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Integrating
Technology
Faculty, for
many reasons, would like to integrate technology into their teaching practice.
But integrating technology into your courses and teaching practice can
assume two very important things. First, it can assumes that you already
know what you want to do and how to do it. And second, it can
imply that you already know about the types and kinds of technologies that are
available and what those technologies can do. This is not true. Engineering
Instructional Services can support you to integrate technology into your
practice and we can help you stay current about the types of tools and
technologies that are available in engineering education. Below we provide some
guidelines as to how you might integrate
technology into you lessons and courses as well as provide you with
information on some of the tools and
technologies that are being explored to enhance teaching and learning here
in the college of engineering. Contact us
about how you can integrate technology into your teaching practice. We will be happy to work with you.
Suggestions for integrating technology into
your courses:
|
Goal |
Ideas/Suggestion |
How To Apply |
What Next |
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Making Content Available to Students |
- Post your syllabus
- Post content
- Collect/gather files |
- Create a web page or web site
- Use ANGEL's syllabus editor
- Use ANGEL's Lesson area
- Have students e-mail you files
- Create drop boxes in ANGEL |
- Assess what was done
- Ask if it worked
- Ask what was gained
- Ask where do you want to go from here
EIS can help you through the process related to
each of these goals. We can help implement instructional strategies that can
help ease your burden as a teacher and improve student learning |
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Strengthening In-Class Activities |
- Use quizzes and/or surveys
- Summarize activities
- Have students mine for information
- Create and exit survey
- Take an opinion poll |
- Use ANGEL's quiz and survey tools
- Use TestPilot or other online quizzing resources
- Create a summary using e-mail or a text file
- Create an archive if you have used ANGEL
- Create a or webquest
- Use any of the many free survey tools out there
- Use any of the many polling tools out there |
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Taking learning beyond the the walls of the classroom
(Augmenting or Replacing In-Class Activities
With Online Activities) |
- Promote discussions
- Provide online review
- Provide scaffolded and supported problem solving
- Promote peer review |
- Use ANGEL's discussion tool or other threaded
discussion forum
- Use the peer review option available in ANGEL
- Use ANGEL's chat capability or AIM or IM
- Use quizzes with set parameters to scaffold student learning |
Tools and Technologies
We also investigate
new technologies and software for teaching learning. If you are interested in a
specific technology,
contact Rox and let us know. Technologies that are currently under
investigation include: Digital pens, student response systems, writing tablets,
and tablet PC's. We would be happy to talk about how you might use these tools
in our class.
We can also
provide you with information and guidance related to various collaboration tools
for audio conference, video conferencing, and web conferencing. Again,
contact Rox and she will work with you to see how we might best support you.
From time to
time we run lunch seminars to fill you in on what we have found. Again,
contact Rox and keep an eye out
for EIS lunch
series seminars.
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