New England Faculty Development Consortium

Reclaiming Innovation: Promoting Student Ownership of Learning through Social Media

November 13, 2015 New England Institute of Technology East Greenwich, Rhode Island

Conference Overview

8:00 Continental Breakfast Service Begins 8:30 – 9:00 Conference Registration 9:00 – 9:15 Welcome and Introductions 9:15 – 10:30 Keynote Address Justin Reich, Executive Director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab, Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of , and Lecturer in the Scheller Teacher Education Program at MIT

10:30 – 10:45 Break 10:45 – 11:40 Concurrent Session 1 11:40 – 12:45 Lunch 12:45 – 1:40 Concurrent Session 2 1:40 – 1:55 Break 1:55 – 3:10 Workshops 3:10 – 4:30 Poster Session; Wine and Cheese Reception

9:00 – 9:15 Welcome and Introductions (Room N206)

Tom Thibodeau, Program Chair Dakin Burdick, NEFDC President

9:15 – 10:30 Keynote Address by Dr. Justin Reich

Dr. Reich will explore alternatives to learning management systems and the benefits of giving students control over the means of their intellectual production.

10:30 – 10:45 Break

10:45 – 11:40 Concurrent Session 1

Room N212 - Creative Teaching Linda Del Vecchio-Gilbert ([email protected]) - New England Institute of Technology

Participants at this session will be discuss creative, innovative methods of teaching to promote optimal learning and will learn how to apply a variety of methods of teaching with integrating virtual journal, book, and movie clubs.

Room N213 - Survive or Die: An Active Learning Exercise Chad Raymond ([email protected]) -

Simulations, role-play, and games are increasingly becoming an important part of the college instructor’s pedagogical repertoire. In terms of classroom engagement, skill development, and the understanding of content, these methods can have a demonstrable impact on students. This interactive sessions introduces faculty members to the benefits and drawbacks of simulations as well as practical tips for employing them in the classroom. Participants will play different versions of the quickly-learned Survive or Die card game. The experience of playing the game will provide insights into how this form of active learning can be applied across many different academic disciplines.

Room S105J - Faculty-Centered Teaching Development: The Role of the Institution in Supporting Learner-Centered Teaching Emilie Clucas ([email protected]) -

This interactive session will facilitate participants’ learning and sharing about current practices related to supporting learner-centered teaching development among faculty at their institution. Faculty will be encouraged to reflect on their own teaching and discuss what has (or has not) influenced them to commit to developing a learner-centered approach. Findings from a doctoral dissertation will be briefly explored and discussed. The strategies used during this session will embody the five tenets of learner-centered teaching, according to Weimer (2002) and Blumberg’s (2008) definition.

Room S207 - Enhancing Learning & Engagement through Video Assignments Francis Melaragni ([email protected]), Lana Dvorkin Camiel ([email protected]) - MCPHS University

MCPHS University students were surveyed in 2014 about their preferences regarding educational technology. Over 80% indicated videos from TED or YouTube are highly effective tools in learning. We have several courses that successfully utilize social media tools to engage students. Based on the literature, up to 65% of people are considered visual learners. Learning how to create assignments that target visual learning style is essential for educators interested in student engagement and creativity. Highly engaged students are more likely to retain concepts learned in the course long-term and become life-long learners.

Room S207 - Kahoot! An App to Motivate, Teach, and Assess Heidi Allen ([email protected]) - New England Institute of Technology

Kahoot! is a game-based blended learning platform that can be used on a smartphone or computer, allowing both educators and students to research, create, collaborate and share knowledge. This presentation explores the possible uses of Kahoot! for student learning and engagement. Participants will play Kahoot! as students and learn to create a Kahoot! for their own classroom. Kahoot! is not a social media tool but there is a social element. The quizzes, discussions and surveys created in Kahoots! can be shared within Kahoot! itself, or on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

Room S215 - Minute-Minded: Engaging Users in 60 Seconds with Powtoon Lindsey Gumb ([email protected]) - Roger Williams University

You don’t need expensive software and a degree in animation to create engaging educational tutorials for your students: all you need is a learning outcome and a little creativity! This workshop will introduce users to Powtoon Animation Software to create short, engaging, and educational videos for student learning. Participants will learn the basics of using Powtoon, as well as the fundamentals of planning, scripting, and publishing to Youtube. Walk away from this workshop with the knowledge and confidence to embed your new videos into your teaching using social media or your LMS!

