Expanding Class Time and Shrinking Classrooms: Technopedagogy

Expanding Class Time and Shrinking Classrooms: Technopedagogy
Virgil Renfroe and Ruth Omunda

This presentation discussed including audio files, narrated powerpoint, and podcasting with a traditional CMS.

  • Design groups that meet outside of class an hour a week
  • match top tier with bottom tier students
  • one of rotating responsibilities: weekly summarizer who says the main conclusion, involvement, etc.
  • assessment
  • Summative assessment: specific grades
  • Formative assessment: credit for doing what you’ve asked them to do, skim materials but not really reading every detail
  • to save time…
  • Create a bank of lectures; listen to this 5 min lecture before the next class
  • digital equity: once you have it, you have it forever
  • multimedia
  • He uses innerTOOB for lecture, students can add questions to the lecture
  • Crowdabout is like this but with video

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