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Blogging and Best Practices  in Online Teaching

Blogging and Best Practices  in Online Teaching. Catherine Werst July 27, 2010 For audio call Toll Free 1 - 888-886-3951 and use PIN/code 693897. Housekeeping. Maximize your CCC Confer window. Phone audio will be in presenter-only mode.

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Blogging and Best Practices  in Online Teaching

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  1. Blogging and Best Practices in Online Teaching Catherine Werst July 27, 2010 For audio call Toll Free 1-888-886-3951 and use PIN/code693897

  2. Housekeeping • Maximize your CCC Confer window. • Phone audio will be in presenter-only mode. • Ask questions and make comments using the chat window.

  3. Adjusting Audio • If you’re listening on your computer, adjust your volume using the speaker slider. • If you’re listening over the phone, click on phone headset. Do not listen on both computer and phone.

  4. Saving Files & Open/close Captions • Save chat window with floppy disc icon • Open/close captioning window with CC icon

  5. Emoticons and Polling • Raise hand and Emoticons • Polling options

  6. Catherine Werst Blogging and Best Practices in Online Teaching

  7. Blogging • Journals for public consumption • Hosted and searchable • Social networks • Interactive (comments, trackbacks) • Rich media • Use RSS feeds • Free

  8. Why students should blog • Writing for a public audience encourages authentic, thoughtful writing • Blogs live beyond the classroom • Collaborative commenting • Multimedia illustration is like a mash-up, which feels familiar • Creates an appreciation for other bloggers and writers

  9. Setting up blogs • Wordpress and Blogger • Posterous.com • Weebly.com

  10. Blogging Guidelines & Rubric • Set clear learning objectives • Use a good rubric • Talk about plagiarism early & often • Encourage citations, links • Foster intelligent commenting • Applaud authentic voices

  11. Student Blogs • Blogging the End of a Life • Kristin Raynor Country • High Era • Western Art Experience • Green Social Justice

  12. Blog assignment ideas • Find & evaluate professional blogs, determine why they are successful • Follow Bloggers in other languages, countries or cultures • Journal a class project as it progresses •  Interview an expert in a blog post, invite questions from others for future interview •  Review a book, play or performance

  13. Assignments, continued •  Offer a counterpoint to an idea embedded in a video (YouTube, TED) •  Debate a controversial topic, use comments for counterpoints •  Narrate a self-conducted field trip (museum, location, event, etc.) • Find out which authors your students emulate - http://iwl.me/

  14. Digital Tattoos • Blogs are portfolios that live beyond the classroom, semester • Netiquette and spelling matter • Plagiarism problem • Monster.com on e-reputations • Foster a professional presence – link blog on LinkedIn.com

  15. Catherine Hillman catherine_hillman@cuesta.edu Q&A

  16. Evaluation Survey Link Help us improve our seminars by filing out a short online evaluation survey at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BloggingBP

  17. Thanks for attending For upcoming events and links to recently archived seminars, check the @ONE Web site at: http://onefortraining.org/ Blogging and Best Practices in Online Teaching

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