Teaching and Learning with Web2.0: What's on Your Plate?

These slides were presented as a live lab session today at the Glenwood Center. Have questions or want a session at your campus? Let me know :). Best, Alice

Teaching and Learning with Web 2.0: What's on Your Plate?

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Next Applications for Faculty Professional Development Funds are Due Jan. 15th

Hi All,

Are you thinking about attending conferences or workshops scheduled for March, April, May, or June of 2010? You may qualify to apply for the Faculty Professional Development Fund. Proposals are due Jan. 15th. 

Information and application materials are available at this link (It's also in our links list at the right side of this blog:
http://faculty.coloradomtn.edu/blog/2009/01/cmc-faculty-professional-development.html

Here are a few conference offerings during that period:
http://delicious.com/coloradomtn/conference2010

Upcoming workshops for CMC faculty and staff

Hello CMC instructors and staff—

Join us for the following training sessions today, tomorrow, and next week at the Rifle campus and at Glenwood Springs locations:

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Wed. Nov. 18
3-3:30 pm
Rifle Computer Lab #120

Virtual Library: Introduction and Overview

In this session :
--Using interlibrary loan and accessing library catalogs
--Databases available (multidisciplinary and subject-oriented)
--Library resources available for instructors
--Help with using the virtual library for specific objectives

Everett Gardner
mailto:Gardneregardner@coloradomtn.edu

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Wed. Nov. 18
4-6 pm
Rifle Computer Lab #120

Blackboard: Quizzes/Tests

Not using quizzes or tests in Blackboard yet?
Come see how much control you have over how and when a quiz or test is released, how you can randomize questions, and various security settings you can apply.And see how much time you will save.Your multiple choice quizzes will grade themselves, and Blackboard will automatically enter and display test grades and calculate course averages in the Blackboard gradebook for you and your students.You can spend less time on grading and more time on teaching, and your students will appreciate the convenience of being able to access the quiz grades and feedback online.
In this session we will:
· Create a short quiz
· Discuss the settings and feedback options for each question
· Place the quiz in a course content area
· Make the quiz available and modify the test options for the quiz
· Take a look at the gradebook to see students’ scores, add comments, clear an attempt, override a calculated grade
· Take a look at a student’s view of the gradebook
· Briefly discuss advanced quiz and test creation options like importing publisher test banks, creating test pools and using a test creation software by Respondus to import your test questions from MS Word format

Prerequisite: “Blackboard Basics” or experience using Blackboard.

Suzanne Thompson
mailto:Thompsonswthompson@coloradomtn.edu

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Thurs. Nov. 19
10-11:30 am
Central Services
Training lab downstairs (Downtown in Glenwood Springs, 831 Grand Ave.)

Create your own Podcasts / MP3 audio files (with Audacity)

Looking for a way to engage your students online and enhance their learning?
Podcasts are a great way to integrate audio into your course.
In this session, we'll learn how to use the free software program Audacity to easily create mp3 podcasts that can be posted in Blackboard. Your students can listen online or they can import them into an iPod or mp3 player for easy listening anywhere. You can also ask students to create and post their own podcasts as assignments for the course.
In this session we'll cover--installing the software--recording--editing--adding additional sound tracks--exporting as an .mp3--posting the file in Blackboard--other publishing options, tips and ideas for using podcasts
Audacity is a free software program: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Suzanne Thompson
mailto:Thompsonswthompson@coloradomtn.edu

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Tues. Nov. 24
1:30-3:30
Glenwood Center Computer lab

Web 2.0 Buffet

What is Web 2.0? It is the many tools that changed how we use the internet--they are what allow us to create, collaborate, and communicate in ways we were not able to do with the earlier internet.Come view the possibilities for teaching and learning, and try out one or two which interest you.
In the first hour of this session we will have an overview of various tools, such as
--Twitter, Twitpic, SL Tweets--Blip.fm--Flickr--Slideshare--Voicethread--Serious Games--Glogster
In the second hour of this session, participants may stay and try out various Web 2.0 tools and the presenter will be there to assist as needed.

Alice Bedard-Voorhees
avoorhees@coloradomtn.edu

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To register, please RSVP to the instructor of the session.

You can check our upcoming schedule and session descriptions at any time here:
http://www.coloradomtn.edu/faculty_staff/innovations_in_teaching_learning/training/

We look forward to seeing you!

Ever Wonder What There is To Do In Second Life?

SECOND LIFE EVENTS (Thank you Rhonda Dove, SL ColoradoEduIsland Colleague)

The following is a list of events and activities that occur in Second Life, and can be found on the Events tab of the SL search feature. Most of these events are scheduled weekly or are ontgoing events.

