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Session Title: Creating New Distance Education Opportunities with Expanded Technology Use (1.5 total hours)
An innovative session will combine a 15-minute workshop on pedagogical uses of visualizing twitter data with 3 pecha kucha (20 slides in 6 minutes) presentations on innovative uses of technology in distance education. [The phrase Ignite talks also describes this presentation style.] Participants will be encouraged to tweet during the 3 presentations and discussion that follows each will focus on the tweets and other questions that emerge. A wrap-up at the end will assess the use of the twitter visualization and the implementation of these technologies in distance education.
Participants will learn and practice twitter data visualization. The presenters will experiment with pecha kucha style presentations. Interactivity will be encouraged during the presentations, between them, and following them.
The session will be technology intensive because it will require two presentation set-ups, one for the presenters and one for the twitter feed monitoring. The SIG convener can supply one of the projectors but a second screen would be necessary or a very large single screen. Additionally, it would be ideal if a good wifi connection were available in the presentation room, since many tweet using that technology. If it is not, only those with smart phone connections could participate.
Workshop Presentation: 15 minutes
Title: Social Media, Education, and the Language of the Eye: Visualizing Twitter Data to Enhance Student Learning
Presenter: Sharon Stoerger, Ph.D. Instructional Design Consultant and Adjunct Instructor: School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Pecha Kucha Presentations: 6 minutes each presentation, 10 minute discussion
1) Title: Building a Virtual Computing Laboratory (VCL) for Online Education in LIS
Presenters: Susan W. Alman and Christinger Tomer, University of Pittsburgh
2) Title: Student Research Presentations in a Virtual World Environment
Presenter: Valerie Hill, Doctoral Candidate, Texas Woman's University School of Library and Information Studies
3) Title: From Consumers To Creators:Collaborative Digital Preservation Projects In A Graduate LIS Setting
Presenters: Bernadette G. Callery and Christinger Tomer, University of Pittsburgh
Discussion and Wrap-up: 20-30 minutes
Moderator will lead a discussion of the effectiveness of twitter visualization for discussion facilitation and learning.