Program for Online Teaching Newsletters
October 2010
http://www.miracosta.edu/onlineteaching
Our First Friday simul-learn sessions offer the opportunity to attend a workshop either in person (at OC4610) or online (via Elluminate in Bb9 -- no log-in required!). Sessions run 2:30-3:30 pm:
Oct 1: Jim Sullivan: Online Quizzes — Implications for On-site and Online Classes
Our next two sessions
are:
Nov 5: Christine Moore: Teaching through
Discussion
Dec 3: Pilar Hernandez and Lisa
M Lane: The Interactive Syllabus
See the POT
page for more information and workshop
descriptions, and be sure to register in advance
at the flex
website (on-site seating is limited!).
Many of our online instructors have been asking for a way to meet each other on campus and exchange ideas in person. Laura Paciorek will be leading our new F2F series of workshops. The first one is next Tuesday!
Tentative Date and Time: Tuesday,
October 5, 2010 from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Location: To be announced (see the flex
website after Wednesday)
This month's face-to-face get-together will focus on presentations, specific presentation tools (e.g., Prezi), and how to set up presentations while keeping pedagogy in mind. Please come with thoughts about presentations, examples of your own presentations (a computer will be available), and/or questions about presentations. The main focus will be on sharing and learning from one another. Future face-to-face get-together topics and possible dates/times will also be discussed.
Plan ahead for January 20, when POT plans to offer an all-day workshop for novice and beginning online instructors.
This workshop will go from the basics to creating elements for an online class, and will be led by some of MiraCosta's most experienced online instructors. Stay tuned...
For intermediate and advanced online instructors, our focus will shift to our First Friday simul-learn sessions and more online workshops, where more advanced techniques will be explored in the online environment.
The heart of MCC's online learning community is the Pedagogy First! blog.
Even if you are not enrolled to earn a POT certificate, you should consider joining the conversation -- it is open to all online instructors of all levels. We currently have two cohorts of MiraCostans posting weekly with advice, questions, and examples of what they're doing online. You can just read or subscribe. Anyone may add comments -- please join us!
All the videos from our Fall 2010 MiniConference are now available at the Recordings & Videos page on the POT website:
Social Justice and Online Learning (with Jim Sullivan)
Basic Online Pedagogy (with Jill Malone)
Be Certifiable: POT's Online Teaching Certificate (with Pilar Hernandez)
The Zen of PowerPoint (with Sam Arenivar)
Current Trends in Online Teaching (with Lisa M Lane)
A few videos have been passcoded at the request of the presenter -- please email for the passcode.
Karen Korstad is working with POT to create self-guided and assessed tutorials to help faculty train in use of Blackboard 9. Units will be available for self-paced learning and assessment results that can be shared with others. More on this as it develops....
Faculty who want to upload or update their current MCC web page should check out Karen's new video tutorials on how to do this with free software:
These and other valuable tutorials are available at the POT site.
Kristi Reyes and Eli Clarke are
offering two CLC workshops this fall:
Workshop 1: Publisher (for Syllabi,
class newsletters, and instructional materials)
Thursday, October 7, 2010 from 11:45 AM – 1:15
PM
Workshop 2: Make Online Exercises,
Quizzes and Study Aides using online tools
Thursday, November18, 2010 from 4:15 – 5:45
PM
Happy online teaching,
Lisa
Our First Friday simulcast sessions
offer the opportunity to attend a workshop either
in person (at OC4610) or online (via Elluminate).
Sessions run 2:30-3:30 pm:
Sept 3: Robert Kelley: Multimedia E-books
(with Barbara McPherson)
Oct 1: Jim Sullivan: Online Quizzes — Implications
for On-site and Online Classes
Nov 5: Christine Moore: Teaching through Discussion
Dec 3: Pilar Hernandez and Lisa M Lane: The
Interactive Syllabus
See the POT
page for more information and workshop
descriptions, and be sure to register in advance
at the flex
website (on-site seating is limited!).
Great Workshops at the CLC
Kristi Reyes and Eli Clarke again
work their magic at two CLC workshops this fall:
Workshop 1: Publisher (for
Syllabi, class newsletters, and instructional
materials)
Thursday, October 7, 2010 from 11:45 AM – 1:15
PM
Workshop 2: Make Online Exercises,
Quizzes and Study Aides using online tools
Thursday, November18, 2010 from 4:15 – 5:45
PM
POT, the "Practical" Workshop and the Importance
of Play
We had a number of requests at the MiniConference in August to please offer more "how to" and "practical" workshops in technologies for both on-site and online teaching. We understand! That's why, during the MiniConference, the 4622 lab was set up with over a dozen cool tools, complete with accounts to sign in immediately and play with these technologies. Yet few came to play. :-(
Unlike old-style software that you
pay hundreds of dollars for and that come in
a box, many of today's web programs are easy-to-use
and simpler, often focusing on just one thing
(create a slideshow, share bookmarks, edit a
photo, create a web page). All you have to do
to learn them is play. Here's our
list of cool apps from the MiniConference --
won't you give them a try?
For the more complex programs, many tutorials
are available online via YouTube and
elsewhere, including POT's
own website. We also have extensive
recordings about using these technologies for
classes, both in video and webcast formats.
Self-guided learning via the web is a very important
skill for online teachers to cultivate, and
we provide the resources to do it.
Exploring Cool Tools
In addition, POT's Certificate program offers weekly, independent exploration and practice with many different tools. You can join us in exploring these, even if you aren't part of the Certificate pathway, by using any cohort's task list. Join us in exploring these technologies!
We have also updated our Tools list on the POT website with all the tools offered for exploration and discussed at the our many workshops, including links to Jing, Prezi, Piknik, Diigo and much much more!
Got Blackboard? Need training?
The Program for Online Teaching
does make some distinction between pedagogical guidance (faculty
teaching faculty about instructional theory
and practice in technology-based environments)
and training (hands-on workshops about
particular technologies, which buttons to press).
Training for college-supported technology at
MiraCosta is offered by our wonderful AIS staff. Karen
Korstad offers workshops in Blackboard,
as well as sitting down with faculty individually
to help their training. Robert
Erichsen is MCC's expert in universal
design, to help us reach all students.
They are our go-to, how-to people.
Subscribe to the POT site
Did you know you can subscribe to
the POT site, so you know when new videos, tools
and information are posted? Just look for the
Subscribe box to get the news via email or feed.
Interested in ePortfolios?
A new Google Group is forming, moderated
by Patty Donohue at the California Virtual Campus. Their
description: "The purpose of this group is to
build a collaborative community of California
faculty, students, institutions, and industry
leaders, interested in the evolution and exploration
of electronic portfolios in education. This
group is open to the public and we encourage
your participation." Join by requesting at the
Google Group site: http://bit.ly/ePortfolio.
Upcoming Conferences
Two great conferences, but at the same time!
* Jossey-Bass online conference: Oct 19-21 http://2010.onlineteachingandlearning.com/program/
* NMC 2010 Symposium for the Future: Oct 19-21 http://www.nmc.org/2010-future-symposium
"Teaching with Technology" flex day is Thursday!
Come join us at Oceanside campus
(labs 4607-4610-4622 and classroom T-413) for
sessions focused on the pedagogy of using internet
technology for teaching. Some sessions are totally
full -- signing up early is important for POT
workshops!
Sessions include:
Be Certifiable: POT's Online Teaching
Certificate
How Do I Fix That?
Students as Creators
Social Justice and Online Learning
The Zen of PowerPoint (full!)
Drop-in Workshop
Show and Tell with Jing (full!)
Using Online Tools for On-site Classes (full!)
Brown Bag Chat
Collaborating Online
Basic Online Pedagogy
Current Trends in Online Teaching
Sign up for open sessions at the flex site: http://www.miracosta.edu/flex
Reminder: due to budget cuts, this is a brown bag lunch event! Please bring a lunch so you don't miss anything!
POT Website Updated
The POT site has been updated in a number of ways.
For Moodlers, there is now a direct link to Moodle Faculty Support.
A new (beta) forum page is there for questions and discussion.
New recordings and videos from this summer include:
And, we can now be found via the Search
page on MiraCosta's main web
site. Thanks, Zak!
Start Earning an Online Teaching Certificate: deadline is September 1 for Cohort #3
POT's third
cohort for earning
a certificate begins September 1.
If you would like to join the program, which
includes two semesters of extensive, guided
blogging and learning at Pedagogy
First!, please contact Lisa M. Lane
and Jim Sullivan to be added to the cohort.
Consider Updating Your Course Links
The Distance Education schedule page (aka the CyberCosta Page) lists all the online sections being offered. The default link for each goes to just a course description and SLOs, which can be frustrating for students seeking more information on your class.
Why not link your class to a welcoming information web page, or other place? AIS has posted instructions at:
How to update your classes on the CyberCosta schedule page .
If you've never created or updated a web page....
Great Tutorials on Creating, Editing and Uploading Web Pages
Want to update that old MCC home page with the outdated photo? And how do you get it on the web once you do? We have been hard at work creating video tutorials to help!
An online editor can be used to
create or edit pages: here's my
tutorial for how to do it using the
free Online HTML Editor.
