Online Presentation, Overview of SmarterMeasure

What:  Online Presentation, Overview of SmarterMeasure

When: Thursday, November 10^th, One PM Pacific

For Whom: Anyone is welcome – Intended audience is faculty members and administrators

Part of a weekly series of presentations and live office hours offered by the Washington State eLearning Community, the presenter of this workshop, Marie Rustemeyer of Spokane Community College, will give an overview of this tool and describe her institution’s plan to pilot it in the coming fall.

Overview of SmarterMeasure -- SmarterMeasure is an assessment that uses a sequence of activities and questions to identify student readiness for online learning OR learning in a technology rich course. Because student success is contingent on multiple variables, SmarterMeasure is not a predictive tool but a diagnostic tool to identify students who are at-risk of not doing well due to measured sets of traits, skills and knowledge.

Spokane Community College is piloting SmarterMeasure during fall quarter.  It is not and will not be recommended as a gatekeeper or ‘make or break’ test to determine if a student can take an online course or not. It is intended to be used as a diagnostic tool to make students aware of their strengths and skills and provide resources for support to help students be successful.

Log into the live Blackboard Collaborate Session on Thursday, using this link:

https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?sid=2008170&password=M.76B48BDDE3B7C6157740812A81FD70

This session will be recorded. The recording link is:

https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/recording/playback/link/table/meeting?suid=M.1286F0C21FA258F7D83EE80B8FA025&sid=2008170

You will find links from previous sessions, a schedule of future sessions and more info at http://elearninginwa.blogspot.com

Please send questions and comments to elearn.wa@gmail.com

Technology for Educators: Tools for Teachers

What:  Online Webinar; Technology for Educators: Tools for Teachers

When: Thursday, October 27^th, One PM Pacific

For Whom: Anyone is welcome

Part of a weekly series of presentations and live office hours offered by the Washington State eLearning Community, the presenter of this workshop, Sue Frantz of Highline Community College will provide participants with a handout covering approximately 50 primarily web-based tools useful to educators divided into 16 categories. Attendees will choose which tools they would like to see demonstrated. A few of the tools we may discuss are YouCanBook.Me (web scheduler), Dropbox (file management), JoinMe (share your desktop), and Socrative (turn any web-enabled device, including smartphones, into classroom clickers).  .

Please consider attending this session, regardless of whether you are a veteran online instructor, are just getting started, or are merely curious.

Log into the live Blackboard Collaborate Session on Thursday, using this link:

https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?sid=2008170&password=M.76B48BDDE3B7C6157740812A81FD70

This session will be recorded. The recording link is:

https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/recording/playback/link/table/meeting?suid=M.1286F0C21FA258F7D83EE80B8FA025&sid=2008170

You will find links from previous sessions, a schedule of future sessions and more info at http://elearninginwa.blogspot.com/

Please send questions and comments to elearn.wa@gmail.com

Thursday Session; Actions and Agents in ANGEL

What:  Online Webinar; Using Actions and Agents; Automation in ANGEL

When: Thursday, October 20^th, One PM Pacific

For Whom: Anyone is welcome

Part of a weekly series of presentations and live office hours offered by the Washington State eLearning Community, this workshop will provide online instructors with specific, step-by-step examples of how instructors use automation to personalize the learning experience within the ANGEL LMS, provide conditional release of course content, send reminders based on student activity and more.

This hour long presentation and Q&A session will be led by Scott Dennis of the Washington State Board of Community & Technical Colleges and by Tom Jacobs of Olympic College.  Both Scott and Tom work in eLearning.

Please consider attending this session, regardless of whether you are a veteran online instructor, are just getting started, or are merely curious.

Log into the live Blackboard Collaborate Session on Thursday, using this link:

https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?sid=2008170&password=M.76B48BDDE3B7C6157740812A81FD70

This session will be recorded. You will find links from previous sessions, a schedule of future sessions and more info at http://elearninginwa.blogspot.com

Please send questions and comments to elearn.wa@gmail.com

Online Webinar; TOP 10 Best Practices for Teaching Online

What:  Online Webinar; TOP 10 Best Practices for Teaching Online

When: Thursday, October 13^th, One PM

For Whom: Anyone is welcome

Part of a weekly series of presentations and live office hours offered by the Washington eLearning Community, this workshop will provide online instructors with principles and best practices for online teaching.  The focus will be on online pedagogy, including the implementation of instructional design principles in the online teaching environment, and not on how to use Angel or Blackboard. 

This hour long presentation and Q&A session will be led by Boyoung Chae.  Boyoung has a PHD in Instructional Technology from the University of Georgia and works in the eLearning office of the Washington State Board, Community & Technical Colleges.  She teaches Intro and Intermediate ANGEL for instructors, How to Teach Online, and regularly participates in conferences and onsite training events.

Please consider attending this session, regardless of whether you are a veteran online instructor, are just getting started or are merely curious.

