revised presentation the use of disruptive net-based tools to re-imagine
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The Use of Disruptive Net-Based Tools to Re-imagine
The Teaching of Business Communication: Emerged and Emerging Opportunities
Dr. James (Skip) WardAssistant Professor of Management and Marketing
Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas [email protected]
Educational institutions are preparing learners for employment opportunities which do not yet exist, using digital tools not yet invented.
•The printing press forced society to re-imagine how knowledge was disseminated and eventually ushered in vast societal and political change.
•Emerged and emerging tools of the Digital Age require a re-imagining of higher education.
Three Digital Tools: The -ed and the -ing
•Student-generated YouTube videos. Emerged
•Student-generated Linoit sites-Emerging
•Faculty-generated smart phone apps to support courses-Emerging
Lessons Learned: Student-Generated YouTubes
•How tos not an issue•Camera/Sound advice•Dress advice•Ahaaa for students- virtual teams exist!•Set up of a team presentation
•Team member A introduces him or herself, provides the names of the other team members as well as the title of the topics, and then addresses the information they are presenting. At the conclusion, they introduce the next team member and what they will address.
•Team member B provides an introduction and presents his/her information, and at the conclusion of the segment introduces the next speaker.
•The final speaker ends with a brief summary of what they have shared as a whole.
Student-Generated Linoit Sites- “Sticky Note Board”
http://linoit.com/home/canvasesPreferences
Lessons Learned: Linoit Sites
What have been your ahaaa moments thus far in this class?
Student-generated communication materials to support on campus NextGen speakers
Other Potential Uses
•Team presentation of information to support an Executive Summary- Reinforces team skills- charter, R&R, OTIF
•Pre-reads for courses in the flipped classroom mode
Faculty-Generated Smart Phone Apps
•Native and mobile web apps
•I am in V3 of my NextGen Business Communication App., (Google Mobile- out three weeks! Moving from wix.com)
https://twitter.com/NextGenBizComm
Links to articles, videos, photos, podcasts
Faculty-Generated Podcasts via SoundCloud
How many plays (19 on 03/10/2013), who is following, access via app or laptop https://soundcloud.com/stream
http://www.youtube.com/user/Lessonsfromthefield?feature=mhee
Faculty-Generated YouTube Videos
Smart Phone Apps: What’s next?
Student-created smart phone apps as well as faculty developed iPad apps for specific courses.
Early definition of what these apps might look (October 2012.
American Telephone and Telegraph, the National Archives, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, the Foundation for the National Archives and the Kennedy Library Foundation partnered to create a multi-media app, To the Brink, to support an exhibit at the National Archives, "To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis"
Research Recommendation
Media Ecology and the re-imaging of learning in higher education
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