Fall 2008

To enroll, use the PDP website!

If you are employed at another college or elsewhere in the community and want to attend session, please contact Lisa M. Lane.

Teaching Academy Workshops

* Beginning Online Teaching: Moving an Onsite Class to Online -- M 8/18 11-12:50
Facilitators: Jim Sullivan, Lisa Lane
Location: 3103 (2 hours)
In your on-campus class, you have great discussions, informative lectures, cool multimedia, and personal contact with students. How do you do all that online? This presentation will focus on your pedagogical needs, and finding ways to do online what you love to do in a classroom.

* Meaningful Online Assignments -- Th 8/21 10-11:50
Facilitators: Linda Shaffer, Louisa Moon
Location: 3103
Creating assignments in online classes, where students have many resources available but feel unguided, can be a challenge. This panel of presenters will discuss techniques for making online assignments effective learning experiences for students.

* Making Blackboard Work for Your Classes -- F 8/15 12-1:50 pm
Location: 4622
Facilitators: Louisa Moon, Jim Sullivan
Many faculty use Blackboard, either as a repository of resources for an on-site class, or to manage an online offering. Bb can be customized extensively. This workshop will focus on adapting Blackboard's features to achieve your pedagogical goals.

* Pedagogy and Current Technologies Brainstorm: W 8/20 12-1:50 pm
Facilitators: Lisa M. Lane, Jim Sullivan, David Megill, Pilar Hernandez and more
Location: TIC (Library 1253)
Experienced online instructors and innovators will discuss the new trends in pedagogy and current technologies, with topics including web 2.0, student-created content, and recent educational research.

* Faculty Mentoring for Online Instruction -- Th 8/21 1-1:50 pm
Facilitators: Robert Kelley and Linda Shaffer
The workshop will present to faculty the opportunity to form a mentor/mentee relationship, as they learn about and incorporate online elements into their courses. Subsequently, the mentee and mentor can then meet decide what to focus upon, gain an idea of when most of the mentor/mentee hours might occur during the semester (is help needed primarily up front, or instead sprinkled throughout the semester), and number of hours available for the flex activity. Note: Faculty are expected to only claim the hours that they participated in this flex activity, up to a maximum of fifteen hours (non-itemized). Faculty are not obligated or expected to complete all fifteen hours, rather that is the upper limit of hours that can be claimed for this mentor/mentee online elements professional development activity.

* Drop-In Work Session for Online Teaching -- Th 8/21 2-3:50 pm
Facilitators: Robert Kelley and Linda Shaffer
Location: TIC (Library 1253)
Creating or improving upon your online courses or materials? Join your fellow instructors in the new Teaching Innovation Center (TIC) at the Oceanside Hub during this two hour open work session. Faculty from the Program for Online Teaching (POT) and Karen Korstad will be on hand to answer questions. There are a limited number of computers in the Teaching Innovation Center, consider bringing your own laptop. Up to two hours of flex credit can be earned.

Faculty-led Technology Workshops

* Captivate 3 & Camtasia: A comparison and practical uses in teaching -- Fri 8/15 2-3:50 pm
Facilitators: Karen Korstad and Pilar Hernandez
Location: TIC (Library 1253)
You will be amazed at how quickly and easily you can create an animated tutorial. This workshop will demo these software packages (how to) and a discussion of the practical uses by faculty in creating interactive course materials online.

* Creating and Using Digital Images for the Web -- M 8/18 1-2:50 pm
Facilitator: Jill Malone (and assistant)
Location: OC4607
This workshop will focus on creating and using images effectively in an online teaching environment.

* Cover Yourself - Get AP&P Approval Now to Teach Online/Hybrid Later... -- Th 8/21 10:30-12:20
Facilitators: Robert Kelley, Julie Romaine, Somphone Chen
Location: OC4607
There can easily be a year-long gap between deciding that you'd like to offer a course online, and getting the AP&P approval to do so. Consider talking with your department members to find out what courses you think would make sense to offer online, and getting approval in place now so that they could potentially be taught online as early as Fall '09. This will be a hands-on workshop, where after a brief overview, you'll learn about general questions to consider, be assisted with how to complete the WebCMS form, and find out about the required meeting with our Access Specialist Somphone Chen (note: Somphone will put aside 1 - 3pm to later meet with interested faculty). WebCMS deadlines are early, so join us in a supportive environment to start the approval process for your department's courses

* Cool PowerPoint Tricks - Th 8/21 8-9:50 am
Facilitator: Karl Golemo
Location: OC4610
Many faculty use PowerPoint but don't realize what a powerful multimedia tool it can be. Join PowerPoint expert Karl Golemo to learn how to create animation and audio to "powerize" online lectures.

* Using ETUDES-NG - M 8/18 9-10:50 am
Facilitator: John Turbeville
Location: OC4529
With the demise of the legacy ETUDES system, Foothill College has developed ETUDES-NG, the robust course management system being piloted this year by the Technology and Pedagogy Committee. This workshop will provide an introduction to the system and a demonstration of its many features.

* Using Moodle - M 8/18 1-2:50 pm
Facilitator: Lisa M. Lane (Jim assisting)
Location: OC4610
MiraCosta is piloting Moodle, a course management system based on constructivist theory which is surprisingly easy to use. Unlike Blackboard, Moodle is organized like a syllabus, and lets you select which features you want to use as you build your class. This workshop will walk participants through setting up and running class in Moodle, and explain the various features of this system.

* Second Life: What's In It for Educators? -- T 8/19 9-11:50 am
Randall Cornish and Carolyn O'Barr
Location: OC4622
Second Life is an imaginary 3D virtual world created by visitors and residents who interact with one another in real time via the Internet using the free Second Life software program. In this workshop, we take a “field trip” to Second Life. Participants learn how to register for free and create an avatar. Participants learn how to walk, fly and teleport from place to place in Second Life. Participants learn how to communicate with others, make friends and join groups. Participants learn “in-world” terminology, slang, customs and etiquette.

* Using iPods to Enhance Student Learning -- W 8/20 2:00-3:50 pm
Facilitator: Shirley Olsen
Location: OC4622
This hands-on workshop will focus on how to use iPods in order to improve oral performance, enhance communication skills, and heighten interest in language studies. Although the workshop content will be geared toward learning a second language, all instructors with oral performance-based classes are welcome to learn about and participate in this pilot program. Microphones and iPods will be available during the workshop. However, if you already own an iPod, bring it along to use.

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