Browse by Goal: Interact

Help students to engage, collaborate, or connect with others or with learning materials. “Interact” falls within the “responding to phenomena” category in Bloom’s Affective Domain, is an example of “learning about oneself and others” in the “human dimension” category of Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning, and is suggested by standard 4 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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EMBEDDED CHAT WIDGET

Add a chat widget to a course iSite or your LibGuide to enable students to chat with you in real time over the web. To build your own, see HELPFUL TIPS, below.
Example:

See also: Online Resources for Music Scholars Guide, Library Research Guide for South Asian, Sanskrit and Indian Studies


Type:
Widget

Learning Goals: Especially recommended to help students ask research questions or interact with a librarian, among other things.

Estimated Production Time:  1-2 hours

Recommended Software: Meebo, AIM

Publication Options: Can be integrated into HCL LibGuides, FAS course iSites, and most other web pages by simply adding a bit of HTML code.

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

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LIBRARIAN PROFILE WIDGET

Create a librarian profile topic box in iSites and share it into a course iSite to let students know who their library research contact or liaison is and how to get in touch. Including your photograph adds a personal touch and is highly recommended. To build your own, see HELPFUL TIPS, below.


Example:
iSites:


See Also: LibGuides Example 1, LibGuides Example 2, LibGuides Example 3

Type: Widget 

Learning Goals: Especially recommended to help students ask for research assistance, interact with a librarian, and value librarian expertise.

Estimated Production Time:  15 min.

Recommended Software: for image editing - Photoshop or Fireworks; for embedding - No special software required (use iSites or LibGuides)

Publication Options: This topic box can, with faculty permission, easily be added to course iSites. LibGuides, by default, have a librarian profile box. 

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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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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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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PREZI

A web-based presentation application and storytelling tool that uses a single canvas instead of traditional slides. Text, images, videos and other presentation objects are placed on the infinite canvas and grouped together in frames. The canvas allows users to create non-linear presentations, where they can zoom in and out of a visual map. To build your own, see HELPFUL TIPS, below.
Example:



See also: Prezi: Technology for the Classroom


Type:
Slide Show

Learning Goals: Especially recommended to help students analyze or understand part-to-whole relationships. If used as an active-learning tool, Prezi can encourage interaction through its non-sequential display capabilities.

Estimated Production Time:  1-2 weeks

Recommended Software: No special software required (Use Prezi)

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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SHARED REFWORKS LIBRARY

RefShare provides RefWorks users with a quick and easy way to share their research information, further enhancing collaborative research. Users can share their RefWorks references with both members of their own institution and globally with any researcher having Internet access. To build your own shared database, see HELPFUL TIPS, below.
Example:



See also: Plug & Play Virtual Library.


Type:
Database


Learning Goals: Especially recommended to help students devise/create their own bibliographies, give feedback on selected resources in their own or others' bibliographies (through comments), interact with one another's bibliographies, and organize/manage references.

Estimated Production Time:  Sharing takes 10 min. (Production time varies for building the RefWorks database behind RefShare.)

Recommended Software: No special software required (use RefWorks).

Publication Options: Can exist as a stand-along web page or integrated into HCL LibGuides or course iSites using an iFrame.

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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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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