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Brief Hybrid Workshop (BHW)
Brief Hybrid Teaching/Learning Module
(BHTLM)
Brief
Hybrid
Workshop
eClip
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BHWs & BHTLMs of interest to the TLT Group have
certain characteristics
“Brief
Hybrid" (BH) or "Brief Hybrid Workshop" (BHW)
A Brief Hybrid (BH) session rapidly introduces
useful information, tools, ideas or resources. In a BH,
participants typically watch a brief video (eClip), interact
with each other, exchange insights, give feedback, and are
shown options for going deeper into the subject - all in
about 15 minutes. A "home base" Web page provides links to
the
essential
resources for the BH: Video/eClip, activities,
reference documents, plans, guidelines, etc. (The TLT
Group offers
templates, guidelines, and
related training, development and production services
for Brief Hybrids. For more information, contact Sally
Gilbert 301 270 8312 sallygilbert@tltgroup.org, and see
www.tltgroup.org/bhw.htm.)
Preparing a BH requires only
a few easily mastered technical skills. A BH can provide a
low-risk first step for exploring the growing variety of
options for improving teaching and learning with technology.
Once developed, a BH can be
reused, expanded or form the foundation for a series of
other BHs. They can be adapted and led by peers with limited
preparation. They are short enough to be inserted
comfortably as agenda items in
classes or meetings already scheduled (e.g., departmental
meetings; lunch; course review
sessions; ...)
In a BH, participants
interact with each other and with
leaders/presenters/facilitators - face-to-face, online, or
both; synchronously, asynchronously or both.
The short videos (eClips)
used within most Brief Hybrids can be found, adapted, or
produced in many different ways. Some eClips are found and
used via YouTube, while others are produced and published as
slideshows (built around PowerPoint files or other ways of
assembling images and voice recordings). Still other eClips
are produced and published quite rapidly by using camcorders
that make this process easy, reliable, and inexpensive
(e.g., Flip Video).
Ray Purdom originally
suggested BHs as an extension of Todd Zakrajsek's
"Five-Minute Workshops."
Why Brief Hybrids
Include More Than eClips
eClips help stretch - but not break - the limits of
self-education.
For some purposes,
for some kinds of learners, eClips may support
self-instruction quite well; for most learners, more is
required. BHWs and BHTLMs are ways of organizing and using
complementary and supplementary resources along with eClips
to support teaching and learning that involves at least one
facilitator/leader and multiple learners.
The Brief Hybrids
(Workshops, Teaching/Learning Modules, …) of greatest
interest to the TLT Group have these characteristics:
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Purpose:
Faculty/Professional Development (& Teaching/Learning)
Their purpose is to support faculty development,
professional development, (and the improvement of
teaching/learning in specific courses).
·
Internet-Accessible Components
They include at least some components available via the
Internet.
·
Interaction
They include at least one activity that enables and requires
participants to exchange ideas and information.
·
Low-Threshold
They are LTAs [Low-Threshold
Activities/Applications] with low incremental
cost in time, money, stress, training, maintenance, etc.
·
Head, Heart, Hand, Foot, and Voice
They include a balance of
Head, Heart, and Hand. They are practical.
Someone's voice must be heard.
·
Personalizable (and Personalized)
Modifications are technically possible and legally
permitted. Unique characteristics, goals, and capabilities
of leaders, facilitators, and participants are recognized
and respected.
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"Brief"
Entire "workshop" usually requires less than
15 minutes of participants' time. When run
without interruption, all the pre-recorded elements
- the clips - require less than 5 minutes total!
NOTE: Anyone "playing" one of these
clips may be so intrigued by some references that she/he may
interrupt the session to examine those items more closely.
Such activities may quite legitimately extend the required
time for playing the clips well beyond 5 minutes!
"Hybrid" = Combination
It combines SOME
of the following: media, modalities,
resources, plans, and activities.
It can have both synchronous and asynchronous
components.
Example A: Entirely synchronous.
Within
a face-to-face meeting, use of a 2-minute
pre-recorded explanation of a technique in
conjunction with 1 minute of silent thoughtful
reflection and 2 minutes of open discussion.
Example B: Synchronous + Asynchronous:
Within a synchronous online meeting,
"play" a 2-minute pre-recorded introduction of a
new topic, ending with clear instructions about
how to submit questions and comments via a blog
for an assignment that is intended to require
each student to continue or extend his/her
thinking about this new topic for a few more
minutes whenever convenient within the next
week.
NOTE: I apologize if
this use of the terms “hybrid,” “blended,” and “eClips” is
confusing. I welcome suggestions for terms or phrases that
are clearer, but equally simple. - Steven W. Gilbert, April
17, 2007
"Workshop"
A workshop has outcomes, interaction,
leader/facilitator, preparation, follow-up, and
duration.
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Outcomes
Participants are aware of intended
outcomes – producing something,
learning how to do something,
beginning a project, … useful to the
participants themselves and to those
they may serve in turn.
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Interaction
Participants interact in some way(s)
with at least one other participant
and with at least one leader
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[Optional] Hands-On
Might include opportunities for
participants to practice using
technology that is being demonstrated
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Leader/Presenter/Facilitator
At least one person is responsible
for managing the event, for guiding
others through the process
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Preparation and Follow-up
Both desirable but not always
included.
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Duration
No one can fully control the pace
and results of every live
interaction. It is the
responsibility and privilege of one
or more leader/presenter/facilitator
to control the starting and stopping
times.
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eClip
An "eClip" is a pre-recording produced
as a single computer file. It may include
a variety of media
elements: sound, images, text, etc.
“A media clip is a short segment of media
either an audio clip or a video clip. Media clips
may be promotional in nature, as with movie clips.
For instance, to promote their newly-released
movies, many actors are accompanied by movie clips
on their circuits. Additionally, media clips may be
the raw materials of other productions, such as
audio clips used for sound effects.” - From
Wikipedia, 4/17/2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_clip.
NOTE:
In this definition, I include “eClips” that are
produced solely for their use in these workshops, as
well as "eClips" that are excerpts from larger media
productions. eClips produced for instructional
purposes, especially those produced by faculty members for
specific courses, should be evaluated by different - more
modest - standards than commercial broadcast television.
See "Academic
Amateur eClips."
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An eClip is Not a BHW; A
BHW is Not an eClip
Individual or
Group
An eClip may be intended for independent individual
use or for group activities such as
workshops. For example, a recording of an
audio-narrated set of PowerPoint slides could be
designed to introduce and demonstrate a single
skill to a faculty member working alone in
his/her office. Alternatively, an
audio-narrated set of PowerPoint slides could be
designed to explain a simple teaching strategy,
describe one or two examples of its use, and
suggest several questions for discussion among a
group of faculty during a small portion of a
departmental meeting.
BHW or BHTLM
Includes eClip
eClips help stretch - but not break - the limits of
self-education.
An eClip may be developed and used for many purposes
that have little to do with BHWs or BHTLMs. Especially
during the last few decades, new media technologies are
greeted with the rising expectation that they will permit
the production of instructional resources that support
widespread self-education - independent learning.
However, after a few years (or months) all but the most
blindly zealous realize that the limits of self-instruction
have not been fully broken, even if they have been stretched
a little. For some purposes, with some kinds of
learners, eClips may support self instruction quite well;
for most learners, more is required. BHWs and BHTLMs
are ways of organizing and using complementary and
supplementary resources along with eClips to support
teaching and learning that involves at least one
facilitator/leader and several learners.
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