Topic 1, Assignment 1
Traditional Strategies | Digital Strategies and Technologies |
Roll Call- Implied |
A clicker-receiver program like Turning technologies IR receivers allow students to check in and answer questions each class. The teacher controls the session from a multimedia podium running Turning technologies software. |
Peer Interactions- Mentioned |
Students can more easily interact with one another via group discussion boards on e-learning, wikis or a group facebook page. |
Class Assignments- Mentioned | Assignments are hard to grade and collect in large arenas. Assignments made via group collaboration on wikis or elearning. |
Visuals- Implied | Personal computers using a program such as insight can limit the sites a student views while maximizing their visual experience and allowing every student to perfectly see the presentation. |
Group Activities-Implied | Group portals such as Skype, gotomeeting, etc can allow groups to meet on their own time in non-traditional ways. |
Lecture- Implied | Tegrity and other course capture tools allow for recording material to store on a central server fr remote viewing, doing away with the need for traditional classroom experiences. |
Multiple Choice Testing- Mentioned | Turning point can also be used to get real time results on what people know and how the class is doing on material. |
Visual Lecture Notes- Mentioned | Voice to text software is coming along nicely and profs can post lecture notes on elearning at their leisure. |
Resources are limited in classroom- Mentioned | Online learning can replace the need for materials within the traditional classroom. With no overhead costs will fall allowing more people to be able to go to college. |
Students talk with others during class- Mentioned | Twitter feeds on the main projector screen would allow for interaction in real time. |
Students raise hands to ask question.- Implied | Twitter, or the like, could again be used. |