Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Planning
- Delivery
- Activities
- 51 Action learning
- 52 Amplifying your teaching
- 53 Audio feedback
- 54 Bibliographies
- 55 Blogs
- 56 Brainstorming
- 57 Building blocks
- 58 Buzz groups
- 59 Card sorting
- 60 Case studies
- 61 Cephalonian method
- 62 Checklists
- 63 Design briefs
- 64 Discussions
- 65 Dividing the dots
- 66 Drawing the line
- 67 Fear cards
- 68 Future scenarios
- 69 Games
- 70 Goldfish bowl
- 71 Guided tours
- 72 Hands-on workshops
- 73 Ice-breakers
- 74 Interviewing
- 75 Jigsaws
- 76 Lectures
- 77 Mind maps
- 78 Multiple-choice questions
- 79 Peer assessment
- 80 Podcasts
- 81 Portfolios
- 82 Poster tours
- 83 Presentations by learners
- 84 Problem-based learning (PBL)
- 85 Pub quizzes
- 86 Questionnaires
- 87 Quizzes
- 88 Self-assessment
- 89 Self-guided tours
- 90 Social bookmarking
- 91 Stop, Start, Continue feedback
- 92 Storytelling
- 93 Technology-enhanced learning (TEL)
- 94 Treasure hunt
- 95 Video
- 96 Virtual learning environments (VLEs) (or learning management systems, LMSs)
- 97 Visiting lecturers/guest speakers
- 98 Voting systems
- 99 WebQuests
- 100 Wikis
- 101 Worksheets
- Index
52 - Amplifying your teaching
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Planning
- Delivery
- Activities
- 51 Action learning
- 52 Amplifying your teaching
- 53 Audio feedback
- 54 Bibliographies
- 55 Blogs
- 56 Brainstorming
- 57 Building blocks
- 58 Buzz groups
- 59 Card sorting
- 60 Case studies
- 61 Cephalonian method
- 62 Checklists
- 63 Design briefs
- 64 Discussions
- 65 Dividing the dots
- 66 Drawing the line
- 67 Fear cards
- 68 Future scenarios
- 69 Games
- 70 Goldfish bowl
- 71 Guided tours
- 72 Hands-on workshops
- 73 Ice-breakers
- 74 Interviewing
- 75 Jigsaws
- 76 Lectures
- 77 Mind maps
- 78 Multiple-choice questions
- 79 Peer assessment
- 80 Podcasts
- 81 Portfolios
- 82 Poster tours
- 83 Presentations by learners
- 84 Problem-based learning (PBL)
- 85 Pub quizzes
- 86 Questionnaires
- 87 Quizzes
- 88 Self-assessment
- 89 Self-guided tours
- 90 Social bookmarking
- 91 Stop, Start, Continue feedback
- 92 Storytelling
- 93 Technology-enhanced learning (TEL)
- 94 Treasure hunt
- 95 Video
- 96 Virtual learning environments (VLEs) (or learning management systems, LMSs)
- 97 Visiting lecturers/guest speakers
- 98 Voting systems
- 99 WebQuests
- 100 Wikis
- 101 Worksheets
- Index
Summary
Amplified teaching uses social media to extend the learning and teaching event more actively to all participants within and beyond a single physical location and the designated course attendees.
Event amplification is now ubiquitous, with the greatest volumes of coverage around major political events, celebrity news and controversial television programmes. In the library and information sector context, popular demonstrations in defence of libraries have been amplified (so participants in a sit-in are Tweeting what is happening or uploading their video diaries). On a more day-to-day level, some form of amplification is common at professional conferences or even unconferences (participant-driven meetings that do not follow a standard conference format).
The first step in doing this successfully is to assign a clear, unambiguous name to the session. If using Twitter, this will need to be in the form of a hashtag (#), which is usually an acronym for an event; for example, #lat10 for ‘Librarians as Teachers 2010’. Preferably, keep such tags short, as they will use up valuable character space in Tweets. Amplification can be achieved in a number of ways:
Recording the event
• Amplification of the teacher's input: using video and audio streaming technologies can make it possible for anyone not physically present in a classroom to hear what the teacher is saying. This is often most effective when the teacher's input is in the form of a talk or lecture, but it can also be used for question and answer sessions. It can be less effective in open discussions or workshops. This is very often used at large conferences. Sometimes you may need to pay a fee to subscribe to any live streaming.
• Amplification of the teacher's slides and any written output: any slides or presentation content can be made available via the conference website (sometimes for a fee), via a global repository service for presentations, such as SlideShare (www.slideshare.net), or within a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) (also known as a Learning Management System or LMS).
• Amplification across time: the lecture or talk can be made available for a finite or undefined period by using podcasting or videocasting and by maintaining an archive copy.
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