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Technology Trends in Higher Education

Stone Soup Seminar May 11, 2010
Presenters: Robin Baneth, Laura Davidson, Jeff Howlett ,
Becky Kirstein, Barry Koster, Diane Sherman & Cheryl Todd

Disclaimer Video: Future Technology NOW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pYMn1RR7Y0

What is it? Who’s doing it? How does it work?

Users can create their
own environment or use
many of the
environments created by
Millions of users others.
Second Life is the
including many
largest virtual world
Universities and VoIP enables lecture and
with VoIP.
Colleges. discussions

Virtual environment
allows interactivity and
experimentation.

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What are the
Why is it What are the Where is it implications for
significant? downsides? going? teaching and
learning?
New A more
Access simulations are collaborative
anywhere with Modification to teaching and
created daily for learning
web lesson plans
students to environment at
connectivity experience Meredith College.

Many
Training to professionals and
Share with the Professors working
teach in a artist are
together with
world or keep different adopting, allowing
professionals in
private environment students access to
their field of study.
them and their
work

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Visual Understanding Environment: http://vue.tufts.edu/

IBM Many Eyes: http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/

What is it? How does it Who’s doing it? Why is it
work? students to
significant?
portable, download
presents electronic e-readers are
low-powered, textbooks
versions of text, changing the
high resolution
typically using economics for buyers
devices
e-ink, a display and sellers of text-
technology designed universities & based intellectual
to simulate printed colleges to make property, including
paper text books educational materials
designed to available digitally
display digital
versions of
written material:
it offers similar a move to digital
books, textbook publishers
resolution as textbooks and
magazines, have joined forces with
newsprint and, coursepacks would have
newspapers, and e-reader manufacturers
relative to an LCD broad implications both
other printed to produce texts in
screen, eliminates for the traditional
sources e-book formats, giving
campus bookstore and
glare and reduces rise to new distribution
eyestrain models for an institution’s library

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What are the Where is it going? What are the
downsides? implications for
teaching and learning?
publishers have
growing numbers of redefinition of roles more flexible content
channels & formats for & conventions in aggregation and
their content traditional chain of prompt information
content transfer updates

susceptible to damage-
though electronic inclusion of articles not
content can usually be class materials will published through
recovered be available in traditional channels
multiple modes*

the ability to loan a digital highly customizable
text to multiple users course materials*
simultaneously challenges
the paradigm of traditional
publishers have
libraries-would need to growing numbers of
change services & modes channels & formats for interactive maps, charts,
of distribution to their content graphs, all illustrating
accommodate them
lecture points

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• Multiple author collaboration
• Some use non-linear branching
• Hierarchy of ideas, overview to detail, through zooming
and panning
• Live audience input (like polling/ Clickers)

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• Accessible by all team members. Unplanned directions.
• One canvas rather than a sequence of slides.
• Explain how facial recognition software analyzes images.
• Human face image in center of canvas and labels features.
• Team members can put explanations and web links further
out on canvas.
• Xoom in and out and draw focus to different paths.
• The group divides canvas into 4 regions and places
comments, images, videos, and links in respective areas.
• Audience can follow on own computers.

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• Access from anywhere, anytime
Access, import, edit and share presentations anywhere anytime
• Sharing and Collaboration
No more emailing around of presentation files. Share your
presentations with your friends/colleagues and the shared
presentations can be viewed/edited with just a browser.
• Present from Remote
Give a presentation to a client who is half a globe away. Do your demos
while at your seat.
• Embedding
Make your presentations public. Embed them in your blog or website
for easy viewing for your readers.

GLOGSTER PREZI
Free presentation tool on web. Equivalent to
Great free way to distribute a Powerpoint on web
beautiful one page/slide “poster”
with music and video, etc. like for Reduced feature but quick and easy. No need
organization and classroom teams. to carry flash bob
Example: Instantly upload and share Transformation zebra interface to rotate,
linked video of yourself, like topic move objects
intro.
As with blogging, folks could Hierarchical idea/brainstorming
comment on it or rate it if you
registered and logged in. Zoom in Zoom Out; supports mouse wheel
Also could be used for simple
classroom presentations. Could embed in Prezi blog
Concurrent log-ins only available in
$11.95/mo version. Multiple remote
editors. Video must be Flash at the moment

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• Those who enjoy experimenting with alternative
presentation applications
• Users who want to save money or do not own MS
powerpoint
• Faculty who enjoy rich feature sets

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• Move application off desktop and onto the internet
• Reveal information in a non-linear fashion
• Greater audience interaction
• Zoho Show, more like Powerpoint, allows audience
members to comment and changes to presentation in
real-time
• Live collaboration

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• Shift away from click and talk paradigm
• Platform independent
• Multiple contributors
• Stored for public use
• Compilation of insights, snapshots, interpretations of data
• Use multiple times in different ways
• Make libraries of presentations

