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Encouraging Educators to Use Blackboard

Published May 15, 2007 Blackboard , Promote , Teacher Leave a Comment

Blackboard

Recently I talked to people at a college where some professors use Blackboard. However, many use it to just store the class readings.

How can we encourage educators to use online classroom management programs? We can let these educators know that

* The program will automatically grade quizzes and tests that are forced answers ones such as multiple choice and True False. (What a great time saver and accuracy saver for an educator!)

* The program will calculate the students’ end of the semester grades based on the graded assignments. (That’s really helpful for the educator at the end of the course.)
* Their students can check on their academic progress throughout the course. (No more students’ “So how am I doing in this course” questions.)

* They can quickly find out who has or has not done a certain assignment. Are certain students repeatedly not doing assignments? (No more that student fell through the cracks.)

* They have a record of online discussions so that they can review their students’ indepth thinking. These online discussions can extend the class thinking about the topic. (Anything that causes students to think outside of class is great!)

.* Their students can store their materials online so that they can always find assignments. (No more student
“The dog ate it.” or “I left it in my room.” stories.)

* They can easily email all students or post an announcement to notify students of changes in the course. (No more student “I did not know we changed rooms for the special presentation.”)

* Their students can have access to all assignments and the syllabus. (No more student “I did not know what the assignment was or when it was due.”)

* They can post website links, movie clips, audio lectures, PowerPoints, photographs, study guides, class readings, examples and other resources for the students. (No more student “I missed the class so I missed that material.”)

* They can provide online space for class small groups to talk and store their material. (No more student “We cannot do anything because Suzie has our notes and she is absent.”)

So what other reason do you give your teachers/professors to use online management programs such as Blackboard?

© Harry Grover Tuttle, 2007

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Promoting Technology-Infused Learning During the Class

Published May 14, 2007 Classroom , PR , Promote , Student , Teacher , technology , technology integration Leave a Comment

Attention

As your students are doing a technology-infused (or technology integration) learning, you can promote it by:

Inviting your colleagues, building department chair, principal, district subject area chair, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and the Superintendent to visit your class during the exciting learning.

Inviting your students’ parents, colleagues, building department chair, principal, district subject area chair, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and the Superintendent to take part in the exciting learning such as mentoring a student during the project.

Videoconferencing part of the class learning so parents and district people can observe it from a distance.

Send out email updates as to what your students are learning and how they are learning it.

Update your webpages/blog frequently to show the complex learning that students are doing through this project.

What other ways do you use to promote technology-infused learning as it is happening in the classroom?

© Harry Grover Tuttle, 2007

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Promoting Technology-Infused Learning Done in the Classroom

Published May 13, 2007 Classroom , Promote , Student , Teacher , technology integration , technology-infused Leave a Comment

Promote Technology-Infused Learning

Once students do a technology-infused learning experience, we want to promote it. Here are some ways:

* Have the teacher do a 1-2 minute presentation at a department meeting and the faculty meeting.

* Put up pictures, posters, or movies in the school lobby or cafeteria.

* Have a short write up for the district, school, or class newsletter.

* Put up information on the district, school or class website. You can include more photos showing the students’ learning.

* Publish the URL for the class blog, wiki or podcast site.

* Prepare CDs or DVDs of the students’ work for them to take home.

* Send information to the district curriculum person and/or superintendent.

What do you do to celebrate the success of technology-infused learning?

© Harry Grover Tuttle, 2007

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Getting Teachers Interested in Technology

Published May 12, 2007 Interest , Promote , Teacher , technology , technology integration 1 Comment

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How do you get teachers interested in technology? Here are some ideas:

Have a Tea or Pizza party after school in which you very briefly showcase classroom examples of the technology

Put a flyer in their mailbox in which you tell of 1-2 classroom examples of how each technology can be used.

Distribute very short articles (1-2 pages) on a specific technology being used in a classroom.

Have a DVD running in the Teachers’ Room in which you show classroom examples of the various technologies.

Have a “We can do it in 20” mini-workshop on examples and the five most critical commands of any technology/program.

Have a technology party where if teachers attend at least five different four minute presentations their names are entered to win a flashdrive or an ipod drawing.

Present some stunning subject area technology examples at a faculty meeting or department meeting.

Have a Technology Club for students who will help their teachers. It is hard to resist a fourth grader who keeps on asking “When can I teach you learn PowerPoint?”

Use the “Keeping up with the Jones” factor such as “This is how another department is improving student learning through this technology” or “Here’s a (rival) school’s website where their teachers use this technology as a learning strategy.”

So what other strategies do you have?

© Harry Grover Tuttle, 2007

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