Karen Korstad has created a great tutorial on uploading to the server for PC users: Uploading to MCC’s server from your computer. Instructions for Mac users will be coming soon!
Check out the
GIFTs
Great Ideas for Teaching's fall issue
features online teaching and is available free
online. See
https://www.miracosta.edu/StudentServices/WritingCenter/gifts.htm.
Special: Online
Teaching (Lisa M. Lane, Guest Editor)
9.2 Online
Community Building Organizing Principles Pilar
Hernández
9.3 Midwifery:
Encouraging and Grading Discussion in the Online
Class Louisa Moon
9.4 Using
a Wiki for Group Presentations Donna
Marqués
9.5 Teaching,
Learning, and Social Networking Jim
Sullivan
9.6 Screencasting
for Educators: Possibilities Robert
Kelley
9.7 Instructor
Presence and Communication with Students Lisa
M. Lane
Hooked on Ning?
A number of MCC instructors became hooked
on a wonderful web 2.0 social networking platform
called Ning,
and were using it to host both online and on-site
classes over the past several years. This summer,
Ning went for-profit, at unusually
high prices. A free "Ning Mini" can
be hosted
by Pearson publishing for educators.
For those who needed the more full-featured
Ning, AIS dean Mario Valente in consultation
with online dean Ric Matthews have found funding
for just a few accounts of Ning Plus, based
on faculty pleas over the summer. There is one
unclaimed Ning Plus account left -- contact
Ric Matthews if you've just gotta have it!
Online instructors now have
representation through MOE
The new MiraCosta Online Educators
ad hoc committee has formed to provide a faculty
voice in all issues pertaining to online teaching,
hybrid instruction, and teaching with technology.
As the committee gets started, you will have
an opportunity to have questions answered and
issues forwarded.
Happy online, hybrid and technology-enhanced
teaching!
Lisa
http://www.miracosta.edu/onlineteaching
First Friday Workshop May 7 - Certificate Cohort - Recordings and Flex - Fall POT MiniConference & Workshops - LMS News - Conferences and More
First Friday Workshop May 7 is on campus
and online
Using Online Resources for Professional Development: Teaching and Your Discipline
Friday, May 7 1:00-2:50 pm at Oceanside 4607 and in MCC's Moodle Elluminate
Not for online faculty only, but
everyone who wants to stay current in their
discipline and explore online resources. Join
us for this simultaneous in-person/online workshop
about exploring your discipline and your teaching,
and using online tools to keep track of what
you find. You can attend either at Oceanside
4607 or online (sign
in to the POT
Moodle site or enter as a Guest).
This is our first experiment in offering a "simulcast" workshop!
Sign up at the flex page.
New Cohort for the Certificate Program starts September 1
Join us on the pathway to an online
teaching certificate -- our third cohort begins
September 1. The certificate requires a number
of POT workshops and a blogging/community requirement,
where faculty explore online techniques and
technologies the first semester, and apply them
the second semester. See our certificate
page for more information.
Workshop recordings and flex credit
A lot of faculty watch videos and Elluminate recordings from sessions after they happen. You can now use such viewing for flex credit!
You can watch any of the recordings at the POT site (or other professional development sites approved by POT as indicated at the POT website) and count it as flex under Conference Attendance so long as the following conditions are met:
1. You post on the Pedagogy First! blog a reflection of 250 words (contact Jim Sullivan if you need an account at the blog), and
2. You add the URL of that post to the "Location" text box on the Conference Attendance form, and
3. As with other conferences, the work must be done outside of teaching hours.
Slides and materials from Shafin Ali's Camtasia session and Laura Paciorek's Connections in Online Classes are available at the POT site, as are many videos and recordings from previous sessions!
Fall Teaching with Technology MiniConference is Thursday, August 19
POT's fall MiniConference sessions will be ready for registration by June 1. Our tentative schedule is available at the POT site. Don't miss:
plus a Hanging Out Lab to try new things!
For fall semester, we are also planning cool workshops like:
Stay tuned!
LMS news
This just in: all the learning management systems currently used by faculty (Blackboard, Moodle, ETUDES-NG) will be funded for the 2010-11 school year. Thanks to Ric Matthews, Mario Valente and Pam Deegan for making this happen!
Conferences and online learning opportunities
The Online Teaching Conference 2010 is at San Diego City College June 16-18. It is sponsored by California Educational Technology Consortium (CETC), and Computer Using Educators (CUE), and contains many useful sessions at a fabulous price ($175 including food). For more information see http://otc10.org/ .
Among other @ONE workshops, 'Building Online Community with Social Media', offered by Michelle Pacansky-Brock, promises to be a really good online course August 2-27. See http://www.onefortraining.org/node/313 for more information.
Jump in to an open online course on the Future of Education, which runs now through June 7. The course will focus on developing methods and mechanisms for making sense of change patterns. Future-focused thinking is an important skill for all educators, leaders, and administrators. During the eight-weeks of this course, we will explore approaches to separating "the nonsense" from "the potential" proclamations of education's future. Just sign up for an account and go -- no formal registration or entry requirements. See http://www.edfutures.com/ for more information.
The Best Read this month is our very own Pedagogy First! blog, where candidates for the online teaching certificate have been posting tips, analyses and responses to the use of tools which can enhance on-site and online teaching. Take a look!
Happy (online) teaching,
Lisa
http://www.miracosta.edu/onlineteaching
First Friday Workshop April 9 -
Fall POT MiniConference - Online Writing Center
- Conferences - Good Reads
First Friday Workshop April 9 is online
Join us online for "Connections in Online Classes":
Friday, April 9 2:30-3:30 pm in MCC's Moodle Elluminate
Session leader Laura Paciorek writes: Since I started teaching online, I have been exploring the idea of how to connect with students in an online environment. There are six types of connections that I strive to facilitate in my classes. This workshop will highlight those six types of connections and some strategies that may work in fostering those connections. A brief literature review about connections in online courses will be shared as a part of this presentation. Sign up at the flex site.
(POT certificate designation OT100: Online Pedagogy)
Fall "Teaching with Technology" POT MiniConference is Thursday, August 19
Plan now to attend POT's fall MiniConference at Oceanside campus. Workshops will include:
plus a Hanging Out Lab to try new things!
Workshops will be available for sign up after May 1.
Online Writing Center Pilot
The Writing Center is developing an online writing center pilot program for next fall. This pilot is an asynchronous, Blackboard-based system which will allow online students to submit papers to the Writing Center and receive feedback within a 48 hour window (weekends excluded). Denise Stephenson is looking for a limited group of classes to pilot this program. Would you be interested and would your online students have need for such a service? If so, please contact Denise.
Conferences
Free to MiraCostans! The 15th Annual TechEd (Technology in Education) Conference & Exposition is being held April 11-13, 2010 at the Pasadena Convention Center. It has over 100 sessions related to technology in the learning environment including digital media, virtual learning, online educational resources, new & emerging technologies, social networking and more. To take advantage of this free registration, click here: http://www.techedevents.org/mcc/ and follow the step-by-step instructions.
Also free and amazing: The
Smithsonian offers a free online conference
to everyone in two sessions: April 13-14 and April 28-29. Problem
Solving with Smithsonian Experts would be great
for your students too. Smithsonian historians,
scientists, researchers and other experts share
their questions, their methods, and their unique
way of thinking in an interactive format that
welcomes you to contribute your own ideas. Sessions
include the American Experience, World Cultures,
the Mysteries of the Universe, and a Biodiverse
Planet. See http://www.smithsonianconference.org/expert/.
MoblEd10 is
a free mini-conference exploring the impact
of mobile technology’s impact on learning
and communication in the 21st century. The conference
will be held Monday evening, April 19th through
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010, at Pasadena
City College.
Enjoy three conferences for one price! The 2010
Western US MoodleMoot, MERLOT and
the Sloan
Consortium have joined to create
the 3rd
Annual Emerging Technologies for Online Learning
(ET4Online) Symposium. The symposium
will be held July 20-23, 2010 at the Fairmont
Hotel in San Jose.
Good Reads
What Is Human Presence as it applies to online
learning? Dr. Douglas E. Hersh, Dean of Educational
Programs and Technology at Santa
Barbara City College (SBCC) recently
completed a study addressing this question. Read
more...
Want to explore a vision of higher education
based on the way people learn in the new century?
Take a look at George Siemens' Handbook
of Emerging Technologies for Learning,
available free.
Happy (online) teaching!
Lisa
http://www.miracosta.edu/onlineteaching
First Friday Workshops - New community blog - New videos posted - Conferences - Convocation
First Friday Workshops March 5 and 19
"Google Docs in the Classroom"
Friday, March 5, 11:00-12:50, OC4607
Google Docs offers students and instructors
accessibility to documents over the internet
eliminating the need of sending multiple revisions
of the same document through email. Just think
of it: No more emails titled “final final
this is the real final draft.” In this
workshop learn about the functionality and freedom
google.docs offers your students while allowing
you, the instructor, full control over who can
see and edit each on-line document or presentation.
Skill will focus on how to create the docs and
how to guide students through the technology.
Discussion will focus on how to create community,
increase engagement and motivation as your students
can sign-on and collaborate together anytime
anywhere they can connect to the internet. With
Barbara McPherson.
