Pedagogy / Teaching with Technology

Laptop Requirement in CEHSP (Goes into Effect Fall 2008)

• Laptop Requirement effective Fall 2008, and Recommendations

Slides from Technology Presentations for Faculty (Spring 2008)

• Faculty Orientation to the Laptop Requirement (PowerPoint document)
• Teaching with Laptops (Helen Mongan-Rallis) (PDF document)
• Teaching with Laptops (Terrie Shannon) (PowerPoint document)

Laptop Initiatives Elsewhere

• Ubiquitous Laptop Computing: Lessons Learned by Early Adopters (Educause)
• Dartmouth College Laptop Program

Best Practices: Technology in Teaching and Learning

• MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (great list of resources for teaching using technology)
• Seven Practices of Good Undergraduate Education (American Association for Higher Education Bulletin)
• Assuring that the Online Course is Ready for Prime Time (San Diego Community College District - Word document)
• Online Teaching and Learning (University of Maryland)
• Storyboarding to Success: How to Begin Building Your Online Course (University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Georgia State University - Word document)

Best Practices: Course Management Systems (WebCT/Moodle)

• Best Practices from New Mexico Highlands University (PDF document)
• Best Practices from Howard Community College

Backup Plans - When Online Resource Fail

These links offer help about what to do when things go wrong.

• When Things Go Wrong (from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• A Dozen Things that Can Go Wrong in an Online Course (from eLearn Magazine)

Teachable Moments with Laptops

These links describe inspirational best practices that work when using technology in teaching.

• Blog of Teachable Moments Using Technology

Useful Information Regarding Laptop Requirements

Laptop Requirement: Abuses, Multitasking and Boundaries

These links describe issues concerning abuses with laptops in classrooms and how to address them, and contain language that can be used in syllabi.

• Distractions in the Wireless Classroom (Chronicle Careers)
• Student Multitasking (Masters Thesis - large PDF document)

Wireless in the Classroom - from the University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Advice for Students
• Advice for Faculty

Engaging Students with Laptops

These links will offer help on how to engage students in and out of the class using technology.

• Teaching Naked: Why Removing Technology from your Classroom Will Improve Student Learning (National Teaching and Learning Forum)

How-to Links

• How-to Links from Helen Mongan-Rallis