This slideshow describes how a teacher can use the Internet and it's various services such as blogs, podcasts, screencasts to enable better teaching and learning.

1. Internet And New Media For
Teaching
Parag Shah
Freeman Murray

2. Agenda
● Learning... before and now
● The shift
● The problem and some solutions
● How the Internet can help us
● Summary

4. Why The Shift?
● Half life of knowledge is 18 months
– Students will have to deal with totally new knowledge
when they start work
– Teachers have a hard time keeping up with new
advancements in their fields
● People play multiple roles in their career
● Information is available in abundance on the net
● The Internet has made learning interactions
possible

5. How Do We Adapt To The Shift ?
● Free Teachers Time So They Can Update
Themselves
● Teach Students How To Learn
● Help Create A Culture Of Participatory Networked
Learning
● Create a Learning Trail

6. Perhaps The Internet Can Help Us
● The Internet is responsible for this mess... It is
right that it gets us out of it as well...
– The Internet is an ever adapting source of information
– The Internet is the world's water cooler
● Synchronous and asynchronous
– The Internet is a hosting platform
● Information
● Applications

7. Books And The Net
● Books are good but they do not get published as
fast as they should be
● We cannot talk to books
● We cannot change a book after it has been
published
● Books have a high carbon footprint
● We still need books... but we also need the net

8. Internet Tools
● Blogs
● Podcasts
● Twitter
● Delicious
● Wiki
● Online course management

9. Blogs
quot;A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A
collaborative space. A political soapbox. A
breaking-news outlet. A collection of links.
Your own private thoughts. Memos to the
world.quot;
-- Blogger.com
IT IS REALLY WHAT YOU WANT IT TO BE

10. Blogging For Teachers And
Students
● It is a micro publishing platform
– It is your own personal academic journal
● It is a network
– Connect with your peers
● It is your learning trail
● A space where teachers and students participate
and collaborate in th process of learning

13. Some Actionable Items
● Start reading blogs
– Subscribe to blogs in Google Reader
● Participate in the conversation
● Write your own blog
– Free hosting / self hosting
– Maintain the schedule

14. Podcasts
A podcast is a series of digital media files, usually
digital, audio, or video, that is made available for
download via web syndication.
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast

15. How Can We Use Podcasts ?
● Listen to podcasts to keep updated
– Good use of time
● Make some course content (especially
fundamental principles) available as podcasts
● Student can convert their presentations into
podcasts to create a learning trail

17. Some Actionable Items
● Search the Internet for interesting podcasts
● Subscribe to them in iTunes
● Listen to them on the comuter or on the go
● Record parts of course content and publish it as
podcasts
● Search for audio resources that could offer
extended learning to the students

18. Screencasting
● Screencasting is recording your screen with an
intention to show “how to do something”
● Succeeds where words can fail
● Excellent tool for education

19. Screencasting
● Screencasting is recording your screen with an
intention to show “how to do something”
● Succeeds where words can fail
● Excellent tool for education

21. Some actionable items
● Search relevant screencasts and use them in course
work as supplementary artifacts
● Create screencasts wherever relevant
● Ask students to create screencasts instead of
presentations wherever relevant

22. Twitter
● Microblogging platform
● Good for quick conversations, sharing links
● A teacher actually asked students to twit while
they were in his class

25. Some Actionable Items
● Create a Twitter account
● Send out twits about what you learn, what's
important to you, links, ...
● Join the conversations
● Good way to tap into the thoughts of some very
brilliant thinkers

26. Delicious
● Delicious is social bookmarking
● Maintain your bookmarks on the net
● Share your bookmarks with students and peers

27. Wiki
● Blogs, podcasts, videos, links
● Notes, FAQs
● Best practices
● A wiki brings them together

29. Some Actionable Items
● Create a course wiki
● Add content
– Dates
– Relevant material
– Notes
– FAQ's
– Setup instructions
– Assignments

30. Course Management System vs.
Wiki
● This is an open topic
● There are pros and cons
● Online course management
– Secure
– Good for accepting assignments and publishing grades
● Wiki
– Open
– Accessible to alumni and others
● Maybe we can use both

31. Course Management System vs.
Wiki
● This is an open topic
● There are pros and cons
● Online course management
– Secure
– Good for accepting assignments and publishing grades
● Wiki
– Open
– Accessible to alumni and others
● Maybe we can use both

32. Summary
● The Internet is a global classroom
● New media can be used to
– Share
– Stay informed and connected
● Teachers and students participate in creating a
culture of teaching and learning