POT certificate designation OT300: Technology
Applications
"Digital Storytelling"
Friday, March 19, 9 – 10:30 a.m., CLC Room 131
Digital stories multimedia projects
that combine audio (voice narration, music),
images and/or video, titles, special effects,
and transitions. Make learning outcomes memorable
by creating customized video content or by giving
students the ultimate opportunity to express
themselves creatively — with their own
voices, images they make or choose, music, and
more. Learn the steps of creating a digital
story, using Windows Movie Maker, and how to
render a project as a video file that can be
emailed or uploaded and shared on the Web. Find
out how digital stories can be used to assess
attainment of student learning outcomes across
the curriculum, in all disciplines. With Kristi
Reyes and Eli Clarke.
POT certificate designation OT100: Online Pedagogy
Sign up at the flex site: http://www.miracosta.edu/flex
Whole lotta
blogging going on
The new Pedagogy
First! blog is part of the Program
for Online Teaching certificate.
Certificate candidates experiment with teaching
technologies and blog about their experiences
each week for the first semester of the cohort
year.
The second certificate cohort has been blogging
like crazy, and is currently in Week 4, working
with Flickr images.
The blog is open to all -- please come comment
on the work of your fellow faculty authors!
Missed the spring MiniConference?
Many of the presentations were filmed and are
available online:
coming soon: Vibrant Online Discussions
with Julie Vignato
Spring is conference time!
International Online Conference (March
18-19)
A fully online conference for only $99, it's
the 8th annual Online Conference for Teaching
and Learning. A live program is included, where
distance participants can interact with the
presenters.
http://www.internationalonlineconference.org/
Contact me on this one -- we
might get a discount!
SITE Conference (March 29-April 2 in
San Diego)
Society for Information Technology and Teacher
Education
A large conference with lots of info: http://site.aace.org/conf/
TCC Online Conference (April 20-22 with
pre-conference April 7-8)
Worldwide conference out of the University of
Hawaii (don't you wish it weren't online?)
Video from other conferences
Many conferences now record and stream their
sessions, and the Instructional Technology Council
does it very well.
http://www.itcnetwork.org/
see "Web Stream of Featured Presentations"
Three sessions in particular are worth watching:
-- Online Facilitation 13 Years On: What
We Learned and What Do We Need to Learn? with
Nancy White
-- A Sermon: "For Who Hath Despised the Day
of Small Things?" with Jim Groom,
Instructional Technologist at UMW
-- Late Night Learning LIVE! (shameless
plug: in which my work is briefly mentioned)
with John Krutsch and Jared Stein, Instructional
Designers
Loved the POT video
at convocation?
Get some popcorn and see it again at our
Vimeo site or come by the POT
site -- everything is linked.
Happy online teaching!
Lisa
February 2010
http://www.miracosta.edu/onlineteaching
This newsletter is a little early because we
have a couple of things happening NOW! :-)
Planning to earn your POT online teaching certificate? Requirements include not only eight POT or POT-approved workshops in various topics, but weekly blogging at POT's new Pedagogy First! website for two semesters, completing tasks each week to help us explore the web and apply our particular pedagogical goals to teaching online.
To join the certificate cohort for this semester,
contact Lisa
M. Lane (enrollment) and Jim
Sullivan (blog master) by February 1.
Not ready yet? The next certificate cohort begins
September 1. See the POT
page for more info.
February 5, 11:00-12:50, OC4607 — Screencasting
for Teaching with Camtasia (with Shafin
Ali and Karen Korstad)
March 5, 11:00-12:50, OC4607–Google
Docs in the Classroom (with Barbara McPherson)
April 9, 2:00-3:50 – online session Connecting
Online (with Laura Paciorek)
All are available for flex: http://www.miracosta.edu/flex
The new POT site is now available!
Come by http://www.miracosta.edu/onlineteaching and see. New videos from our Spring Mini-Conference are being posted.
Prezi now has free educator accountshttp://prezi.com/Prezi is an online presentation software that lets you create pathways among your visuals, with the ability to zoom in as you talk about various subjects. It is now available in a better format free for educators.
Google Reader has bundlesGoogle Reader now permits the packaging of rss feeds from blogs into bundles, and it makes a widget you can post at your class website, Blackboard, Moodle, or course blog. This makes it easy to create a list of all the blogs your students write, or a list of blogs that you want them to reference.
March 29 - April 2: Society for Information Technology and Teacher EducationComing to San Diego this year, this conference offers a huge selection of in-person sessions.http://site.aace.org/conf/
April 11-13: TechEd 2010Every year a number of MiraCostans attend TechEd to catch up on the latest trends in education and technolgoy. Held in Pasadena this year.http://www.techedevents.org/2010/
April 20-22: TCC Worldwide Online ConferenceA fully
online conference despite the fact it originates
in Hawaii, this conference always has wonderful
synchronous sessions with great information
for college teachers.http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu/2010/welcome.html
New open access online journal: in
educationA brand-new journal of interest
to teachers using technology. The first issue
is on Technology and Social Media.http://ineducation.ca/
http://www.miracosta.edu/onlineteaching
The MiniConference - More Workshops
- Certificate News - Online Seminars - POT Site
The MiniConference is Thursday, Jan
21 (flyer attached)
Our fourth semi-annual mini-conference takes
place at Oceanside this Thursday, Jan 21 from
9 am to 3:30 pm, lunch included!
Session list:
Teaching, Learning and Social Networks
Jing: Communicating With Your Students in Video
Customizing Webpages for Your Online Class: Hands-On
Building Community in Your Online Class
Let's Make Movies with iMovie
Adventures in Online Pedagogy
a-WIMBA-weh, a-WIMBA-weh: Wimba for Communications
Drop-in Work Session
Vibrant Online Discussion
Ning: Hands-on Lab
Build a Quick Wiki: Hands-On
Get Over Yourself: Talking Head Video for the Morbidly Self-Conscious
Online Instructors Roundtable
Sign up at the flex website: http://www.miracosta.edu/flex
More Workshops
...are being planned for Spring. Right now POT
is sponsoring two at the CLC:
Podcasting -- Friday, Jan. 29, 9 - 10:30 a.m.,
CLC Room 131
Digital Storytelling -- Friday, Mar. 19, 9 -
10:30 a.m., CLC Room 131
Certificate News
The Program for Online Teaching certificate
has been revised. The certificate is an in-house,
independent program designed to develop online
pedagogical skills and help instructors experiment
with and select appropriate tools for student
learning. It takes a minimum of two semesters
as part of the POT community, and eight POT
workshops or POT-approved classes, to complete
a certificate.
Our current certificate candidates have already
been engaging in extensive reflection activities,
have their blog feeds posted at the POT site,
and are completing their workshops and other
requirements by June to earn a certificate this
semester.
The next cohort for the certificate begins now,
with a deadline of February 1.
Certificate candidates spend the first semester
experimenting with various pedagogies and tools,
while blogging as part of our Pedagogy
First! community blog. During the second
semester, candidates will apply their learning
to an online, on-site or hybrid class, blogging
as they go.
All workshops taken in previous semesters still
count toward the certificate. See the list of
requirements at the POT
website.
Not ready to start now? Our next cohort begins September
1.
Online Seminars
@ONE offers a number of online courses at only
$40 for California faculty -- see http://onefortraining.org/online-courses . Most
of these count for the Technology Applications
requirement for the certificate, although some
may count in other areas. @ONE's focus tends
to be technological rather than pedagogical,
although their classes and workshops allow for
direct application to your own classes.
Their lunch-and-learn seminars also allow for
experience taking an online workshop: http://onefortraining.org/seminars
.
POT site news
We are currently designing a new open,
blog-style website. Sometime soon, the POT site
will move out of our Moodle installation into
this more accessible format. No passwords will
be required, and our resources and materials
will be more readily available. Watch for more
news on this....
Happy online teaching!
Lisa
The Program for Online (and hybrid and tech-enhanced) Teaching presents:
SPRING POT MINI-CONFERENCE IS THURSDAY, JANUARY
21
Sessions will include these pedagogical workshops:
Teaching, Learning and Social Networks
Building Community in your Online Classes
Vibrant Online Discussions
Adventures in Online Pedagogy
Online Instructors' Rountable
And these faculty-led technology workshops:
Jing: Communicating with your Students in
Video
Customizing Web Pages for your Online Class
Let's Make Movies with iMovie
Ning: Hands-on Lab
a-WIMBA-weh, a-WIMBA-weh: Wimba for Communications
Build a Quick Wiki: Hands On
Get Over Yourself: Talking Head Video for the
Morbidly Self-Conscious
See the complete schedule inside the POT site. Sign up at the MCC flex site (http://www.miracosta.edu/flex).
WIMBA VOICE IS IN MOODLE
Wimba Voice modules, including Podcast and Voice Board, are now available inside Moodle. They can be activated as an Activity.
GREAT FREE TRIALS
As video and media companies put more of their offerings online, there are more ways to try and purchase videos and clips for instruction. Most clips can be embedded in Blackboard, Moodle or your course blog -- many can be downloaded for later use. Take a look at:
Only till November 25! Intelecom Online Resources network includes instructional video clips in many academic areas. http://www.intelecomonline.net/, Username: miracosta, Password: gotclips .
