Intentional Technologies

I was very excited to hear that Charles Logan, an educational technologist at the College of Education and Human Ecology at the Ohio State University, is hosting a reading group this spring for my new book, Intentional Tech. I’m always honored to hear about anyone reading the book, so learning that 20 faculty and staff at Ohio State are reading it and gathering to talk about it, well, that was pretty great.

Also great are the resources that Charles has built to support the reading group. He has written an extensive list of guiding questions for those reading the book, with questions to consider before reading, after each chapter, and at the end of the book. Charles has posted his guiding questions online under a Creative Commons license, so other are free to use and adapt them, and he’s sharing them a few a time on Twitter to foster conversation among the reading group members and others. Feel free to jump in on Charles’ “slow chat” over on Twitter.

Charles has also compiled a list of all the various technologies mentioned in each chapter of Intentional Technology, along with a few related technologies not mentioned in the book. Since Charles’ list of technologies is also released under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC), I’m reproducing the list here on the blog. I’ve already had people who’ve read the book ask for such a list, and I’m happy to give Charles all the credit for compiling it!

Chapter	Technology
Chapter 1: Times for Telling	Classroom response systems: Top Hat, Poll Everywhere Games: 9:05, Her Story, Monopoly, RePlay Health Digital tools: laptops, tablets, smartphones, projector Analog tools: screen
Chapter 2: Practice and Feedback	Blogs: WordPress Discipline-specific tools: MATLAB, Text Encoding Initiative Digital tools: mini projectors, video and audio recorder, iPad, TV screens, projectors, Google Docs, Twitter, laptops, tablets, smartphones Analog tools: screen, whiteboards, dry erase markers, erasers
Chapter 3: Thin Slices of Learning	Social bookmarking tools: Diigo Digital tools: Twitter, Storify (now defunct, but Wakelet is a possible replacement), VoiceThread, Google Draw Analog tools: whiteboards, dry erase markers, erasers
Chapter 4: Knowledge Organizations	Mind-mapping tools: Prezi Timeline tools: Tiki-Toki Graphic organizer: Representation grid Digital tools: Google Earth, Google Maps, PowerPoint Analog tools: Post-it notes; markers; chalkboard; chalk
Chapter 5: Multimodal Assignments	Infographic tools: R; Microsoft Paint; Adobe Illustrator; Canva; Venngage; Piktochart Podcasting tools: SoundCloud; Audacity; Garage Band; Adobe Audition Website-building platform: Wix; Adobe Spark Digital tools: Twine; Pinterest; Prezi; Google Docs Analog tools: Pen; paper
Chapter 6: Learning Communities	Blogging: FeedWordPress Discussion: Flipgrid (go.osu.edu/flipgrid); Slack Timeline: TimelineJS OER: Pressbooks; OpenStax Social reading: Hypothes.is Other digital tools: Google Sheets
Chapter 7: Authentic Audiences	Computer animation: VideoScribe Video conferencing: Skype; Google Hangouts; Zoom Social reading: CommentPress Digital tools: YouTube; Wikipedia Analog tools: Reacting to the Past
Conclusion	Photo-sharing sites: Flickr; Unsplash Other: Creative Commons

I wrote this post, then realized I never blogged about my book release last fall! Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching is now available from West Virginia University Press. For more information, see my updated Books page.