Online Course Peer Review

How do you keep your online students actively engaged throughout the semester?  Is it possible?  Absolutely!  Learn how to incorporate active learning activities into your online courses through the step-by-step tutorial found at the following CTL link:  http://ctlactiveonline.project.mnscu.edu/

Social Media:  Trends and Implications for Learning will be offered over three different sessions on Friday, October 30 at 8:00pm, Tuesday, November 24 at 2:00pm and Tuesday, December 8 at 8:00pm.
“The seminar series, led by George Siemens and David Cormier, is without fee and will include live interactive sessions, in addition to discussions with guest [...]

I probably spend too much time looking for fun things on the web.  Here are a few I found this week, plus an excellent blog I try to visit frequently:
Five best virtual field trips
Best social networks for online students
One of my favorite blogs:  http://technologybites.blogspot.com/ 
100 Free Productivity Tools

Hey, online faculty!  It’s been awfully quiet in our online faculty lounge.  Let’s use this important forum to learn from each other as we progress through the semester and learn from our successes and mistakes.  It is a bit more difficult to find the lounge now that it’s been moved and I know that it’s an [...]

Last spring, Jody Ondich and I completed a Faculty Award for Excellence project that gave LSC faculty the opportunity to share some of what they do in their online classrooms.  Approximately two dozen online instructors contributed class activities, discussion ideas, and other items.  In addition, we added LOTS of other related information including online how-to’s, links to D2L [...]

Here’s a presentation I quickly put together that outlines a variety of easy ways to incorporate creativity into the online classroom.  When I have a bit more time I’ll make the presentation itself more creative, as well!
Creativity

Jody Ondich and Susan Brashaw will show participants the results of their Faculty Award for Excellence Project — a Lake Superior College D2L Best Practices course shell.  The course contains contributions of teaching activities from more than 20 LSC online faculty members in addition to examples of how to utilize various technologies in the online classroom.  This [...]

The LSC online faculty lounge used to be a hopping place!  Faculty frequently posted questions and helped each other solve problems, frustrations and successes were shared, and resources were routinely accessed.  For some reason, activity at this site has dramatically decreased.  I’m here to say — let’s start it up again!
You may be wondering where the [...]

I’m teaching two late-start courses this semester and decided to test out the ToonDoo/iMeem introduction idea on them.  I made the creative introduction idea optional, as I didn’t want to have to provide step-by-step instructions to those students who were freaked out by the idea of trying something new.  The results:  76% of my students [...]

It’s no secret that Barry loves fun web tools.  If you haven’t already checked out this blog of his recently, you should:  http://desire2blog.blogspot.com/  He shows examples of how to make online class introductions more fun.  I decided to give it a shot using ToonDoo.  It’s easy to use.  Click on the cartoon in order to see [...]