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Slide Notes

Welcome writing center folk. This presentation is a stand alone for what I will be showing on Monday. It is meant as a shared space. If you wish to make some comments then perhaps you can go here to write more extensively: http://hackpad.com/WHAT-MIGHT-WE-DO-LITTLE-TECH-ADVENTURES-JEuYJuf8WiV


If you are interested in the tool I used to create this slide deck then you might want to get your own account and then click over to here: http://blog.haikudeck.com/haiku-deck-teachers-guide-introduction/

If you like these public notes, the you might want to look at more example of haiku deck with those notes: http://www.pinterest.com/haikudeck/public-notes-case-studies/

What We Might Do

Published on Sep 01, 2016

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What We Might Do

Little Tech Adventures
Welcome writing center folk. This presentation is a stand alone for what I will be showing on Monday. It is meant as a shared space. If you wish to make some comments then perhaps you can go here to write more extensively: http://hackpad.com/WHAT-MIGHT-WE-DO-LITTLE-TECH-ADVENTURES-JEuYJuf8WiV


If you are interested in the tool I used to create this slide deck then you might want to get your own account and then click over to here: http://blog.haikudeck.com/haiku-deck-teachers-guide-introduction/

If you like these public notes, the you might want to look at more example of haiku deck with those notes: http://www.pinterest.com/haikudeck/public-notes-case-studies/

Exploration

The spirit of tech and tech pedagogy is inside the word 'exploration'. No, don't look for a word inside 'exploration'. I don't mean it that way. I want you to feel adventure, riskiness, on the edge-itude. Try stuff. Reject it if it doesn't click. Blaze a trail for someone else and then, like Dan'l Boone, move on into the pedagogical wilderness, not looking back but keeping on.

zotero

Research database management
Here is the relevant link: https://www.zotero.org/

There are lots of these digital biblio tools out there, but none that will reward you quite so lavishly with workflow and power. Zotero is an amazing database manager. Free, with a long pedigree, and constantly being updated. It rewards a little use and merits a wider and deeper use.

Photo by jazzmodeus

tweetdeck

personal learning management
Tweetdeck is one of my most important pedagogical and personal and professional learning environments.

It is a way to aggregate your Twitter experience into a manageable whole. If you combine it with a tool like the NYTimes's Vellum (http://vellum.nytlabs.com/) and you begin to get the Internet firehose under control. Chance favors the connected mind. There is no better tool for connecting than Twitter.

hackpad

Hackpad is owned by Dropbox. They have another tool inside of Dropbox called Paper. I use both, but I especially like Hackpad because it public and collaborative and more like a wiki. It rules and I live in constant fear that its parent company will screw it up or even abandon it. Such is the nature of Internet tools. Google regularly drops tools from its lineup. Bastards.

I love how you can embed rich media inside of Hackpad and that you can embed a Hackpad in a blog post. You can't do that with Paper.

Here is the link: https://hackpad.com/

Here is a link to one that you can add to if you wish: https://hackpad.com/WHAT-MIGHT-WE-DO-LITTLE-TECH-ADVENTURES-JEuYJuf8WiV

Reflection

and 'close reading'
I think I have truly discovered reflective practice over this past year. I attribute this to some of the powerful tech tools I am going to share in this section.

All of them are associated with "annotation". Most of them are multimodal. They are also efficient and cause less 'friction' in their adoption than you might think. In fact, if you have these simple tools, there is not a big jump toward doing actual reflection. Not much of one at all. And that is exactly what is called for. Reflection is heavy duty critical thinking. You don't want any friction with a task that is profoundly easy to procrastinate.

Most of these tools are also available for use in the classroom as well. I am using them now: https://nowcomment.com/documents/58439#.V9VTcpMwjC8

Photo by ffrg0

Youtube playlist



Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz5Rz9QGED0&list=PLpMDh4gTqzwjYtB5BGT6ocAHu...

This is a playlist of my class notes to myself as I prep for the day. I used to put these on 3X5 cards as reminder to where I wanted to go with class, but now I have a more improvisational approach, working within the structure of the notes.

I take either a photo or a video of these notes and then upload them to the cloud (YouTube/GoogleDrive/Flickr). From there I use Vialogues or NowComment to reflect. I reflect as I have time and then share with my online peers to get their reflections as well.

vialogues

social video annotation
I use vialogues to comment on my class notes, but I also use it as a way for students to comment on videos for class discussion.

Here is the link to join: http://vialogues.com

Here is a sample Vialogue from class notes: https://vialogues.com/vialogues/play/27494/

Here is a sample of an opening day video I ask my students to comment upon: https://vialogues.com/vialogues/play/30849/

Vialogues is a very stable platform created by Columbia University's EdLab. It is free, but you must sign up for it in order to comment.

nowcomment

annotation all-in-one
This is very similar to Vialogues but more of a triple threat. It can do video annotation, too, but also image and text annotation as well. This might be the only annotation tool you will need. It is a bit more of a learning curve, but it is better suited to the institutional structure of the classroom.

