Presenters: Yianni Yessios, Read Lifset, Matthew Eckelman
TwTT: Virtual Field Trips
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TwTT: Virtual Classrooms & Synchronous Learning
Presenters: Matt Wilcox & Charlie Greenberg
February 24th, 11:00am-12:00pm
Virtual CLassrooms and Synchronous Learning:
Charlie Greenberg: “As an online lecturer for San Jose State University’s School of Library and Information Science the past two fall semesters, I am given unlimited opportunities to use Elluminate in my course on Medical Librarianship. The Elluminate installation at SJSU features a centralized calendar which can generate invitations that can be copied into class email messages, dedicated TA support if requested, and session recordings that can be distributed with a permanent link. I ran two alternative real-time class sessions per week (attendance was required at one of the other). All students are required to have microphones, but there is also a instant messaging window as part of the interface. I created a PPT for each “discussion” that I could import into the Elluminate whiteboard (problems with Windows Vista for this), and I would post a pdf of the PPT slides in the course site, along with a link to the session recording. During the session, all students and moderators (lecturers) have rights to share their desktop, use instant messaging, or write on the whiteboard. One person at a time “talks”, and students “raise their hand” with an icon to indicate they want to comment orally. Some just write in the IM window. The School also features “drop-in” help, and some instructors use it for “office hours.”
There is a free version of Elluminate that anyone can use, but only up to three participants at one time and no recording. Everything else seems to work. (http://www.elluminate.com/vroom) The Yale school of public health is negotiating for an academic user license, and the medical library will piggyback on that, as well as the school of nursing.”
When?
Tuesday from 11:00 – 12:00
Where?
Bass Library room L01 (lower level of the Bass Library)
TwTT: Videoconferencing in the Classroom with Skype
Presenters: Matt Regan & Mary Barr
February 17, 11:00am-12:00pm
Videoconferencing in the Classroom with Skype [Presenters: Mary Barr & Matt Regan]
Invite guest speakers from anywhere in the world to your classroom using the popular computer software program Skype. While in-person engagements can be inconvenient and costly, video conferencing allows educators to invite guest speakers to the classroom by turning their personal computers into inexpensive audio and video communication systems.
Drawing from an interview with Gordon Quinn, the executive producer of “Hoop Dreams,” Mary Barr, Lecturer in African American Studies, will discuss videoconferencing as a pedagogical tool and Matthew Regan from the Instructional Technology Group, will summarize voice over internet protocol (VoIP).
When? : 11:00am until noon
Where? : Bass Library L01
TwTT: Finding and Collecting Images with Metagallery
Presenters: Karen Kupiec, Carolyn Caizzi, David Hirsch, Gabe Rossi
Next week – February 10, 11:00am-12:pm
Finding and Collecting Images: Metagallery
The Visual Resources Collection (VRC) has released a new version of its website called the MetaGallery (http://images.library.yale.edu/metagallery/) which will allow you to collect, curate, and share digital objects for individual and classroom use. MetaGallery is a joint development between the Library and CMI2 (ITS Center for Media and Instructional Innovation).
MetaGallery Features
· Collect images, video, audio, or text from the VRC and other online collections (e.g. ARTstor, museum websites, online journals, etc.), and upload unique materials you have stored on your computer.
· Create groups of resources and share them (or keep them private). Example: http://images.library.yale.edu/metagallery/index.asp?cmd=viewgal&oid=514
· Annotate these resources and arrange them in an order that makes sense to you or to the viewers you are sharing them with.
Please join us for a discussion about the development of this new website and for tips about how you may use it in teaching and for personal research.
When?
Tuesday from 11:00 – 12:00
Where?
Bass Library room L01 (lower level of the Bass Library)
Who?
Carolyn Caizzi, Technology Specialist, Visual Resources Collection, Library; David Hirsch, Associate Director and Senior Course Developer, Center for Media and Instructional Innovation; Karen Kupiec, Director of Library Access Integration Services, Library; Gabriel Rossi, Instructional Technologist, Center for Media and Instructional Innovation
TwTT: Video Hands-on Session
Video Hands-On Session
February 3rd, 11:00am-12:00pm
Join us to explore programs for video search, capture, and delivery. At this session we will have staff from across campus ready to work with you on a number of video programs to enhance your teaching. Please see the CLC blog review of the video programs we discussed as the session today, YouTube and Beyond. We will have laptops available but please bring you own computer if you would like. Please also bring any questions, instructional scenarios, or teaching ideas you have about utilizing the instructional capabilities of video.
When?
Tuesday from 11:00 – 12:00
Where?
Bass Library room L01 (lower level of the Bass Library)
TwTT: YouTube and Beyond: Using Video for Teaching
January 27
YouTube and Beyond: Using Video for Teaching
Presenters: Michael Farina & Ken Panko
Faculty are increasingly finding and contributing video online that is relevant to their scholarship and teaching. It is also now possible to do more than simply watch video online with services that enable faculty and students to add academic value to online video.
