The Sloan Consortium hosted this webinar that provided an overview of the digital makeover that Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives for learning has undergone. The Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Pyramid makes thinking about technology tools in this context a breeze. This session explored how they can be used at various levels on the digital taxonomy to encourage higher level thinking and problem solving. This session also provided faculty with some creative and innovative ideas for integrating Web 2.0 tools at each level.

Introduction to Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy is located here.

Interactive Bloom’s Revised Digital Taxonomy – one version located here.

APPLYING

http://bubbl.us – Anatomy & Physiology students collaborate in a course using this free resource. Students are assigned specific areas – and areas are left blank – which require students to insert specific information (such as the anatomical part and the physiology of it).

http://www.twitter.com – Using Twitter as a public service announcement. Students must learn how to use Twitter and compose a PSA in 140 characters or less. Screenings (cholesterol, cancer, diabetes, prostate, etc…) are assigned to students. They then had to use Twitter to indicate why it was important to do a screening.

http://www.letterpop.com – great way for students to compose a newsletter and demonstrate they understand the information

Voki or VoiceBoards (integrated in some versions of Blackboard) or AudioBoo –  – use this for medical terminology. Students submit all their assignments using one of the three tools. In a survey, 96% said they wanted to have this used more, because they were able to hear the instructor pronounce the word.

Screencast-o-matic – can do presenting and show their work. Similar to Jing. Free to use, but for $15 can do closed captioning. Similar to using Snag-It or Camtasia. In anatomy/physiology have screenshots and students are required to go in and indicate where the origin of the problem was.

ANALYZING

Google Docs

Create-a-Graph or other infograph tool

RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service located here.

Vizualize.me

Webinar facilitator: Dr. Julia VanderMolen is the Department Coordinator and Assistant Professor for Science and Health Online at Davenport University, Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is a 2011 Teaching Excellence Award and 2012 Blackboard Exemplary Course Award winner. She has expertise in online learning and currently provides expertise to the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) as a member of the research committee for best teacher education practice. She graduated with a Ph.D in Educational Leadership with an emphasis in Career and Technical Education from Western Michigan University. She has a M.Ed in Educational Technology from Grand Valley State University and a MA in Health Science from the University of Alabama. She has presented at a number of conferences on the topic of educational technology and online learning.