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Surviving the Online Jungle Teaching Technology Courses Online. League for Innovation 2005 Dallas, TX October 24, 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM Monet Ballroom, Tower Mezzanine. Who Are We?. Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA
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Surviving the Online Jungle Teaching Technology Courses Online League for Innovation 2005 Dallas, TX October 24, 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM Monet Ballroom, Tower Mezzanine
Who Are We? Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA • Patricia RahmlowAssistant Professor, Computer Scienceprahmlow@mc3.edu • Marie HartleinAssociate Professor, Computer Sciencemhartlein@mc3.edu • Linda MoultonProfessor Mathematics and Computer Sciencelmoulton@mc3.edu http://faculty.mc3.edu/prahmlow/Presentations/index.html
Course Management Software • Blackboard • WebCT • eCollege • Others
Course Layout and Navigation • Buttons • Style • Minimize number • Meaningful labels
Course Content • Open in new window • Post by week, by chapter • HTML, Word, PDF files
FAQ’s • Update based upon past student questions
Student Handouts • PowerPoint Slides convert handouts, 3 to a page, to PDF • www.primopdf.com – free
Course Layout and Navigation • Adaptive Release Feature • Release content based on various criteria • Date • Student ID / Group • Grade on grade book item • Review of grade book item • Video on feature http://www.blackboard.com/corp/objects/images/quicktutorials/adaptiverelease.swf
Making an Online Course Dynamic • Publisher Tools • SAM, TrainIt • Active Help Desk, Sound Bytes • Short Learning Modules • Merlot (www.merlot.org) • Faculty developed (Flash, ScreenCorder, Camtasia, Microsoft Producer, Authorware) http://faculty.mc3.edu/prahmlow/learning_objects.htm
Interaction Student/Student and Student/Faculty • Asynchronous • Email • Discussion board (read / unread messages, search by student, forums by topic / week) • Let’s Get Acquainted • Student Lounge • Help Forum
InteractionStudent/Student and Student/Faculty • Synchronous • Blackboard Virtual Classroom • Text, Web Navigation • MC3Live! • Text, Voice, Video, Web Navigation, Desktop and Application Sharing, File Sharing • AIM • Text, Voice, Video, File Sharing
Providing Software to Online Students • MSDN Academic Alliance http://msdn.microsoft.com/academic/program/overview/default.aspx • Software included with textbook • Trial version of Office • Full version of programming language
Providing Software to Online Students • Student version of software www.campustech.com • Free software • Word processing www.openoffice.org/ • Java www.jgrasp.com • Alice www.alice.org
Assignments • Format • Zip multiple files with WindowsXP
Assignments • Method of receiving assignments • Email • Dropbox • Assignment feature
Assignments • Feedback • Word tracking feature highlighting errors • Post solutions • Email each student • Assignment feature comments / upload file
Assessing Students - Quizzes • Format • Blackboard / WebCT • SAM, Train/IT • Textbook web sites • Timed / untimed • Purpose • Self-study versus graded / combo
Assessing Students - Exams • On-campus, proctored • Online, unproctored Let’s Talk