Room S228 - LinkedIn to Teach Concise Writing, Ethics, & Professionalism Arlene Nicholas ([email protected]) - Salve Regina University

More than a “resume that never sleeps,” LinkedIn can be used for researching people, jobs and possible internship opportunities. This social media tool also requires students to develop concise, clear and dynamic writing skills. Studies support the benefits of students using social media for serious business applications and learning accountable behavior. Teaching LinkedIn can create critical awareness of using positive, truthful and conscientious words that are disseminated to the world. This session is an interactive opportunity for learning and integrating LinkedIn into the classroom.

11:40 – 12:45 Lunch

12:45 – 1:40 Concurrent Session 2

Room N212 - Collaborative Learning through a Practice of Creation Anthony Mangieri ([email protected]) - Salve Regina University Rachel Foulk ([email protected]) - Ferris State University

Are students in your classes passive “consumers” of course content or are they innovative creators? This session explores how to use a practice of creation as a way to empower students to take ownership of their own learning experiences. We will discuss how group projects that require students to create something foster an in-depth understanding of a subject or problem. In this teaching strategy, social media becomes a forum through which students can share their “creation,” such as a photograph, video, or computer model or simulation. In short, we demonstrate how the historical craft of “making” can be translated into a classroom practice that engages students in innovative ways.

Room N213 - Learning through Social Storytelling Tools Sandra Mohr ([email protected]), Jonathan Small ([email protected]) - Wentworth Institute of Technology

Are you looking for ways to engage your students during the learning process? Storytelling has been a powerful tool for centuries that can be used in the learning process. Have you thought about including storytelling in your teaching toolbox? Learn how technology allows us to electronically use storytelling as part of an engaging and interactive learning process for our students.

Room S105J - The Road to Innovation begins with Faculty Development Annette Torrey ([email protected]), Laura O'Toole ([email protected]), Michelle Lariviere ([email protected]) - Salve Regina University

Every campus has innovative instructors and champions of pedagogical change, but they are often isolated with a small sphere of influence. To have a substantial impact on students, new pedagogies have to infiltrate an entire department or campus, which requires a team effort of faculty, administration and support staff for success. This session presents a framework to help innovative pedagogies spread on your campus. We’ll discuss leveraging opportunities for change, tapping existing resources, and using backward design for a faculty development program to achieve your outcomes.

Room S207 - Get to the Point: The Twitter Book Review Todd Harris ([email protected]) - Bridgewater State University

In the Spring of 2015, I began to experiment with the use of Twitter in a number of my upper-level Management courses. The Twitter-related assignment that appeared to work best, based on both student feedback data and my own observations, required students to convert a 1,000 word "traditional" book review of a Leadership-themed book of their choosing into a series of Tweets, culminating in one Tweet that captured the central essence of the book. Students in the class then voted on one another's Tweets, with a small prize awarded to the top three vote-getters.

Room S207 - Using Twitter to Encourage Effective Research Techniques Paul Barrio ([email protected]), Carrie Salazar ([email protected]) - Middlesex Community College

Examine how using Twitter can help students learn about current social events and build upon current conversations and research to create a proposed program in response. This presentation will describe the research scaffolding and how students create the connection between the scholarly article and Twitter.

Room S215 - (De)Constructing Identity Through Social Media Kellie Deys ([email protected]), James Deys ([email protected]) -

Social media offers the potential for creative modes of learning that address the changing needs of students. Too often, though, students do not consciously reflect on the implications of social media. Asking students to analyze the conventions of social media, we aim to understand how/why we engage in this mode of communication and identity building. Ultimately, we hope students become better critical thinkers by analyzing how identity is constructed through different social media, and, as a result, engage more purposefully with social media and their own learning. We will share easily adaptable assignments aimed at deconstructing the conception of social media.

Room S215 - Facebook in the Classroom John Szymkowicz ([email protected]) - New England Institute of Technology

This session will address the use of social media as an out-of-class engagement tool. User groups on Facebook can be used to increase student interaction through the creation of “works-in-progress” to be critiqued by their peers. Use of Facebook will be contrasted with the use of an LMS for similar ends, and participants will learn how to set up and enroll students into Facebook groups.

