Session Suggestions for Spring

Weekly online learning sessions for Spring Quarter are now in the works.  What follows is a list of possible topics.  What do you think?  Post additional suggestions in the comments.

Suggestions for future sessions:

·         What’s in your tool box?  Open and freely available web tools to add efficiency, fun and improve teaching and learning

·         Understanding automation in ANGEL – how to set conditional release, automated notifications, and customize the student’s experience

·         Getting started with the gradebook in ANGEL

·         Best Practices in providing constructive and useful feedback

·         Best Practices in using discussion forums and creating the opportunities for engaging discussion

·         Open, open – freeing your content from proprietary formats such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint

·         Tabs, Teams, and Variables - Customizing the look and layout of your ANGEL course

·         Adding Media – using YouTube, Jing, audacity, and more to add audio and video media to your online course

·         Adding audio – free phone conferencing, telephony, and ways to interact with your students in real time.

·         What makes an online course great?  Participants share techniques, design and practice

·         The Angel Gradebook Drives Me Nuts!

·         Getting Started with Grading and the Gradebook

·         Beyond the Basics - Using the New ANGEL Gradebook

·         Learning Object Repositories and Master Courses

·         Using Rubrics and Providing Constructive and Engaging Feedback

·         Grading Rubrics and Discussion Forum Grading Rubrics - The Mechanics

·         Actions and Agents - Understanding automation in ANGEL – how to set conditional release, automated notifications, and customize the student’s experience

·         Tabs, Teams, and Variables - Customizing the look and layout of your ANGEL course

·         Adding Media – using YouTube, Jing, audacity, WAOL Media Files and more to add audio and video media to your online course

·         Open, open – freeing your content from proprietary formats such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint

·         What’s in your tool box?  Open and freely available web tools to add efficiency, fun and improve teaching and learning

·         Back it up; Strategies for Saving Copies, Archiving and Self Preservation

·         Google apps for education – free office tools, email, sites, phone, and much more

·         UDL and accessibility

·         Twitter, meebo, real time 2.0 communications – how-to and best practices

·         What else?  What do you think?