Only till November 30! NBC video has a trial
running inside the Blackboard course management
system, with great clips.
AT THE POT SITE
We have begun several projects at the site, including a collection of online classes that can be viewed. Please consider submitting your online class to this collection by creating a version without students or on the open web, and letting Lisa know so she can post the links.
Another project is a grid based on applying Chickering and Gamson's Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education to current online practices. When completed, the chart will showcase the wide variety of techniques that can be used to create great online classes. Come add your activities to our wiki.
Louisa's recorded online workshop Time-Saving
Tips for Online Teachers is now available at
the site.
ONLINE LEARNING EXPERIENCES
One of the things we keep hearing over at POT is how great it is when instructors take an online class as a student before they teach online. Don't have time for a full class? That's OK -- online learning opportunities are happening all the time!
A few Tuesday night sessions (through Dec 8) are left of Alec Couros' open class "Social Media and Open Education" online through the University of Regina. This graduate class has become famous in the online community for its open approach: Alec welcomes non-registered participants. Course wiki is at http://eci831.wikispaces.com/ .
[For those in the POT certificate program, attending this class for the remaining sessions can count for OT500 (Current Trends and Theory) or OT300 (Technology Applications).
The 2009 MOOC (Massively Open Online Course) focusing on Connectivism continues through Dec 6, and it's not too late to jump in. The focus is connectivism and other learning theories, as taught by experts George Siemens (the inventor of connectivist theory) and Stephen Downes. Class wiki is at http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/Connectivism .
Two sessions (Nov 24 and Dec 8) remain in the online Social Media Seminar Series through the Global U: "Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning". Hosted by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, this is a free seminar that meets live online, and is hosted by George Siemens and Dave Cormier, who often differ in their opinions.
This series also counts for OT500 credit for
certificate folks. URL is http://aace.org/GlobalU/seminars/socialmedia/ .
FINAL FIRST FRIDAY WORKSHOP IS DECEMBER 4
One online session remains this semester:
Dec 4: Online session: Building Community (Pilar Hernández) -- online, 11:00-12:50 pm
Sign up at the flex site: http://www.miracosta.edu/flex.
Happy online teaching!
Lisa
The Program for Online (and hybrid and tech-enhanced) Teaching presents:
September 2009
http://www.miracosta.edu/onlineteaching
Right now there are several wonderful learning opportunities happening online!
EXPERIENCES TO BLOG ABOUT
Two extraordinary open online classes just started and run till the beginning of December. Both welcome your participation!
Ed Tech wizard Alec Couros is currently offering his open class "Social Media and Open Education" online through the University of Regina. This graduate class has become famous in the online community for its open approach: Alec welcomes non-registered participants. Course wiki is at http://eci831.wikispaces.com/ .
[For those in the POT certificate program, attending this class regularly can count for OT500 (Current Trends and Theory) or OT300 (Technology Applications). It will certainly give you something to blog about!]
In addition, the 2009 MOOC (Massively Open Online Course) focusing on Connectivism just started and also welcomes unregistered participants. It's a great chance to find out about connectivism and other learning theories, as taught by experts George Siemens (the inventor of connectivist theory) and Stephen Downes. Class wiki is at http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/Connectivism .
MONTHLY SEMINAR ON SOCIAL MEDIA
The online Social Media Seminar Series has also begun at the Global U with the seminar "Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning". Hosted by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, this is a free seminar that meets live online, and is hosted by George Siemens and Dave Cormier, who often differ in their opinions.
This series also counts for OT500 credit for certificate folks. URL is http://aace.org/GlobalU/seminars/socialmedia/ .
NEW VIDEOS AVAILABLE FROM POT FALL MINI-CONFERENCE
Our wonderful Alan McCarran filmed two of the presentation workshops in August:
*Quick and Easy Ways to Build Community in
an Online class (Pilar Hernández)
*Getting Started Teaching Online (Jim Sullivan
and Lisa M. Lane)
These are linked from the POT site, but also....
POT now has its own channel in Vimeo featuring these two videos, with more to be added. The direct URL is http://www.vimeo.com/user2255754.
POT CERTIFICATE COMPLETION AND NEW BLOGS
Those currently enrolled in the POT certificate program should be blogging a lot this semester, focusing on completion by June.
All certificate blogs are linked inside the POT site -- please help your MCC colleagues by reading and commenting on their blogs!
FIRST FRIDAY WORKSHOPS
This semester's workshops continue! Note that two of these sessions are entirely online:
*Oct 2: Online session: Time-Saving Tips (Louisa
Moon) -- online, 11:00-1:50 pm
This session will take place in Elluminate.
Check out the instructions on how to join us:
http://www.miracosta.edu/onlineteaching/elluminate
*Nov 6: Tablet P.C.: A Flexible Tool (Julie
Harland) -- Room 3608, 11:00-1:50 pm
*Dec 4: Online session: Building Community (Pilar
Hernández) -- online, 11:00-12:50 pm
Sign up at the flex site: http://www.miracosta.edu/flex
SPRING PLANNING
POT met Thursday night to plan out the Spring 2010 miniconference, which will take place on Thursday, January 21 during flex week. Some tentatively scheduled workshops include:
*Teaching, Learning and Social Networks
*Customizing Webpages for Your Online Class
*Creating a Quick and Easy Class Tour
*Building Community in an Onlin eClass
*Adventures in Online Pedagogy
*a-WIMBA-weh, a-WIMBA-weh: Wimba for Communications
*Drop-in Work Session
*Ning: Hands-on Lab
SPECIAL THANKS
To Media Services for all their help with the fall mini-conference. You guys rock!
Happy online teaching!
Lisa
August 2009
BIG MINI-CONFERENCE IS MONDAY!
Head on over to the POT website (http://www.miracosta.edu/onlineteaching) and take a look at the schedule for Monday, August 17. We'll be meeting together in the courtyard outside the 4600 building at 8:45 a.m. to start the day-long conference.
Included is an "unconference" session based on stickies put on the board by conference attendees, so bring your questions and topics.
Sessions include:
* Pedagogy Workshops:
Jing -- Creating and Integrating Video into
Online Teaching
Quick and easy ways to build community in your
online class
Getting Started Teaching Online: Alternative
Approaches
Screencasting for Teaching
* Faculty-led Technology Workshops:
Creating Video
Mac Magic: Oral-based assessment using video
Mac Magic: Encoding and uploading your presentation
Hands-On Workshop: Online Elements for Any Class
a-WIMBA-weh, a-WIMBA-weh: Wimba for Communications
Introduction to Moodle
* And more!
Online Class Presentations and Showcase
Drop-in Work Session
The Unconference Panel -- where you decide the
topics!
Be sure to register at the flex site (http://www.miracosta.edu/flex)
for the workshops -- at least one of them is
already full, and seats in the computer labs
are limited to 24. Attendees who aren't registered
are welcome to join in, but may not get a computer
terminal.
FIRST FRIDAY ONLINE SESSIONS INSTEAD OF THIRD THURSDAY
Due to low enrollment in our "Third Thursday" online workshops, the POT advisory has made the decision to discontinue them for this semester.
In order to provide an opportunity for fully online synchronous participation, two of the four First Friday workshops this semester will be in the online environment. Plan now for:
Sept 4: Second Life with Randall Cornish (on
campus)
Oct 2: Time-Saving Tips with Louisa Moon (online)
Nov 6: Tablet PC: A Flexible Tool with Julie
Harland (on campus)
Dec 4: TBA (online)
As always, POT will convene this semester to
continue to dream up fresh ideas for the professional
development of MiraCosta faculty.
CERTIFICATE PILOT: PLAN FOR JUNE COMPLETION
A number of MCC faculty are currently earning their Online Teaching Certificate -- you can see their blogs and wikis documenting their progress at the POT website.
Participants should plan on completing all activities for obtaining a certificate by June 30. The certification page has been updated to include all August 17 workshops.
Instructors whose wikis show clearly documented
and completed certificate requirements by the
end of June will be awarded MiraCosta's first
Certificates for Online Teaching.
EVEN MORE RESOURCES
We are continually adding new resources to
the POT website, including recordings and video
of many of the POT sessions. Want to know how
to use Elluminate effectively, how to get started
teaching online, what the best practices are?
Get an account and check out the Master Index!
POT WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS
Last year several faculty joined POT's ranks, to help plan and present our workshops during flex week and throughout the year. We welcome new members who would like to share their ideas and experiences with online teaching. Just contact me, Lisa M. Lane, at llane@miracosta.edu.
Happy online teaching!
Lisa
PROGRAM FOR ONLINE TEACHING NEWSLETTER #15
POT website -- http://www.miracosta.edu/onlineteaching
May 2009
MORE VIDEOS AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE
Create an account for yourself at the POT website,
and have access to videos, audios and handouts
from many of our workshops, including the Beginning
Online Teaching workshop given earlier this
month.
THIRD THURSDAY THIS WEEK!
Our last Third Thursday online meetup of the academic year will take place online this Thursday, May 20, 8:30-9:30 pm.
Come on by http://www.miracosta.edu/onlineteaching, get a POT account if you need one, and join us in our own Elluminate session. A microphone will get you heard, or just listen and participate through text chat.
