Minutes from today’s DLAC Support Group Meeting

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Hello, all.

Today we talked mostly about Twitter and Tweetdeck and their potential for shallow-web research and student teacher interactions, but also about the issues of texting in the classroom, and how we can might this activity from a nuisance and distraction into a way of interacting with the class visio-textually, and giving instant feedback in the classroom, be it virtual or physical.

I forgot to mention that we talked also last week about the idea of Netflix’s instant streaming service, and the possibilities of the impact on learning of a $5 a month account on Netflix instead of one or all of your textbooks. Movies and documentaries are a great starting point for deep learning and discussion, and $15 a semester to get access to thousands of original sources is a small price to pay, especially compared to a $100 textbook.

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We had a very fun and informative gathering last Friday, and I’m reminding you about today’s meeting at 3 to 5 p.m..

Last week in our gathering and in other individual DLAC sessions recently, we all talked about:

Discussion boards vs. other kinds of discussions
Getting to a trusting state on discussion boards
Blogging as a teaching and learning vehicle
Using Scribd.com as a document repository
What is MoodleRooms?
What is ShareStream?
What is Wimba?
Pedagogical approaches for these technologies
Student privacy concerns
The Teach Act and Ferpa
Some differences between Blackboard and blogging.
Using YouTube as a seed article for discussion
Embedding YouTube in Blackboard discussions.
What is Twitter?
Using Audacity
Using SlideShare

I hope to see you in future sessions, but keep in mind that next week on Friday, we have off, and so in case you were wondering, we won’t be meeting.

Hope to see you all the following Friday for DLAC tech support group!

John.

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