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Digital Discourse: Designing the Global Classroom Through Social Media


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Contribute to our evolving collection of social media tools for addressing these common elements of course design. Add your course(s) and suggestions below.


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DIgital Imaging (Freshmen)

Amanda Robertson, Instructor

Cathi Phillips, Instructional Desginer
WordPress , public space for assignments, syllabus, course tools and resources

Moodle private space for quizzes, grades

Twitter for announcements, updates and reminders

YouTube for technical instruction, ongoing video communication, feedback and reflections on projects

Google Analytics to view variety of access by global visitors

Tag Clouds, such as Wordle to visualize text, e.g., blogs, discussions
WordPress public space for sharing student design work, thoughts, and ideas with the global design community, and bringing in news, ongoing info on exhibits and lectures from that wider community

Ning , private space for buddy support, individual introductions, creating group "critters" as a creative activity to get to know each other

Second Life as a fun way to hold critique and share ideas.
diigo for developing and sharing a library of online resources

VoiceThread, for sharing individual work, student to instructor as well as student to student feedback on individual work, and student evaluations of historical examples of work (asynchronous)

WordPress, for posting student final work on each assignment for student to student and instructor to student feedback on final work

YouTube for posting student project videos

Second Life , for sharing individual work and student to instructor and student to student feedback on work (synchronous)
Ning , used for group collaboration to support written research and design collaboration

WordPress , using a wiki to post group research for projects





Teaching Young Adult Literature (Graduate-level)

Cris Crissman, Instructor

Cathi Phillips, Instructional Desginer
Second Life for
LIVE Classes
(seminars, guest speakers, sharing projects)
VoiceThread for introductions around a course-related theme. Check out our Journey Book Introductory VoiceThread

Second Life for getting to know each other and interacting with guest speakers
YouTube for publishing book club multimedia responses to a class group (Please visit) and for screening these bookcasts in Second Life for LIVE Classes
Ning for initiating &
organizing book clubs
and for planning and previewing book club multimedia responses
(bookcasts)





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