Agile Teaching with Technology – Some Resources

I’m guest speaking tonight (via Elluminate) in Scott Schwister‘s graduate course on technology and assessment in education at Hamline University. The title of my presentation is “Agile Teaching with Technology: Clickers, Blogs, and More,” and I’ll be focusing on using a few different technologies for formative assessment.

Update: If you’d like to hear what I had to say last night, you can watch the Elluminate recording of the presentation.

Here are my slides:

Below you’ll find some related resources.

Clickers

• My book on clickers is titled Teaching with Classroom Response Systems, and I blog regularly about teaching with clickers. Most relevant blog posts would be those on agile teaching, formative assessment, and peer instruction.
• Abilene Christian University’s mobile learning initiative is very impressive. They’ve been doing great things with iPhones in the classroom as response devices.
• For more on the use of clicker questions as background knowledge probes and the factual recall question I shared in my presentation, see this blog post on “technoCATs.”
• For more on the confidence-level question in my presentation and how it played out in class, see my blog post about flexible clicker questions.
• For more on the “plagiarism or not?” application question I shared, see my review of Bombaro (2007) and my recent post about my own use of clickers to teach about plagiarism.

Backchannel

• I also blog fairly regularly on using backchannel tools in the classroom. See in particular my comments on Monica Rankin’s “Twitter Experiment” at UT-Dallas, my thoughts on the use of Twitter by Gardner Campbell and Ellen Filgo at Baylor University, and a post about my first Google Moderator experiment.

Blogs

• I wrote about my approach to using WordPress blogs to facilitate pre-class reading assignments over on ProfHacker.
• The idea of “first exposure” I described comes from Walvoord and Anderson’s book, Effective Grading, which is full of other great ideas. And you can read more about “just-in-time teaching” in Just-in-Time Teaching: Across the Disciplines and Across the Academy, edited by Simkins and Maier.
• The statistic I shared about students “doing the reading” comes from Eric Hobson’s 2004 IDEA paper, “Getting Students to Read: Fourteen Tips.”
• My two course blogs I showed were these: Linear Algebra Fall 2009 and Cryptography Fall 2010.

Image: “nose slide” by Flickr user B.A.D., Creative Commons licensed.