Panel presentation at ALSB Conference in Seattle 2014

1. So You Wanna Use Technology
. . . we can help
Ida M. Jones
Denise Farag
Lori K. Harris-Ransome

2. 21st Century Literacies
Literacies
• Attention
• Participation
• Collaboration
• Network awareness
• Critical consumption
Attention, and Other 21st-Century Social
Media Literacies by Howard Rheingold,
available at
http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/at
tention-and-other-21st-century-social-
media-literacies
Article

3. THE BACKCHANNEL
Twitter and TodaysMeet
What the F@#!@
is a
Backchannel?

4. Twitter v. Today’s Meet
Twitter
• Easy to create account
• 140-character limit per
posting (can use programs
for longer postings)
• Designed for public access
• Can link pictures, videos
• Cannot moderate content
Today’s Meet
• No account required/access
by room name/number
• 140-character limit per
posting
• Designed for limited
interaction or could be public
• Very simple interface
• Can moderate content
How could YOU use
a backchannel?

5. THE BACKCHANNEL
Twitter and TodaysMeet

6. Twitter Home Page

7. Twitter Account Page

8. THE BACKCHANNEL
Twitter and TodaysMeet

9. TodaysMeet-Simple
Creation

10. TodaysMeet-Join

11. TodaysMeet:
How to Chat

12. USING TWITTER IN THE
CLASSROOM

13. My Tweeting Class
• Sports Marketing Law class
• Required for Sports Marketing majors
• 18 students
• Most hadn’t used much technology in their
marketing classes previously
• Survey: 50% created a Twitter account for the first
time in this class

14. Twitter Assignments
• Student Assignments:
– Take notes and ask questions during class
– 5 minute presentation which was a group
summary of weekly tweets
– Tweet outside class
• My Goal: More involvement with and knowledge of
Course Content
– Reading
– Reflection
– Current Events

15. Group Summary
Weekly summary; 5 minute
presentation
– Immediate feedback
– Reinforcement of learning
– Discussion of current events

16. BA179-First Exams
• Number of As higher pre-Twitter
• Number of Bs higher Twitter first use
• Number of Cs same sp 2011 & 2013 (pre and post Twitter)
• Number of Ds remained the same
• Fs higher 2nd Twitter usage

17. BA179-Course Grades
• A Course Grades equivalent
• B course grades lower Sp 2014
• C course grades much higher post-Twitter
• D course grades same
• F course grades higher pre-Twitter

18. GATHERING AROUND THE FIRE:
NEARPOD
PowerPoint on Steroids?

19. Nearpod Homepage
Nearpod.com

20. Example of Nearpod Interface

21. The Upsides: Useful in the
Classroom
• Easy to use: provide meeting number & students
join
• Students must follow along
• Can be used on any device
• Majority of students (80+%) liked it better than
PowerPoint
• Can conduct polls, show poll results to the class

22. The Upsides: Evidence/Data
• Analytics
• Who logged on
• Who participated in
polls and poll results
• Results can be
downloaded as a report

23. The Upsides: Additional Info
• Free for basic accounts; limited number of users
• Free to students even if you upgrade
• Can be designed as homework, with polls
• Easy to learn

24. The Downsides
• Students must follow along
• Cannot download presentation from Nearpod;
must create PDF or PowerPoint first
• Moderately difficult to design depending on your
current presentation methods
• Requires good wireless connectivity
• Students cannot work on group projects from
within the program-that must be done outside
the program

25. 21st Century Literacies
Literacies
• Attention
• Participation
• Collaboration
• Network awareness
• Critical consumption
Attention, and Other 21st-Century Social
Media Literacies by Howard Rheingold,
available at
http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/at
tention-and-other-21st-century-social-
media-literacies
Article

26. Questions