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TwitterI will be making two presentations at The North Carolina Distance Learning Association’s 2011 Virtual Conference: Engaging Online Learners. The first will be looking at three models for online courses and course redesigns. For those that arent able to attend virtually, below is the abstract and PowerPoint slides. Abstract This presentation will be for anyone that is interested [...]
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NCLDA Presentation – Taking Your Talents Online: Are you ready to teaching Online?
Posted on February 16th, 2011
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Creating Virtual Student Introductions
Posted on January 3rd, 2011
Whether you are teaching a face-to-face or an online course, you will want to create a sense of community for your students. Typically, the first day of a face-to-face class is spent reviewing the course goals and syllabus as well as doing introductory icebreaker activities. You can use one of two online tools – Voicethread or Glogster – to create this interactive icebreaker activity.
Should Your Course be Online?
Posted on December 18th, 2010
In direct response to the changing economic climate, higher education has turned to online courses as a solution to meet the increasing demand. Some motivations are financial – they hope to be able to teach more students with fewer instructors – while others are motivated by a lack of resources and are struggling to meet the demands of the student population. Regardless, the success of developing online courses is not a decision to be taken lightly and requires careful planning and organization. Working through each of these steps will dramatically improve the success for your online course development.
Using Screen Recordings for Demos and Training
Posted on July 21st, 2010
We learn both by seeing and doing and a great way to cater to this is to create screen capture videos for your demonstrations or training. These capture videos are easy to create, can serve multiple audiences at once, and allow users to watch, pause, and stop the video as needed. The creation of the video is in real time so the time constraints are minimal.
A Secure Way to Share Flip Videos
Posted on June 6th, 2010
With a large number of instructors and even larger population of students, it was vital that creating videos be as easy as possible. If instructors were able to create videos with minimal effort, they would be more receptive to using a streaming video solution. As part of this video project, the Department of Romance Languages [...]