I’m an Experimenter!

A response to the I’m an Experimenter! Activity
created November 3, 2021 by Angie Covey (@acovey)

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I’m an Experimenter!

Which three experimenter activities did you choose to complete and why? Include links to your Activity Bank responses.

I chose the three following activities:

Identify and explain three overall lessons learned from experimenting with these three activities. How might you use these activities going forward in your teaching practice?

- - I found that using these free online tools can and will add a lot of user interaction within a course. They are fun to use to build material, as well as fun for the students to use.
  - They are very user friendly. You can create visually pleasing material with not a lot of effort.
  - I found that not only can an instructor use these tools to create material for their course, but you can also use them as a “teaching” tool for students to use.

You were asked to complete at least one experimenter activity on a tablet or a smartphone. Identify the activity completed and on what type of mobile device? Then, identify and explain the advantages and challenges of using this technology tool on a mobile device. Comment on how you might plan for an upcoming assignment to be completed on a tablet or a smartphone. Explain the steps you might take in making access to these devices available to all students.

- - I used my smartphone to complete the “more than Quizzes” using Quizlet. I found that using my smartphone did not hinder at all creating and completing the different sets. I feel a good way you could incorporate using this tool with a class would be to have all the students log in at the same time, have them possibly work alone, in pairs, or even as a group, and use the different study or testing styles with the tool.

Using a mobile device, camera, or screencasting software highlighted in the Online lecture toolkit to create a short 2-3 minute video of yourself:

The Extend Activity Bank