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Active Learning in the Online Environment

susan — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:10:07 +0000

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/

Free online Social Media seminar!

susan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:19:12 +0000

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 speakers and participants.”

For details visit: http://aace.org/GlobalU/seminars/socialmedia/

A few must-share online resources

susan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:12:52 +0000

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

Online Faculty Lounge reminder!

susan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:04:06 +0000

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 “out of sight, out of mind” type of situation, but let’s make an effort to visit it a couple times a week!

So where is the lounge? Click on the “Staff” tab on your D2L entry page. What’s in the lounge? Discussion forums of all types, D2L how-to videos (do you know how to use the checklist tool?), and links to just about anything and everything involving online instruction.

See you in the lounge!

Best practices site available to all online faculty!

susan — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:23:20 +0000

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 tutorials, and teaching and course design tips.

It is our hope that you will use this site often, post questions, and consider contributing something of your own to it!

To access the Best Practices site, click the Training tab on your D2L entry page. Please let me know if you have questions!

~Susan

Creativity in the Online Classroom

susan — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:17:21 +0000

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

LSC Online Best Practices — duty day presentation

susan — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:06:40 +0000

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 course shell will be available for all LSC online faculty to access (much like the online faculty lounge) in the next few weeks.

We hope to see you at this duty day session for the sneak peek!

When: 1:00 – 2:00 Friday, May 15

Where: S2942

Remember the online faculty lounge!

susan — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:23:28 +0000

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 lounge went! In order to find it, click on the stu_AllowPassChange (I have no idea what that stands for) tab on your D2L entry page. Once there, click on Discussions to access a variety of forums online faculty can use to share ideas, vent, ask questions, etc.

DON’T FORGET to click CONTENT from time to time to see what’s there! You’ll find a Jing screencast Barry made about how to embed YouTube video into D2L, links to outstanding articles and resources, D2L how-to videos, etc, etc, etc. This is a great place to visit if you’re interested in getting new ideas!

So, please — let’s make the lounge THE place for LSC online faculty to be again!

Unique introductions – update

susan — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:22:08 +0000

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 chose to create a toon or a playlist of songs as part of their introduction. I call that a success AND it was fun!

Fun with ToonDoo

susan — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:54:25 +0000

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 the whole thing…I don’t know why a scroll bar doesn’t show.