This document discusses using mobile devices for teaching. It describes how presentation slides can be delivered to students via desktop computers or mobile devices. It also discusses using Twitter as a "backchannel" for students to discuss course content in real-time or after class. Concerns about using Twitter include ensuring discussions stay on topic. Classroom response systems that allow polling and surveys are also covered, along with examples of response systems like Poll Everywhere and Socrative. The document encourages trying activities where students evaluate response systems and create sample polls.

1. Teaching with Mobile Devices
Judith Logan
Reference Librarian, Robarts Library
Co-Chair Library Mobile Working
Group

2. What works for you
Today’s mantra

3. Presentation
delivery
Backchanne
l
Classroom
response
systems

4. http://bit.ly/15tbJZA
Folder for the class

5. PRESENTATION DELIVERY

6. Delivering presentations
SlideShar
k
Deskto Deskto Mobile
p only p with only
mobile
remote

7. Android: http://bit.ly/15tbJZA
iOS: open SlideShark

8. BACKCHANNEL

9. Definition
―Backchannel communication is a secondary
electronic conversation that takes place at
the same time as a conference session,
lecture, or instructor-led learning activity‖
(Educause)

10. Twitter
• Micro-blogging platform
• Follow and be followed
• Special features
– @messages
– #hashtags
– Stars
– Direct messages (DMs)

11. Hashtags
• Discoverable
• Contextual
• Expressive

13. Twitter adoption matrix
In-class Outside of class In-class directed
backchannel discussion discussion
Uses • Ad hoc class • Extend class • Guided questions
discussions discussion with student
• Real time • Communicate RE: responses
commenting readings or collected for later
• Recording assignments analysis
divergent
viewpoints
Benefits • Engages less vocal • Community • Engages all
students building students in
• Archives • Continuity b/w discussions in
ephemera class sessions large lecture
classes
(Reo & Sample)

14. You will need
1. Widespread Twitter use
2. Means of visualization
• Tweetflow
• revisit
• Tweetwall Pro $$
• Visible Tweets
• Twitter’s search

15. Would you consider using a
backchannel in your class?
Why or why not?
• Tweet your answer
• Hashtag #THE500
Visualiz
e

16. What do faculty think?
―I was super-nervous because to me,
teaching means a lot of talking—giving a
lecture or giving a discussion […]
I was worried that it would get out of control
and either be very much off-topic or nobody
would have anything to say.‖(Azevedo)

17. What do students think?
• "I'm not that outspoken in class, so I would
never ask a question out loud to the
professor.‖ (Young)
• ―I am completely overwhelmed by this
concept‖ (Azevedo)

18. Beware Tweckling
danah boyd at Web 2.0 Expo
http://youtu.be/tw6eh2-nxaA

19. CLASSROOM RESPONSE SYSTEMS

20. Clickers 2.0
Universidad de Navarra on
Flicker

21. Uses
(1)eliciting student feedback,
(2)identifying students' preconceptions and
assumptions about course material,
(3)facilitating opportunities for small- and
large-group discussions,
(4)improving social cohesion in the learning
community, and
(5)gathering anonymous data from students
to support conceptual application
(Hoekstra & Mollborn)

22. http://bit.ly/Za60Tb
Activity instructions

23. Activity
• Get into groups of four or five.
• One group member is the ―designated
Tweeter‖
– Capture the group’s discussions with tweets
throughout the activity.
– #THE500 hashtag
• Evaluate your assigned CRS.
• Set up a two or three question poll.
• Try to take the poll yourselves, too.
• We will take it up as a class.

24. Classroom Response Systems
• Poll Everywhere
• Socrative Teacher
• Google Moderator
• Class Pager
• Top Hat Monocle
• eClicker