This month we feature:
* giving discussion feedback to students (Laura
Paciorek and Lisa M. Lane)
* uploading/annotating/posting your YouTube
video (Donna Marques), and
* using Ning for classes (Jim Sullivan)
One hour of flex is available via http://www.miracosta.edu/flex.
Take a break from grading finals and join us!
AUGUST 17 MINI-CONFERENCE
Save the Monday of flex week for our mini-conference, beginning at 8:45 am at the Oceanside campus. Our sessions, all led by faculty volunteers, include:
* Pedagogy Workshops:
Jing -- Creating and Integrating Video into
Online Teaching
Quick and easy ways to build community in your
online class
Getting Started Teaching Online: Alternative
Approaches
Screencasting for Teaching
* Faculty-led Technology Workshops:
Creating Video
Mac Magic: Oral-based assessment using video
Mac Magic: Encoding and uploading your presentation
Hands-On Workshop: Online Elements for Any Class
a-WIMBA-weh, a-WIMBA-weh: Wimba for Communications
Introduction to Moodle
* And more!
Online Class Presentations and Showcase
Drop-in Work Session
The Unconference Panel -- where you decide the
topics!
Morning snack and lunch will be served. The center of the mini-conference is the courtyard outside the 4600 labs.
Get flex hours all day. See http://www.miracosta.edu/flex
for information and to sign up.
TEACHING AND TECHNOLOGY LISTSERV IS UP AND RUNNING
Finally, a place to share questions and ideas.
Please come subscribe at http://tiny.cc/teachingandtech,
or via the POT site.
REMEMBER:
You don't have to be teaching an online class
to benefit from the Program for Online Teaching
workshops and programs! Our focus is on pedagogy,
and the selection of appropriate tools to
do what you want to do, whether in the classroom
or in a hybrid or online class.
Happy online teaching!
Lisa
POT Newsletter
April 2009
http://www.miracosta.edu/onlineteaching
TEACHING AND TECHNOLOGY LISTSERV REVIVED
We have had a number of requests to create
a way for instructors who use electronic technologies
for their classes to talk together, and it is
clear that email is preferred to a web-based
forum. So POT has revived the Teaching and Technology
Listserv, a moderated list for faculty. Please
come subscribe at http://tiny.cc/teachingandtech.
FIRST FRIDAY FOR BEGINNERS
On Friday, May 1, 1-2:50 pm, Jim Sullivan and
I will offer a workshop for newbies to online/hybrid/tech-enhanced
teaching, a discussion of online pedagogy and
teaching tips. Bring your concerns and issues,
as this will be an interactive workshop. Room
T413.
SO MUCH COOL STUFF!
The new POT site is bursting with tutorials, video, podcasts, and handouts, most of them creating by your MiraCosta colleagues.
Please do take a look! Go to our website and you'll be led into Moodle. If you don't already have one, just create a New Account for yourself.
Then take a peek at our Master Index. And we're adding more all the time.
A sample so far:
--Workshops--
Creating and Using Digital Images (August 2008)
Elluminate with Pilar (March 2009)
Enhancing Online Teaching with Web 2.0
Interactivity and Learning Styles
Making Blackboard Work for You
Making the Most of Moodle
Meaningful Online Assignments
Moodle: Slides from 6/10/08
Novice Workshop: Easing Into Online Teaching
(5 Sept 2008)
Online Pedagogy: Brain-Friendly Learning
Pedagogy and Current Technologies Brainstorm:
20 Aug 2008
Teaching Well Online: A Checklist
Teaching with Tablet PCs: Notes and Videos
Third Thursday (various dates)
Web 2.0 for Teaching and Student Projects (April
2009)
--Documents--
Checklist: Teaching Well Online
Discussion Rubric
Guidelines for Non-College Supported Technologies
Online or Hybrid?
Evaluating Online Classes
Policies: TAP/Senate Policies Related to Online
POT Newsletters
Resource Guide for Online Education at MCC
Rubric for student podcasts
Sample Syllabus Statement for Format Substitution
TAP
--Websites and External Materials--
Assessing the Online Learner
George Siemens: Starting to Teach Online
Second Life and Virtual Worlds: EDUCAUSE Podcast
Stephen Downes on Usability
UC Irvine Online Instructor Training
Wikis in University Teaching and Learning
--Tools--
ETUDES-NG
Blackboard
Using Google Reader: RSS
Lisa's Delicious Bookmarks
Mentorship
-- Resources--
--Faculty Modules--
Julie Harland: Solving a Mixture Problem with
Two Variables
--Faculty Tips and Tutorials--
Camtasia: Julie Harland's tips for voice recording
Adapting Blackboard to point students to another
CMS
Creating a forum in Moodle
Happy online teaching!
Lisa
"ONLINE TEACHING" DEFINED
You don't have to be teaching an online class
to benefit from the Program for Online Teaching
workshops and programs! Our focus is on pedagogy,
and the selection of appropriate tools to do
what you want to do, whether in the classroom
or in a hybrid or online class.
FIRST FRIDAY WORKSHOPS
POT's remaining workshops this semester are the First Friday of each month from 1-2:50 pm in room 4607. Each counts for two hours flex time, and satisfies certain components of our online teaching certificate:
Mar 6 -- "Elluminate for Real-Time Online
Teaching"
Pilar Hernández and Donna Marques
April 3 -- "Web 2.0 for Teaching and Student
Projects"
Kristi Reyes and Eli Clarke
May 1 -- "Beginning Online Teaching"
Jim Sullivan and Lisa M. Lane
See http://www.miracosta.edu/flex for information
and to sign up.
THIRD THURSDAY ONLINE MEET-UP
Faculty interested in using technology for teaching continue to meet online in Elluminate the Third Thursday of each month at 8:30 pm. This semester's discussions and show-and-tell will emphasize using audio and video to communicate with students and colleagues.
To join us, go to the POT page at http://www.miracosta.edu/onlineteaching, and sign up for a New Account if necessary. On the Third Thursday, come to the site and join us using the link at the top of the page. If you have a microphone and/or webcam, that's great, or just listen and participate with text.
All sessions are recorded and archived, so if you miss one be sure to go to the POT site to view them later.
(Those teaching or otherwise engaged on Thursday
nights may be particularly interested in the
March 19 session, since it's during Spring Break.)
ETUDES USERS SUMMIT
The first annual ETUDES users summit is in
Los Angeles on April 23-24. See http://etudes.org/summit.htm
for more information. Cost is under $200 to
attend.
TECH-ED CONFERENCE *FREE* to MCC faculty
TechEd is a fabulous Educational Technology
conference taking place March 22-25 in Ontario,
CA. While supplies last, register for free pass
at http://www.techedevents.org/mcc/ . See http://www.techedevents.org/
for more information.
WEB 2.0 NEWS
VoiceThread --
If you are using VoiceThread, there are new
features for groups that will be useful for
your classes. See http://tinyurl.com/aqxr3z.
If you don't know VoiceThread, it's a way
to present a slideshow (or even a single image)
and have students comment via voice microphone,
telephone, text or video to create a conversation.
TeacherTube --
A number of faculty are using YouTube to present
and communicate with their classes. But have
you heard of TeacherTube? http://teachertube.com
provides an alternative forum for uploading
and sharing educational videos.
Social bookmarking --
Freeway flyers and those of us who work on multiple
computers might consider social bookmarking
services like Delicious (http://delicious.com)
or Diigo (http://www.diigo.com). Aside from
their "social" components, saving
bookmarks to such services make it possible
to access your saved sites from any computer
with an internet connection. And using the
toolbar buttons they provide makes bookmarking
very easy.
@ONE WORKSHOPS FOR SPRING
Online workshops are offered through @ONE, and some of these count for POT's online teaching certificate.
# Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning.
(Starts 2/23)
# Introduction to Teaching with Blackboard.
(Starts 3/2)
# Introduction to Teaching with Moodle. (Starts
3/2)
# Building Learning Communities Online. (Starts
3/9)
# Photoshop Basics and Easy Page Layout. (Starts
3/9)
# Audio and Podcasting for Teaching. (Starts
3/9)
# Dreamweaver I: Design and Build a Basic Web
Site. (Starts 3/29)
# Dreamweaver II: Web Templates, CSS, and Multimedia.
(Starts 4/20)
# Video and Vodcasting for Teaching. (Starts
4/20)
# More about Moodle. (Starts 4/20)
For more information, see http://www.cccone.org/online-courses/ .
Happy online teaching!
Lisa
*** POT Mini-Conference Monday, January 12 ***
Mark your calendars now!
Instead of having POT workshops scattered throughout flex week, we are offering a mini-conference on Monday, January 12. Three labs (4607, 4610 and 4622) and a classroom (3609) will be a hub of workshops of interest to online teachers.
Right now the flex site is down for maintenance, but you will be able to register for these in January. And don't worry about coming late or leaving early! This is a mini-conference where you attend and leave sessions as you wish, determined by how useful a session is to you!
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*9:00 am start*
Getting Visual with Blackboard (Jill Malone) 1 hour
Online classes can be very text heavy, and visuals can both lead the eye and reinforce pedagogical goals. Learn how to create a visually appealing and content-appropriate splash page for your Blackboard class.