Room S228 - The Problem Space: Moving Beyond the Case Study Linda Grisham ([email protected]) - Bay Community College

This session examines the design and use of a Problem Space as a tool to promote student ownership of learning as well as to develop critical thinking and deep, subject-matter understanding. Students are given an open-ended, real-world challenge to research using the rich resources, data analysis and visualization tools provided in the Problem Space. They select their own questions to answer as opposed to being given specific questions to evaluate from a case study’s packet of information. The use of resources for Problem Spaces in science, history and social sciences will be presented.

Room S228 - Blogging Their Way to Understanding Learning Donna Qualters ([email protected]) -

Classrooms are really about learning, not teaching! While our students have been in classrooms for most of their lives, many have not taken the time to think about their own learning preferences and what they should do to adjust their study habits for more effective learning. This teaching tip will demonstrate how blogging to learn gave students the opportunity to think about their own struggles to understand their learning preferences, discuss those with classmates and use this information going forward.

1:40 – 1:55 Break

1:55 – 3:10 Workshops

Room N212 - Digital Filmmaking & Community-Based Engagement Pedagogy Bridget Franco ([email protected]) - College of the Holy Cross

I will present the overall organization of a course which fused the mastery of digital technology with focused language (cinematography in Spanish) through the development of a short documentary or promotional film for a local community organization serving Spanish-speaking populations. The first part of the session will explain the implementation of this blended learning model and assess the specific outcomes for this type of community engagement pedagogical model. The second part of the session will be a hands-on introduction to using the iPad and iMovie for student-produced short films. BYOD (bring your own device); we will work in small groups to include participants without iPads.

Room N213 - The Pedagogy of Creativity & Innovation Myra Edelstein ([email protected]) - Salve Regina University

This fun, interactive, engaging and memorable workshop will demonstrate the pedagogy of creativity and innovation. Both practical and entertaining, this workshop will give you tools & techniques your students need for creative problem solving - individually, in class or in teams. Improve student outcomes by deliberately facilitating productive, creative and innovative lessons. Learn the thinking skills students need to practice creative problem solving. In this workshop participants will practice at least 5 creativity techniques to encourage innovative thinking in any discipline.

Room S105J - How to Use Social Media Advocacy to Inspire Engagement William Murphy ([email protected]) - New England Institute of Technology

Social media like Twitter and Facebook provide excellent opportunities for inspiring passionate engagement in significant learning and civic participation. College students are familiar with social media and invested in using it as a learning tool. Workshop participants will: (1) review assignments that offer students opportunities to advocate for issues they care about using social media, (2) participate in social media advocacy dialogue, (3) create an assignment for one of their courses, and (4) use digital tools to submit and discuss questions both during and after the session.

Room S215 - Prezi-Collaborative Presenting Unleashed Jamie Kleinman ([email protected]) - University of Connecticut

During this workshop, Jamie Kleinman, recently named to the International Prezi Educators’ Society will guide participants through a number of sample Prezis and lead a discussion about the pros and cons of different features. Participants will create two Prezis during the session using templates and images that will be provided. They will receive technical assistance from Jamie and at the conclusion of the workshop, participants will come together and discuss ways that they might consider integrating Prezi into their courses, for example by using it during their lectures or by having their students use Prezi to create work products.

3:05 – 4:30 Poster Session and Wine and Cheese Reception, Room S330

Digital Simulation to Enhance Critical Assessment Skills Sharon Stager ([email protected]) - Salve Regina University

A simulated patient within a computer-based, asynchronous program was integrated into a hybrid RN to BSN physical assessment course. It was found that simulation provides a venue for the RN to BSN student to evaluate and develop a knowledge base and critical thinking in an innovative, hybrid educational environment. The limitations of the simulated clinical experience include a divide of student’s chronological age, technological abilities, clinical experience, and the individual’s recognition of the need for specific skills and knowledge acquisition.

Engaging in Positive Activities to Enhance Learning Joanne Walsh ([email protected]) - New England Institute of Technology

Empirical research in positive psychology has been conducted using positive interventions in a variety of situations with differing samples of participants. School students have benefited from positive interventions by increases in love of learning, improved focus and creativity. This session aims to make our students users of positive interventions in order to increase their motivational levels to learn while simultaneously reducing stress. This session will provide educators with the background, experience and tools to engage students in these interventions.

Improved Adjunct Support Approaches Terry D. Pardoe ([email protected]) - Nashua Community College

Courseware materials, hardcopy items, computerized support, and brief attendee workshops can be developed for a limited number of technology based classes. These materials and support provide up to date materials to hard pressed technical adjuncts.

