Listly: Learning Design Example Activity for Incorporation of Social Media into T/L

You may not have heard of List.ly yet--I had not actually before I opted to review this tool. If you're looking for a mechanism to incorporate social media, this is one to evaluate. In considering a possible activity incorporating one of the volumes of social media tools available, I felt this particular tool held a tremendous amount of value dependent on how it is implemented.

In the link below, I outlined possible applications for this tool.

Link to learning design document:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3n7-Sg9tVMnU0hrVzBUeDhqS2c/view?usp=sharing  

See earlier blog posts for more detail on the List.ly tool, as well.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

10 Tips for Using Video in your Classroom

Image
With so many new technologies, it can be difficult to know what things to incorporate and when. One of the best tools that you can use in your classroom (no matter the format- online, hybrid, traditional, or flex) are video lectures or presentations. Recording your lectures has a variety of benefits for both you and your students. Say goodbye to long lecture videos! Are you recording lectures that are 40 minutes long? Throat sore from talking too much? If your lectures can fit in smaller chunks, it is beneficial for both you and your students to trim them down! This doesn’t mean throwing out valuable content or talking faster, instead, you may just need to focus on certain concepts in one video. If Chapter 1 has three important ideas, then you may want to break that lecture down into three separate parts. This makes the content easier for students to digest, and more meaningful for them in the long run. Don’t be afrai...
Read more

Curation Tools in HE--Listing with List.ly

List.ly, among many popular curation-driven social media platforms, offers what appears to be useful opportunities for teaching and learning. The main plus to utilizing this tool appears to be collaboration opportunities. For example, in a course encouraging students to learn more about instructional design in education, one might assign list.ly and have students search for pre-made lists, and either note these, or append to them to encourage collaboration outside of the traditional or online classroom environment. Further, students would be able to search for a list and finding it missing, fill in knowledge gaps by creating their own. Here is one example that I found relating to this proposed scenario:  http://list.ly/list/zL0-teachers-as-designers-resources-to-inspire-in-week-3?feature=search Evaluation of the tool itself: List.ly is simple to create, as it allows you to generate the account by linking to other SM accounts. Further, it allows you to follow lists already mad...
Read more

National Distance Learning Week Begins Next Week

Image
     Monday, November 6th kicks off National Distance Learning Week 2017 (NDLW). NDLW is a time to celebrate online learning; a week to recognize the best practices and tools that are relevant to online learning. The Coastal Office of Online Learning (COOL) will be joining the Distance Learning Association in celebrating NDLW. COOL will be blogging and posting on social media each day about great tips and tools that can enhance students online learning experience. COOL will also be hosting an Exemplary Course Showcase to recognize faculty who have designed online courses that exceed the standards set forth by the CCU Quality Assurance Inventory tool. This event will be held Tuesday, November 7th from 4-6 and is open to all CCU faculty to attend. Be sure to follow us on social media to read more about NDLW 2017.
Read more