July 14

eduMOOC 2011 – Online Learning Today… Tomorrow

Intro: what i do

My digital footprints: http://bit.ly/mTQBIt
My work: http://slidesha.re/ppIpE1 and http://sln.suny.edu
My team: http://wiki.sln.suny.edu/display/SLNED/*about
Work bio: http://slneducation.edublogs.org/about/ and https://etap640.edublogs.org/about-2/

My faculty hat: http://bit.ly/o1bpVT and http://www.albany.edu/etap/iotl.htm

My community: http://slnfacultyonline.ning.com/ – JOIN!

The role online technologies can have in online learning
http://bit.ly/teachinginthecloud
* facilitate more engaging collaboration and interaction
* provide more engaging feedback
* make me more effective/efficient
* criteria: better faster safer easier or cheaper

How do you engage online learners ?
My teaching: http://prezi.com/yyzcr9_btox6/teaching-learning-in-the-cloud/
About my course: https://etap640.edublogs.org/2010/10/07/teaching-in-the-cloud/
My tools: https://etap640.edublogs.org/2011/07/14/tools-i-use-to-enhance-my-instuction-to-engage-online-learners/ and  https://etap640.edublogs.org/2011/01/22/top-10-cooltools-for-2011/

(voicethread) enhancing content presentation and interaction: social presence/class community
Ice breaking activity: http://voicethread.com/share/1991825/

(microblogging: twitter) content presentation: social presence, teaching presence, engagement, interaction, microlearning/blogging
https://twitter.com/#!/etap640
Engage students in personally driven professional development, community of practice, affinity groups. Reaching out to and engaging in self directed passion driven professional development.
About twitter: http://issuu.com/alexandrapickett/docs/what-i-know1v1?viewMode=presentation

(social bookmarking: diigo) enhancing student engagement: student-generated content, shared resources, social bookmarking
http://groups.diigo.com/group/ETAP687
We co-create a shared annotated bibliography of resources that persist beyond the end of the term.
Makes me more effective and efficient in providing feedback.

(blogs: edublogs) reflection and metacognitive journaling: developing a public voice, presence and contributing to the read/write web and social discourse
To establish an online presence: for academic and professional purposes
To contribute to and engage in academic and professional public discourse
My current students’ blogs: http://www.netvibes.com/alexandrapickett#ETAP640_-_summer_2011
My blog grading rubric: https://etap640.edublogs.org/2008/06/02/reflections-blog-post-grading-rubric/

(screencasting: jing) enhanced and engaging feedback    and makes me more effective and efficient in providing feedback, examples:

(podcasting: audacity and podomatic) engaging audio feedback
https://etap640.edublogs.org/2011/07/10/learning-activities-feedback-2/
http://alexandrapickett.podomatic.com/
http://www.podomatic.com/playlist/alexandrapickett/412413

engaging presentation of content, feedback, interaction
video: YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL16B1004AC945748C

My community: http://slnfacultyonline.ning.com/ – JOIN!

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July 14

Tools I use to enhance my instruction-to engage online learners

I use a variety of web2.0 tools external to the Moodle course management system in this course:

  • to enhance the presentation of course content,
  • to faciltitae your engagement and interaction with course material and with your classmates,
  • to provide you with access to course materials beyond the end of the term, and
  • to expose you to tools and utilities that may have potential to enhance instruction.
  1. voicethread – an online media album of any type of media (images, documents and videos). Used in this course as an ice-breaking activity. This example uses a video of my daughter introducing me from her perspective.
  2. diigo – social bookmarking tool. Used to bookmark, highlight, and comment upon and share references used in the course. Also used to create a dynamic link roll of resources that auto-displays latest additions to the shared class annotated bibliography of resources currated by the course participants – that remains available to students beyond the end of the term.
  3. edublogs – education-focused blog. Used in this course to keep metacognitive journals and reflections/feedback on the online teaching and learning experiences. I an example blog for the course, where i model blogging, link to student blogs, and post student feedback: https://etap640.edublogs.org
  4. netvibes – to aggregate and display student blogs.
  5. twitter – micro blog. Used in this course for newsflash type announcements, questions, interaction. https://twitter.com/i/#!/alexpickett/etap-640-summer-2012 and https://twitter.com/etap640
  6. jing – a screen capture tool used to provide instructions, feedback, and clarification. (i also use screencast-o-matic for 15-minute screencasts)
  7. screencast – a Techsmith repository affiliated with the jing project that gives me the ability to create a playlist of my “how-to” videos in my course.
  8. meebome – an IM utility to facilitate synchronos extemporaneous interaction from the course homepage and course blog site. Now using digsby as an alternative to meebome.
  9. audacity – an audio recording utility used in the course to record audio comments and interviews with exemplar online faculty.
  10. podomatic – a podcasting utility used to deliver the audio feedback created with audacity to you. See podcasted student feedback examples on course learning activities.
  11. youtube – to record and view course-related video materials. – online asynchronous video discussion to bring “rockstars” into the class and blur the boundaries of the online learning classroom environment “box”. See also the course videos playlist.
  12. vimeo – to post course-related video materials. See the screencasted feedback course reviews.
  13. voki – a speaking avatar used for announcements in this course. Example: Welcome to ETAP640!
  14. breeze – used to create voice-annotated powerpoint course materials.
  15. polldaddy – survey tool used to collect feedback from students on the course.
  16. rate my professor – professor rating tool.
  17. jumpscam – a QR code generator used to create a scan-able QRcode with information about this course.
  18. vyou – conversational video used to ask and answer questions.

http://www.appappeal.com/web-2-0-application-world-mosaic/
http://www.go2web20.net

cooltools

teaching in the cloud prezi

Teaching in the cloud links

July 10

Learning Activities feedback

Below you will find individual podcast episodes of my feedback for you on your learning activities assignment from module 3. I would encourage you to listen to the feedback and incorporate it into your “build it” assignment for this module as you build the learning activities into your course shell. I would also encourage you listen to the feedback podcast episodes other than your own.

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