1. IT Resources in Business and
Economics Teaching
Geoff Riley FRSA, Tutor2u and Eton College
Dubai, May 2013

2. A Selection of Tools for Continued
Professional Development and
Teaching / Learning in Economics
and Business
Geoff Riley FRSA, Tutor2u and Eton College
Dubai, May 2013

3. Welcome! Warm Up Quiz Question
 Which is the only country which can by typed on a
QWERTY keyboard using just a single row of
letters?
PER

4. Smart Searching!
 Which country is expected to have the highest rate
of unemployment in the world in 2013?
Greece?
27%
Djibouti
59%

6. A generation has grown up digital

8. Unlike some of us

9. Teaching Networks Really Do Matter!

10. Networked Teachers with Sharing Culture
“Austrian
Airlines has
become the
latest carrier to
start taking bids-
for-
beds, Passenger
s buying cheap
tickets for long-
haul flights via
Vienna are
invited to bid for
an upgrade to
the business
class cabin”

11. Network – Silicon Valley
“The smartest person in the room
isn’t the person standing at the front
lecturing us, and isn’t the collective
wisdom of those in the room. The
smartest person in the room is the
room itself” David Weinberger

12. Student
Blogs or
other
narrative
Collaborative
Apps Online
Practicals
and
Simulations
Student Apps
Mobile Online
Revision
Quizzes –
Games for
Learning
Flipped
Classroom
Resources
Problem
Based
Learning
Ultimate Aim:
Free Spirited
Learning
This is the age of shared learning

13. Many tools ... Here are a few I use

14. Wordle in Action from an A2 essay

15. Is the UK better off outside the Euro?

16. Snag-It – Screen Capture – Resource Creation

17. Survey Monkey: Polls
 Student surveys on courses
 Gathering opinions on a topic, an issue in the news

18. Zondle: Games for Learning

19. Zondle: The JCB Quiz

20. Zondle – Currencies of the World

21. Discover Your Inner Twitter

22. Twitter: Connecting with a Community

23. Twitter: Connecting with Subject Experts

24. Twitterverse for Economics and Business

25. Keeping Pace: Investor Relations Sites
 Often provide excellent market / industry research
 Rich seam of data for class assignments / discussion
 Free alternative to expensive commercial research

26. Example: RyanAir & Low Cost Airlines

27. RyanAir

28. Sharing: Slide Share

29. Scoop It

30. Scoop It: OCR Labour Markets

31. Scoop It – Pre U Microeconomics

32. Access to Macro Data: Trading Economics

33. World Bank Data & Visualisation Tools

34. Data Tools on the World Bank Site

35. Info Graphics

36. Info-graphics Tools: E.g. Info Gram
 Range of free tools
for creating info-
graphics
 Have good data!
 Experiment with
adding online video
content, photos, extra
text
 Save in different
formats
 Flip – task the
students to create
their own!
 Competition for the

37. Prezi: An Alternative to PowerPoint

38. Mind-Mapping Software Tools

39. Student Support and Enrichment
 Many opportunities for departments to embrace
social media to provide study support for students
 Exam confidence
 Background resources / lesson materials
 Subject enrichment
 University advice
 Student voice & engagement

40. Aquinas Economics Blog

41. Aquinas Resources

42. Econ Fix – Mark Johnston (New Zealand)

43. Examples of student blogs

44. Greenhead College

45. You Tube Channels – Lesson Starters
 Short clips to stimulate discussion
 Bridging clips for consolidating concepts
 Link to an old fashioned activity like “talk about it”

46. The Power of Clips and Images

47. News and Analysis Podcasts

48. Online Courses for Students and Teachers

49. Development Economics Course

50. Poor Economics (MIT)

51. Resource and Data Rich Websites
 CEP: http://cep.lse.ac.uk/
 OECD Observer
 World Bank Data and Research
 Project Syndicate: http://www.project-syndicate.org/
 IMF Finance and Development Magazine
 BBC World Business Report
 Vox: EU http://www.voxeu.eu/columns/topics
 Trading Economics:
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/
 FT: Beyond the BRICs: http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-
brics/

52. The Open Web of Learning is Here