making your classes, sing, dance, talk, and talk back!

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Making Your Classes“ Sing, Dance, Talk and Talk Back”!

Dr. Russ Meade

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Introduction

Dr. Russ Meade

• Faculty Member- Limestone College• Online Instructor/Faculty Trainer

• TOTAL GEEK!

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“All in Only One Hour?” No……a start!

A fun, interactive, hands-on presentation on how to make your classes stand out from the crowd! We will demonstrate Blackboard and BB/Web CT tools to make your classes the most interactive on the Web.

Learn simple techniques on how to make your classes sing, dance and talk back using various multimedia. Learn how to make your students love your courses so much they will stay after class is over to learn more!

Topics: Multimedia Tools

This session refers to this product(s): Blackboard Learning System – CE Enterprise License (Formerly WebCT Campus Edition – Institution), Session Applicable to Users of All Products

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Modes of Educational Delivery

• Synchronous Takes place in real time.

• Asynchronous

Takes place with time delay (time shift) and while the trainer and learner are physically separated from each other (place shift).

• Blended

Virtual and physical resources. Examples include combinations of technology-based materials and traditional print materials.

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• Real Time lectures

• Real Time questions

• Active Debate

• Professor- Student interaction

• Student-Student interaction

Standard Synchronous Class

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Standard Asynchronous Class

• Written lectures

• Much reading

• Asynchronous Discussion

• Little interaction both on Web Ct and after

• Highly impersonal

• A bit boring at times!

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Exemplary Seated and Online Classes!• Dynamic presentations!

• Incorporation of multimedia!

• Expert guest lectures!

• Timely feedback!

• Real Time Interactivity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Exemplary Online Classes!

Exemplary Course Project

“The BB/WebCT Exemplary Course Project recognizes courses that model best practices in course design, interaction and collaboration, assessment and evaluation, meaningful technology use, and learner support. “

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Meaningful Technology

• Uses technology that the student can easily comprehend.

• Uses the best multimedia possible

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Interaction and Collaboration

• Interaction via the Discussion Board in the class.

• Interaction “ after” the class!

• Interaction by one human to another in one’s own voice!

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Why “ Interact” and Collaborate?

• Adds a “personal” touch to the impersonal environment of online;• Takes a class from the virtual to the “ real”;• Replicates the face to face environment;• Allows the student ( and the Professor) to integrate his or her

personality into the class;

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How to interact and collaborate Online

It’s SIMPLE!

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Today’s Tools for Interaction and Collaboration!

• Blogs• Wiki• Folksonomies(collaboratively

generated, open-ended labels that categorize content , i.e. tags, web pages)

• IM’S-Video and Audio• Voice over IP

(Internet Protocol • “Google jockeying”

(students search for relevant materials to a presentation and simultaneously display the materials in the physical class )

• Pod Casting• Video Blogging• Web Casting• Virtual Worlds• Educational Gaming• Holograms

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More Multimedia!

• Impatica for PowerPointConverts PowerPoint files into a compressed format optimized for streaming over the Internet. Tutorial Document Use the Impatica software on computers in BTC 1052.

• Respondus is a powerful tool for creating Blackboard tests/quizzes and or question pools.Use the Respondus software on the instructor workstation in BTC 1035 (Distance Learning Office).

• HVCC Instructional Media Center Provides e-Reserves and media resources to faculty and staff with a 5,000 title media collection. HVCC United Streaming Faculty Guide

• Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) Links to online learning materials along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments

• MIT's Open Courseware O pen educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners providing access to some MIT course materials.

• 701 e-Learning Tips by Elliot Masie of The Masie CenterA 147 page online book for instructors and free to use and distribute

• Google Scholar SearchSearches for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical The Internet Public Library (IPL)Learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information

• MetaText Digital TextBooksPedagogical Web-based platform for college and university courses

• TurnitinIdentifies papers containing unoriginal material and acts as a powerful deterrent

• InspirationDiagrams and outlines environments to help students comprehend concepts and information

• Windows Movie Maker You can create, edit, and share movies right on your own computer.

• Audacity for Sound (Flash tutorial) This open source software records and edits sound files.

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Thank You! For more information:

E-mail : rmeade@limestone.edu

Call After Conference: 828-625-4744 Call During Conference: 828-243-8259

Have a great day!

Dr. Russ Meade