Michael Farina, Senior Lecturer in Italian, will discuss video search alternatives to YouTube, and show sites that allow faculty and students to annotate and add clickable features to online video. Ken Panko, Manager of the Instructional Technology Group, will show Kaltura, an online service for collaborative video editing.
When?
Tuesday from 11:00 – 12:00
Where?
Bass Library room L01 (lower level of the Bass Library)
RSS Feeds
Robin Ladouceur, Instructional Designer, Instructional Technology Group (ITG) introduced the Educause handout, 7 Things You Should Know RSS Feeds and the ITG RSS Primer, which can accessed by emailing itg@yale.edu. RSS has been an acronym for various things over the years but currently stands for Really Simple Syndication, in other words, it is an online subscription method. The RSS icon 
is the visual indicator when a web site has RSS content.
Common Craft “In Plain English” video on RSS, RSS: In Plain English. This video is an excellent introduction to RSS and feed readers. After showing this short video, Robin showed the free RSS reader www.feedreader.com and explained the limitations of readers that need to be downloaded to your computer. Basically, these readers can only be accessed from one computer whereas networked readers such as Google or Yahoo can be accessed from multiple computers simply by logging into your account. Robin also demonstrated how to use your Safari or Firefox bookmarks toolbar for subscribing to a RSS feed.
Other readers shown were Bloglines, Netvibes (which allows you to build a website based on RSS feeds), and Google Reader. Robin really recommends Google Reader because of the powerful ways you can catagorize your feeds by folder and the keyboard shortcuts that make using the reader very easy and efficient.
Barbara Stuart, English Lecturer, is teaching an English 114 course on the Election 2008. This fall ITG set up a blog and RSS feeds to support the student work in the course. English 114 is a writing course with a research component. At the start of the class, Professor Stuart asked the student where they find their information and it broke down into 3 tiers: Tier 1 resources were internet resources found primarily through Google; Tier 2 resources were magazine articles; and Tier 3 were peer-reviewed literature found through library resources. An early assignment had students do a rhetorical analysis of a blog and the students discovered that blogs can actually be good places to go for information. The students then set up their own blog for posting their writing assignments. In the past, Professor Stuart has used the Classes server to generate student discussion inside and outside of class. This semester she used the blog for this purpose and she found that students tend to write more on the blog than then they did on the classes server.
Professor Stuart found that the writing on the blog was very good, especially with students whose first language is not English. She found that the students wrote better for the web, potentially because all their peers were reading it instead of just the professor. She also found that the blog enabled discussions that were broader than the in-class discussions because the intimidation factor was not as much of an issue.
The students were drawing upon information for their posts from the information they read via RSS feeds from political blogs and news sources. These RSS feeds were aggregated on the blog via feeds and these feeds were created by ITG, Professor Stuart and the students themselves.
Professor Stuart was asked if the RSS feeds made it possible to offer more sides of the story than you might be able to do with paper readings. She thought the feeds did offer a broader perspective, allowed students to participate in chosing the readings, and most importantly, it was fun for the students. The RSS reader was seamlessly integrated into the blog thereby making it very easy for students to organize their reading in the same space as their writing.
Some conclusions: The students did a really great job with their writing on the blog and they were thinking in ways they wouldn’t have otherwise. The anonomity of the posts was liberating for the students. This is their medium and they were able to do very good academic work in this format because it is comfortable for them. They engaged in a balanced exchange of ideas and were pushed to look at issues in different ways and deal with other points of view.
Teaching w/ Technology Tuesday – Guest Speaker
Next week – November 11th
What’s on the Horizon
Guest Speaker Bryan Alexander, Director for Research at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE)
New technologies seem to be coming out every day, but what technologies will be emerging on campuses 3 or 5 years from now? As a nationally recognized figure in the field of Educational Technology, Bryan Alexander contributes to the blog Liberal Education Today, is a sought after speaker and consultant, and serves on the advisory committee of the Horizon Project. The Horizon Project publishes the annual Horizon Report, predicting trends in the use of technology in higher education. This is a unique opportunity to meet with one of the leading thinkers and researchers on contemporary teaching and scholarship.
Copyright
In this TwTT session, Scott Matheson, Web Manager at the Library and Howard Barnaby, Program Coordinator at the Center for Language Study, discussed copyright concerns and the complexities of the fair use defense as both relate to course-based uses of copyrighted materials.
Scott Matheson wrote the circulars used by the library to inform faculty, staff, and students about copyright issues. Howard Barnaby wrote the Center for Language Study’s copyright handbook for faculty creating their own multi-media language materials.
For a more in depth treatment of the copyright discussion, please listen to the following audio recording of our TwTT session:
For Howard Barnaby’s Power Point Presentation on Copyright, please click below:
Student Created Video – TwTT
Oct. 28; 1:00 – 2:00pm; Bass Library L01