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• Distracting viewers (zooms, pans, animations)
• End product can be disorienting if not controlled
• Presentation can vary each time it is given
• Will not replace PowerPoint
• Metaphors may not be effective as presenters might think
• Functionality might vary depending on browser
• Require internet
• High res images, could be slow
• Don’t allow presentation to be permanently downloaded or user-
owned media devices
• Extra effort to ensure attributions are correct
• Host sites could go out of business

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• Further changes to presentation model
• Broader acceptance and wider use
• Complex layers and 3D images

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• Re-examination of the nature of information presentation and
sharing.
• Non-linear thought patterns (student queries, experimental
results, group brainstorming)
• Free-form lecture branching
• Audience collaboration, multimedia integration, cross platform
viewing
• Merging of in-person and remote classroom audiences

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Poll Everywhere Pie Charts from BB
Survey in 4 steps
• Polleverywhere.com • Pivot charts in Excel
• Live Audience polling • Don’t need to exit BB; Excel
• Web-based polling tool opens automatically with
• Can do 30 for free default answers
• Device is Student’s own • Beautiful and informative
cell phone pie charts for free
• Create polls and receive
results
• SMS, Twitter too.
• Embed into Powerpoint

• Charles Darwin
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aTjIJyXcB8&feature=related

• Ben Franklin
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpdO6gnzg2I&feature=related

chalk board -- tests -- like hand
words, diagrams, done but in the
Software:
equations, .... computer Jarnal
.. easy to pick up http://www.dklevine.
research, cartoons -- com/general/softwar
next class where you anything you used to e/tc1000/jarnal.htm
left off do on paper
taking notes -- Hammer out It’s FREE!
students can keep equations, sketches (Jmaker add-on
ALL of their notes on ... on the pad. helps with
the computer, A $25 way to fake drag'n'drop).
including math, having a tablet!
biology, ...

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Audacity is a free, VoiceThread is a Animoto automatically
audio editing program. slide show that produces beautifully
holds images, orchestrated, completely
documents, and unique video pieces from
videos and allows your photos, video clips
people to navigate and music.
pages and leave It takes just minutes to
comments in 5 ways create a video which can
bring your lessons to life.

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What is it? Who’s doing it?

an online service that allows users to create
used for activities ranging from news, current
their own social networks and join and
events, and professional development to
participate in other networks
entertainment, dating, and support groups

creators of networks determine the site’s
appearance ,functionality, and whether the site
is public or private networks can be municipal, regional,
international
networks include features such as: photos ,
videos, lists of members , events, groups , and
communication tools such as forums or blogs
alumni groups (high school, college & university)
develop networks where graduates can
reconnect and stay in touch
no technical skill is required to set up a network

can be used as a complement to a primary
no limits to the number of networks a user can website or as the primary platform for the
join website

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How does it work? Why is it significant?
users can create new social
allows users to connect and
What are the downsides?
networks in very little time,
build community
with no technical skill required.
some networks are in a near-
once a name and a URL are constant state of change, with
selected, assembling the uses technology to discover
connections between people no clear model of organization
network is a simple process of
& content and function that will best suit
working through four screens
a particular community
the user indicates whether the
users design and build a social
network is or public network that looks and
behaves exactly as its creator
the user may add a tag-line, or members believes it should
description; assign keywords;
choose from a selection of can add to the “burden” of
network creators ,who have managing involvement in
features (such as photos or
the technical ability, can multiple personal networks
videos, a blog, events, groups,
create new tools and features and keeping track of “friends”
or gadgets) use drag-and-drop
tools to place features on the to respond to the changing across the network
needs and demands of the
page; choose a visual theme
network members
(colors, fonts, sizes), etc

Since its introduction in late 2006, the Wii has been a favorite
of the gaming community, which has praised the system for
transforming the gaming experience into a physical activity.

The controller has also captured the interest of academic researchers and
hackers, who seek to apply the technology to other uses.
• Using custom hardware and software he developed, a PhD student at the
Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University created
an application that uses Wii technology to turn any surface into an
inexpensive, interactive whiteboard.
• Faculty at the University of Illinois and the University of California, Berkeley,
developed an application based on the Wii concept that allows
choreographers to collaborate from a distance. The application senses the
position of the dancers and renders those people on a screen, which
simultaneously shows dancers at several locations, providing a shared,
virtual experience.
• A professor in the department of biomedical informatics at Arizona State
University has conducted research into the use of Wii games for training
surgeons. He found that students who played a Wii game that requires hand-
eye coordination and manual dexterity to move a marble through a series of
obstacles showed considerably higher improvement in their surgical
techniques than students who did not play the game.
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• WYNN 5 is the first product that fully integrates all the
support capabilities of a powerful literacy software
program into the Internet, rather than merely
superimposing "floating" tool bars on the text.
• With WYNN 5, students can have Web text read out loud as
well as access the study tools that they rely on for their
traditional classroom work, like dictionary and highlighting
features.
• WYNN 5 is also the only software that offers struggling
students WebMasking™. This patented feature highlights
selected text on a Web page by line, sentence or paragraph
while blocking out distracting elements like
advertisements. This enables the reader to better focus,
read and comprehend text.
• WYNN 5 is also the only software allowing users to
highlight several pieces of selected text on the Internet and
extract that highlighted text directly into a single document
with one mouse click; no cut and paste required.