Online Pedagogy: Brain-friendly Learning (Jim Sullivan and Lisa M. Lane) 1 hour
Join Lisa and Jim for a discussion of how current brain research impacts online teaching and learning. (*Teaching Academy)
Instructional Design using Flash (Karl Cleveland) 2 hours, lab
An introduction to Adobe Flash as a tool for instructional design and e-learning applications. Participants will learn step-by-step how to create an interactive slideshow with audio narration.
*10:00 am start*
Ten Time-Saving Tips for Online Teaching (Louisa Moon) 1 hour
Come learn some helpful tricks for saving time when teaching in an online environment.
*11:00 am start*
PowerPoint to Flash: Shrinking Your Slideshow for Online (Sam Arenivar) Powerpoint with audio can be an effective way to present class material online. Learn how to turn your PowerPoint into a lean file that plays in any browser.
Serious Play: Online Discovery Workshop (Lisa M. Lane) 2 hours
Explore the web with Lisa for an introduction to Delicious, Twitter, and other web applications to create assignments for students, engage in your own professional development, and discover new ways of doing things. (*Teaching Academy)
Teaching with Tablet PCs: Grading Papers (Karl Golemo) 1 hour
Tablets can be used to mark papers in a more personal way to provide a more direct experience for students and solidify instructor presence. (*Teaching Academy)
*12:00 start* (and lunch on the patio)
Online Class Showcase - 2 hours
Instructors teaching online or using technology for their classes will open their classes in the computer lab and be available for viewing and questions.
Teaching with Tablet PCs: Demonstrating for Students (Julie Harland) 1 hour
Tablets can be used with software to record whiteboard-style active presentations (using Camtasia) to provide a more personal experience for students and solidify instructor presence. (*Teaching Academy)
*1:00 start*
Wiki Wonders (Donna Marques) 2 hours, lab (OT300)
How can a wiki help you teach online? Join Donna for an hour of discussion and an hour of building your own wiki. (*Teaching Academy)
Video and Audio for Online Classes (Janeen Apalatea and Shirley Olsen) 2 hours
Video and audio improve instructor presence and reach various student learning styles. Learn how to record a short video including captioning (first hour) or podcast (second hour) for your classes.
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More information is available at POT's website: http://www.miracosta.edu/onlineteaching .
Happy online teaching!
Lisa
Website: http://www.miracosta.edu/onlineteaching
Moodle site: http://miracosta.mrooms.net/course/view.php?id=13
LAST FRIDAY FALL WORKSHOP UPCOMING:
* Dec 5: First Friday: Web Discovery Workshop (OC4607)
Journey through the world of Web 2.0 with Lisa,
discovering applications to achieve your pedagogical
goals and establish your professional development
activities while increasing familiarity with
the web. We will create accounts at several
websites and try a bit of social bookmarking,
slideshow creation, and more. Be sure you can
access a web-based email account (MCC's web
mail is fine), and register early because seating
is limited: http://www.miracosta.edu/flex (it's
the last one on the list).
THIRD THURSDAY: this Thursday!
Please join us for online synchronous sessions in Elluminate the Third Thursday of each month. We have great topics every month: we've already discussed blogging, social bookmarking, audio recording and more!
Log in early at the site (http://miracosta.mrooms.net/course/view.php?id=13) click on the meeting link, and allow the system to download temporary components to your computer. Then put on a headset or use a microphone, or just participate through text chat.
1 hour flex available. Sign up at the PDP site:
http://www.miracosta.edu/flex .
NEW! SPRING FLEX WEEK WORKSHOPS
Although they are not yet available for flex sign-up (later, I promise!), plan your flex week now. All POT workshops will be held as a mini-conference on:
--> MONDAY, JANUARY 12
in the 4600 labs and room 3609, variously schedule from 9 am - 4 pm, with lunch on the patio.
Draft schedule:
9-10 Getting Visual with Blackboard
9-10 Online Pedagogy: Brain-friendly learning
9-11 Instructional Design Using Flash
10-11 Ten Time-Saving Tips for Online Teaching
11-12 PowerPoint to Flash: Shrinking Your Slideshow
for Online
11-12 Serious Play: Online Discovery Workshop
11-12 Teaching with Tablet PCs: Grading Papers
12-1 Teaching with Tablet PCs: Demo
12-2 Online Class Showcase
1-3 Video and Audio for Online Classes
1-3 Wiki Wonders
Happy online teaching!
Lisa
http://miracosta.mrooms.net/
JOSSEY-BASS CONFERENCE October 7-8
The popular publisher of books about online teaching is holding a completely online conference October 7-8, with a special pre-conference workshop October 6.
Topics include:
* Assessing the Online Learner: Resources and
Strategies for Faculty
* Engaging the Online Learner: Activities and
Resources for Creative Instruction
* Learning in Real Time: Synchronous Teaching
and Learning Online
* Exploring the Digital Library: A Guide for
Online Teaching and Learning
and more on Gaming, Virtual Worlds, motivating
adult learners, etc.
For more information: http://www.onlineteachingandlearning.com/ . Registration is $249 (how about the travel money you never use?) and includes three of their books. A group of 5 or more gets a discount.
FRIDAY FALL WORKSHOPS UPCOMING:
First Friday from 1-2:50 pm (2 hours flex)
* Oct 3: Taking Your PowerPoint Lecture Online
(OC4607)
* Nov 7: Blogs as a Teaching Tool (OC4611)
* Dec 5: Web Discovery Workshop (OC4607)
THIRD THURSDAY: September 18
Please join us for online synchronous sessions the Third Thursday of each month. Log in early at the site (http://miracosta.mrooms.net/course/view.php?id=13) click on the meeting link, and allow the system to download temporary components to your computer. Then put on a headset or use a microphone, or just participate through text chat.
This month will feature using Audacity to record feedback for students, blogging with students, and more. 1 hour flex available. Sign up at the PDP site: http://www.miracosta.edu/flex .
FIRST PODCAST
The Program for Online Teaching has published its first podcast, and audio recording of the Brainstorming session from August 20. It's linked from the POT website (http://miracosta.mrooms.net/).
THE CERTIFICATE
Participants in the certificate process have already begun their blogs documenting their progress and sharing information. Come on by the POT site (http://miracosta.mrooms.net/) and give them some feedback on their work so far!
@ONE Workshops (http://www.cccone.org) Reminder
Lunch and Learn Workshops: learn from your
desktop 12-1 pm:
* Making the Most of CCC Confer’s Teaching
Tools
Wednesday, October 1 (with Blaine Morrow)
* Building Community Online, Part 2: Blogging
for Fun and Learning
Tuesday, October 21 (with Lisa M. Lane)
* Building Community Online, Part 4: Collaborating
Beyond Text
Monday, October 27 (with Michelle Pacansky-Brock)
Online classes ($50 each)
* Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning
Monday, September 29, to Friday, October 24
* Introduction to Teaching with Moodle
Monday, October 6 to Friday, October 31
MOODLE SUPPORT
Faculty support for Moodle, one of our two
alternative course management, is now available
directly from AELearn. Instructions are at (you
guessed it!) the POT site.
Happy online teaching!
Lisa
http://miracosta.mrooms.net/
FRIDAY FALL WORKSHOPS START NOW!
We are hosting some excellent workshops starting very soon:
Friday, Aug 29: Drop-In Work Session for Online Teaching (12-2 in the TIC)
Then every First Friday from 1-2:50 pm ---
* Sept 5: Novice Workshop: Ease Into Online
Teaching (OC4607)
* Oct 3: Taking Your PowerPoint Lecture Online
(OC4607)
* Nov 7: Blogs as a Teaching Tool (OC4611)
* Dec 5: Web Discovery Workshop (OC4607)
All are fabulous, and all count for flex.
THIRD THURSDAYS
A handful of online instructors met in Elluminate on August 21 to view a presentation on the new Online Teaching Certificate, and discuss Elluminate itself for office hours and class use. The session was recorded and the archive can be viewed at the POT site.
Please join us for online synchronous sessions the Third Thursday of each month. Log in early at the site (http://miracosta.mrooms.net/course/view.php?id=13) click on the meeting link, and allow the system to download temporary components to your computer. Then put on a headset or use a microphone, or just participate through text chat.
MORE ARCHIVES
We are trying to video and audio record as many of our sessions as possible. See the Resources block at the POT site for recordings of this summer's sessions. Fall sessions will be posted there soon.
THE CERTIFICATE
The Certificate in Online Teaching is sponsored by PDP and the Program. Participants record their progress by blogging about their experiences as they learn more about online instruction, and make a sample class available to participants as their final project. For more information, see the MiraCosta Online Teaching Certificate area at the POT site.
@ONE Workshops (http://www.cccone.org)
Lunch and Learn Workshops: learn from your
desktop 12-1 pm:
* Making the Most of CCC Confer’s Teaching
Tools
Wednesday, October 1 (with Blaine Morrow)
* Building Community Online, Part 2: Blogging
for Fun and Learning
Tuesday, October 21 (with Lisa M. Lane)
* Building Community Online, Part 4: Collaborating
Beyond Text
Monday, October 27 (with Michelle Pacansky-Brock)
* Save $$ with Free and Open Textbooks
Thursday, November 6 (with Judy Baker)
Online classes ($50 each)
* Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning
Monday, September 29, to Friday, October 24
* Introduction to Teaching with Moodle
Monday, October 6 to Friday, October 31
MOODLE SUPPORT
Faculty support for Moodle, one of our two alternative course management, will be improving soon as our contract with them is solidified.
