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 Program for Online Teaching: Fall Flex 2013
Creativity in Online Teaching series
Monday, August 12 10:00 am – 2:00 pm +
Location: OC4802
What’s the best approach to the challenges of online teaching? Creativity! POT’s fall flex workshop day will focus on the enthusiasm, tip, tools, and generative process of building online components for student learning. As always, POT’s focus is on realizing your teaching goals through technology, rather than letting the technology control what you do.
Cost $15/participant for all day, $10 if bringing own lunch, $5 donation requested for single workshop (make checks payable to MCC Academic Senate with POT Workshop in the subject line).
10:00-10:50 Creativity When Starting Out
How can you be creative about building your online class? Faced with a bunch of Blackboard buttons or a blank screen, it’s hard to focus on your own teaching strengths and design a good learning experience for students. We’ll share a process and some tips for getting started.
11-11:50 Creativity in Presentation and Discussion
Great lecturers and facilitators can take advantage of the web’s many resources and tools to create engaging presentations and discussions for their classes. We’ll share tool-choosing tips and ways to help make decisions based on your own teaching strengths.
12:00-12:50 Creativity in Online Teaching lunch with seminar
Come join us for a lunch a lively roundtable based on your requests for topics (add them at http://bit.ly/potcreativity).
1:00-1:50 Creativity in Interactivity and Student-Led Projects
Creative classes use individual and group shared projects, media creation, and projects led by the students themselves. Come discuss the many options for featuring more active learning in your online class.
Additional workshop: 2-3:30 Screencasting, OC4804
Don’t just tell your online students – show them! Screencasting is a great way to share mini-lecturettes, make quick replies to students, demonstrate a method, or provide students with feedback on their assignments/quizzes. Importantly, you’ll get hands on experience with how to do this easily and for free! We’ll focus on learning the basics of Screencast-O-Matic. You’ll learn how to share your screencasts either as a URL link or how to embed the video directly within your course (e.g. using Bb or Moodle).
Register after June 30 at the flex website
First Fridays: Face-to-Face
Facilitators: Laura Paciorek and Jo Moore, OC4803a computer lab
The main theme of our F2F’s this semester has been that people are excited to hear about resources, but don’t always get to try them. When Jo and I met, we thought about starting the semester off with some resource discussions and then move into more general discussions. We felt the resource discussions would be a little longer (1.5 hours) so people can try them out. Maximum capacity: 20 people.
Feb. 1 – 3:00 – 4:20 (1.5 hours) – POT Discussion and Hands-On – Content Resources
Have you always wondered what neat content/information resources are out there for your classes? Are you looking for high quality videos, animations, or articles? This discussion and work workshop will give us a chance to learn about and share content resources that we could use in teaching our classes. If you have an idea of a content resource to share, please bring the idea along with you. The focus of these is on learning from one another. We will save the last part of the workshop to actually work on finding things or looking at the tools discussed. Individuals with no, little, some, and a lot of online teaching experience are all welcome. Each First Friday will focus on what the group wants to discuss, however, prompts will also be provided to start the discussion. Questions are welcome, too! This workshop benefits faculty by giving them ideas that may improve instruction.
Mar. 1 – 3:00 – 4:20 (1.5 hours) – POT Discussion and Hands-On – Tool Resources
Have you ever heard about some neat technology tools out there, but haven’t had time to try them? Do you feel new to the idea of teaching online with technology tools outside of the course management system? This discussion and work workshop will give us a chance to learn about and share technology tools that we could use in teaching our classes. If you have an idea of a tool to share, please bring the idea along with you. The focus of these is on learning from one another. We will save the last part of the workshop to actually work on finding things or looking at the tools discussed. Individuals with no, little, some, and a lot of online teaching experience are all welcome. Each First Friday will focus on what the group wants to discuss, however, prompts will also be provided to start the discussion. Questions are welcome, too! This workshop benefits faculty by giving them ideas that may improve instruction.
