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Brief Hybrid Workshop (BHW)
Brief Hybrid Teaching/Learning Module
(BHTLM)
Brief
Hybrid
Workshop
eClip
eClip
≠ BHW
BHWs & BHTLMs of interest to the TLT Group have
certain characteristics
“Brief Hybrid Workshop” (BHW)
A Brief Hybrid Workshop (BHW) is a
group activity that usually requires less than 15
minutes. A BHW includes the
use of one or more
media clips AND
some other files, instructions,
activities, documents, plans,
guidelines, etc.
A single Web
page serves as the home base
for the Workshop by including links
to all essential elements.
(The TLT Group offers a
template
for organizing these Web pages.
In a BHW, participants interact
with each other and with
leaders/presenters/facilitators -
face-to-face, online, or both;
synchronously, asynchronously or
both.
A BHW is intended to
help a group of people to produce or
learn something useful to them.
When run without interruption, all
the pre-recorded elements - the eClips - require less
than 5 minutes (Of course, some groups may find the materials so
fascinating that they extend the workshop session well beyond
the duration of the eClips!)
A “Brief Hybrid Teaching/Learning
Module” (BHTLM)
A BHTLM
is the same as a “brief hybrid
workshop” EXCEPT for intended
audience and
purpose: help students to learn
something in a course (usually
undergraduate).
The only Brief Hybrid Workshops and
Teaching/Learning Modules of interest to the TLT
Group are those that have
these characteristics:
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Purpose:
Faculty/Professional Development (&
Teaching/Learning)
Its purpose is
to support faculty development, professional
development, (and the
improvement of teaching/learning in specific
courses).
-
Internet-Accessible Components
It includes at
least some components available via the
Internet.
-
Low-Threshold
It is to some
extent an LTA [Low-Threshold
Activities/Application]
-
Head, Heart, Hand, Foot, and
Voice
Must include some of
each of Head, Heart, Hand. Must be
practical (foot). Someone's voice must be
heard.
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ADD MORE ESP PERSONALIZATION
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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
-
[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.
-
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.
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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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BHWs and BHTLMs of Concern
to the TLT Group
The TLT Group is interested
only in those Brief Hybrid Workshops and
Teaching/Learning Modules that also have
these characteristics:
-
Purpose:
Faculty/Professional Development (&
Teaching/Learning)
Its purpose is
to support faculty development, professional
development, (and the
improvement of teaching/learning in specific
courses).
-
Internet-Accessible Components
It includes at
least some components available via the
Internet.
-
Low-Threshold
It is to some
extent an LTA [Low-Threshold
Activities/Application]
-
Head, Heart, Hand, Foot, and
Voice
Must include some of
each of Head, Heart, Hand. Must be
practical (foot). Someone's voice must be
heard.
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