A THANKS TO FALL FACILITATORS
A special thanks to all who helped facilitate
our Fall Flex workshops: Jim Sullivan, Karl
Golemo, Jill Malone, John Turbeville, Robert
Kelley, Linda Shaffer, Judith Phillips, Louisa
Moon, David Megill, Jeff Uhlik, Pilar Hernández,
Randall Cornish and Carolyn O'Barr, and Shirley
Olsen.
Happy online teaching!
Lisa
FIRST WEEK OF JUNE: OPPORTUNITIES!
@ONE is hosting both its Institute and the Online Teaching Conference at MiraCosta's Oceanside campus the first week of June.
The first three days feature all-day workshops:
* Workshop I: Introduction to Online Teaching
and Learning
* Workshop II: Creating Instructional Website
Materials Using Aodbe Dreamweaver
* Workshop III: Digital Photography Fundamentals
Using Adobe Photoshop
* Workshop IV: Creating Video for Your Course
/ Vodcasting
* Workshop V: Getting Up to Speed with Office
2007 - Word, Excel and PowerPoint
The Online Teaching Conference is Thursday and Friday, June 5-6. It features many workshops on a variety of subjects.
See http://www.cccone.org for
more information.
MOODLE AND ETUDES-NG ARE AVAILABLE THIS SUMMER!
In addition to Blackboard, MCC will be supporting (through its vendors) both the Moodle and ETUDES-NG course management systems. The latter requires training prior to opening a class in the system.
For ETUDES-NG, contact John Turbeville at jturbeville@miracosta.edu.
For Moode account setup, contact Karen Korstad at kkorstad@miracosta.edu. For instructional support for Moodle, contact me at llane@miracosta.edu. Moodle will be upgrading the first week of June, so building is recommended after that time. Contact me to get on the Moodlers list.
Workshops will be offered for both in the fall.
FALL WORKSHOPS
* Beginning Online Teaching: Moving an Onsite
Class to Online -- M 8/18 11-12:50
* Meaningful Online Assignments -- Th 8/21 10-11:50
* Making Blackboard Work for Your Classes --
F 8/15 12-1:50 pm
* Pedagogy and Current Technologies Brainstorm:
W 8/20 12-1:50 pm
* Online Mentoring -- Th 8/21 1-1:50 pm
* Drop-In Work Session for Online Teaching --
Th 8/21 2-3:50 pm
* Creating and Using Digital Images for the
Web -- M 8/18 1-2:50 pm
* Cool PowerPoint Tricks - Th 8/21 8-9:50 am
* Using ETUDES-NG - M 8/18 9-10:50 am
* Using Moodle - M 8/18 1-2:50 pm
* Second Life: What's In It for Educators? --
T 8/19 9-11:50 am
Happy online teaching!
Lisa
http://miracosta.mrooms.net/
FOUR GREAT CONFERENCES COMING UP VERY SOON!
-- TECHNOLOGY, COLLEGES AND COMMUNITY ONLINE
CONFERENCE:
APRIL 15-17
The TCC online conference comes annually from
Hawaii, so it's one of those online conferences
you really wish had a physical conference! But
it's all online, and is a great way to learn
what others are doing: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu/2008/tcc.
Late registration is $99.
-- TECHED IN ONTARIO: APRIL 13-16
TechEd has a lot of sessions and a huge exhibit
hall, and it's not that far to travel: http://www.techedevents.org/.
Contact Bob Edelbrock, since we may still
have a free pass deal.
-- SDCCD ONLINE TEACHING EXCELLENCE SYMPOSIUM:
APRIL 25
So close to home, this half-day conference is
free and focused on online teaching at community
college. Sponsored by San Diego City College,
Mesa College, Miramar College and including
workshops and demos. And it's free: http://www.sdccdonline.net/faculty/otes/
-- CCC's ONLINE TEACHING CONFERENCE IS AT MIRACOSTA:
JUNE 5-6
Here's one you can attend even closer to home
(it moves around California, since's it's sponsored
by CVC and @ONE) -- this year we're hosting!
I'll be presenting on "Enhancing Online
Teaching with Web 2.0". http://www.cccone.org/08Conference/
POT WORKSHOPS BEING PLANNED FOR FALL
* Pedagogy and Current Technologies Brainstorm
* Beginning Online Teaching: Moving an Onsite
class to Online
* Drop-In Mentoring for Faculty Teaching Online
* Using iPods to Enhance Student Learning
* Second Life: What's in it for Educators?
* Cool PowerPoint Tricks
* Creating and Using Digital Images for the
Web
* Meaningful Online Assignments
* Making Blackboard Work for Your Classes
* Using Moodle
* Using ETUDES-NG
* Diversify lesson plans and get students speaking
with online voice tools
PLUS there will be AIS technical workshops on
Dreamweaver, Camtasia, Blackboard and Elluminate
too!
WEB BUZZ
New ways to make a web page without HTML or
a blog: Googlepages, Webnode
Social bookmarking that's really social: Diigo
Fastest way to find video clips: YouTube
Cheapest way for MiraCostans to create group
conferences: Elluminate
Collaborative conversations around a topic:
VoiceThread
Quick surveys: SurveyMonkey
Converting YouTube to other formats: Zamzar
Fast and easy blogging: Tumblr
Great tools are now posted on the Resource page at the Program for Online Teaching website -- join us today at http://miracosta.mrooms.net/ .
Happy online teaching!
Lisa
http://miracosta.mrooms.net/
NEW SPRING WORKSHOPS
Two alternatives to Blackboard are currently
in the pilot stage, and faculty are welcome
to join! Come get information at two new workshops:
* Introdution to ETUDES-NG (Mon, Jan 14, 9-11:50
in room 3515)
* Using Moodle (Wed, Jan 16, 2-2:50 pm in room
4610)
POT WORKSHOPS IN SPRING FLEX
POT workshops focus on pedagogy, not just technology,
and are taught by faculty. Here's the final
list of POT workshops during Spring Flex at
Oceanside:
* Making Blackboard Work For You (Tues 1/15
9-10:50 OC4610)
* Working with Images (Tues 1/15 11-12:50 OC4607)
* Power-izing Your Powerpoint Presentation (Tues
1/15 2-3:50 OC4610)
* Making Online Discussion Work (Wed 1/16 12-1:50
OC 3607)
Sign up online at http://www.miracosta.edu/flex
@ONE SELF-PACED COURSE
An online self-paced course called "Converting
Your Onsite Course to Online" is now available
at the @ONE website (http://www.cccone.org).
Just register and learn. The site also has videos
on integrating technology and web-enhanced instruction,
and one-hour desktop seminars on many areas
of educational technology.
MOODLE NETWORKING GROUP FORMED
An online group called Moodle Meet formed at
the end of December, and within a few weeks
had 75 members! Moodle users in all levels
of education are welcome: http://moodlemeet.ning.com/
FEBRUARY AND MARCH ONLINE CLASSES @ONE: $50
each
* Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning:
Tuesday, February 19, to Friday, March 14 (four
weeks)
* Introduction to Teaching with Blackboard:
Monday, February 25, to Friday, March 28 (four
weeks of instruction over five weeks)
* Introduction to Teaching with Moodle: Monday,
February 25, to Friday, March 28 (four weeks
of instruction over five weeks)
THE BUZZ
Best way to make a web page without HTML or
a blog: Googlepages
Fastest way to find video clips: YouTube
Cheapest way for MiraCostans to create group
conferences: Elluminate
SPRING POT WORKSHOPS
We are offering several POT workshops during
Spring Flex at Oceanside:
* Making Blackboard Work For You (Tues 1/15
9:00-10:50 OC4610)
* Working with Images (Tues 1/15 11:00-12:50
OC4607)
* Power-izing Your Powerpoint Presentation (Tues
1/15 2:00-3:50 OC4610)
* Making Online Discussion Work (Wed 1/16 12:00-1:50)
Sign up online at http://www.miracosta.edu/flex
NEW DROP-IN WORK SESSION FOR FLEX
On Monday, Jan 14 from 12:00-2:00 there will
be a drop-in open work session for online
technology. Experienced online instructors
will be available for consultation. Location
TBA.
AIS WORKSHOPS
Karen Korstad will be presenting her Blackboard
101 workshop twice during Spring flex:
M 1/14 10:00-11:50 am OC
Th 1/17 10:00-11:50 am SEC
OTHER WORKSHOPS
The flex schedule also has workshops on digital
storytelling, virtual workspaces, chair yoga
(cool!) and others of interest to online faculty.
Take a look at the PDP website.
MOODLE PILOT
What is Moodle? Moodle is a Course Management
System that replaces Blackboard and provides
a framework for online classes and supplemental
websites. MCC is currently piloting Moodle
through the Technology and Pedagogy Committee.
The POT site is located in a Moodle class
(http://miracosta.mrooms.net/), and faculty
have been trying it out for classes this year.
Interested faculty should contact Robert Kelley,
new TAP chair, at rkelley@miracosta.edu .
