Hi Ryan,I was just trying to figure out which website I wanted to discuss as a part of the "learning/teaching styles" segment. At first, I thought this site on urban development might be a great exampel for visual learning and collaboration, since the main focus is displaying the materials created from each student group.It's one of the examples from the list from Day 1 under "Teaching/Learning Activities: What do you want to use technology for?" It's under Collaborative learning,Visions for a Sustainable City.
As I looked at the site, it seems to be a better candidate for a thought experiment in which we suggest how it might be improved by using the various other technical elements we're going to talk about during the workshop. For example, we get to see the finished produce (drawings, mostly) of each of the groups in the class. But it's mostly pictures. Imagine a blog in which we could see the thoughts developing–students hashing out the focus of each poster. Or if there were a collaborative group document so we could see who contributed what idea. This site seems more exciting for what this 1995 site could be more than ten years later. What do you think?
Well, I think I've found the website I'd like to use as an example for teaching/learning styles. It's from the AmCS 330 course on Hurricane Katrina. (Is it too late to invite the instructors to the panel discussion, I wonder?). What's interesting is that there's a website and a telesis site for the course–an implict argument that each of these technology resources have different purposes. I imagine the webisite as a public face–the PR site. And the Telesis site as the in-house, private, logistical, detailed site. You can log onto the Katrina Telesis site as a guest (yeah!) but some of the elements are grayed out–I'm not sure if that's because the guest status doesn't allow you to look at them or if they are features the instructors decided not to use. Check it out if you have a chance: http://artsci.wustl.edu/amcs/courses/amcs330/index.html CB
Sorry to run this on so long–can we move this conversation from the mainpage to somewhere else? I tried to create a new catagory “Creating the GSSW sites,” but it shows up on the main site, too.
Anyway, do you think we should add a link to the AmCS site under the GSSW 2006 main site? Maybe under the links to the inventory? We should give participants time to click around and explore the sites before we open it up for group discussion. I’m a bit concerned, though, that we might run over time if we review two sites as examples for implicit teaching/learning styles.
I’ll see what I can do about moving things around, Courtney, but the nature of this kind of blog usually means that everything shows up on the main page and is only divisible later by tagged category (once it’s dropped off the list of, say, 10 most recent posts).
The AmCS site looks fantastic! I think it’s great that they used podcasts, too. Hopefully Kathy can get us permission to see the Telesis site as non-guest members of some kind.