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Making Concepts Come Alive
Classrooms Don’t Have to be Deadly
or…
We Have A Tough Job
Diverse Students
Diverse Instructors
Diverse Delivery Demands
We need good tools and strategies to help us do our job right!
Student Diversity
Vast range of experience Traditional vs. Adult Hardware vs. Software
Full Spectrum of Learning Styles Auditory, Visual, Kinesthetic, Interactive
Full Range of Needs ESL Physical & learning handicaps
Delivery Diversity
Face to Face Large lecture format Small lecture format 14,10 or 8 week semesters With or without lab
Hybrid or Online Different forms of Internet access
Dial up, Broadband
Instructor Diversity
Full time Instructors to full professor
Adjuncts New or “seasoned”
Different levels of expertise, interests and knowledge base.
Different amounts of start-up and prep time
Dilemma
How, as instructors, do we: Manage the diversity in students? Manage the diversity in delivery
methods?And…
Keep the students interested? Does the “sit down, shut up, listen
and learn” method really work?
What We Are Doing
Sequence and select topics with spin toward student interest
Increase classroom interaction
Inject current events
Use of ART and images
Weave in multimedia
Smarter assessment strategies
Important in any classroom environment
Use the same set of teaching strategies to any student…
Sequence and Select Topics
Sequence and Select topics with a
spin toward student interest:
Home Networking
CD Burner Installation
Mobile Technology
Classroom Interaction
Increase Classroom Interaction Group Projects – Web Quests
Design Your Own Borrow from the Web From the text
Spam spam spam spam
Classroom Interaction
Team Times Gizmo, Inc. from page 147 of Tech in Action
Let the students be the teacher PPT presentations Organizing Key Terms
Current Events
Current events Tech TV Newspapers: in print and online Web Work
You Gotta Have Art!
Lots of ART ready to go From the book and Different from the book
More Art
3D renderings
Multimedia
Multimedia Tech TV Warriors of the . Net Our Own Animations SoundBytes –
Virtual PC Tour (Chapter 2) Installing a Computer Network (Chapter 7) Labs
hands on learning even at home
Smarter Assessment
Assessment Combination of projects –
multi layered, multi-purpose Feather in application skills
PPT projects Word/Excel skills
Automated training/testing to be more efficient in delivery
And all this means….
We are constantly Reinventing Repackaging Redesigning
…With little time
Consider This Scenario… Assigned a Sound Byte as pre-lecture material. Want today’s lecture to build on that and to
provoke discussion. Need to reorganize PPT and find coordinating
animations Need homework assignment Also want class materials shipped off to
supporting BBD site
Ten minutes to lecture!
How to Organize all THAT!?!
Present IT! The “Next Gen” Instructor Resource CD!The “Next Gen” Instructor Resource CD!
Contact Information
Mary Anne Poatsy
Montgomery County Community College340 DeKalb PikeBlue Bell, PA 19422