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www.wtvi.com/teks/onlinedesign

A workshop presented by Wesley A. Fryer
Last updated Thursday, November 17, 2005

Class Wiki: http://lewisville.jot.com - Day 2: Using Moodle in the Classroom

Workshop Description

The focus of this workshop is to help participants establish and refine lenses for analyzing, designing and delivering effective online instruction.

Hopefully this course and the information contained in it will be "just in time" learning for you rather than "just in case." Designing effective online instruction is not only dependent on your understanding of the menu of possibilities, but also your paradigm of teaching and learning.

Outline

  1. Initial Participant Survey
  2. Invitation to be a CCC Digital Immigrant
  3. Brainstorming Initial Perceptions
  4. Exploring QualityMatters Examples
  5. Creative Commons
  6. Other Resources

1. Initial Participant Survey

What have your experiences been with online education? Let's start with a short online survey.

Survey results from 17 Nov 2005 are available in PDF format.

 

2. Invitation to be a CCC Digital Immigrant

The presentation slides are available online, a link to the podcast audio is coming!

 

3. Brainstorming Initial Perceptions

We will brainstorm in small groups and share responses together for the following questions:

1. What are your group's top concerns about distance education and online education? (results as an outline and diagram are available.)

2. What are your group's top desired learning points for today?

 

 

4. Exploring QualityMatters Examples

The Quality Matters project (www.qualitymatters.org) is a Maryland statewide consortium grant project highlighting best practices in distance education and online instruction.

We will use the Quality Matters demo rubric (use the annotation links) to summarize best practices for the following areas:

  1. COURSE OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION - results
  2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES (COMPETENCIES) - results
  3. ASSESSMENT AND MEASUREMENT - results
  4. RESOURCES AND MATERIALS - results
  5. LEARNER INTERACTION - results
  6. COURSE TECHNOLOGY - results
  7. LEARNER SUPPORT - results
  8. ACCESSIBILITY - results

Results linked above are Inspiration diagrams created by workshop participants on November 17, 2005 in Lewisville ISD, Texas. Podcast audio summaries were also recorded (links coming).

 

5. Creative Commons

US Copyright law by default makes all rights reserved for any work created by anyone. Creative Commons lets people share their work with others for specific types of uses.

TASKS

Task 1: View the "Get Creative" movie on the Learn More page of Creative Commons.

Task 2 : Use the following search tools:

  1. Creative Commons Search
  2. Yahoo Creative Commons Search
  3. Flickr Creative Commons Photos (click a license type to search)

 

CHALLENGES

Challenge 1: Teach your students about Creative Commons.

Challenge 2: Encourage your students to use and properly cite Creative Commons content in their research.

Challenge 3: Encourage your students to use Creative Commons licenses when publishing their own work on a blog or the Internet Archive. For this latter case, teach them about the free tool CCPublisher.

Challenge 4: Read the article "Copyright 101 for Educators" later. Discuss it with another teacher.

 

6. Other Resources

  1. Wesley's Blog: speedofcreativity.org
  2. Wesley's social bookmarks
  3. Designing and Delivering Effective Online Instruction (May 2005 Dominican Republic workshop curriculum)
  4. Tools and Techniques (from this site)
  5. Moving at the Speed of Creativity podcasts
  6. The George Lucas Educational Foundation: www.edutopia.org
  7. Surveymonkey: www.surveymonkey.com
  8. George Sieman's Presentation on Connectivism: Rethinking Learning in a Digital Age (and Wesley's responses)
  9. Welcome to Web 2.0 Workshop
  10. Jot.com: The Application Wiki (Student cell phones / technology concerns wiki example)
  11. Wesley's Read/Write Web social bookmarks
  12. Technology Leadership Academy videos
  13. Accessibility: HiSoftware Cynthia Says Portal
  14. SmartTech's Screen Recording Software (free Smartboard Software)
  15. Daniel Pink's a Whole New Mind website (www.danpink.com)
  16. Free sources of Internet Audio

 

 

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