Thursday, April 17, 2008
The Bottom-Line: Worthwhile Tools and Techniques for Online Instructors
Kathleen Ives, Sloan Consortium, Massachusetts
Shari McCurdy Smith, University of Illinois- Springfield
Struggles:
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Time in planning
Solutions:
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Use peer mentors
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Combine online classes with onground class work
Struggles:
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24/7 nature of online
Solutions:
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template responses
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Set expectations
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Use Model responses
Struggles:
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1-on-1 Expectation
Solutions:
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Collaborative/Group Work
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Social Networking: Facebook
Struggles:
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Extra Administrative duties
Solutions:
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Set up initial discussion board to address first-time questions
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Use FAQs both student and class-based
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Use Stats to indicate where students stand in class
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Voice based summary feedbacks for weekly assignments
Struggles:
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Grading
Solutions:
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Grade Ease
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Laptop Computers
Struggles:
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Groups
Solutions:
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Adobe Acrobat’s commenting feature
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Scenerios
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcg9tnmc_5f2vpsm
What Worked
- Time-Saving Products to Create Macros for 'Frequently-Repeated' Comments for Grading
- Tablet PCs
- Creating Student FAQs
- Using Voice in the Online Classroom
- Groups in the Online Classroom
- Software Promoting Group Collaboration
- Discussion Board Strategies
- APA Resources
- Utilizing the CMS Layout For Maximum Efficiency
- Ancillary Applications
- Blogs and Other Interaction-Type (Non-Discussion Board) Applications
- Grading Strategies
- Group Work Strategies
- Collaboration Tools
- Student Workload Management Strategies
- Partnerships
1. Asynchronous for f2f
2. Separating online and on campus instructional tools
3. Mandatory synchronous sessions
4. Not allowing new threads
5. No word count feature in DB
6. Storing frequently used text in DB
7. DB text box ( Typinator or TypeItin)
8. Db export
9. Dication software
10. Wimba voice db at times
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