Apr. 5 – 3:00 – 3:50 (1 hour) – POT Making Your Mark – Personalizing Courses
Have you ever wondered how to make your courses reflect how you are as an instructor? Do you have questions about how you might be able to make some of your content in a place like a blog or website? Come and discuss these topics and/or your online teaching adventures with fellow faculty members. Individuals with no, little, some, and a lot of online teaching experience are all welcome. Each Program for Online Teaching (POT) First Friday will focus on what the group wants to discuss, however, prompts will also be provided to start the discussion. Questions are welcome, too! This workshop benefits faculty by giving them ideas that may improve instruction.
May 3 – 3:00 – 3:50 (1 hour) – POT First Friday – Wrap Up/Renewal
What are your plans for your future classes? What did you learn or what do you want to try next? Come and discuss these topics and/or your online teaching adventures with fellow faculty members. Individuals with no, little, some, and a lot of online teaching experience are all welcome. Each Program for Online Teaching (POT) First Friday will focus on what the group wants to discuss, however, prompts will also be provided to start the discussion. Questions are welcome, too! This workshop benefits faculty by giving them ideas that may improve instruction.
POT Spring Flex Week 2013 – Thursday, Jan 10
11:15 Screencasting for Educators (1.5 hours – OC 4804) Robert Kelley and Shafin Ali
Don’t just tell your online students – show them! You can record and share with your students whatever you wish to display on your computer screen, while you are talking about (e.g., using a microphone). Screencasting is a great way to share mini-lecturettes, make quick replies to students, demonstrate a method, or provide students with feedback on their assignments/quizzes. Importantly, you’ll get hands on experience with how to do this easily and for free! We’ll focus on learning the basics of Screencast-O-Matic. You’ll learn how to share your screencasts either as a URL link or how to embed the video directly within your course (e.g., using Bb or Moodle). Note that other screencasting tools will also be shown. This is a hands-on workshop.
1:00 Blackboard vs Moodle Smack Down (1 hour – OC 4809) Pilar Hernandez vs Lisa M Lane
The ultimate contest between our two learning management systems. Blackboard and Moodle go head to head on the most challenging jobs of the online instructor. Which is best for you? Keep score to find out! (Betting is not permitted on college grounds.)
2:00 Top 10 Resources for Teaching Online (1 hour – OC 4809) Lisa M Lane, Pilar Hernandez, Robert Kelley and Laura Paciorek
Have a question about online teaching but don’t know where to go? Just starting teaching online and want to know where to start? Been teaching online awhile but want to try a new tool? Need tutorials on Blackboard or information on how to earn flex credit watching videos about online teaching? We will explore a number of resources collected by the Program for Online Teaching.
3:00 Open discussion on online teaching (1 hour – OC 4809) Laura Paciorek and Jo Moore
Come and discuss your online teaching adventures with fellow faculty members. Individuals with no, little, some, and a lot of online teaching experience are all welcome. This discussion will focus on what the group wants to discuss. However, prompts will also be provided to start the discussion. Questions are welcome, too! This workshop benefits faculty by giving them ideas that may improve instruction.
POT Online Teaching Certificate Class at Pedagogy First!
Class begins September 1 for a free, open, online experience in learning to teach online. Contact Lisa during the summer if you’d like to join – you will be starting your own blog and following a syllabus that runs 12 weeks in fall and 12 weeks and spring. Those who complete the tasks may earn a POT Online Teaching certificate and badge.
See the 2011-12 class for the kind of experience to expect. The new class website will open this summer.
POT First Fridays at Oceanside 4804
Come and discuss your online teaching adventures with fellow faculty members. Individuals with no, little, some, and a lot of online teaching experience are all welcome. Each First Friday will focus on what the group wants to discuss, however, prompts will also be provided to start the discussion. Questions are welcome, too!
This workshop benefits faculty by giving them ideas that may improve instruction.
September 7 - 3:00-3:50 p.m.: Engagement – What do you do to engage your students in online classes?
October 5 - 3:00-3:50 p.m.: Time/energy management – How do you manage your time/energy as an instructor and how do you help your students manage their time/energy?
November 2- 3:00-3:50 p.m.: Evaluation – How do you have students evaluate your classes and how do you evaluate your students’ work?
December 7 - 3:00-3:50 p.m.: Renewal – What are your plans for your future classes? What did you learn or what do you want to try next?
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