Social technologies have changed the ways that business students communicate with each other, their professors, and their institutions at large. Let’s look at social media from two different perspectives: As course content and as a platform for conversation about any
Conversations in Educational Technology and Learning Sciences
Take the following scenario: You teach one course for 26 sessions, 2 times a week for 13 weeks in the classroom. The experience includes some discussion, mini-lectures student presentations, group break out sessions, guest speakers, exams, assignments, the works. You
Savvy Student’s Guide to Online Learning – 2013
Just a quick post to let folks know that the book I’m co-authoring with Ted Bongiovanni will be published by Routledge in June 2013. If you’re at Sloan-c, visit us on Thursday for our presentation: The savvy online student: Setting
Course Feedback – Considering asking your students for some….
It’s that time of year where faculty are planning their fall courses. In you planning, consider collecting feedback from your students at least twice throughout the course. It’s good to do this in a formal way through a simple survey.
Social Aggregation Using Postano
Postano is this great tool for aggregating all your social media outlets for personal or business use. The example below is a combination of posts I’m pulling posts from one of the Facebook page that I manage in addition to
Classroom Capture
A few weeks ago at the NYU Teaching with Technology Conference, a group of us at NYU Stern presented on classroom capture technologies. At the Stern Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, Maya Georgieva put together a set of best practices
Professor of Social
Last week, Judith David a Senior Strategist and Social Specialist (#awesome title) from Google presented Google + my Electronic Communities course. The focus of the course is developing a social presence and strategy for companies, rather than just individuals. Google
Creating effective visuals: Getting the simple things right
For faculty and students alike, PowerPoint tends to be the presentation format of choice for class lectures and project presentations. It’s really easy to “get things right” with PowerPoint. Let’s start with a quick survey. If you selected “support your in
Using Surveys to Assess Student Prior Knowledge
It’s the beginning of the spring 2012 semester and for some faculty this means we’re teaching an entirely new class of students. Before the course begins, I survey my students to learn more about what they know about the course
Thoughts on the importance of teaching and learning centers within higher ed
This post was co-authored by Ted Bongiovanni initially as part of a research proposal. The ways in which students find and use information today challenges the traditional practices of institutions of higher learning. Just as practices in the disciplines