Using Existing Technologies
to Engage Students
Leveraging student use of multiple personal digital
devices in the classroom.
Goals
• Identify Participatory Culture
• Edudemic Ideas
• Try Voicethread, Padlet, Inspiration,
Popplet, GarageBand
Engage
• Today’s college students use the
following platforms of participation:
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Publishing Media
Communication Tools
Resource Sharing
Social Networking
Collective Knowledge
Henry Jenkins
• Confronting the Challenges of a
Participatory Culture - Media Education
for the 21st Century
Jenkins
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A participatory culture is a culture with relatively low
barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement,
strong support for creating and sharing creations, and
some type of informal mentorship whereby experienced
participants pass along knowledge to novices.
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In a participatory culture, members also believe their
contributions matter and feel some degree of social
connection with one another (at the least, members
care about others’ opinions of what they have created).
Participatory
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Consumers
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Collaboraters
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Producers
EDUDEMIC
Universal Design
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Many different learners in the classroom.
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Technology leverages access to all of them.
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Affords opportunities for various means of expression.
Example
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Lets learn a little more about Autism.
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Facts, Images, Video, Audio, Interviews
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Resources
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Timeline
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Groups work together to collect information and come
together to build presentations.
Consume
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Monitor multiple twitter streams, hashtags and @
responses via tweetdeck.
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Trace a character’s journey in a work of fiction with
Google Earth.
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Visualize how certain themes or motifs emerge from
certain geographical regions, and infer the cause effects
relationships that may contribute to that with Google
Earth.
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View presentations that model elaborate multimedia
idea development with Prezi.
Consume
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Skim Channels to identify non obvious but real
examples of “academic” ideas, bias, scientific methods,
allegory, modern civil rights issues etc using YouTube.
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Listen to podcasts to gain context on an issue via
Downcast.
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Practice math or economic problems as pure test prep
with Khan Academy.
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Take notes and record lecture and group discussion
using CaptureNotes2.
Collaborate
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Evaluate credibility of a website, blogpost, or social
media comment with Skitch.
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Curate relevant tidbits or sources - and then
collaboratively reorder content with Pearltrees.
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Plan necessary project details with Wunderlist.
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Peer supported writing process with Google Docs.
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Connect with Mentors or experts via Twitter.
Collaborate
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Collaboratively pin images of a competitor’s design
when mock-planning a startup via Pinterest.
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Backwards plan projects and related due-dates using
iCalendar.
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Record group work daily for reflection, self assessment,
and digital portfolio curation with Evernote.
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Aggregate constant information streams to skim via
Pulse.
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“Crowdsource” implicit themes or character
development in the study of a novel with Edmodo.
Produce
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Create layered documents that use hypertext to embed
supporting sources or media with Google Docs.
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Create a concept map to explain the relationship
between a YouTube video and the suggested YouTube
videos.
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Collect visual evidence of a problem, issue or event
using Instagram.
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Demonstrate the spread of a philosophical idea using
Google Maps.
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Liveblog a personal or academic event via Storify.
Produce
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Create infographics that further expository writing where
one form provides information and the other struggles to
using visual.ly
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Create photo collage to demonstrate impact of pollution,
litter or even genocide using Diptic.
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Create podcasts to communicate with students (dates,
projects, exams, learning targets) using Audioboo.
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Reflect on metacognitive progress through a unit or
project using representative images via Flickr.
VoiceThread
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Voicethread is a media aggregator that allows for
posting of media for community feedback.
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Voicethread in the classroom enables digital
discussions that can extend beyond class time or create
opportunities for the next class meeting.
Voicethread
• Please create a voicethread with the
person sitting next to you.
Padlet
• An online writing wall intended for
gathering ideas and displaying them in
real time.
Back Channel
• A program that opens up the back
conversations in a classroom and
brings them to the screen in the front of
the room.
Inspiration
• Graphic organizer to support writing
and brainstorming in the classroom.
Popplet
• Mind and concept mapping program
available online and on mobile devices.
Garage Band
• Garageband is a music editing /
recording program that enables
podcasting and digital storytelling.
iMovie
• Digital storytelling movie editing
program.
Google Docs
• The Google writing program that
enables collaboration in real time or
online away from the classroom setting.
Contact
• Sandy Ayala, PhD
• School of Education
• 664-2972
Stevenson 2013C