Teaching Resources

Resources:

• Do you need an interactive timeline to show a complex event in history and the interelated social or political strands?
• Do you need help making digital movies for classroom use? for research?
• Do you need to make a decision about the best tools to use to enable students to share and comment on written assignments?
• Do you need some context, some background information on using technology?

...many other possibilities may lead you to our door.

Readings:

What will it mean to be an educated person in the 21st century?
The Economist & the New Media Consortium - The Future of Higher Education

In a 2005 Pew Internet & American Life project, Lenhardt & Madden reported that more than one-half of all teens have created media content, and roughly one third of teens who use the Internet have shared content they produced. When these teens, who are are actively involved in what we are calling participatory cultures reach their formative college years, what types of curriculum, projects and tools will best meet their needs moving forward?
McArthur Series - Media Education for the 21st Century

How close are we to achieving the 21st-century campus? To attempt to answer that question, CDW-G surveyed widely at more than 1,000 colleges to gather perceptions of campus technology integration.
The 21st-Century Campus

General Digital Literacy:

Educause Documentation
Very short Adobe .pdf handouts everyone interested should read:

What's a Blog & why bother?
What is cyberinfrastructure & why should I care?
What's an RSS feed?
What is Skype?
What's a Wiki & why would I use one?
What is Web 2.0?
Emerging technologies - a quick tutorial


The Scout Report - Published continuously since 1994 by the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Scout Report is one of the Internet's oldest and most respected publications. Published every Friday both on the web and by email, it provides a fast, convenient way to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet. Funded with a grant from the National Science Foundation. (http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/Current/)

Explanations and Examples of Technologies & Tools:

Catalyst - This informative site developed by technology services at the University of Washington is a valuable reference for explanations and examples of how technology tools can be used in teaching.

Leveraging the campus learning community helps a faculty member seamlessly use new technology, Doing What I Don't Know How to Do...

Discipline Specific Examples:

The Crossroads Project - In The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning section of this interesting site, case studies follow faculty integrating technology into American Studies courses. Some of the case studies take an "ecological" approach, considering an entire semester-long course, while others focus on a single aspect of a course - a specific assignment or project that incorporates new media technology.

http://amser.org/



Instructional Project Gallery - Examples of multimedia projects in a variety of disciplines developed at the University of Indiana.

Merlot - A free open-source resource repository designed primarily for Higher Ed faculty and students. Links here lead to online learning objects - interactives & materials are archives along with associated assignments, annotations, & peer reviews .

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