Why Integrate Technology?

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 Fostering technology integration

▪ Universal student access

▪ Reliable networks
▪ Multiple opportunities for training and support
▪ Environment which values experimentation
and tolerates failures

Source: Spodark
Current state of higher ed tech integration

Frequent (several
times/week)
20%
Never
45%

Occasional
(once a month)
35%
How are faculty currently using technology?

100 e-mail

work from home

80
scholarly writing
60
presentations
40
Internet research
20 data analysis
0 online course material
Percentage of faculty (n = 33,785)
course instruction
 Why bother?

▪ Access to vast repositories of INFORMATION and

RESOURCES

▪ REFLECTION upon (and in some cases transformation of)

the way we teach

▪ VISUALIZATION and CONCEPTUALIZATION

▪ Opportunities to create ENGAGED learners

▪ Ability to ACCOMODATE varied learning styles

How can faculty know what’s possible?

▪ Magazines and Journals:

▪ T.H.E. http://www.thejournal.com/
▪ Syllabus http://www.syllabus.com
▪ Converge http://www.convergemag.com
▪ Conferences and Websites
▪ http://www.askeric.org
▪ EDUCAUSE http://www.educause.edu/
▪ Syllabus http://www.syllabus.com
▪ The Collaboration http://www.colab.org
▪ Instructor resource guides with websites
▪ http://www.learner.org/jnorth/
▪ Augie’s own Instructional Technologist!
Technology can support learning by facilitating…

EXPLORATION and ANALYSIS of information

SIMULATION of events or processes

VISUALIZATION of abstract concepts

MANIPULATION of variables

CONSTRUCTION of knowledge

PRACTICE and drilling of skills

 Some ideas…

▪ Instead of writing comments in the margins of students’ papers,

you can have students can send papers via e-mail. Then, using a
microphone attached to a PC, you can make audio comments on
the papers. If you return the papers via e-mail, students can listen
to your comments with headphones or speakers.

▪ Or, to save disk space, you can use the annotate feature in Word

▪ You may already know how to create links to Web sites in

PowerPoint, but you can also easily create links to the files from
within a PowerPoint presentation: Paper www.google.com
 Some more ideas…

▪ Use the custom animation feature to animate charts, graphs, and

images within Powerpoint to make your message come alive…
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which artistic style?
 Realism
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 Baroque
 Impressionism
 Neo-Classicism

Madonna and Child with Saints

1708
Oil on canvas, 406 x 208 cm
San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

RICCI, Sebastiano
(b. 1659, Belluno, d. 1734, Venezia)
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North America
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South America

Australia
Africa
Rainforest ecosystem decline

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Some more ideas…

▪ Virtual field trips via Web or interactive CD-ROM

Battle Maps
 Field Museum
Sounds from the Vault

Tending the Memory: National Digital Archives

 More ideas

▪ Create Web pages that impose visual structure and an

expert’s conceptual framework upon complex information
▪ Use modeling software to help students visualize molecular structures
▪ Provide access to accompaniment software that responds and adjusts to
the student’s tempo (and is available anytime!)
▪ Create online forums for students to review their classmates’ papers,
creating a “writers’ community”
▪ Use Word™ to capture classroom discussions for posting and review
▪ Use Babelfish or Google to translate phrases from one language to
another (and back again, for some interesting comparisons!)
▪ Use simulation software, such as SimCity (urban planning) or SimLife
(biology) to enable students to manipulate complex variables in a
simulated environment
 More ideas

▪ Use biomechanics software and digital video capture to help

students in physical education and sports
▪ Use digital microscope cameras to allow an entire class to
view the same microscopic image
▪ Use thermal imaging software to plot thermal fluctuations
▪ Use electronic “smart boards” instead of projection screens to
run software demonstrations and capture whiteboard images
Virtual Museums
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Period Rooms

Virtual Tour of the Louvre

Vatican Museums
Other
History QuickTime Cubic VR Gallery

Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory

Virtual Tour of the Pantheon

Science
The Orbitron

Chemist’s Art Gallery

Finally…

While information does not equal knowledge

and technology is not a “cure-all”,
thoughtful, meaningful, and authentic integration
of technology and information resources
can enhance learning and lead to
development of knowledge.
Sources

Sax, L. 2000. “An Overview of the 1998-99 Faculty Norms.” Graduate School of
Educational and Information Studies UCLA. (A study of 33,785 family members from
378 colleges.

Spodark, E. 2003, “Five Obstacles to Technology Integration at a Small Liberal Arts

University”, T.H.E. Journal March: 14-24. Online:
http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A4344.cfm .

Cuban, L. 1999. “The Technology Puzzle.” Education Week 4 August: 47,68. Online:
www.edweek.org/ew/vol-18/43cuban.h18.

Trinkle, D. 1999. “Distance Education: A Means to an End, No More, No Less.” Chronicle

of Higher Education 6 August: A60.
Maddux, C., Johnson, L., and Willis, J., Educational Computing: Learning with Tomorrow’s
Technologies (2nd ed.) Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1997, pp. 17-35.
 URLs
EXPLORATION – The Exploratorium http://www.exploratorium.edu/

ANALYSIS – EROS http://edc.usgs.gov/

SIMULATION – Amusement Park Physics http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/

VISUALIZATION – CalTech Super Computer http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/ismap/image.html

MANIPULATION – Optical Illusions http://www.illusionworks.com/html/hall_of_illusions.html

CONSTRUCTION – Northwestern University http://web.mmlc.nwu.edu/projects/

PRACTICE – Yale Cardiothoracic Imaging http://info.med.yale.edu/intmed/cardio/imaging/

Dunhuang QTVR http://smith.mmlc.nwu.edu/~harlan/Merit/latest/qtvr.html

Valley of the Shadow http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/choosepart.html

Virginia Center for Digital History http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/

The Field Museum http://www.fieldmuseum.org/

Sounds from the Vault http://www.fieldmuseum.org/sounds/index.htm
 URLs

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Period Rooms

http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/vr_html/vr/temp_v_thumbnails.htm

Vatican Museums
http://vrm.vrway.com/issue14/VATICAN_MUSEUMS_IN_VIRTUAL_REALITY.html

Virtual Tour of the Louvre http://www.louvre.or.jp/louvre/QTVR/anglais/

QuickTime Cubic VR Gallery http://www.apple.com/quicktime/gallery/cubicvr/

Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/

Virtual Tour of the Pantheon http://www.compart-multimedia.com/virtuale/us/roma/pantheon.htm

The Orbitron http://www.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/orbitron/

Chemist’s Art Gallery http://www.csc.fi/chem/gallery.phtml