Log into the live Blackboard Collaborate Session on Thursday, using this link:

https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?sid=2008170&password=M.76B48BDDE3B7C6157740812A81FD70

This session will be recorded. You will find links from previous sessions, a schedule of future sessions and more info at http://elearninginwa.blogspot.com

Please send questions and comments to elearn.wa@blogspot.com

Fall Sessions Scheduled

I am happy to share a link to a list of upcoming sessions: http://goo.gl/4mT8r
We have some great topics coming up, including information on using system tools like ANGEL and Tegrity and other topics including "Technology for Educators: Tools for Teachers" presented by Sue Frantz from Highline Community College, and many others.  Some topics are still in the works so check back for updates.  We will also once again be hosting open office hours for anyone who wants to attend, ask questions, and/or experiment with Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate).  Check the link for a list of when those open office hours will be held and who will be hosting which sessions.

NW eLearn Conference, Vancouver, WA, October 13th & 14th

If you are looking for a good professional development event, you would do well to consider the Northwest eLearn, 5th Annual Conference that will be held October 13th and 14th in Vancouver, Washington.  There will also be a "Moodlepalooza" the day before, for those interested in Moodle.  For more info and to register, go to: http://www.nwelearn.org

Fall eLearning Community Sessions Begin Oct 13th with TOP 10 Best Practices for Teaching Online

Presented by Boyoung Chae of the State Board, this workshop will provide online instructors with principles and best practices for online teaching.  The focus will be on online pedagogy, including the implementation of instructional design principles in the online teaching environment, and not on how to use Angel or Blackboard.  As always, any and all interested parties are welcome to attend.  To login, click on the live session access tab at the top of the eLearning Community blog.

Check back soon for a more complete list of fall sessions.  We are putting the finishing touches on the schedule now.

Implementing Lecture Capture in Blackboard Learn

11 am - Noon Pacific Time, Tuesday, September 27th

Join Ann Garnsey-Harter of Shoreline Community College for this webinar: Streamlined and Scalable Implementation of Lecture Capture within the Blackboard Learn Platform  

 
Ann will discuss Shoreline's implementation of Tegrity.  Tegrity is the lecture capture tool provided to all community and technical colleges in Washington State as part of the statewide Strategic Technology Plan.

To register: http://www.blackboard.com/Contact-Us/Events-Center/Webinars-and-Demos.aspx .

Planning Session

Please disseminate this message widely.  Everyone interested is welcome.

We will have a planning session in the first part of September to discuss future plans for the community.  If you would like to participate in that session, please indicate your availability via this poll:

http://www.doodle.com/4yu4rmhqga7zi4sx

If you have suggestions for how to improve the format of these sessions or a suggestion for a future topic, please fill in this form:

http://goo.gl/i6OGF

The Numbers

I did a little tallying today.  Between mid February and July 20th, there were 24 eLearning Community sessions, attended by 545 people.  The sessions were also recorded and those recordings have now been downloaded 281 times. The four most popular topics were "Using Prezi for Education,"Strategies for Promoting Academic Integrity," "ANGEL; Automation, Actions and Agents," and "Free Web Tools for Educators."  Participation in the afternoon sessions was stronger than in the mornings.  Comparing recording download numbers now to those from a few months ago, it seems that people continue to view the recordings for about six months and then activity falls off.  I'm looking forward to planning sessions for this coming fall.  Hope you are having a great summer!

See you all this coming fall...

The Washington eLearning Community is now officially on summer vacation.  We will reconvene in the fall.  Have a great rest of your summer!

Applying the QM Rubric Workshop

If you live in the Seattle area, and are interested in Quality Matters, please see the message below, sent today by Stephanie Delaney of Cascadia and UW, Bothell:

Colleagues,

 I will be conducting a Quality Matters training next month and invite our neighboring colleges to attend in person.  We will also stream via Tegrity, but I don’t think that will count for the formal QM certification – I’m still waiting to hear from QM on that point.  

Feel free to share the invitation broadly. As the course description notes, “It is intended for a broad audience, including but not limited to faculty, instructional designers, administrators, and adjunct instructors who wish to understand more about the QM process”.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Stephanie

From: Delaney, Stephanie
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 1:39 PM
To: Faculty All
Subject: Quality Matters Training in August

Hello all,

  In August, I will conduct a formal Quality Matters training here at Cascadia (see the full course description below). This 6 hour training will be divided into two sessions:

·         Wednesday, August 10 from 1 – 4, CC3-103

·         Wednesday, August 17 from 1 – 4, CC3-103

I encourage you to consider attending. The outcomes based focus on good course design makes this is a great workshop for faculty teaching in any mode – online, hybrid, web enhanced or face to face. 

Additionally, if you are interested in becoming a Quality Matters reviewer, this class will satisfy the first step of that two-step process.

To register, please use this registration link.

Please note the training will be streamed over the internet via Tegrity and will be recorded. However, I don’t think the live streaming or recordings will count towards the formal QM peer reviewer training (I am waiting for confirmation from QM on this point).

Please contact me at sdelaney@cascadia.edu with any questions.

Stephanie

Course Description:

Applying the QM Rubric Workshop

This is QM's flagship workshop on the QM Rubric and its use in evaluating online courses. It is intended for a broad audience, including but not limited to faculty, instructional designers, administrators, and adjunct instructors who wish to understand more about the QM process and, perhaps, aspire to become peer reviewers.