Quick Hits for Teaching with Technology: Successful Strategies by Award-Winning Teachers

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Foreword
Welcome to Quick Hits for Teaching With Technology
Introduction Student Success is Our Mission
1 Promoting Engagement
    Promoting engagement in an online course: It can be done, but wisely!
    Introductory poem for online course
    Using e-Rewards to promote engagement and re-engagement in the online classroom
    YouTube reviews
    Promoting online courses’ student engagement and group cohesion through the use of chat-rooms
    Using team-based learning to engage students in online courses
    That’s why they call it YOU-Tube
    “Reading in Context” for networked engagement with course readings
    Scavenger hunt
    Just-in-Time Teaching: Using the web to engage students in the classroom
    The simple visual mapping tool for thinking aloud
    Combining learning communities with electronic self and peer assessments to increase student engagement in discussion-based courses
    A source for lecture launchers: Mining public media for accessible illustrations
    “Hearing Every Voice:” Promoting engagement through electronic discussion
    Creating with intentionality: Using a personal multimedia narrative to emphasize writing process
    Designing authentic cross-class collaboration by focusing on activity
    Using a business strategy simulation
    Engaging students through a virtual child simulation
    Social engagement
    Building a sense of community in an online environment: Student autobiographical videos
    Online art galleries and clinical stories
2 Providing Access
    To podcast or not to podcast
    Some assembly required: Teaching online with good instructions
    The Open Source Physics Project on ComPADRE
    Use of Team Viewer software to assist students
    Utilizing existing gigapixel panoramas for virtual fieldtrips
    Service-Learning at the Seal Indiana Mobile Program
    Developing medical education teaching applications for mobile devices
    Making technology-enhanced classroom presentations accessible to students with sensory impairments
    Blogging in the classroom
    Virtual Microscopy as a Real and Effective Tool for Teaching Histology
    “It’s a small world after all:” Using technology to internationalize curriculum
    The inverted hybrid science classroom
    The Physlet Project
    Podcast technology self-directed lecturing for fluoride toxicity
    Using web-based videoconferencing to extend the F2F experience to distance learners
    University/school partnership: Using technology to collaborate with middle school writers and create more informed teachers of writing
    Doppelgänger Professor: High-touch delivery to low-density populations
3 Enhancing Evaluation
    Google-Doc surveys for teaching Hispanic culture
    A class wiki for the physical sciences
    Using multiple-response clicker questions to identify student misunderstanding
    Grading discussion forums in the online environment
    Sometimes less is more
    Using Prezi to produce creative critical thinking assessments
    Information literacy: Building critical skills for learning and communicating about research on the web
    Enhancing teaching and learning through technology
    “Guest Cam” in the classroom — Making speeches real
    Using personal response devices (clickers) in humanities classes
    Let students design the test
    Personal sales pitch: Video assignment
    Using discussion forums as a learning tool
    Using clickers to promote participation
    Technology-mediated feedback
    WebQuests: A gateway activity for online teaching and learning
    Use of SoftChalk Software to create interactive content
4 Becoming More Efficient
    Juvenile Justice Wiki Project – Constructivism through technology
    Mitigating the workload and increasing student satisfaction with online discussion threads
    Techiquette: The etiquette of technology
    Prezi and the decoding of history
    Images for education—Crime free!
    Chats: A mess or a must?
    Using audience response systems for classroom post-test reviews
    Fostering e-learning discourse among professional networking groups
    Blogging to promote robust class preparation
    Spreadsheet modeling optimization problems
    Using podcasts for added instructional effectiveness
    Implementation of and feedback on the use of a web-based homework management system
    Group work online
    Teaching professional communication through email
    Coupling visual metaphors with discussion forums to enhance reflection and inquiry
    Using technology to improve empirically based clinical practice
    Embedded feedback in video recorded student assignments
    Using cartoons or short movies to engage students
Annotated Bibliography
Contributors
Index