Hangout! Using Twitter & Facebook to Improve Critical Thinking in an Online Graduate Nursing Class

Hangout On Air!

Using Twitter & Facebook to Improve Critical Thinking
in an Online Graduate Nursing Class

Wednesday, July 10th

9am-9:30am PST/ 11-11:30am CST

no registration required
View Live at: http://facultyecommons.org/learn-with-michelle-hangouts-on-air/
Tweet questions during the Hangout with hashtag #learnwmpb

In this Hangout on Air, I will interview Dr. Sabita Persaud, of the Notre Dame of Maryland University School of Nursing who will discuss how and why she facilitated a 7-week nursing case study by dawning a fictitious patient identity.

Throughout the online course, students followed and responded to Facebook updates and Tweets from the patient, “Cee Veeay,” who shared evolvingly complex symptoms and reached out for advice through social media exchanges.  Students actively engaged in lengthy discussions with “Ms. Veeay,” offering her advice about her symptoms, leading to greater student engagement, critical thinking, and increasing the relevancy of their learning experience. These interactions prepared students for their exams. Dr. Persaud will also share how this teaching approach refreshed her own engagement as a college instructor!

I am so excited to speak with Dr. Persaud about this inventive teaching approach and I hope you will listen in and ask questions via the Twitter backchannel! 

Archive of Dropbox: Freedom from Flashdrives

Here is the link to the archive of last week's Learn with Michelle webinar: Dropbox -- Freedom from Flashdrives!

In this 30-minute “Learn with Michelle” webinar, you will learn:

• How to get started with Dropbox, a free, cloud-based storage service
• How to save a file to Dropbox, access it from any device, and share it with a link
• How to create shared folders and restore previous versions of files
• How to use the Dropbox mobile app (webinar includes a live demo of the iPad app)

Click here to go to the archive page:
http://facultyecommons.org/learn-with-michelle-webinar-freedom-from-flash-drives-with-dropbox/

Dropbox: Freedom from flashdrives (free webinar)

Friday, June 21

9:00-9:30am PST/ 11:00-11:30am CST

Advanced Registration Required: http://facultyecommons.org/event/dropbox/ 

After you register, you will receive the webinar link via email 24-hours prior to the event.

Increase your teaching efficiency for the Fall term! When you teach your classes you may often find yourself logging in from more than one device and wanting access to files that are not always available to you.  Flash drives used to be a solution to this challenge. Today, Dropbox offers a free (and premium), cloud-based solution for managing your content from any device with an internet connection.  You can also share anything in your Dropbox folder with anyone quickly and easily with a simple link or set up folders and share their contents with groups of users to foster collaboration at a distance.

This webinar will:

1. Provide an overview of how to use Dropbox to access and share content from any device with an internet connection.
2. Encourage existing Dropbox users to share additional experiences, tips, and strategies.

 More support for your online teaching needs from the Faculty eCommons:

• Get more info about the "Learn with Michelle" series.
• Sign up for the Faculty eCommons Newsletter to receive updates about future events.
• View archives of past events.

Archive: Animoto for Creating Engaging Videos!

Last week's free "Learn with Michelle" webinar, Animoto for Creating Engaging Videos, was fun and energetic! Thanks to all who participated. A special thanks to +Michael Kieley for the great ideas he contributed during the webinar and the fabulous course promotion video he added to the "bag" and to +Ludmila Smirnova for also sharing a link to her course promo video in the webinar resource "bag." 

The full archive (video, "bag" of resources, and slides) is now available here:

Animoto for Creating Engaging Videos
http://facultyecommons.org/learn-with-michelle-webinar-animoto-for-creating-engaging-videos/
Share your great teaching ideas in the Google+ Learn with Michelle Community.  
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101282894995851206911

Archive: Twitter for Increasing Student-Student Interactions

The 30-minute video archive, "bag" of resources, and presentation slides from my Learn with Michelle webinar, Twitter for Increasing Student-Student Interactions are available at:

http://facultyecommons.org/twitter-for-increasing-student-to-student-interactions/

By the end of this webinar, you will be able to:

• Consider an online learning case study suggesting the efficacy of Twitter in improving student-student interactions.
• Identify how and why hashtags are helpful when teaching with Twitter.
• Identify suggested guidelines for integrating Twitter in online courses.
• Evaluate a collection of useful tools for teaching with Twitter.

