Workshop News, Notes, and Sounds

In this edition of the Allegheny Workshop Podcast participants and presenters share their experience at the workshop and how they anticipate mulitmedia narrative will change how they deliver their courses come fall.

This edition of the Workshop Podcast offers reflections from NITLE's Director for Emerging Technologies, Bryan Alexander. Let's join him as he shares his perspective on the attraction of digital storytelling, the pedagogical implications of this technology, and the role social learning plays in the Multimedia Narrative Workshop.

Welcome to this edition of the Allegheny Workshop podcast. Today?s episode is the complete proceedings from the Effective PowerPoint Strategies workshop.

In this episode, Professor Glen Wurst is talking to a group of Allegheny professors, librarians and technologists interested in using personal response devices to gage student understanding in courses. Over the course of his presentation, he demonstrates how he used a personal response system in a science course for non-majors. He concludes with his thoughts on advantages and disadvantages of using this teaching tool.

In this episode, Professor Shaun Murphree shares his perspective on personal response devices with a group of Allegheny professors, librarians and technologists interested personal response devices. Over the course of his presentation, he demonstrates how he used a personal response system in a chemistry course and the modifications he made to his methods as he gained experience using this teaching tool.

In this episode of the podcast James Fadden talks with Josh Searle-White who is using podcasting in support of his Adventures in Storytelling course.

Prof. Stephen Onyeiwu incorporated PowerPoint into his introductory economics course this year. In this episode of the podcast, he shares the benefits he gained by adding this instructional tool as a primary method for delivering course content.

In this episode of the podcast was captured at the May 5, 2006 lunch discussion on podcasting at liberal arts colleges. Topics covered in this podcast are...

* An overview of podcasting including defintion and process
* Examples of Podcasts from liberal arts colleges
* rescources for finding, creating and using podcasts at Allegheny

Special thanks to Prof. Josh Searle-White for presenting his experience using podcasting for his Storytelling Course.

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On Friday February 2, 2007 a small group of faculty using clickers for instruction. The group covered topics of logistics, pedagogy and student reactions.

For more information on using clickers in the classroom please contact your instructional technologist.

Julie Evans, Chief Executive Director for Project Tomorrow - NetDay, spoke again at this year's Educause Annual Conference on expectations of K-12 students in regards to technology use and ways they wish to learn.

Tomorrow's Students: Are We Ready For the New 21st-Century Learners?

If this sparked your fancy you might also be interested in these workshops being offered May 15 and 16 for faculty, technologists, librarians of Allegheny College and NITLE colleges.

• May 15: Teaching Digital Natives: Strategies for Digital Immigrants (Registration Deadline: April 4, 2008)
• May 16: Visual Literacy: Using Images for Teaching and Learning (Registration Deadline: April 4, 2008)

Allegheny participants can register online for these workshops. Interested participants for NITLE colleges should contact their campus liaison for registration details.