Presenter: Melanie Borrego, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, School of Arts and Sciences, Brandman University
Learn how to build a strong foundation for your first online course or courses!
This session will help instructors who are new to the world of online learning build a foundation for their first online class or classes. We’ll begin with a discussion of basic instructional/universal design and best practices. Then we will demonstrate screencasting, video conferencing and discuss when and how to employ them for students. Finally, we will visit a few great websites from which instructors can pull resources.
Online Teaching Poll!
URL FOR THIS PAGE: http://tinyurl.com/ESSlaunchpad
Instructional Design
Instructional Design “Starters”
How to Build an Online Course (Curtis Bonk): http://www.youtube.com/TravelinEdMan
Online Course Review: http://www.clrn.org/browse/index.cfm/online-courses
Best Practices: http://www.umuc.edu/faculty/facsupport/facultyexams/upload/online_exp_doc_042105.pdf
Screencasting
Jing (download): http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
TechSmith Screencasting: http://screencast.com
Video Chat/Teleconferencing
Skype: https://education.skype.com/
Oovoo: http://www.oovoo.com/home.aspx
(Adobe Connect: http://brandman.adobeconnect.com/borrego/)
Embedding Video into your Course (Demonstration)
Embedding Video:
Fun Resources for Web 2.0 Teaching
Powtoons Presentation Tool now has free educator and student versions!
Powtoons: http://www.powtoon.com/edu-home/
(Powtoon Sample Video Intro: http://youtu.be/HP6sEhkiu28)
TeachersFirst Edge: http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/edge.cfm
The Library of Congress Digital Content: http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html
AASL’s Best Websites for Teaching, 2013: http://www.ala.org/aasl/standards-guidelines/best-websites/2013
The Big Read: http://www.neabigread.org/
MIT Video: http://video.mit.edu/
TedTalks: http://www.ted.com/talks
Annenberg Videos: http://www.learner.org/interactives/?page=1&per_page=20&query=
Melanie Borrego, Ph.D. 