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Teaching and Learning with Technology

Technology available at UWSP

ePortfolios                    Podcasting                SRS Clickers                Desire2Learn (D2L)



ePortfolios at UWSP

What are ePortfolios?            

  • a collection of authentic and diverse evidence
  • drawn from a larger archive representing what a person or organization has learned over time
  • on which the person or organization has reflected, and
  • designed for presentation to one or more audiences for a particular rhetorical purpose
    ( NLII, 2003 now the Electronic Learning Initiative)

                                  

Why use ePortfolios?

  • Enhance learning
  • Develop critical thinking
  • Facilitate active learning
  • Link concepts and ideas across courses
  • Encourage reflection
  • Assess learning
  • Document professional competencies
  • Personalize learning

                                  eportfolio

Types of ePortfolios

  • Learning
  • Career
  • Showcase
  • Institutional

For information on UWSP's ePortfolio Pilot for 2009, please contact Patricia Ploetz at 4930 or pploetz@uwsp.edu


Podcasting

What is podcasting?

"a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player" (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Listen to a Podcast

Shakespeare by Another Name
Podcasts in Higher Education

Educational use of Podcasts

Music Reserves
Assist non-native speakers
Just-in-time training
Content review
Interviews
Field Recordings
Foreign Language

Benefits of Podcasts

Increased listening skills
Enhanced support for individual learning preferences
Student research
Students develop/create, become teachers/producers
Increased student engagement
Convenient - portable content review

Click here for more Podcasting Resources

If you're interested in Podcasting, please contact Patricia at x4930 or pploetz@uwsp.edu


SRS Clickers

"Do you wish fewer students would fall asleep during your lectures? Want to boost attendance? Looking for a way to make your classroom more interactive? A classroom response system might be the right prescription for you! During this presentation I will show how the physics & astronomy department is using such a system, I will allow the audience to try it for themselves, I will describe how it has improved my courses, and I will discuss a variety of choices available for classroom response technologies."

Ken Menningen, Associate Professor, Dept of Physics and Astronomy

Clickers in the classroom streaming presentation

September 29, 2006 presentation by Ken Menningen, Astronomy & Physics

Presentation Resources

For information and training on the use of SRS Clickers at UWSP, please contact Mary Mielke at 3047 or mmielke@uwsp.edu.



Desire2Learn (D2L)

https://uwsp.courses.wisconsin.edu/

For more information and training in Desire2Learn at UWSP, please contact Mary Mielke at 3047 or mmielke@uwsp.edu.