Welcome to our recordings
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 MiraCosta College flex under Conference Attendance so long as the following conditions are met: 
- You post, either on your own blog or here at the Forum, a 250 word minimum reflection on what you viewed,
- You add the URL of that post to the “Location” text box on the Conference Attendance form at the flex website, and
- As with other conferences, the work must be done outside of teaching hours.
These are videos of our workshops:
Email Lisa for the passcode to “The Zen of PowerPoint” – all other videos are open.
These sessions are the most recent (2012), and were part of the certificate class also:
- Lisa’s presentation on Control and Freedom in Online Classes is available as a Collaborate archive session.
- Ted Major’s presentation on Audio and Video is available as a Collaborate recording here.
- Lisa, Eric, Todd, Ted and Zack presented in Collaborate on Personal Learning Networkson Feb 2. Slides and audio are posted here.
These sessions were simul-learn workshops (video and Elluminate): (2011-12)
- Giving Students The Bird: Using Twitter in the Classroom with Eric Robertson (4 Nov 2011) [also available: full session to download, slides/audio movie, audio only mp3]
- Creating Meaningful Discussions in an Asynchronous Environment with Sue Simpson (demo of Wimba Voiceboard) (6 Oct 2011)
- More Than a Passing Fancy: How Blogs Are Enriching Online Teaching and Learning with Jim Sullivan (2 Sept 2011)
These sessions were simul-learn workshops (video and Elluminate): (2010-11)

- Redesigning Your Class with Jim Sullivan (6 May 2011) also available as audio podcast
- Google Forms with Barbara McPherson (1 April 2011)
- Strategies for Groups with Claudia Faulk (4 Mar 2011)
- Blackboard Wiki vs. External Wikis with Donna Marques (4 Feb 2011)
- The Interactive Syllabus (3 December 2010) Lisa M Lane and Jim Sullivan show the advantages of creating an interactive syllabus for online, on-site and hybrid classes, and demonstrate how to do it inside Blackboard 8 and 9.
- Online Quizzes: Implications for On-site and Online Classes (1 October 2010) Jim Sullivan discusses the uses of online quizzes as teaching tools, with implications for subject testing and the possibilities of using visuals and creating unique questions.
- Multimedia E-Books (starts 10 minutes into session — sorry!) (3 September 2010) Robert Kelley shows how to use Crocodoc to create multimedia e-books that students can annotate, highlight and add to.
These sessions were synchronous workshops in Elluminate: (2009-10)

- Instructor Presence (8 June 2010) Lisa’s presentation to Virginia Commonwealth University’s Teaching and Learning with Technology Institute [available in Wimba Classroom recording (log in with your name) or Slideshare slides with audio]
- Julie Harland at Math 2.0 [Elluminate] includes use of screen capture and tablets for on-site and online classes (5 June 2010)
- Using Online Resources for Professional Development (7 May 2010) simulcast with Oceanside lab [Elluminate]
- Laura Paciorek: Connections in Online Classes (9 April 2010) and PowerPoint slides
- Pilar Hernandez: Building Community (4 December 2009)
- Louisa Moon: Ten Time-Saving Tips (2 October 2009)
Third Thursdays: sessions on various topics

- 21 May 2009: This month we’ll feature samples of 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).
- 16 April 2009: Come join us for Robert Kelley showing how to use Jing to easily integrate video into online instruction, and an introduction by Lisa to the new webapp BubblePLY
- 19 March 2009: Join us for Shirley Olsen demonstrating oral-based assessment with video, and update on the POT site, and more.
- 19 February 2009: Come join us for a video to encourage departmental participation, an intro to CamStudio (a free substitution for Camtasia), and other web news.
- 15 January 2009: Join us for open discussion and new tools Google talkback badge, Seesmic, Stinto and more.
- 18 December 2008: Join us for a discussion including Blackboard surveys, Creative Commons, and getting the grading done.
- 20 November 2008: Topics this month are student signups and groups in Blackboard (Pilar), wikis (Donna), and annotated images in Flickr (Lisa).
- 16 October 2008: This meeting had Jill Malone with quick ways to make audio notes for students using Audacity (example loaded into Blackboard), pdfs for multimedia with Robert Kelley, and Lisa about Twitter for professional development.
- 18 September 2008: We met from 8:30-9:30 pm, but the recording was only turned on at the half-way point.
This was Jim Sullivan about blogs, and Lisa on Del.icio.us. - 21 August 2008: Topics: Online Teaching Certificate, MOOC Connectivism Class, Elluminate for class or office hours.
Podcasts: audio from sessions:
Audio from Jill Malone’s August 2008 workshop, “Creating and Using Digital Images for the Web“.
Audio from David Megill, Jeff Uhlik and Lisa M Lane’s August 2008 workshop, “Pedagogy and Current Technologies Brainstorm“.
