One of the nice things about Elluminate is the ability to view and listen to archived sessions. A few people have written asking for the archive of "New Designs for Assessment" from Friday, March 27th.
Here's the link to the Elluminate archive as well as just the slides:
http://faculty.ccconline.org/index.php?title=TPD_Webinar_Archive#New_Designs_for_Assessment
Monday, March 30, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
CMC Meets in Second Life + Virtual Conference this Weekend
CMC Avatars: Some of us did meet in SL on March 17th, and we have snapshot to prove it.
Second Life continues to develop as an instructional venue -- a discussion is in the works about a shared parcel of land in Second Life for Colorado colleges. More to come soon--I attended the first meeting just last week.
March 27 - 29th: There's a conference going on in Second Life about Best Practices in Virtual World Education: http://wiki.vwbpe.org/index.php?title=Main_Page. No travel, and it's free.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Recording for Second Life Intro
If you missed the Intro to Second Life session on Elluminate yesterday, you can still view the session as it was recorded.
To view the recording, click the link below:
Second Life as an Instructional Strategy
To logon, enter your name, skip the password. The recording was made March 10th.
Next week we will actually meet in Second Life and the New Media Consortium Oriention. You'll need a Second Life account and avatar (free).
Contact me if you are interested in joining us and I'll send the location:
avoorhees@coloradomtn.edu
To view the recording, click the link below:
Second Life as an Instructional Strategy
To logon, enter your name, skip the password. The recording was made March 10th.
Next week we will actually meet in Second Life and the New Media Consortium Oriention. You'll need a Second Life account and avatar (free).
Contact me if you are interested in joining us and I'll send the location:
avoorhees@coloradomtn.edu
CMC and CCCOnline Faculty have the opportunity to share a few workshop offerings, and the current workshop is about online discussions within our class offerings. While some participants are fully online faculty, online discussions can be used with any delivery, and the questioning and rubric sections of this workshop bring value to all discussion practices.
We have just been discussing building community and are talking about how audio and video could serve building community. So I did a little search to see if there were some examples of student introductions done in video. There were several for this particular online class. Here's one example:
We have just been discussing building community and are talking about how audio and video could serve building community. So I did a little search to see if there were some examples of student introductions done in video. There were several for this particular online class. Here's one example:
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Short Video Lectures
Today's Chronicle has a feature about San Juan CC's creation of video lectures running 1 - 3 minutes in length--lectures that created a very focused frame for presenting key concepts for students.
After the creation of the lecture, the students could then be directed to an active learning activity to put the concepts into practice.
Here's an example of one presented by an English Comp Faculty.
Source: http://chronicle.com/media/video/v55/i26/microlecture/
Might these also be of use in a tech supported class? I'm thinking they could be helpful in introducing concepts related to homework or discussion assignments. Your thoughts?
After the creation of the lecture, the students could then be directed to an active learning activity to put the concepts into practice.
Here's an example of one presented by an English Comp Faculty.
Source: http://chronicle.com/media/video/v55/i26/microlecture/
Might these also be of use in a tech supported class? I'm thinking they could be helpful in introducing concepts related to homework or discussion assignments. Your thoughts?
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Shorten That Long URL w/ TinyURL
Ever have an awkwardly long URL that you want to share? Here's a script to shorten it or make it a tiny url that can be cut and pasted wherever you intend to use it.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Google Bus Tour--Student Gmail Video
A few weeks ago, I posted the Horizon Report which predicted that Cloud Computing was one of the two big technologies to watch--Google Apps is one of those--it means that the services stay up on the web, rather than being dependent on our single desktops or laptops.
Campus Technology ran a story yesterday about the fall Google Bus Tour to ten campuses. They wanted to see what students knew about Google Apps and how they were using them. Their findings: Two camps of students--those who were way into Google Apps and those who didn't know much about them (not surprising). They said usage increased after they showed students how they could be used rather than just talked about them (learning news?). They also learned that people may use them in ways we don't expect: '"We use that to track where the free food is on campus."' :).
CMC uses Google mail for students on campus. How do students get Gmail here? After a student registers, he or she is entered into Web-Advisor. The person can then go to http://www.coloradomnt.edu/webadvisor site and logon as a first-time user to see his or her user name.
Next, on to http://my.colorado.mtn to set up the Gmail account. To do so, the user logs on with his or her web-advisor name and the last six digits of the SS#. After logging in the student clicks onf the "Gmail" in the Student Toolbox, types the characters in the captcha prompt, accepts the terms, and clicks "Create My Account." (Thank you, Bill Sommers, for these details.)
Here are some videos of how student users explained their uses of Gmail during the Google Apps Tour. You can view additional video about student use of other apps here. Additional tools include word, presentation, and spreadsheet apps to name a few.
Campus Technology ran a story yesterday about the fall Google Bus Tour to ten campuses. They wanted to see what students knew about Google Apps and how they were using them. Their findings: Two camps of students--those who were way into Google Apps and those who didn't know much about them (not surprising). They said usage increased after they showed students how they could be used rather than just talked about them (learning news?). They also learned that people may use them in ways we don't expect: '"We use that to track where the free food is on campus."' :).
CMC uses Google mail for students on campus. How do students get Gmail here? After a student registers, he or she is entered into Web-Advisor. The person can then go to http://www.coloradomnt.edu/webadvisor site and logon as a first-time user to see his or her user name.
Next, on to http://my.colorado.mtn to set up the Gmail account. To do so, the user logs on with his or her web-advisor name and the last six digits of the SS#. After logging in the student clicks onf the "Gmail" in the Student Toolbox, types the characters in the captcha prompt, accepts the terms, and clicks "Create My Account." (Thank you, Bill Sommers, for these details.)
Here are some videos of how student users explained their uses of Gmail during the Google Apps Tour. You can view additional video about student use of other apps here. Additional tools include word, presentation, and spreadsheet apps to name a few.
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