Introduction

When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.

Randy Pausch (Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams)


Instructional Technology is a complex, integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas, devices, and organization for analyzing problems, and devising, implementing, evaluating, and managing solutions to these problems.

Association for Educational Communications and Technology (1996)

OBJECTIVES

Student will examine presentation: Methods course orientation, preparing for school visits, and background checks, oh my!

Student will identify the class website Basic Instructional Technology for Educational Settings (BITES)

Student will inspect the BITES instructional module suite site course metrics.

Student will examine the course Syllabus.

Student will complete the prescribed number of individual Field Experiences.

Student will evaluate the prescribed number of Cultural Events.

Student will establish communication with course instructor.

Student will complete the Introduction Quiz.

ASSIGNMENTS

 and/or view Basic Instructional Technology for Educational Settings (BITES) introduction video
This intro video is a remix of the EDUC 211 Q and A Zoom meeting Spring 2022. View if you missed the original lecture or are curious about the website creation assignment. Most of content is still accurate.

Topic and Times

Assignments 00:17

Introduction 25:06

Creating a website 49:58 

INSTRUCTION

RESOURCES

Support for UNC Asheville students

D. Hiden Ramsey Library

"You can also check out video cameras, tripods, and microphones at the library circulation desk."

Media Design Lab (Media Stuff)

CrAFT Studio (multi-use creativity studio)

Site-Licensed Software

(As a current student or faculty/staff member of UNC Asheville you have access to select software titles either free or at significant discounts.)

UNC Asheville Department of Education - Help Center

Department information: edTPA, Instructional Design, Knowledgebase, Lesson Plans, Tools. Topic suggestions accepted.

OPTIONAL CONTENT (by optional I mean not required but maybe be of interest to some)

Research Article: The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking (by Pam A. Mueller and Daniel M. Oppenheimer)

Abstract

Taking notes on laptops rather than in longhand is increasingly common. Many researchers have suggested that laptop note taking is less effective than longhand note taking for learning. Prior studies have primarily focused on students’ capacity for multitasking and distraction when using laptops. The present research suggests that even when laptops are used solely to take notes, they may still be impairing learning because their use results in shallower processing. In three studies, we found that students who took notes on laptops performed worse on conceptual questions than students who took notes longhand. We show that whereas taking more notes can be beneficial, laptop note takers’ tendency to transcribe lectures verbatim rather than processing information and reframing it in their own words is detrimental to learning. 

Archive PDF version UNCA access only

Off Task

How did the Apollo flight computers get men to the moon and back ?  Smartphone vs NASA going to the moon computers