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