Friday, March 28, 2008

LTTO Session #6: Resources for Teaching Online


Join us for LTTO Session #6. Our Featured Faculty Member will be Eva Zygmunt-Fillwalk, who will be leading a discussion on good resources for developing online courses and preparing lessons. Eva will want you to share your favorite resources for online teaching. Please come to the session with some resources to share. If you would like to make them available to others, e-mail them to Susan so she can compile a handout.

LTTO #6 will be from 12:00-1:00 in TC 217 on April 15th. We hope you can join us!

Thursday, March 27, 2008

LTTO Session #5 Summary

Our Featured Faculty Member was Pat Clark. She began the session by sharing ideas for designing online courses from Pink Flamingo's Resource List.

Next, Pat discussed the advantages and disadvantages of using modules to organize online courses. She shared the 5X5 Rule for determining the number of modules and the number of topics that might be included in a course, with a caveat that this would be a LOT of topics to cover in one course. She also shared the importance of including video in her modules and gave the example of the short film, A Girl Like Me that she includes in her diversity course.

Finally, Pat showed how one of her courses was organized and asked other participants to do the same.

Monday, March 17, 2008

LTTO Session #5: Online Course Organization


Join us for LTTO Session #5. Our Featured Faculty Member will be Pat Clark, who will be discussing online course organization. Pat has asked that you bring an example of how you organize your online course(s)

LTTO #5 will be from 2:00-3:00 in TC 217 on March 21st. We hope you can join us!

LTTO Session #4 Summary

Our featured faculty member was Laurie Mullen. Laurie began her presentation with definitions of three types of field experiences: virtual, designed, and real. She discussed the use of Second Life as an experience in which students can feel embodied and represent themselves in various ways to others in the virtual environment.

Next, Laurie showed us how to move an avatar through some of the islands in Second Life. She emphasized that teacher educators might want to move beyond using new technologies as consumers and move into using them to produce or offer virtual field experiences.

Finally, Laurie referred to several helpful resources such as the ISTE Second Life site, the Horizon Report, and the work of Sarah Robbins, a Ball State instructor.