Tech4Teach Fair

Presenter - Thomas Mueller (Communication)

I use AsULearn as a class portal for all my distance education courses. Specific to COM 3928, research methods, students must learn and operation Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) to manipulate and test survey data. We access SPSS through ASU's "VMware" virtual server access. CATEGORY: Student research and research tools

Presenter - John Wiswell & Lisa Abbott (Library)

Zotero is a free and fairly easy-to-learn system for capturing, organizing, sharing, and citing articles, webpages, and other information sources. Zotero is software developed at George Mason University.  It was created as an extension for use within Firefox, but it is also now a standalone application that can be used with Firefox, Chrome, Opera, or Safari.  It also includes a plugin for MS Word. It is installed on your computer(s) and also has a cloud component, including sharing functions. Students will be able to set up groups at zotero.org. Zotero should save students from much of the difficulty with organizing and citing.  It will help them think more playfully about metadata and citations, rather having to struggle with keeping up with what they've already found and with producing complete and perfect citations. CATEGORY: Student research and research tools​

Presenter - Lynette Holman (Communications)

According to the Bootstrap.com website, the Bootstrap framework "is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web." It is open source software. It's hosted, developed, and maintained on GitHub. The fact that much of the CSS [cascading style sheet(s)] is baked into the framework allows for students to learn about website design without extensive coding. CATEGORY: Effective presentations, websites and course E-portfolios

Presenter - Derek Eggers & Jeff Church (LTS)

The term “Internet-of-Everything (I-o-E) (aka Internet-of-Things (I-o-T)) has gained popularity in popular media and has become prevalent in the vocabulary of technology savvy “geeks,” maker-spaces, workshops, and homes around the globe. The I-o-E is difficult to describe in short because it basically involves connecting just about “Everything to Everything or to Everyone on the Internet. These technologies including software, hardware, wired, and wireless communications are what enable us to connect our smartphones to our home security system, order a pizza from Domino’s with a Twitter message, observe crowdsourced micro-weather data from our neighbor's house or even monitor moisture content in our home gardens with minimal cost.  While the true cost is spread across our consumerist rampant society, the individual use cost appears to be low and accessible to public education including universities. Corporations are looking for ways to cash in on this “new” technology craze and are not excluding Education from their market radar screen.  This very brief overview presents possibilities of using I-o-E technologies as active learning opportunities in the classroom -- and -- explores critical issues such as cost, obsolescence, and social justice issues. CATEGORY: Supporting in and out of class interaction/collaboration​

Presenter - Lindsey Masland (Psychology) & Nigel Davies (Library)

Poll Everywhere is a free, instant, anonymous & interactive technology that enables teachers to meaningfully engage with their students via their computers/laptops or mobile devices. Poll Everywhere utilizes multiple choice, true/false, clickable images, question & answer, & brainstorming to interact with students on topics by voting, ranking, adding short responses, clicking on image locations & creating new ideas & perspectives. It presents data in a variety of formats including word clouds, bar graphs, text walls, & ticker tape. This appears to be most effective for engaging students, collecting formative assessment/data, reviewing concepts, voting/ranking ideas & preferences. CATEGORY: Supporting in and out of class interaction/collaboration

Presenter - Mike Madritch (Biology)

We use Google Earth maps and ArcGIS to provide interactive online maps of campus trees. The ArcGIS is used by physical plant to inventory and manage campus trees, while google earth embeds are used to disseminate information to the public and to students. We have relatively primitive feedback options whereby the public can provide feedback to physical plant. CATEGORY: Sustainability

Presenter - Seth Allen (Educational Media)

Padlet is a free, virtual pinboad that has many potential application for educators.  It is very simple to create a wall and begin pinning hyperlinks, videos, images, and notes. Padlet can be utilized to create interactive learning activities to support flipped classrooms and online teaching.  I teach an online information literacy class at a private college (in addition to studying at App State) and I have created an effective teaching activity related to primary, secondary, and tertiary sources.  Student choose their own historical event, analyze primary, secondary, and tertiary sources, and post these sources on a Padlet. View the template for this activity. CATEGORY: Organizing and sharing information​

