Pedagogy and Technology Integration
- American History II Revisited: A Two-Year Retrospective
- Andragogy and Technology: Integrating Adult Learning Theory As We Teach With Technology
- Catering to Students Taking an Online Course for the First Time
- Using the Web to Enhance Mathematical Instruction
- Preparing Mississippi's Future Teachers To Use Technology
- Webagogy- The Melding of Technology with Basic Teaching and Learning
- Creating a Low Cost But Dynamic Telecourse
- New Classroom Technologies and the Busy Humanities Teacher
American
History II Revisited: A Two-year Retrospective
Monday, 9:50 - 10:50 a.m.
KUC 305
Two
years ago, professors Easley and Hoffman from Southeast Missouri State
University reinvented the American History II survey to include a
significant technology component for the course.
They created PowerPoint-enhanced lectures and put all course
materials on the Web. They
also had students create their own Web pages.
Based on student data collected from end-of-the-semester course
evaluations and former students, Easley and Hoffman offer insights into
the advantages and disadvantages of integrating technology into the
teaching of American History.
Larry Easley and Steven
Hoffman
Southeast Missouri State University
Andragogy
and Technology: Integrating Adult Learning Theory as We Teach with
Technology
Monday, 9:50 - 10:50 a.m.
KUC 318
Introducing technology into the curriculum means more than just
"making it work." This
presentation will deal with the faculty need to focus on the use of the
adult learning theory to make instructional technology more effective.
Emphasizing Malcolm Knowles' theory of andragogy, it will examine
how to structure technology-based lessons and review what issues to
consider if we are to offer learners in higher education a more relevant
learning environment.
Delores Fidishun
Penn State Great Valley
School of Graduate Professional Studies
Catering
to Students Taking an Online Course for the First Time
Monday, 11:00 a.m. - Noon
KUC 318
Students
come into online courses with different technological competencies,
learning styles, communication skills, motivations, and attitudes.
There are 10 techniques instructors can implement to help students
taking an online course for the first time become successful online
learners. These techniques
include identifying students' computer performance levels before
enrollment, continually assessing students' skills and attitudes, varying
instructional components, providing technical support, creating a
departmental gateway Web site, holding first class meetings. Included are recruiting graduate assistants' help, offering
course content in multiple formats, relying on the flexibility of multiple
communication avenues, and making phone calls and mailing handouts.
Instructors who implement these techniques can help students
overcome technological problems, improve their communication skills, and
become comfortable with online learning.
Allison Shelton
and Randal Pierce
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Using
the Web to Enhance Mathematical Instruction
Monday, 1:15 - 2:15 p.m.
KUC 318
Mathematics
instruction should prepare students to function in a world that is
technology driven. The
effective use of Web sites can facilitate students' understanding of
mathematical concepts and promote independent learning.
The presenters of this session have developed assignments and
lesson plans to incorporate the use of Web sites in the mathematics
classroom. Outside the
classroom, Web sites can provide unlimited tutoring assistance for
students needing additional help with difficult topics.
A demonstration on how the use of Web sites proved an effective
plan for studying and mastering mathematics will be included.
Marva S. Lucas and Nancy J.
Brien
Middle Tennessee State University
Preparing
Mississippi's Future Teachers to Use Technology (Panel Discussion)
Monday, 1:15 - 2:15 p.m.
KUC 322
Recently,
a plan was developed at the University of Southern Mississippi to assure
that professional education faculty can model the use of teaching and
technology. This session will
summarize technology standards for teacher education and identify
performance outcomes that correlate with those standards.
It will outline processes and plans for acting on and even setting
technology standards for teacher education.
The session will share the comments and recommendation from the
deliberations of the ad hoc technology committee, the outline of the plan,
and a current report on the progress of the work.
Eric F. Luce, Susan C. Malone,
and Edward C. Mann
The University of Southern Mississippi
Webagogy
- the Melding of Technology with Basic Teaching and Learning
Monday, 4:15 - 4:45 p.m.
KUC 318
In
a race to extend their markets, many institutions are placing instruction
on the Web that can best be described as correspondence courses by
technology. This presentation
looks at the development of effective instruction from the standpoint of
delivery over the Web. It
debunks the myth that you can simply take existing instruction and move it
to the Web without significant revision.
Topics covered are basic instructional design principles, creating
an interactive learning environment, addressing multiple learning styles,
Web site accessibility, and designing navigation systems.
It will also look at the necessity for making Web-based instruction
active and collaborative and the tools that are available.
Jim Formosa
Nashville State Tech and The Tennessee Board of Regents
Creating
a Low Cost but Dynamic Telecourse
Tuesday, 9:50 - 10:50 a.m.
KUC 318
With
few exceptions, telecourses tend to be either very expensively produced or
not very dynamic. The author
of this presentation recently finished producing Middle Tennessee State
University's first telecourse. With
a zero budget, he was able to produce a dynamic telecourse that has been
well received by students and peers.
In this presentation, the author will discuss how he accomplished
this and show examples from the telecourse.
Charles H. Frost
Middle Tennessee State University
New
Classroom Technologies and the Busy Humanities Teacher
Tuesday, 11:00 a.m. - Noon
KUC 318
Is
there anything that the new technologies can do for the busy teacher in
the literature classroom? As
a teacher of English literature and coordinator of the Faculty Multimedia
Center at University of Tennessee, Martin, the presenter of this session
sees humanities courses, and especially literature courses, with their
absolute emphasis on the text, which is one of the most severe challenges
for multimedia technology. This
presentation will demonstrate certain advantages to using new multimedia
technologies for classroom teaching such things as Keat's "Ode on a
Grecian Urn"; Blake's Songs of
Innocence and of Experience; prosody & scansion in poetry; and
drama (specifically Hamlet).
Glenn Everett
University of Tennessee,
Martin