MOODLE TRAINING
Faculty participating in the Moodle pilot, or
wanting to learn to use Moodle, should be
aware of a hands-on workshop offered by @ONE
January 9-11 at Evergreen Valley College in
San Jose. See http://www.cccone.org for more
information.
GREAT SITE FOR ONLINE INSTRUCTORS
The Illinois Online Network has a large collection
of useful resources for online instructors,
including tutorials and articles on preparing
online classes, and a list of types of activities
that can be done online: http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/
JOIN THE PROGRAM WEBSITE
Please join the POT website at http://miracosta.mrooms.net/.
You will find many resources for online instructors,
workshop information, discussion forums. It
can be a great place for online instructors,
and potential online instructors, to ask questions
and compare methods. And, of course, the site
contains our ever expanding Resource page.
Happy online teaching!
Lisa
Workshops in October!
POT presents two back-to-back workshops on Friday,
October 19:
9:30-10:50 am Beginning Online Teaching with
Louisa Moon, Jim Sullivan and Lisa M. Lane (Room
OC 3101)
11:00-12:20 pm Online Class Showcase -- an opportunity
to see inside the online classes of some of
our instructors (OC 3101)
Register at the PDP website: https://www.miracosta.edu/Instruction/PDP/enroll.htm
AIS workshop in Dreamweaver and HTML
Learn Dreamweaver and a bit of HTML to create
web pages.
Friday, November 9, 10:00-11:50 in OC 4610
Spring workshops
Workshops during spring flex week will include:
* Making Blackboard Work for You
* Working with Images
* Faculty Mentorship for Online Elements and
Pedagogy
* Power-izing Your PowerPoint
* Making Online Discussion Work
ELLUMINATE is Ready!
For some time, MCC has had free access to CCCConfer's
web conferencing system through the Chancellor's
Office. But now the system has been improved!
CCCConfer has moved to a product called Elluminate,
which offers real-time conferencing for a small
group or a whole class, including chat, whiteboard,
web browsing, and audio. You can reserve times
at the website (http://www.cccconfer.org).
GREAT NEWS: Blackboard users can use the system
directly inside Bb! Under Tools -> Communication
you will see "Elluminate Live!". You
can "Create an Elluminate Session" with
start and end times, and even Share the session
across several Bb classes! You can also record
the session for later use. What a great way
to do office hours and synchronous sessions
with online students!
October Tip
You can create an annotated image, or your students
can, on Flickr. Upload a photo or artwork
to Flickr (http://www.flickr.com), and use "notes" to
create annotations students see when they
move their mouse over the images.
View a sample at: http://tinyurl.com/2rvlwx
.
But I don't teach online!
Even if you don't teach full classes online,
many of the computer-based pedagogical strategies
we discuss at the Program can be used to develop
any electronic or web-based technique you
might want to use, in the classroom or out.
Animations, charts, and images can help visually
oriented students understand material better,
and more and more instructors are having students
construct their own learning materials in
online environments. Most rooms at MiraCosta
are now Technology-Enhanced Classrooms (TECs)
with computers, internet connection and data
projectors, making application in class much
easier!
POT SITE HAS MOVED AND HAS MORE FEATURES!
The Moodle pilot is being used to house the
Progam website. You will need to simply set
up a New Account to get in at http://miracosta.mrooms.net/course/view.php?id=13
. I think you'll like it! Please join the
Discussion Forum and we can work on online
teaching issues together! The Resource page,
workshops and all materials are there.
MOODLE PILOT
TAP's Moodle pilot permits a handful of instructors
to offer a course or two in Moodle this year
to test it as a learning management system.
Because the account was opened so late in
the year, not many folks have been willing
to offer a course for fall, though spring
could fill fast. If you are interested in
using Moodle for a fall course, or playing
around in Moodle, or creating a supporting
website in Moodle for an on-site class, please
contact me (llane@miracosta.edu). Because
ETUDES will be phased out next year, ETUDES
users have first priority.
Moodle information and resources include (these
are linked inside the site):
- a cool YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o1fMQsfzoQ
- my page on using Moodle for instructors: http://www.miracosta.edu/home/llane/moodlehelp/
- my tutorial for students using Moodle at http://lisahistory.net/moodletutweb
FALL WORKSHOPS (all listed on the new POT site)
You can use the PDP webpage at http://www.miracosta.edu/Instruction/PDP/enroll.htm
to enroll in our workshops for Fall:
* Tips and Tricks
(including test pools, blogs, turnitin.com,
reducing images, and assessing discussion)
* Game or Parallel Universe?TM -Second Life
* Interactive Powerpoint
* Roundtable on Course Design in Course Management
Systems
(Blackboard, Moodle and ETUDES/Sakai)
* Creating Appealing Web Pages (Photoshop)
* Faculty Mentorship for Online Elements and
Pedagogy
In addition, AIS is offering workshops in Blackboard and Web 2.0.
ONLINE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TIP OF THE
MONTH
Consider using RSS feeds for keeping track of
trends in your discipline. All this means is
having a page on the web that shows the "headlines" and
summaries of newspaper articles, journals, blogs
and other updated information as it comes in.
One easy way to start is to go to Yahoo, set
up an account, and click on My Yahoo! to create
your page. You can even add movie times for
the theatres near you, weather reports, and
baseball scores! RSS just means that the source
of the information releases it to be picked
up by your page.
BLACKBOARD TIP OF THE MONTH
To make it easier to keep copies of multiple
choice or matching questions for quizzes,
design them in Word and use a Blackboard Test
Generator like the one at BYU Idaho, which
has great how-to instructions (http://www.byui.edu/onlinelearning/testgen/index.htm).
That way, you'll be able to reformat the questions
for using in another system at a later date.
Happy online teaching!
Lisa
Program for Online Teaching News #2: May 2007
Just more notes to online teachers and others who have come to the Program's workshops!
Please take my Blackboard survey
I am doing research for both myself and the
Program for Online Teaching to determine how
Blackboard is being used for online classes,
and what needs there are for assistance, at
MiraCosta. It is a quick, no fuss survey (no
passwords or anything) at http://www.lisahistory.net/phpesp/public/survey.php?name=bb7
. Thanks!
@ONE Online Conference is free!
Yes, you can pay and attend in Fremont, but
you can register to attend as an online participant
for free if you are a California Community
College employee. The conference is June 11-12.
Register at http://cccone.org/07Conference/index.htm
.
Fall flex workshops
We are planning some great workshops -- summaries
and information are now available at the Program
website (http://www.miracosta.edu/onlineteaching).
During fall flex, we'll have:
* Tips and Tricks
(including test pools, blogs, turnitin.com,
reducing images, and assessing discussion)
* Game or Parallel Universe?TM -Second Life
* Powerpoint with Audio and Interactive Powerpoint
* Roundtable on Course Design in Course Management
Systems
(Blackboard, Moodle and ETUDES/Sakai)
* Creating Appealing Web Pages (Photoshop)
* Faculty Mentorship for Online Elements and
Pedagogy (see below)
Plus there will be two roundtables during Fall
semester:
* Beyond Text
* Improving Student-Student and Student-Faculty
Interaction
New Mentoring Program
Robert Kelley and Linda Shaffer are leading the
new "Faculty Mentorship for Pedagogy & Online
Elements" flex activity, designed to support
faculty who will be teaching classes online
or integrating new online elements into their
on campus classes. Contact lshaffer@miracosta.edu
for more information -- she'd like to hear from
folks who are interested in being a mentor or "mentee" --
both earn flex credit for their participation,
up to fifteen hours, in Fall.
Sample Moodle class
Would you like to see what a real class looks
like in Moodle instead of Blackboard? Program
members are invited to create an account to
enroll and see my History 111 class at http://www.lisahistory.net/moodle/course/view.php?id=18
. Be sure to post in the Comment forum!
Blackboard Tip of the Month: Keep It Clean
To avoid confusing students, you can hide elements
in Blackboard that you are not actually using.
To do this, go to the Control Panel. Select
Course Menu. Check the "Modify" button
for each area ("Communication" and "Student
Tools") and make Unavailable anything
you aren't using. If you aren't using entire
Menu links (such as "Staff Information"),
use this process to uncheck "Available
for Student/Participant users". That
will make those links disappear (don't worry,
you can make them available again if you want
them later!).
Happy online teaching,
Lisa
Program for Online Teaching News #1
Just a few notes to online teachers and others who have come to the Program's workshops!
Miramar's Best Practices conference is this Friday afternoon, and MiraCostans are welcome to just come on over: http://www.sdccdonline.net/faculty/expo/ . I am presenting at 3 pm if you'd like to come by!
Workshops in online teaching are being scheduled for fall: http://www.miracosta.edu/onlineteaching -- and the Resources page has new stuff
I am writing a blog about online teaching: http://lisahistory.net/wordpress -- the video I just put up is pretty funny!
The listserv for online instructors (http://listserv.miracosta.edu/mailman/listinfo/onlineteaching) isn't being used lately. If you'd like to ressurect it, messages go to onlineteaching@listserv.miracosta.edu.
Tip of the day:
Find cool YouTube videos and use the embed code
to put them inside your class: http://youtube.com
.
Happy online teaching,
Lisa