Presenter - Nina-Jo Moore (Communication)

When students are planning to participate in a short term study abroad, any way the professor can orient them to the culture would be helpful.  Using ASU Learn to let students learn basics of the language, visit the country virtually, and to study theories would be helpful. Narrated language lessons (power point), webcams within countries to be visited, course material notes, and forum discussions on pertinent topics are some ways to build a learning environment before the travel begins. CATEGORY: Learning support tools

Presenter - Chris McNeill (Finance, Banking & Insurance)

Spreadsheet assignments can enhance student learning but also place a substantial grading burden on instructors. I present a grading program for customized spreadsheet assignments focused on reducing that grading burden. The grading program innovates on existing approaches and requires no computer programming for new assignments.  Student learning is advanced by providing quicker feedback and facilitating the assignment of more Excel work than might otherwise be feasible. CATEGORY: Learning support tools

Presenter - Barbara Howard

Open Qwaq is a 3D Virtual World platform downloaded on the user's computer that is password protected. It allows uploading of documents (e.g., power point presentations, PDFs, word documents, etc) as well as the creation of documentations. It does not allow videos, but it does have the capability of sharing websites. Participants can download documents from the site to save on their own computers as well as upload personal documents. There is both sound and visual capabilities. LES has created a virtual campus that includes a Belk Library, student center, and an array of various meeting spaces and classrooms. CATEGORY: Utilizing graphics, audio and animation

Presenter - Elaine Gray (General Education), Kendra Bodry (Music Therapy) & Wes Shipley (Higher Education)

Aportfolio is AppState's integrative ePortfolio system. Aportfolio allows students to have multiple ePortfolios for showcasing and integrating their academic learning, professional, personal and co-curricular experiences. Aportfolios provide students with a customizable, simple and user-friendly website to focus on contextualizing their skills, competencies and aspirations for professional audiences, while protecting their privacy with password protected access. CATEGORY: Effective presentations, websites and course E-portfolios

Presenter - Scott Goldstein (Library)

The family of exam design classes in the LaTeX typesetting system enhances student learning in at least three ways. First, it largely eliminates surface learning by preventing cheating and discouraging the studying of previous exams. It is also a better alternative to safeguarding exams behind closed doors, which impedes learning about one’s misunderstandings. Second, by automatically generating corresponding answer keys, it hastens grading – and therefore feedback – to students. Third, it provides a more accurate snapshot of student comprehension, which is useful data for improving pedagogy and course design. CATEGORY: Utilizing surveys and quizzes

Presenter - Jennifer Snodgrass (Music) & David Marvel (Performance)

The web based application Kahoot allows users to interact within a gaming environment with questions predetermined by either the teacher or a student. The technology used in this presentation includes a computer connected to projector (sound optional) to run game from, and each participant needs a mobile device that can connect to the internet (laptops, smartphone, tablets, etc.,). This presentation will include, videos from previous classes, student responses regarding effectiveness of Kahoot, and a live demonstration in which audience members will have the opportunity to be engaged with the presentation. CATEGORY: Learning support tools

Presenter - Amanda Romjue (Languages, Literature & Culture)

This presentation curates some of the best instructional technology tools to support self-regulated learning. These tools are categorized by how each supports portfolio creation, goal setting, study strategies, tasks/project creation, and finding/evaluation resources online. CATEGORY: Learning support tools

Presenter - Shea Tuberty (Biology)

ASU is beta testing a new online product that can be integrated into your ASUlearn page to allow you to both provide grammatical error feedback to your students and check for possible plagiarism infractions. This technology allows you to determine the % of similarity with other online sources as well as papers turned in at ASU or other universities that use Turnitin. CATEGROY: Learning support tools