look for BYTE 3/95 New Models of Learning

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Irene Smith (hypermedia workshop)


Nice analogy- Look at Authoring in terms of
Threshhold vs Ceiling...
Digital Chisel has low thresh-hold but very low ceiling
HyperCard has higher thresh-hold but much higher ceiling

Students see their work as being a document to be shared
Students become recognized experts
Students learn communication for "real" world

Must be able to stand and defind their decisions

Design process:
1. Choose topic
2. List ~10 Questions ("What do I want to learn about ____?")
3. Group/cluster the question into categories- This provides
overall structure.
4. Structre the answers under these categories
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Helen Barret (alternative assessment workshop)


PaperPort Scanner $300

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Sat Am session on Instructional Tech Center at middle Tennessee university

contact Sandra Smith  for ideas on faculty development,
multimedia production, more on uses of laptops
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Keynote Speaker Ben Schiederman (check spelling) University of MD
CIS instructor

"Engagement and Construction"
Finally, an energetic moving speaker, actually has inflection in his voice!

http://www.cs.umd.edu/??

"I don't want my students 'surfing' the Net; I want them making waves"

Working in groups to create something not possible by individual effort
Creating- not Reading/Browsing

"It is no fun to be victim of a machine"

Tech Infusion Steps
1. Start now and Experiment
2. Think it through carefully
3. Notice your own frustration
4. Report [share] your results
5. So ir Better next time

E-mail for discussion is now a low cost/high result medium
1/10 groups have trouble in collaboration
one grade for entire team
Produce products/objects of meaning to others

Engagement in the Real World
to create something that has meaning to someone else (not just created for 
instructor) "authentic" problems- "service oriented team projects"
teams driven by ambitious projects

AT&T Learning Environment (was Technology Theatre)
future classroom. Powerful hardware/software, 20 student stations, networked,
Monitors partially recessed inot desk top (but not under glass) for visual
contact, large desk area. CPUs stored in racks with server in next room! teacher's station with dual 
screen projectors, control panel to display on screens or all users screens
either his screen or any screen of any user. Instructor can also take control
of users screen for demo-ing (ala Timbuktu)

Foinds that 2 at a computer are better than 1 or 3

USe as design studio- assignment to design GUI interface- instructor uses system
to display each students work (like critique in art class!)

Dist Ed class with 12 students in room and 12 others in other states, some with
7 day delay on satellite feed (no live feedback). Students each created 1-2 minute
VHS as introduction. E-mail beacme primary resource. Created web pages in fall 1993

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Story-telling siftware and project from Hawaii- e-mail for beta test of software 
for summer project at SMCC. Done in SuperCard- final in ScriptX or mTropolis. 
Part of interesting collaboarattion between indeustry and education called
MIDAS- Multimedia Industry Develeops Academic Software ??? Sonsored by State 
education department.

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NECC Boring Sessions!

I will slip comatose if I attend another session where a presenter boldly proclaims
"The Sage on the Stage must give away to the Guide on the Side" and then proceeds
to turn down the lights, flip on the projector, and monotonely lectures to a nodding
choir.

Too much HyperCard... where is the cutting edge? anyone can write a home page, big
deal.