TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY

Teggin Summers, PhD.

teggin@vt.edu

Outline

• Review of Scholar Gradebook and Assignments• Tools focused on writing

• Brainstorming sites/apps• Google Drive• Blogging• ePortfolios

• Digital storytelling• Flipped learning

Brainstorming

http://en.linoit.com/

Brainstorming & Sharing

Google Drive

Easy way to• share files• peer review• Collaborate on documents

Blogging

• Writing intensive• Can be informal & reflective• Cyclic/iterative• Can promote community, collaboration• Students can work together to build a website• Wordpress can enable aggregated blogs, which also promote community

ePortfolios

• Reflective• Focuses on process• Authentic evidence of learning

• Can include student ownership & engagement

• Can include 21st century skills

Digital Storytelling

• 3 Types• Personal exploration• Inquiry• Research

• Can be highly engaging

• Importance of narrative communication

• Need to plan for time, credit, perhaps options

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxRdi-SUqLk&feature=share&list=PL9wBqkF9hxXmp5rYHXWrEWwDEwzkXU9XS

Flipped Learning• https://www.youtube.c

om/watch?v=4a7NbUIr_iQ&feature=youtu.be

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26pxh_qMppE&feature=youtu.be What would you do with your

class, if you could shift your presentation of content outside of the classroom?

Questions?

Teggin Summers

teggin@vt.edu

231-0982

www.is.vt.edu

innovationspace@vt.edu