Using ClassroomSalon for Blended Learning
Submission Type
Event
Abstract
ClassroomSalon is a social commenting that embeds a group discussion into a shared text or video. Viewers can associate their comments with particular lines of a text or points on a video, and instructors can embed questions that students must answer by drawing on the text. In this presentation, one of ClassroomSalon's founders, Ananda Gunawardena, demonstrates recent updates to the interface, new PDF capabilities, and discusses ways faculty have used the tool to both foster and measure student engagement. Markus Kreuzer, a professor of political science at Villanova University, presents some concrete examples of how he has used Classroom Salon to foster discussion in graduate and under-graduate level courses and to embed assessment questions into a video for a flipped-classroom approach.
Location
Thomas 110
Event Website
http://www.classroomsalon.org/
Start Date
5-21-2013 11:30 AM
End Date
5-21-2013 12:00 PM
Using ClassroomSalon for Blended Learning
Thomas 110
ClassroomSalon is a social commenting that embeds a group discussion into a shared text or video. Viewers can associate their comments with particular lines of a text or points on a video, and instructors can embed questions that students must answer by drawing on the text. In this presentation, one of ClassroomSalon's founders, Ananda Gunawardena, demonstrates recent updates to the interface, new PDF capabilities, and discusses ways faculty have used the tool to both foster and measure student engagement. Markus Kreuzer, a professor of political science at Villanova University, presents some concrete examples of how he has used Classroom Salon to foster discussion in graduate and under-graduate level courses and to embed assessment questions into a video for a flipped-classroom approach.
https://repository.brynmawr.edu/blended_learning/2013/2013/15
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Ananda Gunawardena is an associate teaching professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2008, he began working with fellow CMU professor of English, David Kaufer, to develop a software platform for group textual analysis. Salon is currently used by over tens of thousands teachers and students all over the world. Marcus Kreuzer is the Graduate Director and an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Villanova University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on comparative politics, primarily in twentieth-century Europe. He also teaches research methods and disciplinary writing at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.