Here is the link: https://nowcomment.com/

Here is a text being annotated in class: https://nowcomment.com/documents/59028#.V9VV0ZMwjC8

Here is video being annotated: https://nowcomment.com/documents/56980

Here is an image being annotated: https://nowcomment.com/documents/56541#.V9VWSZMwjC8

hypothes.is

annotation anywhere
I don't know why more academics haven't adopted Hypothes.is as a personal and social learning tool for the classroom. The very first browser had online annotation baked into its structure, but is was dropped. This is the return of it. I can't keep track of all the uses I have made of this.

Here is the site where you can sign up and install the Chrome extension that makes this tool so universally valuable: http://hypothes.is

Here is a link to a webpage being annotated: https://via.hypothes.is/https://developingwriters.org/2016/09/07/so-many-li...

And another: https://via.hypothes.is/http://mrgatgbs.blogspot.com/2016/09/is-blogging-mi...

And another: https://via.hypothes.is/http://klabonte.net/does-digital-writing-exist/

And another: https://via.hypothes.is/http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html

I love how you can move between different media responses. One time text, another time gifs, and again with videos, and then back to text--all in the same comment box. Awesome tool. Not even sure yet of all the use cases for this. Help me out and find some more. Or better yet let's organize an annotation flash mob and annotate the fire out of a text.
Photo by Medieval Karl

Untitled Slide

an optional presentation:

(think of it as a wormhole)
Here is another haikudeck that expands upon what I am saying in the previous slide after "Reflection"

https://haikudeck.com/p/c7766fb792


YouTube, Vialogues, and Screencasting - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires;

FUN



Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IskGjvXAc8

Fun. Play. Games. Often this is the best way in. I have included a few neat ways in for the next few slides. I am leaving some blanks to add later. Can't ever have too much fun, can we?

Pablo

I have so much fun doing ad hoc image quotes with this.

Here is the link: https://pablo.buffer.com/

You can install it as a Chrome extension and it pops up in your right-click context menu. So. Dead. Easy. Share away. I made some really nice marketing blurbs for Dr. Fife. The background of this slide is one of them.

canva

Canva is the big brother who knows all the cool image tools. You can do more. It has better templates. Overall it is a great space for making graphics to use in your own blog, Pinterest page, Facebook header...so bloody useful.


Try it here: https://www.canva.com/
Photo by profzucker

hatnote

wikipedia sound on
Pure fun...yet it leads to a more complete understanding of the power of Wikipedia and wikis in general.

Just go here and explore, have a little adventure, and report back: http://listen.hatnote.com/
Photo by mdvfunes

frinkiac

Here is the Frinkiac: https://frinkiac.com/

morbotron

Here is the Morbotron: https://morbotron.com/

tidbits

File under 'string to small to save'.
Photo by Antimidia

peggo

mp4-->mp3
Here is such a little tool to bring such pleasure: http://peggo.tv/

Another version with a bit more versatility: https://www.convyoutube.com/?ref=producthunt&utm_campaign=Revue%20newslette...
Photo by portalgda

Control-f

Many of my students do not know simple keyboard and mouse shortcuts that, if adopted, will save them much time.

For example, when confronted by a large file of text, use CONTROL-F together to search for keywords or phrases.

I share these tips with my students. They have marveled at how they never knew just as you probably have shortcuts that I might marvel at as well. I love the phrase from The Big Lebowski uttered by mighty Walter Sobcheck: "I did not know that."


You might go a bit deeper with this: https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/117495

right click

I wrote a blog post about the "context menu" that might give you some extra ways to think about this much neglected mouse trick. Most of my students don't know that you can hightlight text, right click, and "Search Google". This saves at least two keystrokes. How much time over a year's period does this save?

Here is the post: http://rhetcompnow.com/tools/writing-project-tech-pedagogy-clmooc-edition-e...

popurls

Popurls will keep you current. It's that simple. Simple, timeless interface. I use it to show neat stuff to students before class officially begins.

Where might we go

There are so many avenues and channels in my personal learning networks that I hesitate to speak of them. TMI and FOMO rear their ugly heads. Instead, let me recommend that as you skim and scrub your way through this deck you pick one item, something fun probably, to play with. Or something that you think might be uber useful.

Try it. Adopt it or discard it. Then try another one. Maybe do this once a semester and before long you will have a tech repertoire that makes others admire your tech muscles. ;)

vr

Virtual reality: I started with New York Times stories like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecavbpCuvkI

Get the app here: http://www.nytimes.com/marketing/nytvr/
Photo by Eric@focus

wikity/sfw



Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCu7rpxub8s

This is some serious, next level rhetoric with an attitude. Wikis may just be the next big step for sharing one's intellectitude. Gotta see it to figure it out. I'm still trying to do that. You come, too.

Screencast-o-matic

(or a new one opentest)
Here is a sample screencast using Screencast-o-matic: http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cDiIDniaYb

and another one for a student: http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cDjtV2jchs

Opentest is a new one, almost as good, but I have just started using it.

Here is a sample from it: https://www.opentest.co/share/ca1e6f10781411e68b6d81fdb3ce3c7c
Photo by Wesley Fryer

u do u, boo?

Where might you go in this course?