Learn with me! Twitter for Increasing Student-Student Interactions

Ready to learn more about what Twitter is or how it can be used to improve your students' social presence in your online class?  Join me for a free 30-minute webinar this Friday, June 7th at 9am Pacific/11am Central/12pm Eastern.

Increasing student-student interaction in an online class makes learning more social, interactive, and relevant.  While there are many ways to foster interaction within a learning management system, today’s social media tools provide new ways to engage students from anywhere at any time with mobile devices.  This 30-minute webinar will examine how social media opens new opportunities for reflection and inquiry and present options to get started with using Twitter in your class to increase participation.

Click here to register!

Yes, it will be archived and viewable on the Faculty eCommons.

http://facultyecommons.org/professional-development-registration-form

To receive news of future Learn with Michelle events, follow the Faculty eCommons on Twitter @APCommons or sign up for the newsletter at www.facultyecommons.org.

Can Gameful Learning with Social Media Change the World?

Can Gameful Learning with Social Media Change the World?

Today, May 21 at 11:30am Pacific/2:30pm Eastern!

https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/chu0boai9td61aiv7mib0ujkiag?authkey=CI_i-_SC2Mr8ggE

Once upon a time, making change in the world was a lofty goal that, to a student, seemed achievable only to those with great power.  Today, anyone can use social media to sculpt their own network of influencers -- friends, celebrities, politicians, thought leaders, non-profit organizations -- without ever meeting any of these people face-to-face.  How are these new social realities affecting the way we teach our college classes?  What would a class look like that embraces social media at its core as a tool to empower students to change the world?

Join me, Michelle Pacansky-Brock, author of Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies, for a Google+ Hangout on Air with Jason Rosenblum  and Robert W Strong from St. Edward's University as they share their innovative approach to teaching their Global Social Problems course.  The course design uses a gameful approach, influenced by Jane McGonigal. In Fall 2011, professors Rosenblum and Strong challenged students to complete a series of missions to tackle global social problems: Research problems, take Action to deal with those problems, and Imagine potential solutions with those problems.

In our Hangout on Air, we will discuss this course design, their plans to revise the design, the tools the students used, and the students’ responses and learning outcomes to this creative teaching approach. Click the link above for access to the live video stream of the Hangout on Air in Google+.

Learn with Michelle: GLEAN - A Campus-Supported Suite of Emerging Tools for Students & Faculty

Next week marks the start of my "Learn with Michelle" event series, brought to you by Academic Partnerships.  I'll be hosting a series of Google+ Hangouts that will showcase conversations with higher ed leaders who are using emerging technologies to transition the college paradigm from teaching to learning.

GLEAN: A Campus-Supported Suit of Emerging Tools for Students & Faculty 

Google+ Event:  https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cto7utn86mvh4b982sdvk20n3fk

On Wednesday, May 15th at 11:30am Pacific/ 2:30pm Eastern, I will meet with Susan Gautsch and Dr. Charla Griffy-Brown of Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business in a Hangout on Air to explore how and why they have developed GLEAN, a collection of emerging technologies that are provided to students and faculty to use for content creation and collaboration.  What opportunities come from placing campus supported emerging tools into the hands of students and faculty? What are the challenges? 

The Hangout on Air will be streamed live through the Google Event.  This is a public event. Anyone is welcome to view the live conversation and post questions to the event's comments field.  The questions will be moderated during the conversation.  If you miss the live event, the video archive will be made available shortly thereafter on the Faculty eCommons. 

To receive updates about future Learn with Michelle events, subscribe to the Faculty eCommons Newsletter.

If you have a practice using emerging technologies from your campus that you'd like to share in a Google+ Hangout on Air with Michelle, please submit your proposal here: http://facultyecommons.org/hangout-with-michelle-from-teaching-to-learning-series/