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- Working with grad student seminar on "collective journaling" in Sakai wiki
- Wiki as a way for students to teach and learn from one another without our having to monitor it.
- Develop comprehensive wikis full of useful information by continuing them from one quarter to the next, having students build on the previous class.
- Nutrition and Aging course: students collectively write the history of caloric ______. Point them in the right direction, make sure they are hitting the high points, and then turn it over to the second group, who will continue the history.
Breeze
- Virtual office hours.
- Virtual meetings between TAs and Instructors
- Lesson/Lecture Models that can be shared/re-used
- An attempt at 170 VetMed students online at the same time during class was held. As of 3/17 bandwidth issues still persist. Another attempt with 1/2 wireless connections and 2/3 wireless connections will be attempted soon. Hardware upgrades will be assessed.
Pedagogy
- Encourage academic excellence by encouraging departments and instructors to embrace a new and revolutionary technology each year.
- Converting course functions (a.k.a grading papers) to the computer can save time and prevent the waste of paper.
- Embracing technology in the classroom effectively "Ups Your Cool Factor"
- Instead of teaching taking a distinctive path from left to right, online collaboration allows for a web or netting structure that is far more inclusive. This change in the way things are done promotes progress in academia.
- There are technological complications in the classroom with the current system. By joining in on this system at the start, you'll have a say as to how the backbone will work.
- It's a lot easier to get up to date with technology when you start at the very beginning of a technological movement. Even if you can't do everything you want to do with the new system as it exists today, becoming accustomed to it will allow you to acclimatize to the desired tools when they roll out.
- When many students come to your class with different backgrounds, you can use Sakai tools (modules/lessons/wiki/discussion board/breeze) to assign the appropriate tutorials to the appropriate students, thus bringing everyone up to the same level of expertise.