Introduction
Web-based Hypertext Slides
One of the most important contributions of the Web to education is that it has made possible a sharing of both information and effort on a scale, and therefore with possibilites, never before considered realistic enough to merit much attention. A simple example is the traditional conference presentation. Today, it is possible to share such presentations in detail with people all over the world, and not merely with those who have the time and other resources to physically attend the conference (see, for example, the Real Audio presentation of Professor Kenneth Foote's talk, at STG's Hypermedia, Teaching and Technology web). We think this kind of sharing especially important in the area of education, where most of the people doing the most important and difficult work (i.e. people who work in schools) are rarely at liberty to attend more than one or two conferences each year. Similarly, using the Web it is possible for those interested in presenting their work to build on the work and presentations of people whose interests and efforts are related to their own, and thus the traditional problem of many practitioners "reinventing the wheel," might be transformed into the same practitioners acting together as a research community.
Although the Web now offers us the opportunity to use audio and video to make our presentations and publications widely available, the goal of this page is comparatively modest. The links described below are to the hypertext slides that I've used in presentations to educators during the past year. The slides are meant primarily to offer those who are planning presentations or discussions about teaching with technology something to think about, and build upon, and you are welcome to use the slides, or parts of them, in your own work. Of course I would be happy to hear from anyone who does use them, and to know of similar sets of Web slides that might be of interest to educators.
Finally, unless otherwise noted, all of the presentations and the slides were made possible through the sponsorship of the Northeast Technology in Education Consortium (NetTech), the Education Alliance at Brown, and Brown's Scholarly Technology Group.
Teacher as Collaborator: Using the Power of Technology to Improve Teaching. Presented December 4, 1997, at the Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference, in Nashua, New Hampshire.
The focus of this presentation was on the ways networked technologies can facilitate deep educational collaborations of various sorts (i.e. involving relationships between students, teachers and communities). After discussing different kinds of collaborations, and the ways they have been supported with tools like electronic mail and the Web, I discussed a framework for teachers to evaluate the impact of the use of such technologies.
Teaching with the Web: Project-based learning and distributed curriculum. Presented November 4, 1997, at the New England Teachers Conference (NETC 97) in Providence, Rhode Island.
This talk focused on the results of our best and promising practices study as well as the use of the Web for the development of collaborative K-12 projects and the production of distributed curriculum in support of such projects. Despite the large size of the group who attended this talk (approximately 75 people, most of them teachers), we had an interesting and lively discussion of classroom technology motivated by the "challenge" section of the slide.
Communication and Collaboration: Using the Web to Design Materials to Improve Teaching and Learning. Presented October 25, 1997, at Brown University.
This talk was prepared as part of the Workshop Demonstrations of Reflective Teaching in Higher Education, on the occasion of the dedication of the Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning at Brown (formerly the Center for the Advancement of College Teaching). The emphases of the talk are on the Sheridan Center web site, which STG helped to design, and some issues and challenges in teaching with networked technologies.
Communication, Collaboration and Teaching with Networked Educational Technologies. Presented September 27, 1997 at City College, New York, N.Y.
This talk was prepared for members of the National Institute for Educational Research, visiting from Tokyo, at a session hosted by the Center for School Development, at The City College of the City University of New York. The title of the afternoon session, which included a talk by Ted Nellen as well, was "Development of Teaching Materials and Methods for Educational Uses of Internet."
NetTech's Hypermedia, Teaching and Technology Project. Presented July 2, 1997 at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), Seattle WA.
As part of a NECC '97 panel session devoted to the activities of the Regional Technology in Education Consortia (RTECs), I discussed the NetTech/STG Hypermedia, Teaching and Technology project, its history, accomplishments, and our plans for the future of the project. Links from this slide are primarily to different areas of the HT&T web.
Communication and Collaboration with Networked Educational Technologies. Presented May 29, 1997 at the Ninth Annual Leadership Institute of the Northeast Superintendents Leadership Council, Newport RI.
Prepared for a Technology Workshop attended by more than a dozen Superintendents from throughout the Northeast, this presentation emphasized recent research findings concerning teaching with technology, along with the possibilities of using networked technologies like the Web to foster collaboration between teachers and administrators. The Workshop produced agreement on the part of the Superintendents to have further meetings concerning technology and education throughout the coming year, and to use a listserv to continue the discussions begun in Newport.
Distance Learning: Trends, Questions and More Questions. Presented May 6, 1997 at Ohio SchoolNet's "Sharing the Vision: High Performance Technology for High Performance Learning," Columbus OH.
Prepared for a state-wide forum on distance learning, hosted by Ohio SchoolNet, this presentation was designed to raise serious questions about the rationale for, and design of, distance learning (or tele-learning) projects, and to suggest ways to move from traditional distance learning models (e.g. one-way broadcasts) to more collaborative, less "programmed" models.
Information and Collaboration on the Web. Presented March 6, 1997, at the Tech Corps Technology Seminar, in Providence RI.
Presented to a group of teachers, technology coordinators and administrators from throughout Rhode Island, this slide is designed as an introduction to the Web as both an information resource and an opportunity for collaborative work, both in the construction of distributed curriculum and in the carrying out of project-based teaching and learning.
WWW Notes for SMART Teachers. Presented January 11, 1997, at the Winter Conference of the Rhode Island SMART Teachers, at the University of Rhode Island, in Kingston RI.
This presentation was prepared for the bi-annual conference of teachers in the SMART project, one of Rhode Island's most successful teaching with technology projects. The slide emphasizes types of Web publication, the opportunity for teacher collaboration, and the premilimary results of our NetTech work on Hypermedia, Teaching and Technology.
WWW for AISR at STG. Presented September 8, 1996 to the Research Fellows of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, in Providence RI.
This presentation was both an introduction to the Web, for many of the Fellows unfamiliar with the Internet, as well as a discussion of the possibilities for collaborative work offered by networked technologies.
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