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"Creating and
Using Brief Online (and Hybrid) Teaching and
Learning Resources"
<Conrad C
1-4pm
MERLOT
Conference August 7, 2008>
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Steven W.
Gilbert, President, The TLT Group
Ray Purdom,
Director, University Teaching and Learning
Center, UNC Greensboro |
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Purpose &
Audience: This session is for faculty
who do not have time to redesign courses but
want to improve them, who value students’ time
too highly to risk a full class meeting on
something they have never tried before, and
faculty developers who want new ways to engage
faculty. Participants will be encouraged
and enabled to take several small steps --
DURING this workshop to find or produce brief,
useful, Web-accessible video recordings or
narrated slideshows: "eClips"; develop engaging,
interactive face-to-face or online activities
and other resources that supplement e-clips;
produce a brief hybrid teaching/learning module
or a brief hybrid workshop, a combination of the
above that could be used in 15 minutes (or less)
of class time or faculty development
interaction.
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Plan A
[Plan B]
I. Intro
A. Design
& Purpose
B. Elements
C.
Organization, Structure
D. Using,
Improving, Sharing
II. (5-15 mins)
Meaningful Break
III. (60 mins)
IV. (15 mins)
More detail for Plan A...
PART I
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(2 minutes)
General intro - Why we are here, what we're
going to do. -
BHW #1 -
Diversity - Intros
Diversity/Engagement/Technology
Home Page
Videorecordings 2 questions -
Why
BHWs? Why Google Docs?
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How BHWs
BREAK/FORM GROUPS
PART II
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Build a mock BHW
using
Worksheet
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A. Design & Purpose
How to think about and make decisions about
a BHW (goals, audience, activities, whether
to find, build, adapt, share,
resources...) Why? Because in our pilot
workshops we saw that many people had
unrealistic expectations for what could be
done with a BHW and for how much time and
effort it was appropriate to expend on
developing a BHW
TLTG Role: Help people have realistic
expectations and select appropriate goals
for a BHW/M
Narrow the focus to something feasible,
significant, and easy to accomplish in 15
minutes (see
also LTAs ).
See
guidelines for selecting Dangerous
Discussions topics and
guidelines for selecting Categories of
Diversity.
Introduce concept of "Instructional
Bottlenecks."
[need web page explaining Instructional
Bottlenecks"
B. Elements
Find and use, find
and adapt, find and improve
How to decide
whether to find, adapt, or build typical
elements of BHW/Ms and how much to
"personalize" a BHW
How to find and
select some of the essential
elements (even eClips - using MERLOT and
other collections/repositories and/or
friendly librarians)
How to build some of the essential elements
(even eClips - Lecshare Pro, Camtasia, Flip
Videos, etc.)
Why? Because...
TLTG Role: Help people decide
whether to find, adapt, or build each
essential element, and to gain access to
useful resources for finding, adapting, and
building. Help people to understand the
desirability and limits of "personalizing" a
BHW/M - finding, adapting, organizing, using
elements in ways that reflect important
characteristics of the developers, leaders,
facilitators, and participants.
C. Organization, Structure
How to put
together the key elements - resources and
activities - e.g., building web page that
organizes the resources
How to plan an appropriate interactive
activity
How to ASSEMBLE elements - graphically,
chronologically, ...
(Planning techniques - e. g.., storyboards;
Google Docs, Web editors, etc.)
Why? Because...
TLTG Role: Convince and help
participants to believe in the importance of
including all the essential elements and
that doing so is not too difficult -
especially that an eClip alone is not enough
(for most purpose we advocate) and that the
"Interactivity" is at least as important as
the eClip.
D. Using, Improving, Sharing
How to collect useful feedback to increase
likelihood of using that info to make
significant improvements (or to decide never
to do this again)
Why? Because...
How to determine what kind of
attribution and/or permissions apply to
what has been found and to what is being
produced - SWG 20080801
TLTG Role: Introduce ideas
and resources for
Compassionate Pioneering and
dissemination by "viral small groups" and
productive assessment.
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(2 minutes)
Collect feedback
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Closing -
Gandhi's List
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(4 minutes)
Play the
4-min
eClip via YouTube (or choose
another version)
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(7 minutes)
Think-Pair-Share:
Ask participants about additional “blunders” that
would make this list even more
meaningful for them personally or
for their institution.
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(3 minutes)
Summarize any major
consensus emerging and suggest how to build
on it. Acknowledge any major or
surprising differences of opinion.
Make one or two suggestions (preferably, by
repeating those heard from participants) for
dealing respectfully and usefully
with differences or disagreements.
Make a recommendation about extending this
activity - or not.
*Plan B
Same as above,
but don't use an eClip;
instead, read main points aloud.
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Interactivities:
Think-Pair-Share
1 Minute
- Think
4 Minutes
- Discuss in small groups
2 Minutes
- Report
More generic instructions about
"Think-Pair-Share"...
Other kinds of "interactivities"... |
