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Great Ways to Incorporate TechnologyExcellent use of technology can enhance your teaching and accelerate student learning. [Or not -- don't think about those days when either you or a student spent forty-five minutes trying to run a power-point with a laptop and projector, and it never did work.]
Teaching:
- Using your website to make your syllabus, your calendar, and your assignments available digitally
- The usual suspects: films, lyrics from CD's, a computerized slide show or even, once in a while, a truly excellent power point.
For composition teachers:
- online demonstrations of legitimate websites vs. less dependable websites
- online demonstrations of how to use web information, graphics, videos, blogs, email, etc. and how to cite those sources
- use of computer and projector to show steps in the writing process:
- brainstorming
- freewriting
- writing and editing a thesis
- developing a body paragraph
- graceful use of sources
- documenting source material
- doing proper indented quotations
- writing topic sentences that connect to the thesis
- Blogs, websites, podcasts, and films as possible 21st century types of writing. Assign a blog (see one for 1A)
- Incorporation of graphics, audio, and video (YouTube, etc.) material into "papers" as supporting data
- Technology issues as topics for analysis, argument, and persuasion
- Turnitin and Google as tools for teachers and students to use to avoid plagiarism
- Comment and other digital paper-response programs as alternatives to handwritten comments on hard copy
- In-class papers written in the computer lab
- Research days in the computer lab
Communication:
- Messages to students before the first day using the Portal
- Class listservs and discussion boards linked to your website for extending discussion past the class period
- Individual emails for students about whom we are concerned
- Class emails about emergency absences or for clarification of assignments or for reminders
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