Teach with Tech

Some things you’d expect, others that were new in the same way a used car is new to you when you buy it. I mean that in a good way.

Here are three; click through to read the rest!

1) Poll Everywhere or Text The Mob I use Poll Everywhere to capture the thoughts and ideas of every student.

2) Flickr Flickr is a great way to quickly and easily create slideshows. This is fun to do with a new class. In an instant you can created a class slideshow by asking everyone to take their picture and place their name in the subject and something they want the class to know about them in the body, then email it to Flickr. Here’s what that looks like http://www.flickr.com/photos/theinnovativeeducator/tags/cells4ed/show

Very few educators have thus far used Wikipedia as a teaching tool in their classrooms, but this is beginning to change due to the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative. The Wikimedia Foundation launched the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative in fall 2010 in order to find new ways to incorporate Wikipedia into higher education environments. In the fall 2010 semester, 13 classes from 10 universities participated by developing various assignments that incorporated Wikipedia editing as a main component, with many more signing up for the second iteration in spring 2011.

In these classes, professors and trained ambassadors worked together to develop assignments that achieved the learning goals of the professor while contributing to the development of new content on the free encyclopedia. Though the first classes to receive ambassadors focus on developing mainly public policy–oriented pages, one of the program’s end goals is to develop a model that can be expanded to other disciplines.