parents’ health
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How can I use Facebook for class?
 Set up separate groups for each of your classes
 The new Group settings make it easy to selectively share
information with a set of people
 Supports group chat, docs (a shared notepad), and mailing list
notifications
 Easy to add new group from FB left navigation bar
 I’ve set up a FB group for this Dine and Discover session
 I’ve added some resources already and I hope you all will join me and add
some more
 At start of semester, publish URL and invite students to join up
 Remind them about privacy settings!
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Schaffhauser, Diane. The Super-Secret, Never-Before-Revealed Guide to
Web 2.0 in the Classroom. Campus Technology, vol. 44, no. 2 (October
2010).
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How can I use Facebook for class?
 Set up an icebreaker in your class’ FB group
 Give them a format with specific questions you want to see but
also let them share their personality
 Study group organizer
 Suggest that students post to the class FB group page when they
are looking for some help
 Reflections on learning
 Informal reflections, not for assessment (don’t confuse with
Blackboard!)
 Virtual office hours
 Shout-outs!
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Schaffhauser, Diane. The Super-Secret, Never-Before-Revealed Guide to
Web 2.0 in the Classroom. Campus Technology, vol. 44, no. 2 (October
2010).
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Facebook Profile Poll
What is Twitter?
 Twitter is a microblogging site – each post (or tweet) is a
maximum of 140 characters
 Part blog, part social networking site, part cell phone/IM tool
 “After creating an account, you can personalize your profile
page and enter tweets into a text field. Unless your tweets
are protected, they appear on a “public timeline” page, which
displays all public tweets in reverse chronological order, like
a series of “micro-blogs.” Each tweet identifies the Twitterer,
whose screen name links to that person’s profile page,
showing all of her previous tweets and her friends’ tweets.”
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How might I use Twitter for class?
 As with Facebook, might want to have separate account to
follow your students’ tweets
 Learn the Twitter shorthand
 @username: creates a link to that user in your post
 Retweet: to copy someone else's post in a new update
 #hashtag: helps to organize your tweets into categories for
easier searching
Getting started with Twitter (video)
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How might I use Twitter for class?
 UT-Dallas, The Twitter Experiment – use in large lectures to
engage more students in discussion
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How might I use Twitter for class?
 Have students tweet about things that they find related to class
topics
 News items, blog posts, etc.
 Suggest #hashtags to organize
 #InfoSec, #Database, etc.
 Can help create a learning community
 Have students follow leaders in their discipline
 @BillGates, @jack_welch, @fastcompany, @timoreilly
 Tweet about your experiences while at a conference
 Some conferences have setup #tags, such as #EDUCAUSE10
 Teach literature?
 Have class tweet in character for a day
 Teach a foreign language?
 Have students follow some native speakers to learn (see @iVenus)
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How might I use Twitter for class?
 David Green summarizes his use of Twitter:
 “I typically send a discussion ‘tweet’ each week, read and
summarize students' responses, and begin the following class
with a thirty-minute group discussion in which I incorporate
the students' responses (Table 2).” – A Dialogue for Engagement
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Twitter Account Poll
Should I have privacy concerns?
 Privacy should be a real concern for users of social networking sites
 Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg – “People have really gotten
comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but
more openly and with more people. That social norm is just something that
has evolved over time.”
 We talk about privacy extensively in our first course for CIS majors
 Learn the privacy settings yourself and lead by example
 FERPA raises many questions
 “Should graded or optional work be posted on public sites? May peers post
feedback on other students’ work? Is it acceptable to leave any kind of
evaluative comments on public sites containing student work? Should access
to student work be limited to those in the course? The answers to these
questions may vary by institution, but FERPA places the burden of ensuring
the privacy of the education record on the institution.”
7 Things You Should Know About Privacy in Web 2.0 Learning
Environments, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative.
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Maybe I should stick to Blackboard?
 Blackboard would seem the best spot for primary course
content and assessment activities
 Clear boundaries between professional and personal
 Fewer issues with privacy concerns
 Blackboard does offer some tools for the Web 2.0-curious
instructor within its walls
 Currently, UofL is using a third-party tool (Learning Objects’
Campus Pack) to provide blogs and wikis
 New version of Blackboard has built-in support but (as I understand it),
we are sticking with current tools until contract is up
 Delphi offers Getting Started guides for using blogs and wikis
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Maybe I should stick to Blackboard?
