Leveraging Mobile to Increase Student Engagement

Make your course content more accessible and increase student engagement by leveraging mobile devices and social media tools to communicate lessons, readings, assignments and feedback to students in and out of the traditional classroom. In this workshop we will go over how to make your course content mobile friendly and accessible to students outside of the classroom. Leverage social media and social media tools to keep students informed, engaged and interacting with content, peers and you (the instructor).

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1. Leveraging mobile to increase student engagement Andrew Smyk PSUWeb Conference 2013 Guacamelee copyright Juice Box Games
2. Leveraging mobile to increase student engagement Andrew Smyk HighWeb Ed – Arkansas July 27, 2012 Andrew Smyk Program Coordinator twitter: @andrewsmyk Interactive Multimedia Sheridan College
3. Leveraging mobile to increase student engagement Andrew Smyk HighWeb Ed – Arkansas July 27, 2012 New technologies
5. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thetriggerhappypenguin/5141870424
6. 6 6 Comfy? Let’s begin
7. Content Knowledge 1.1 @**$#?!?
8. 8 #icantbelievehejustusedaninvertedgutwrenchpowerbomb beinchargeofyou.com
10. Professors With Personal Tweets Get High Credibility Marks http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/professors-with-personal-tweets-get-high-credibility-marks/30635
11. Content Knowledge 1.6 4.8 No Twitter With Twitter
12. What do the slate tablet, pencil, calculator, laptop and cell phones all have in common?
13. What do the slate tablet, pencil, calculator, laptop and cell phones all have in common?
27. .5% of students will sign up for general SMS notifications about class
30. 98%
31. 98% of students will sign up for SMS notifications if it about cancelling class
33. Broadcasting and communicating needs to be focused and strategic
34. •Folding Chalk Board + •Face Time
35. •Folding Chalk Board + •Face Time Building relationships with technology
36. Leveraging mobile to increase student engagement Andrew Smyk HighWeb Ed – Arkansas July 27, 2012 Learning Management Systems
37. Leveraging mobile to increase student engagement Andrew Smyk HighWeb Ed – Arkansas July 27, 2012 Become a LMS Luchador
38. Black Box your LMS is a
39. Clear Box build a experience
40. What about my mobile LMS app?
42. But it’s a world
43. can’t participate
46. #ffly #rwd
47. • responsive Wordpress themes • responsive boiler plates • responsive frameworks
50. What to learners/students want? Presentation/ Attractiveness Content Access Communicative Enablement Technical Functionality Learner Support July – September 2004: International Journal on E-Learning Alex Koohang & Jacques De Plessis
51. It’s all about the Content and content access
52. Create opportunities for full (contact) interaction with your course content
53. Multi-sensory experiences enhance interaction and the relationship with content
56. The higher the number of devices you can reach, the higher the engagement with your course content.
57. access = engagement (that’s pedagogy, baby!)
58. 58 Free-roaming learners Anytime, Anywhere
59. Mobile has become the student’s first choice for internet access - NMC Horizons Technologies Report 2011
60. 48% of 18 to 29-year-olds, a mobile phone is the primary way of getting online - Cell Internet Use 2012 – Pew Internet
61. 90 percent of young people sleep next to their cell phones – Pew Research Center The Databank
62. 90 percent of young people sleep next to their cell phones – Pew Research Center The Databank
63. Pivot, Snack, Burst
64. students “snack” in bed and more often during times of boredom
65. 4 in 10 4 in 10 students do last second prep on a phone before a test - Hack College Survey students do last second prep on a phone before a test - Hack College Survey
66. students do last second prep on a phone before a test - Hack College Survey
67. Quality of Content 1.2 4.6 Strictly LMS Mobile Friendly Built in Bias?
68. Forge ahead
69. Make mistakes
70. Stay calm
71. There is no road map
76. • encourage tweeting • provide a hashtag • post tweets relevant to content • retweet relevant student tweets* • acknowledge student work*
84. 44% of its active user base access FB using mobile
85. • posting class notices • responding to student questions • general topic conversations • providing resources
86. Communications .8 4.2 email social media
87. Ethnography • text • email • camera
89. Examples of evolving user interfaces (photo journal)
93. It’s OK to make mistakes, this is not brain surgery (Unless you are actually doing brain surgery)
94. Students will forgive mistakes, when trying to implement something new. (You will get lots of feedback how to make it better) (Unless you’ve performed brain surgery on said students)
96. Leveraging mobile to increase student engagement Andrew Smyk HighWeb Ed – Arkansas July 27, 2012 Questions? Comments? twitter: @andrewsmyk andrew@andrewsmyk.com
98. Resources & Credits • http://www.flickr.com/photos/21976482@N04/3244983458/sizes/z/in/photostream/ - treasure - Piotr Lewand • http://www.flickr.com/photos/cavercaroline/4425551695/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - phone in bed - Caroline Caver • http://www.flickr.com/photos/photogirlaz/4524779331/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - sleeping - Photo Girl AZ • http://www.flickr.com/photos/hackny/5607484228/ - Lecture Hall – Hack NY • http://www.flickr.com/photos/threehundredsixtyfive/3506146606/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - chalkboard - Unique Apple • http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosipaw/4328473236/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - cellphones - Rosie Paw • http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenccwu/3403571542/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - student surfing – Stehpen CC Wu • http://farm1.static.flickr.com/178/437300414_c9c2c0ef78_b.jpg - payphone keyboard • http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrycady/5399344827/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - Stanton Cady - speakers • http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubagallery/3986524856/sizes/o/in/photostream/ - Cuba Gallery - old radio • http://www.flickr.com/photos/leehaywood/7509715314/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - Lee Haywood - military radio • http://www.flickr.com/photos/vincetemplement/3333125657/sizes/z/in/photostream/ - zombie - Vince Templement • http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopherw/536546030/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - messy room - Christopher Woods • http://www.flickr.com/photos/margolove/2309415588/ - Chalk Board –Margolove • http://www.flickr.com/photos/lyza/7382255242/ Trail of Devices – Lyza Danger • Cellphones in a Pile - Courtesy Geitan Lee, flickr.com • Blackboard Mobile Learning - http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Mobile/Products/Mobile-Learn.aspx • Professors With Personal Tweets Get High Credibility Marks • Essential Elements of Digital Literacies • Cell Internet Use • NMC Horizons Technologies Report 2011 • Educating for innovation • Architecting Usability Properties in the E-Learning Instructional Design Process