Services Provided by Teaching Without Walls
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Student-Centered Learning with VoiceThread
VoiceThread is a web 2.0 tool that enables the sharing of media albums (presentations, images, documents and videos) and then opens these albums into collaborative conversations. Comments may be left in text, audio (with a mic or a phone!) or video (web cam). Foster greater classroom community, meet more learning styles and integrate more opportunities for visual teaching strategies with VoiceThread.
Inclusive Learning Strategies
As educators, we understand that our students bring tremendous learning diversity into our classrooms. But how many of these diverse learning preferences and disabilities do we accomodate in the design of our courses? Designing learning activities with inclusivity in mind improves all students' ability to achieve course learning objectives.
Web 2.0 Mini-Conference
A 2-day mini-conference fully planned and organized by TWW. We will highlight the educational significance of web 2.0 through motivational presentations and organize hands-on workshops for your faculty on your campus. We will partner with you to identify the most effective tools to be showcased in the workshops. An inspirational experience!
The Personal Touch - Enhancing Your Online Social Presence
Learning in isolation is a challenge and the YouTube generation is thirsty for personalized learning experiences. Your students want to see and hear you as they engage with their learning material, rather than interact solely with flat, text-based content. Surprisingly, facilitating this experience is amazingly simple thanks to today's digital technologies. Learn how to create accessible video announcements in minutes and leverage simple audio recording tools that require nothing more than a microphone. Viola! Take your class from flat to fantastic in a day!
Teaching Without Walls: Life Beyond the Lecture
Explore this innovative approach to course design that focuses promoting inclusive learning through extending options to the student and ponder its potential for the future of higher ed. Meeting the needs of a diverse student population, Teaching Without Walls, suggests that classroom time is time we should be spending actively engaged with our students, rather than passively delivering lecture content. This instructional model, designed by Michelle Pacansky-Brock and presented as part of the Educause Learning Initiative, proposes that the YouTube generation has high expectations for their face-to-face time. What happens if we deliver lectures through podcasts and spend class time actively engaged with content? You'll find out through this engaging presentation which will leave time for discussion and building a dialogue about integrating a "Teaching Without Walls" pilot on your campus. The length of this event is fully customized based upon the amount of discussion and follow-up implementation.
Generational Diversity
The "buzzword" for the 21st century workplace! If you're struggling to understand why students don't simply do what their told like earlier generations used to or why your older colleagues view you as a slacker because you're committed to managing your family and your work equally, this workshop be an eye opener for you. For the first time, we have four generations in our workplace. This is a critical topic for any educational institution -- in and out of the classroom.
21st Century Skills
Engage in a visually dynamic, provocative presentation about our transformation from an industrial to an information society. Consider the effects of 40 hours of exposure each week to a media-saturated, sexually charged, commodity-glorifying landscape in which our young people are immersed. Consider the impact of a globalized workforce on the future careers of today's students. Consider the skills today's employers have publically exclaimed higher education is not providing. Are our classrooms preparing our students for 21st century success?