Heart Attack And Stroke Quiz Game!
German Learning (For Free)

NCI Class: Building Basics
El Intercambio

NCI Class: Avatar Makeover
Kamingesprache

Introduction to the U.S. Colorline
Poetry at the Wildrose Club

NCI Class: Boomer Hours
Museum @ Second Norway

The ODR after the Civil War
The Grand Gallery

Road to Rognarak – Kinship
The Grand Planetarium

Star Trek Science
Japanese Dance Performance: Oiran and a Fairy Tale

Thom Dowd and his Recorder Series
Kabuki: The Two Lions, A Japanese Play



Heart Attack And Stroke Quiz Game!

In celebration of International Information Literacy/Health Literacy Week Nov 9-15 we have created interactive quiz Games on HealthInfo Island!

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Healthinfo%20Island/58/95/22

German Learning (For Free)

Visit our free German course (Level A2) on the Goethe-Institut-island. Learn German with innovative methods in a small group in our virtual classroom (please note: you should have a minimal knowledge of German). Tuesdays from 7.00 to 8.00 AM SLT.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Goethe%20Institut/74/147/25

NCI Class: Building Basics

NCI Class: Building - BASICS
When: Tuesday, 7pm to 8:30pm , 1.5 hours
Instructor: Kerhop Seattle
Location: NCI Beach, Island Classroom

Terrific Art History or Humanities Resource

Looking for a site for images, conversations, and video for an art history or humanities course? Take a look at this terrific site:

smarthistory.org

Important Topic and Presentation: Assessment at CMC

Kathy Kiser-Miller provided this presentation as part of the assessment panel at the October Faculty Day. Thank you to all who are leading this activity. Assessment is critical 1) to understanding how and what students are learning 2) to improving instructional practice.

Assessment Presentation for Faculty Panel at CMC

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Professor Aliya at Columbia University Thanks to Professional Development Funding

The theater is the only art form that concerns itself predominately with social issues. Can we get along? Can we get along in this room? Can we get along as a society? How might we get along better? –Anne Bogart

As the recipient of the Colorado Mountain College Professional Development Grant, I participated in a two-week Advanced Theatre training residency at Columbia University in New York City. Led by the world renowned theatre director Anne Bogart and the actors of the international theatre group SITI Company, I had the incredible fortune to collaborate with the most cutting edge theatre creators of our time.
Based on my experience and learning’s at Columbia University, I conducted an acting workshop on Viewpoints and Composition for Gary Ketzenberger’s Acting I class at CMC Spring Valley Campus.
The Viewpoints allows a group of actors to function together spontaneously and intuitively and to generate bold, theatrical work quickly. It develops flexibility, articulation, and strength in movement and makes ensemble playing possible. Composition work is an alternative to the writer sitting alone at the computer by his/herself making stuff up. Composition are assignments for small groups, who are given a list of ingredients, an overall intention or structure and a short period of time and are challenged to create a new piece a theatre.
The two essential components to Viewpoints and Composition work are a group consensus of working with an open heart and the notion of YES/AND, meaning ALL ideas thrown into the pot are valid, important and worthwhile.
The first half of the workshop was dedicated to Viewpoints. It was remarkable to witness the actor’s spontaneity and joy in their artistic exploration.
Next I divided the actors into small groups of three. Each group was given a common household object along with the following instructions: Create a 3 minute commercial selling the object. The only catch is the object can not be what the object is. For example, a wooden spoon can’t be a wooden spoon, but it can be transformed into a magic wand. They were also given the following ingredients that their compositions must include.
· YES/AND
· Use of all the Viewpoints
· A surprise entrance
· The use of light and dark
· Ten seconds of continuous unison action
· Revelation of space
· A song
You have ten minutes to create your piece. Go.

Their second assignment was to pick any fairytale of their choice, which was to be used as a spring board to create their second Composition: A Modern Day Fairytale. The actors were to include all the ingredients from the list above as well as
· Music from an unexpected source
· A verbal dual
· Narrative story telling
You have ten minutes to create your piece. Go.

Web 2.0 Buffet: Presentation

While I prepared this presentation for the ELCC faculty training day in Denver last week, I am always cognizant of how we will use it at CMC. The theme was Web2.0 Buffet, in case you are wondering what the food is about.

Long story short, this is about the web tools that make it possible for users to create and interact in ways we couldn't do at an earlier time on the internet.

Web2.0 Buffet

More materials from this wonderful day can be viewed at http://elcc.pbworks.com/