Browse by Goal: Get Excited

Help students become interested and aware, or become motivated about something. This may be reflected in the form of new feelings or behaviors. “Get Excited” falls within the “responding to phenomena” category in Bloom’s Affective Domain, is an example of “caring” in Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning, and is suggested by standard 3 of the Information Literacy Competency Standards. See “Browse by Goal” for more information.

CHOOSE-YOUR-OWN-ADVENTURE MOVIE

A short, interactive movie created for research instruction, outreach, or orientation. To build your own, see HELPFUL TIPS, below.
Example: The full movie and accompanying credits are also available.


Type:
Video, Classroom Response System

Learning Goals: Especially recommended to help students interact with the learning material, give feedback, value or get excited about featured content, identify or differentiate between information resources, strategize approaches to research (such as critical evaluation, etc.), among other things. Caveat: Use judiciously; this approach requires that students will be motivated to watch an interactive, nonlinear, moving presentation. It may also consume class time.

Estimated Production Time:  2-3 months

Recommended Software: iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, Sony Vegas, or Final Cut, combined with Flash and/or DVD technology. Note: Hardware also recommended (clickers); contact Daniel Jamous (jamous@fas.harvard.edu) at ATG to borrow for use in Lamont B-30, where TurningPoint is already installed.

Publication Options: click to view

Experts, Consultants, & Collaborators: Michael Hemment, Paul Worster, Ramona Islam, Peter Reuell (For suggestions or questions from other colleagues, check for Comments at the bottom of this box, or add your own.)

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LIVE QUESTION TOOL

Live Question Tool is a web-based service that lets audience members at a presentation post questions for the speaker. As questions are added, other participants can submit comments and cast votes for the questions they hope to see answered first. To build your own, see HELPFUL TIPS, below. Also Try: http://www.tricider.com/ and http://atg.fas.harvard.edu/technology-categories/classroom-participation-and-polling
Example:


Type: Classroom Response System


Learning Goals: Especially recommended to help students anonymously ask questions during class (in hopes that they will receive answers that help them better understand the content), give feedback, and interact with the teacher and one another. Due to its novelty and interactivity, it also has special potential for helping students get excited about or value their learning, among other things. Caveat: Avoid usage when teaching material that requires focus and concentration or serious reflection.

Estimated Production Time:  10-15 min.

Recommended Software: No special software required. To create one, see the Live Question Tool Creation Area. See also: Piazza

Publication Options: N/A

Experts, Consultants, & Collaborators: TBA (For suggestions or questions from other colleagues, check for Comments at the bottom of this box, or add your own.)

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MOVIE

A short movie created for research instruction, outreach, or orientation. To build your own, see HELPFUL TIPS, below.
Example:


Type:
Video

Learning Goals: Especially recommended to help students value or get excited about featured content, identify or differentiate between information resources, strategize approaches to research (such as critical evaluation, etc.), among other things. Caveat: Use judiciously; this approach requires that students will be motivated to watch a linear, moving presentation.

Estimated Production Time:  3-4 weeks

Recommended Software: iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, Sony Vegas, or Final Cut

Publication Options: click to view

Experts, Consultants, & Collaborators: Michael Hemment, Paul Worster, Ramona Islam, Peter Reuell (For suggestions or questions from other colleagues, check for Comments at the bottom of this box, or add your own.)

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PERSONAL RESPONSE CLICKERS & LEARNING CATALYTICS

A useful tool for anonymously polling students and presenting their feedback to your questions during class. To build your own, see HELPFUL TIPS, below.
Example:


Type:
Classroom Response System

Learning Goals: Especially recommended to help students analyze and critically evaluate information or differentiate between types of information, give feedback, and interact with content and the ideas of their peers. Used properly, it may help students to get excited about the class.

Estimated Production Time:  3-4 hours

Recommended Software: Learning Catalytics (now aquired by Pearson) or TurningPoint (free download, for polling with handheld clickers, which you may borrow from Lamont B-30 or from ATG), or TurningPoint AnyWhere (free download, for polling via the Internet). See manuals. Lamont B-30 is already equipped with TurningPoint software on both Instructor PCs.

Publication Options: N/A

Experts, Consultants, & Collaborators: Daniel Jamous, ATG and Ramona Islam, HCL.

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VOICETHREAD

A collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows students to navigate pages and leave comments. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies. To build your own, see HELPFUL TIPS, below.
Example:

 


Type:
Slide Show

Learning Goals: Especially recommended to help students analyze, critically evaluate, understand, give feedback about, and use/search featured information resources, such as primary documents, images, videos, presentations, etc. VoiceThread may also encourage students to value or get excited about subject matter because it offers an opportunity to interact with content and with other students through webcam video, microphone, telephone, text, or image and through file uploads of their own.

Estimated Production Time:  2 weeks

Recommended Software: No special software required (Use VoiceThread)

Publication Options: click to view

Experts, Consultants, & Collaborators: TBA (For suggestions or questions from other colleagues, check for Comments at the bottom of this box, or add your own.)

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