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Innovative uses of Technology in Teaching at Colgate Fall 2012

By Ray Nardelli on February 3, 2013

Video dubbing project with REST121A Marijeta Bozovic

  • 10 students, dubbing Russian animations in FCPX

Silent movie scoring project

  • Mary Simonson, iMovie projects for FMST340A

Video Narrative projects

  • Marijeta Bozovic creating video narratives for FSEM 168
  • Sheila Clonan Special Ed class w/, 21 students individual projects EDUC307A
  • Meg Worley video narratives for WRIT340A
  • Anna Rios-Rojas, 27 students individual projects on educational reflections regarding theories studied for EDUC101B
  • Catherine Herne 16 students  working in pairs for PHYS105A
  • Jessica Graybill and 20 students working in pairs for GEOG311
  • Alicia Simmons, 25 students working in pairs for SOAN 375
  • Ashli Baker iMovie project w/ stills, narrative, sound effects for CLAS224A
  • Ryan Solomon, group video narrative projects for WRIT115
  • Jen Stob, 24 individual video narrative projects for ARTS287

Wikipedia Editing

  • Aisha Musa, 21 students for RELG 247 and 17 students for RELG 234

Using an iPad for In-Class Presentations

  • Elizabeth Wilcox – Mathematics – marking up PDFs
  • Elena Shaver – Sociology & Anthropology – using Splashtop Whiteboard to control and annotate
  • Alicia Simmons – Sociology & Anthropology – using Splashtop Whiteboard to control and annotate

Google Earth

  • Jessica Graybill is piloting the use of Google Earth’s guided animated tour as an assignment for her students for GEOG311

Student Response Systems (iClickers)

  • Catherine Herne:
    • PHYS105, Mechanical Physics, Introduction to physics for students interested in the science and for those needing physics for pursuing graduate degrees in another field (geology, architecture primarily).
    • PHYS131, Atoms and Waves, previously known as Modern Introductory Physics
    • PHYS202, Math Methods II, an introduction to mathematical concepts necessary for life and physics at Colgate, focusing on differential equations and complex numbers.
  • Rebecca Metzler
    • Physics 111 – Fundamendal Physics
  • Yulia Ilchuck
    • REST 201, 202, Intermediate Russian

Google Map Integration

  • Elana Shever students are incorporating mapping for data visualization for SOAN211

Google Sites & Sketchup

  • Wenhua Shi – students are building websites as virtual exhibitions, presenting one main theme of the show with at least 2 artists and 5 to 10 pieces of art work

WordPress Blog Authoring

  • Meg Worley is using a WordPress blog site to share content with her students where they have access to post comments and interact with each other. WRIT103 & WRIT340

Virtual Desktop Piloting in the Classroom

  • Virtual desktop implementation is the practice of hosting a desktop operating system on a centralized server. VDI is a variation on the client/server computing model, sometimes referred to as server-based computing.  The Colgate Library ran a pilot test using the software MAXQDA: Qualitative Data Analysis Software.

Twitter Integration

  • Susan Thompson is PCON301 – Tweeting in this course is a form of participation and a means to push the conversation forward  in a different forum and format than class discussions. This is a kind of ‘micro-blogging’ and  ’low-stakes writing’ as you will not be able to put forward fully formed analysis in your tweets  (particularly given you only get 140 characters to express yourself).  But it should encourage you  to be more courageous with your ideas and questions, and it will help you form an archive of  web-based material relevant to your course work! If all goes well, the Twitter conversations  should keep you up to date on global events and scholarship related to human rights and human  security, allow you to float ideas for your critical response papers and other assignments, push  you to participate in the class both online and in person, and be fun (but in a nerdy way)!  I will follow all the tweets made by everyone in the class, and I will refer to Twitter postings in classroom lectures when appropriate.

Posters

  • Shangrila Wynn – students creating research posters ENVS232 A & B
  • Mark Stern – students creating political awareness research posters EDUC310
  • Jonathan Levine – Solar System Science Symposium

Video Conferencing

  • Anna Rios-Rojas will be virtually bringing an outside guest speaker into her class
  • Susan Thompson will be virtually bringing an outside guest speaker into PCON301

Lecture Capture

  • Professor Naomi Rood (Classics) is using video capture technology to digitally record her Ancient Greek language classes so that students abroad can participate in her class asynchronously. Video is captured using WireCast, encoded with Episode and automatically uploaded to a private YouTube channel which her students access on demand.

Social Media Marketing

  • Professor Christopher Henke’s ENST 390 class (Environmental Studies) is exploring the use of Google +, Facebook and Twitter to promote sustainability projects authored by his students. The goal is to solicit personal investment, raise awareness and garner participation from students’ peer groups through these common media, thusly leveraging their social contacts to achieve their planned outcomes.

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