 Blogs in Blackboard are often used for personal reflection
(private journals) and community discussions
 May set up in any content area
 May also set up a course-level blog used by instructor to
communicate with class
 Think Announcements with student comments
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Maybe I should stick to Blackboard?
 The Wikipedia article on Wikis suggests:
“Ward Cunningham, and co-author Bo Leuf, in their book TheWikiWay:
Quick Collaboration on theWeb described the essence of the Wiki concept as
follows:
 A wiki invites all users to edit any page or to create new pages within the
wiki Web site, using only a plain-vanilla Web browser without any extra addons.
 Wiki promotes meaningful topic associations between different pages by
making page link creation almost intuitively easy and showing whether an
intended target page exists or not.
 A wiki is not a carefully-crafted site for casual visitors. Instead, it seeks to
involve the visitor in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that
constantly changes the Web site landscape.”
 Wikis in Blackboard are often used with team projects
 Members of the team collaborate to produce online site
 Also empowers the instructor with assessment details such as student
submissions and percentage of participation within the group
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Maybe I should stick to Blackboard?
 New version of Blackboard makes it easier to incorporate
YouTube, Flickr, and SlideShare content into your course
 Find under Build Content, Mashups
 Can embed video directly in content area as below
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How Purdue is doing IT
 Purdue is going beyond just using tools and has started
creating them
 Hotseat
 Lets students to comment on a class and then enables other
participants to view those messages
 Students can use their Twitter, Facebook or MySpace accounts
to post the messages or use the HotseatWeb directly
 Mixable
 Lets students create online study groups and participate in them
from within Facebook
 Also lets users sync and share documents via Dropbox
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Your turn!
 What are some ways you are using technology to increase
engagement and improve upon your best teaching practices?
 Which of these techniques do you think you might
incorporate?
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References and Resources
 Brown, Malcolm, et al. A Dialogue for Engagement. EDUCAUSE
Review, vol. 45, no. 5 (September/October 2010).
 7 ThingsYou Should Know AboutYouTube, EDUCAUSE Learning
Initiative.
 7 ThingsYou Should Know About Facebook II, EDUCAUSE
Learning Initiative.
 Pearson Social Media Survey 2010
 Schaffhauser, Dian. The Super-Secret, Never-Before-Revealed Guide to
Web 2.0 in the Classroom. Campus Technology, vol. 44, no. 2 (October
2010).
 7 ThingsYou Should Know About Twitter, EDUCAUSE Learning
Initiative.
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References and Resources
 Walsh, K. 100Ways to Teach with Twitter, EmergingEdTech.
 7 ThingsYou Should Know About Privacy inWeb 2.0 Learning
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Environments, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative.
Orlando, John. Using Polling and Smartphones to Keep Students
Engaged.
McCrea, Bridget. Purdue U Brings Social Networking to the
Classroom. Campus Technology (November 18, 2009).
Kolowich, Steve. MixingWork and Play on Facebook. Inside
Higher Ed (October 6, 2010).
Schaffhauser, Dian. Purdue Students Hook into Facebook for Study
Groups. Campus Technology (October 5, 2010).
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References and Resources
 Boyd, Danah. Streams of Content, Limited Attention:The Flow of
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Information through Social Media. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45,
no. 5 (September/October 2010).
7 ThingsYou Should Know About Lecture Capture, EDUCAUSE
Learning Initiative.
7 ThingsYou Should Know About Microblogging, EDUCAUSE
Learning Initiative.
Johnson, L., Levine, A., Smith, R., & Stone, S. (2010). The
2010 Horizon Report. Austin, Texas: The New Media
Consortium.
Sample, Mark. A Framework for Teaching with Twitter.
ProfHacker (August 16, 2010).
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References and Resources
 Rheingold, Howard. Attention, and Other 21st-Century Social
Media Literacies. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no. 5
(September/October 2010).
 Hodges, Charles. IfYou Twitter,Will They Come?. EDUCAUSE
Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 2 (2010).
 Forty-five Percent of Employers Use Social Networking Sites to
Research Job Candidates, CareerBuilder Survey Finds,
CareerBuilder.com (August 19, 2009).
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Netiquette
 Facebook
 A Practical Facebook Etiquette Guide
 Facebook faux pas: The geek's guide to netiquette
 Twitter
 Nine Essentials of Twitter Etiquette
 Complete Guide to Twitter Etiquette
 E-mail
 NetM@nners.com
 Blast from the past!
 Virginia Shea's 1994 book Netiquette is a classic
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