Exploring the Effects of Digital Note Taking on
Student Comprehension of Science Texts
Mark A. Horney, Lynne Anderson-Inman, Fatima Terrazas-Arellanes
University of Oregon
William Schulte, Jon Mundorf, Sheri Wiseman
Collier County Schools, Collier County, Florida
Keith Smolkowski
Oregon Research Institute
Jen Katz-Buonincontro, Mindy L. Frisbee
University of Oregon
This study investigated the effects of text notes and voice notes on the comprehension of
science texts by fifth grade students. The study was conducted to determine whether digital
note taking was an effective reading strategy, and whether one form of digital note taking
was more effective than the other. Results revealed that general education students made
statistically significant gains for both science texts: Cells, and Heredity. For Cells, the voice
notes group outperformed their text note peers at a level that was statistically significant.
Special education students also made greater test gains using voice notes rather than text
notes, and this difference was statistically significant for short-answer tests on Heredity.
Additional analyses revealed diverse note taking strategies, which appeared consistent
across media.

• Mobile computing has been the emerging technology
that has never settled into its niche
• By 2015, voice services will make up only 10% of the over
$1 trillion, mobile services market
• Convergence is always attempted, but a new technology
or class of hardware shifts the consumer marketplace
– Currently the mobile computing market has begun to
stabilize with the Smartphone as the defacto standard
– Outside forces that could change this stabilization are
the iPad, net books, commoditization of monitors and
prototype devices

The Pulse smart pen records and links audio
to what you write, so you never miss a word.

• Transfer your notes and recordings to your
computer to play them back.
• Search for words within your handwritten
notes. Find what you want in seconds.
• Share your notes and audio online for everyone
to see.
• Transform your notes, drawings, and recordings
into Flash movies.
• Automatically convert handwritten notes into
text with available software

http://www.atomiclearning.com/highed/en/google_docs

Meredith College has chosen Atomic Learning as an online
software training resource for faculty, staff and students.
It is our goal to prepare our community of learners and
educators with the 21st century skills needed for today’s world.

Atomic Learning provides training on over 110 of the most commonly used software
applications for Macs & PCs, such as: Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Inspiration,
Firefox, Google, and Audacity.

AL also provides training on subject specific software, for example: SPSS (now PASW)
and TI-84.

You will also find tutorials on a variety of social networking tools/blogs, such as: Twitter,
Netvibes, del.icio.us, Itunes, and flickr.

To begin using Atomic Learning, please follow these steps:
1. Go to: http://www.atomiclearning.com/highed/en/home
2. To access to all of the features please log in using the following format:
Username: email address (ex. smithg@meredith.edu)
Password: mc email username (ex. mcsmithg)
For an overview of the features please go to:
http://www.atomiclearning.com/highed/en/atomicsite

• Since each faculty member and staff member now have a unique login and password (You may
change your password under My Profile & Settings.) you will be able to track your own progress,
once you have assigned tutorials to yourself.

• Faculty will be able to assign tutorials to their students once they have been set-up as a course
administrator and the students have been added to AL (Atomic Learning) by a system
administrator. Presently, to use either the Assign Training or Recommend Training feature, a faculty
member will need to email a request for admin access and their class list to Jennifer Kane
kanejen@meredith.edu or Cheryl Todd toddcher@meredith.edu

Presently, all students still have access to AL using the following generic login:
Username: mstudent Password: angels
Please take advantage of this powerful resource, whether you use Atomic Learning for professional
development, in the classroom, or even for your own personal growth. If you have questions about
using any of the AL features please contact: Jennifer Kane at ext 8199 or Cheryl Todd at ext 8753.

Animoto http://animoto.com/education
Atomic Learning http://atomiclearning.com
Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
E-Books http://barnesandnoble.com/nook/
http://apple.com/ipad/
http://books.google.com
Glogster http://glogster.com
Google http://google.com/intl/en/options/
Jing http://jingproject.com/
Ning http://ning.com
Poll Anywhere http://polleverywhere.com/
Prezi http://prezi.com
Second Life http://secondlife.com
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/ACS/50/50/50
Slideshare http://slideshare.net/
Smart Pen http://livescribe.com/store/
Snagit http://snagit.com
Tablet Software http://dklevine.com/general/software/tc1000/jarnal.htm
Virtualization http://vue.tufts.edu/
http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/
VoiceThread http://voicethread.com/#home
Wii http://nintendo.com/wii
Wynn http://freedomscientific.com/LSG/products/wynn.asp
Zoho http://zoho.com/

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