This workshop will provide attendees a focused session to get up and running with your web domain and hosting account with OU Create (create.ou.edu) that can be used to build blogs, portfolios, wikis, and more. By the end of this session you will have gotten the following:
Sounds crazy, right? But it's not, taking control of your online presence and managing your own web space has never been easier. The goal of this workshop is to provide faculty, technologists, and administrators a hands-on overview of how the web works from the inside-out. In a moment when everyone is talking about controlling your data, learning to code, and web literacy---a sandbox space like this is invaluable for taking the first steps in truly interrogating how the web works.
This workshop will provide attendees a focused session to get up and running with your web domain and hosting account with OU Create (create.ou.edu) that can be used to build blogs, portfolios, wikis, and more. By the end of this session you will have gotten the following:
Sounds crazy, right? But it's not, taking control of your online presence and managing your own web space has never been easier. The goal of this workshop is to provide faculty, technologists, and administrators a hands-on overview of how the web works from the inside-out. In a moment when everyone is talking about controlling your data, learning to code, and web literacy---a sandbox space like this is invaluable for taking the first steps in truly interrogating how the web works.
Nobel laureate Herbert Simon proposed that “learning results from what the student does and thinks and only from what the student does and thinks.” This is undoubtedly an overstatement and seriously undervalues the crucial role of the instructor in creating and guiding learning opportunities for students. However, Simon’s perspective appropriately highlights that learning requires active engagement of learners as they incorporate new information into pre-existing knowledge structures. Contemporary understanding of the biological basis of learning demonstrates that learning -- the ability to apply and integrate new information even after a significant period of time -- leads to demonstrable changes in the structure of the brain that do not result from the emphasis on memorization encouraged by a teacher-centric, lecture-based method. Teaching has therefore been termed “the art of changing the brain” (Zull 2002) which means that both student and teacher should accept that the classroom environment is a surprisingly intimate one!
In this workshop we will address how to create environments that promote true student learning. The specific objectives will be to:
The emphasis will, not surprisingly, be on active involvement by participants. An overarching goal is to build enthusiasm for a teaching model that shifts the role of the instructor from expert/oracle to facilitator/coach. I also hope to demonstrate that teaching this way is not only more effective for the learner, but tremendously more rewarding for the teacher as his/her relationship with students change in positive and meaningful ways.
This presentation will explore the importance of providing students, faculty, and staff with an innovative, web-based platform for owning, managing and migrating the digital work they create over the course of their academic careers. What's more, this platform is not a vendor-driven product, but an ecosystem of open source applications that must be central to their critique and creation of the digital world. It's the backbone for a broader, curricular-wide push for cross-disciplinary digital fluency. In essence, the platform undergirding the pioneering work of Domain of One's Own at Mary Washington is the open web. More than a learning system or publishing platform, UMW Domains recognizes and codifies the importance of digital agency for each and every learner on campus, and provides the means of enabling this for each individual at scale. The impact of the global information network on our campus community is not imagined or inferred, it is intentionally designed and cultivated. Welcome to the digital liberal arts, and the emergence of the indieweb in higher ed. Can you grok the future?
Changes in federal regulation regarding accessibility of electronic information can be a daunting task for educators and institutions. Please join us for an informal question and answer period to address any questions you may have regarding accessible media. The format will be a panel including the Disability Resource Center staff. We will also provide information on basic accessibility features and steps to creating accessible formats for electronic media.
Brightspace by D2L now offers single sign on integration with Office 365, meaning students and instructors can seamlessly use both technologies to their fullest potential; keeping them engaged, productive, and focused on learning. Through their integration solutions, D2L and Microsoft Office 365 services (Email, Calendar, & more) improve how students and teachers interact online. The seamless integration allows instructors and students to focus on teaching and learning, and not spend time jumping between applications and devices. Students will have quick access to tools they use - Email/calendar right in D2L and documents right from One Drive to Assignment Dropbox. It gives faculty access to Word, Excel and other Office applications online.
During this session, you will learn more about how you can leverage various tools and programs from Microsoft to support a collaborative learning experience at University of Oklahoma. We will review how Office 365 in conjunction with OneNote for the Classroom can create a vibrant experience to enhance learning, provide some insight into other tools that are available to University of Oklahoma that can be utilized to support teaching and learning in new ways, and lastly, we will provide a sneak peak at Windows 10.
wēpa is a turn-key, cloud-based print solution developed specifically for higher education. In addition to providing the ideal environment for printing documents on-the-go, wēpa eliminates campus printing concerns for both students and faculty. Come find out more about what makes wēpa great and how to bring a print station to a location near you at the University of Oklahoma!
The first annual One U Cup was held November 14th & 15th, 2014 and included almost 40 OU students plus numerous faculty and staff mentors. This event, new this year at OU, aims to bring value to OU students, faculty and staff, and the greater Oklahoma community through the utilization and creation of innovative technology. Each year, a different college will call the challenge and name the technology to be used in that challenge. In this year's challenge, teams collaborated with Microsoft Engineers to design a working prototype of an app that allows OU students to more easily connect. This session will include a presentation from the organizers of the event on key takeaways and lessons learned as well as the presentations of the 3 student group finalists in the event.
Immediately following the Academic Technology Expo, please join us for a free reception. During the reception, attendees will have an opportunity to network with colleagues, interact directly with a number of our campus partners, and win some great prizes!
