Friday, March 25, 2011

Spring Sessions Poll

Please click on the link to fill out this poll:
http://goo.gl/txbXi

As we ramp up for spring we are wondering what session topics would be of most interest to you and what days and times are most convenient. 

Thursday, March 24, 2011

eLearning Community Planning Meeting Friday at 11 PMT

There will be a brief meeting tomorrow at 11 AM pacific in Elluminate to start planning what activities and sessions the eLearning Community will undertake this spring. 

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Come join us

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?

Tegrity Training for Faculty, Two Face-to-Face Opportunities, April 28th and 29th

I am happy to announce that we will have two additional training days to take place at the end of April.

These workshops are available at no cost to anyone teaching or working in the Washington Community and Technical College system.  On Thursday, April 28th there will be an on-site, hands-on Tegrity training day for faculty at Seattle Central Community College.  The same workshop will be repeated on Friday the 29th at Lake Washington Technical College.  The training will begin at 9:30 and conclude at 4. Please indicate via the form linked below whether or not you are interested in attending at one or both locations and what your preference might be between the two.  Lunch will be provided.

Based on previous experience we expect that both of these training locations will fill quickly so please do not hesitate to get the form filled in if you plan to attend.  We will begin confirming registrations on April 18th and will close registration when both sites filled.  Parking and related information will be mailed on Friday, April 22nd.

Register:

Advanced ANGEL Training Day, May 27th, Cascadia

SBCTC will hold another Advanced ANGEL training day on Friday, May 27th at (our gracious host once again) Cascadia Community College in Bothell from 9 AM to 3 PM.

While this training is available for any faculty member teaching in the system, it will be tailored for those who already have a good basic working knowledge of the ANGEL learning management system and who now want to now explore more advanced topics.  This will be a hands-on training and workshop in a lab setting.  The topics covered will be determined based on the input of those who fill in the registration poll.

Register here:

There is no cost to register and light refreshments will be provided.  Although the training will be conducted in the current WAOL ANGEL 7.4 environment, there is no requirement that attendees be from a college currently using WAOL ANGEL.  Seating is limited and registration will be on a first come first serve basis. 

Parking and other info will be sent to those registered ahead of the event.

eLearn.wa Initial Post

Every Wednesday at 10 AM Pacific time, eLearning professionals from the Washington State Community and Technical College system voluntarily staff an open online office hour for anyone wanting to come get help or ask questions about core system technologies and teaching and learning online.

Also every week, faculty members and eLearning people meet online for another voluntarily staffed meeting, this time a presentation on a key technology, technique or teaching practice followed by a question and answer and general sharing session.

The scheduled sessions for winter, 2011 are now winding down with only a few left:
March 24 - 11 a.m. -- Presentation Topic; Elluminate – Remote Proctoring in Tegrity, Using the Elluminate Quiz Module – Kevin Blackwell and Tom Jacobs

April 1st - 2 PM – Presentation Topic; Streaming Media Options – Eric Waterkotte and Scott Dennis
·         WAOL Media Server
·         YouTube
·         Archive.org

April 5th - 3 PM – Presentation Topic; Walking the Walk, Finding Good Open Educational Content – Tom Caswell
A schedule of spring sessions will be posted to this blog soon.

Participants may log into Elluminate for all sessions and open office hours via this link:
Participant Link:

All sessions will be recorded and available via this link:

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: