{"id":90,"date":"2008-04-28T14:16:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T14:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=90"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:23:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:23:54","slug":"sdccd-online-teaching-excellence-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/sdccd-online-teaching-excellence-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"SDCCD Online Teaching Excellence Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It had neither the drinking nor gay focus a historian would expect from a &#8220;symposium&#8221;, but it was cool. I missed the 2:00 sessions because I was presenting <a href=\"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/pages\/sdccd\/\" target=\"_blank\">Interactivity and Learning Styles<\/a> at the same time. I had beeen asked to reprise this from last year, but I didn&#8217;t want to, so I proposed a Web 2.0 presentation instead, but was asked to please do this one because the response from last year was so positive. The problem was that I have changed my mind somewhat since I gave the presentation (next post coming up!). I no longer think that students are technologically savvy, capable of picking up new academic uses of technology easily or willingly. On the other hand, I was asked to do what I did last year. So I added a slide of &#8220;caveats&#8221;.<br \/>\n<br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisahistory.net\/images\/caveats.jpg?w=648\" align=\"center\" border=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\nAnd, just like last year, I wasn&#8217;t able to finish the presentation in 45 minutes. My wonderful colleague Shafin Ali was at the conference, and agreed to be my cameraman during <a href=\"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/media\/sdccd2.mov\" target=\"_blank\">my presentation<\/a>. (34 MB, so it will take awhile to load &#8212; didn&#8217;t get around to YouTubing.)<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/media\/sdccd2.mov\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisahistory.net\/images\/sdccd.jpg?w=648\" align=\"center\"\/><\/a><br \/><i>Camera work by my colleague Shafin Ali (Professor of Economics, the &#8220;dismal science&#8221;, though he&#8217;s actually a very cheerfull guy!)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of my notes from the other sessions:\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Keynote by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msjc.edu\/m2\/james\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patricia James<\/a>: &#8220;Putting YOU in Your Online Class&#8221;<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>students come into online classes thinking they&#8217;re ready but they&#8217;re not\n<\/li>\n<li>instructors must make themselves accountable to actually teach, tell students about their response time and do it!\n<\/li>\n<li>she creates an anonymous forum at the end of the class for &#8220;parting shots&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<li>Mt San Jacinto apparently has Online Faculty Mentors who get release time\n<\/li>\n<li>said you can&#8217;t use publisher materials only, or YOU aren&#8217;t there\n<\/li>\n<li>be yourself, use friendly announcements (I thought she said be yourself &#8211; just kidding!), emoticons if you&#8217;re sarcastic (yup), encouragement, mention students by name<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Effective Pedagogy Online: Seven Principles of Effective Teaching Practice<\/b> by Hank Beaver<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The seven principles can be a basis for quality evaluations\n<\/li>\n<li>he shares retention statistics with students; many have trouble managing distractions or think the course will be easy, so he lets them know up front these may be issues\n<\/li>\n<li>use multiple strands to achieve the same objective (although that is time consuming)\n<\/li>\n<li>one of the attendees says she lists the amount of time students will need to succeed in each element of the class\n<\/li>\n<li>several attendees were very harsh on deadlines; one used the phrase &#8220;flexibility means responsiblity&#8221; (he admitted to low retention); there seemed to be hostility toward students on this issue &#8212; I think that &#8220;responsibility means flexibility&#8221; and I&#8217;m responsible to be a little more flexible &#8212; I allow a week to do a quiz late for reduced credit\n<\/li>\n<li>what I&#8217;ll change as a result of this session: I&#8217;ll ask them to look at the grading rubric early and ask how thy think they&#8217;ll do, I&#8217;ll change my FAQ title to something like &#8220;Helping Each Other&#8221; to encourage that, I&#8217;ll use CCCConfer&#8217;s Elluminate instead of worrying about getting it through Moodle, consider telling them how much time each element of the class will take<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joan Van Duzer and Carole Robinson: <b>My Online Course is Ready &#8212; Now What?<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>A very useful presentation because it focused on how to actually facilitate an online course, and how to assess whether you&#8217;re doing it well. A group from the <a href=\"http:\/\/cats.cdl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Community of Academic Technology Staff<\/a> created an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humboldt.edu\/~aof\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instrument to Assess Online Facilitation<\/a>. They&#8217;ve created a checklist, designed to be simple and straigtforward, that can be used by faculty just starting out, more experienced faculty or course evaluators. There is also an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humboldt.edu\/~aof\/far.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Activity Record<\/a>, similar to the notes I keep on each class each semester. In their case it was designed to help transfer the course to different instructors each semester. We don&#8217;t do that at MiraCosta, land of academic freedom, so the main use for us would be keeping our own records.\n<\/p>\n<p>What they came up with is, I think, an improvement on <a href=\"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/pages\/OLClassEval2.doc\">my own assessment tool that I developed in 2006<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humboldt.edu\/~jdv1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joan Van Duzer<\/a> was cited in mine, and a lead on the CATS project discussed in the session. She also teaches Moodle classes for @ONE, and the conversation went into Moodle. I made a note that CSU is choosing Moodle because Blackboard didn&#8217;t pass accessibility tests, as noted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humboldt.edu\/~jdv1\/moodle\/all.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Blackboard vs. Moodle<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>I plan to introduce such a tool to workshops in fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It had neither the drinking nor gay focus a historian would expect from a &#8220;symposium&#8221;, but it was cool. 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