Learning Beyond the Classroom Heather Tillberg-Webb ([email protected]), Amy Rutstein-Riley ([email protected]), Susan Patterson ([email protected]) -

Three case studies of instructional use of social media -- Lesley's Girlhood Project, an online graduate Education course, and an undergraduate online Communications course -- highlight how social media can engage learners, give them ownership of learning, extend the classroom walls, and demonstrate knowledge-sharing and creation in a real-world context. Best practices for designing learning activities with social media are discussed.

The Use of Social Media in the Classroom Krista Hill Cummings ([email protected]), Kathleen Ferris-Costa ([email protected]) - Bridgewater State University

Despite the increasing use of social media in the classroom, the majority of faculty members are not using social media as a learning tool. Research from 2013 indicates that one of the barriers to faculty use of social media is the time commitment required to learn how to use these platforms. The purpose of our presentation is to discuss why social media tools should be utilized in online and mixed method courses and to demonstrate multiple ways of using these tools effectively.

Using Audio/Video Apps to Engage and Motivate Students Thomasena Shaw ([email protected]) - Bridgewater State University

Research (and our personal experiences as instructors) indicates that the traditional format classroom – one that emphasizes required readings, multiple choice tests and professor as font of all knowledge - just doesn't work. What’s the alternative? A more interactive, technology-enhanced classroom where critical thinking, motivation and engagement are promoted. This session identifies how the integration of audio and video technologies into the classroom can help instructors improve engagement, satisfaction, and learning.

Using Experiential Teaching to Master Student Learning Nadia Abgrab Noormohamed ([email protected]) - Salve Regina University

Working with problems and/or opportunities of local clients, creates for real-time hands-on class involvement.

Conference Planning Grid 9:00-9:15 Welcome & Introductions, Room N206 9:15-10:30 -- Keynote Address by Dr. Justin Reich, Room N206 10:30-10:45 -- Break 10:45-11:40 -- Concurrent Session 1 N212 N213 S105J S207 S215 S228 Creative Teaching: Survive or Die: An Faculty-Centered Enhancing Learning and Minute-minded: LinkedIn to Teach Virtual Journal, Book, & Active Learning Development: The Role Engagement through Engaging Users in 60 Concise Writing, Ethics Movie Clubs Exercise of the Institution in Video Assignments Seconds with Powtoon & Professionalism Supporting Learning- Kahoot!: An App to Centered Teaching Motivate, Teach, and Assess 11:40-12:45 -- Lunch in the Tech Diner 12:45-1:40 – Concurrent Session 2 N212 N213 S105J S207 S215 S228 Collaborative Learning Learning through Social The Road to Innovation Get to the Point: The (De)Constructing The Problem Space: through a Practice of Storytelling Tools begins with Faculty Twitter Book Review Identity through Social Moving Beyond the Creation Development Media Case Study Using Twitter to Facebook in the Blogging their Way to Encourage Effective Classroom Understanding Research Techniques Learning

1:40-1:55 – Break

1:55-3:10 – Workshops N212 N213 S105J S215 Digital Filmmaking & The Pedagogy of How to Use Social Prezi-Collaborative Community-Based Creativity & Innovation Media Advocacy to Presenting Unleashed Engagement Pedagogy Inspire Engagement

3:10-4:30 – Poster Session and Wine and Cheese Reception, Room S330

NEFDC Spring Conference Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Inclusive Excellence: Teaching and Learning in an Increasingly Interconnected World

Tufts University - Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex

Keynote Speaker: L. Lee Knefelkamp

Professor of Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University Senior Fellow, Office of Integrative Liberal Learning & the Global Commons AAC&U

For 30 years, Dr. Knefelkamp has researched & written about student intellectual, ethical, identity & intercultural development; curriculum transformation; issues of race, ethnicity, & gender; campus climate assessment; the psychology of organizational change & resistance to change.

NEFDC is pleased to announce a collaboration with Tufts University’s Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching and Educational Technology Services for this conference.

The New England Faculty Development Consortium (NEFDC) was founded in 1998 as a not-for-profit, regional organization dedicated to enhancing the professional development of faculty and administrators committed to excellence in teaching and learning. The consortium membership includes individuals and institutions, and both private and public colleges and universities throughout New England and beyond.