Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
Please have a handout with snapshots and information on the use of Respondus to publish your MS Word quizzes
http://web.stcloudstate.edu/informedia/d2l/respondus/publish_respondus.html
Please let us know if there are questions and/or issues
social media on mobile devices (Twitter and Facebook) to accommodate and enhance learning – and audio and video applications to enhance your presentations and projects.
– What is social media
– What are mobile devices
– Why social media on mobile devices?
– How they intersect in learning and teaching
Hands-on
– Describe your mobile device and determine its OS
what is OS and what kinds there are. Why is it important
– What social media applications are you familiar with
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/hr2012.pdf
http://vergepipemedia.com/blog/using-social-media-for-higher-education/
http://ctlt.jhsph.edu/blog/post.cfm/social-media-in-higher-education-mobile-devices
Branding messages do three things: 1) create awareness, 2) try to convince consumers that a product or service is a solution to their problem, and 3) create a feeling of familiarity and relationship with the consumer, commonly known as “brand affinity.” That’s why most SMB TV commercials show the owner, staff, and premises onscreen or are narrated by the owner. Twenty years ago, advertising provided the same kind of social edge that good social media reviews do today. A typical broadcast media pitch to an advertiser would suggest that commercial messaging was subliminally greeted by consumers as if it was a referral from friends. (My first job was selling radio time, and frankly this pitch was well-enough accepted to justify repetitive spot buys.)
Instead of commercials, develop a content marketing strategy that reinforces the brand message without being pushy. Get customers and allies to define their brands for and with them via social media, and supplement call to action media buys with online loyalty and deals programs that drive immediate business.
MnSCU technicians are working on the D2L issue of Dropbox not displaying correctly in Google Chrome. After opening a file (student’s paper) in Dropbox and visiting D2L’ s Dropbox again later, the opened file is still in bold (as if not being opened). According to the discussion, it happens to .RTF (Rich Text Format) and .works (Microsoft Works) files but not to Microsoft Word (.doc and .docx) files.
Please open D2L in Internet Explorer, if possible…
Are you using Twitter in your course?
Did you know that D2L has a widget, which allows you to loop the last tweets?
Please let us know, if you would like to learn how to do it
What are Lockers:
The Locker is an electronic storage area for you to store your files. You can upload and download files from any computer and use them in D2L or transfer them from one computer to another. Only the owner of the Locker can view its contents unless the owner decides to mark something as public. If something is public than anyone that is in a D2L Course Site the owner is also in can see this file.
https://mnsite.ims.mnscu.edu/shared/_instructor_and_coursedesigner_help/learningenvironment/locker/about_locker.htm
What is Dropbox: https://mnsite.ims.mnscu.edu/shared/_instructor_and_coursedesigner_help/learningenvironment/dropbox/about_dropbox.htm http://web.mnstate.edu/instrtech/scmodules/d2l/students/dropbox/dropbox_print.htmlThe Dropbox provides a convenient way for students to electronically submit individual and group assignments and is a great way to have a paperless or nearly paperless course. You can provide feedback, assign grades, and return submissions with track changes all from a single location.
Overlap: students can submit assignments in their lockers and mark them public and instructor can set up a group dropbox, where students can see each other assignments.
Dropbox is much more “potent” tool to handle assignments (one can leave feedback, connect with “grading” etc.)
Both lockers and dropbox are used in a close conjunction with “Groups,” which will be discussed in our next TechEd Soiree
The new, 10th edition of “instructional Technology and Media for Learning” by Smaldino et al is out. on p. 191 there is a good layout of the basics for design as discuss during the design session of January 22, 2013. Link to the handouts of that session here: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2013/01/22/basics-of-design/
This is the link to a scanned copy of the pages related to visual design: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/informedia/design/visual_design_smaldino.pdf
Very short video of Bryan Alexander, senior fellow at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education, discussing the issues and opportunities facing mobile technology, badges, flipped classrooms, and learning analytics:
what kind of clickers are you using?
what kind of clickers are you familiar with?
what qualities in clickers do you find useful, necessary, obligatory for your course[s]?
At the moment SCSU is still considering eInstruction http://www.einstruction.com/ as its default clicker system (clickers sold in the Bookstore)
However, faculty on campus are slowly adopting other systems:
– http://iresponseapp.com/features/
– http://www.turningtechnologies.com
– https://www.tophatmonocle.com/
– http://www.polleverywhere.com/
while each of these systems appeal differenetly to different faculty from different disciplines, having a standard, campus-wide clicker system has also strong advantages.
Web editing and design _dreamweaver
Basics
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/adobe-cs5-dreamweaver-html-basics.html
Why Dreamweaver:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dw_wordpress_pt1.html
(and not MS Word, WordPress, Weebly)
Basic Web development
Web design
http://webdesign.about.com/od/webdesignbasics/u/webdesignbasics.htm
please contribute with your favorite and/or most helpful source to work with Dreamweaver; web development and design.
Please share with us an application, which, in your opinion can successfully substitute Dreamweaver (e.g., WordPress, Weebly, etc.) for learning and teaching purposes.
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