The Brothers Karamazov Site Rewrite

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Course: WRIT003 – Composition & Research II

Site Link: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~karamazov/resources/

Overview: For this project we recreated the functionality provided in the Brothers Karamazov MOO and static website created for student exploration of the novel into an interactive blog. “Quick Chat” and “Digress.it” were used to replace the MOO functionality and Wiki tool and comment enabled blog pages replaced the old HTML4 table driven webpages. The WP Accessibility Access Keys plugin is used to make the site more accessible.

Tools: Snagit, WordPress, Audacity, Photoshop, Dreamweaver

Plugins: Custom Contact Forms, Digress.it, Quick Chat, Wiki, Accessibility Access Keys

Faculty: Karen Gocsik

Instructional Designer: JoAnn Gonzalez-Major

Other Support Services: Web Services

Project: Oral History Wiki

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Overview: The course focuses on the experiences of Latino-Mexican, Central American, Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican – transnational migrants living in the United States.  The main applied assessment instrument in the course is the creation of an oral history project.  While the students really enjoy the project, the instructor has a personal interest in also making the knowledge available for a wider public.

The Educational Technology Group worked with the faculty member to convert the traditional paper submissions for the oral history projects into a technology rich online activity. Each student was provided with a private wiki within the learning management system to develop his or her stories. Once the stories were finalized the student sites were made available to the rest of the class for review and comment. The students also used the wiki to present their project experience to the class at the end of the term.

The student wikis will be exported from the learning management system and posted to a departmental resource site that will be made available to the public.

  • Course: LATS 44/ANT 33 – Crossing Over: Latin Migrant Roots and Transitions
  • Tools: Blackboard, Learning Objects Wiki tool, Adobe Acrobat, Movie Maker, Audacity
  • Assessment Method: Individual student Wikis graded with a comprehensive rubric
  • Faculty: Lourdes Gutierrez Najera
  • Instructional Designer: JoAnn Gonzalez-Major
  • Other Support Resources: Jones Media Center

Recommended iPad Apps for a New User

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The following are a listing of iPad applications that was compiled in October 2010. The list is not exhaustive but provides a nice starting place for exploring possibilities.

Visit the Teaching with iPad/iPod research guide for more up to date resources, or visit the App in Education site for a listing of iPad applications by discipline.

eReaders and Texts

Media Sites

News

Sports

Social Networking

Shopping

SciTech & Information

Food

Utility

Fun

Student Syllabus Rewrite & Workshop Wiki

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Course:  WGST007 – Gender and Genius

Overview: During the course students are required to complete two wiki assignments. The first assignment is intended as a “scaffolding” assignment and isn’t graded, the second assignment is a group-based activity completed towards the end of the term. The following provides an overview of the assignments.


  • Syllabus Wiki – Instructor provided students with a pdf of the course syllabus draft sprinkled with some slightly obscure vocabulary (eg “generative”) in the assignments.  As a group the students were required to transform the text into a format appropriate for the online environment: use appropriate images, motion, sound, hyperlinks, color and text, within a design that fosters generative processing. The class will used the wiki throughout the term – discussing areas of improvement, how as a class it should be evaluated (in terms of content, coherence, creativity, design and group process).

  • Workshop Wiki – Towards the end of the term students were divided into wikigroups based on research interests for individual final projects. Each group built a Workshop wiki that communicates the central questions and ideas of its members’ research projects in a way that fosters generative processing.

Tools: Blackboard, Learning Objects Wiki Tool, Word, Snagit

Faculty: Renee Bergland

Instructional Designer: JoAnn Gonzalez-Major

Teaching from Abroad using Voice-over in PowerPoint

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Instructor: Rich Kremer, History

Project: Quick Start Program

I propose to create voice-over PowerPoint lectures to supply two lectures while traveling abroad in Spring 2009. These presentations will be placed in Blackboard, with discussion board used for questions and feedback to ensure that students view the lectures when scheduled on the course syllabus. Other uses of the tool for teaching will be explored.

The project will include written feedback on process of creating the voice over lectures and utilizing this methodology for teaching. I propose to ask students in the Blackboard discussion Board (or survey tool) what they think about the voice-over lectures.