Teaching with Mobile Devices

Judith LoganReference Librarian, Robarts Library

Co-Chair Library Mobile Working Group

What works for you

Today’s mantra

Classroom response systems

Backchannel

Presentation delivery

http://bit.ly/15tbJZA

Folder for the class

PRESENTATION DELIVERY

Delivering presentations

Desktop only

Mobile only

Desktop with mobile remot

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SlideShark

Android: http://bit.ly/15tbJZA iOS: open SlideShark

BACKCHANNEL

Definition

“Backchannel communication is a secondary electronic conversation that takes place at the same time as a conference session, lecture, or instructor-led learning activity”

(Educause)

Twitter

• Micro-blogging platform• Follow and be followed• Special features–@messages –#hashtags– Stars– Direct messages (DMs)

Hashtags

• Discoverable

• Contextual

• Expressive

Twitter adoption matrix

In-class backchannel

Outside of class discussion

In-class directed discussion

Uses • Ad hoc class discussions

• Real time commenting

• Recording divergent viewpoints

• Extend class discussion

• Communicate RE: readings or assignments

• Guided questions with student responses collected for later analysis

Benefits

• Engages less vocal students

• Archives ephemera

• Community building

• Continuity b/w class sessions

• Engages all students in discussions in large lecture classes

(Reo & Sample)

You will need

1. Widespread Twitter use2. Means of visualization• Tweetflow• revisit• Tweetwall Pro $$• Visible Tweets• Twitter’s search

Would you consider using a backchannel in your

class? Why or why not?

• Tweet your answer • Hashtag #THE500

Visualize

What do faculty think?

“I was super-nervous because to me, teaching means a lot of talking—giving a lecture or giving a discussion […] I was worried that it would get out of control and either be very much off-topic or nobody would have anything to say.”(Azevedo)

What do students think?

• "I'm not that outspoken in class, so I would never ask a question out loud to the professor.” (Young)

• “I am completely overwhelmed by this concept” (Azevedo)

Beware Tweckling

danah boyd at Web 2.0 Expo

http://youtu.be/tw6eh2-nxaA

CLASSROOM RESPONSE SYSTEMS

Clickers 2.0

Universidad de Navarra on Flicker

Uses

(1)eliciting student feedback, (2)identifying students' preconceptions and

assumptions about course material, (3)facilitating opportunities for small- and

large-group discussions, (4)improving social cohesion in the learning

community, and (5)gathering anonymous data from students

to support conceptual application

(Hoekstra & Mollborn)

http://bit.ly/Za60Tb

Activity instructions

Activity

• Get into groups of four or five.• One group member is the “designated

Tweeter”– Capture the group’s discussions with tweets

throughout the activity.  – #THE500 hashtag

• Evaluate your assigned CRS.• Set up a two or three question poll.• Try to take the poll yourselves, too.• We will take it up as a class.

Classroom Response Systems

• Poll Everywhere• Socrative Teacher• Google Moderator• Class Pager• Top Hat Monocle• eClicker