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Moving Beyond Text: Integrating Audio, Video, and Interactive Elements in the Online Classroom
Kristine Roshau”Multimedia learning is learning from words and pictures.”https://twitter.com/Rmac003Roger/status/834396612491345920Kristine showed a diagram showing what happens with information when it is consumed through various multimedia methods. It’s an interesting diagram – one that I hadn’t seen before.http://mevins.info/2kZjqDGAfter discussing the diagram, Kristine began talking more about multiple methods of learning, as well as sthe concern about over-stimulating…
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Best Practices for Engaging Team Projects
Karen Valaitis & Amanda YazejianAt the start of the session, the presenters asked us to answer a few short questions through Poll Everywhere. Questions included, “have you ever incorporated team projects in an online course,” “have your students ever had a positive team project experience in an online course,” and “what are the primary issues…
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Gamify Your Syllabus in D2L
Leslie Van WolvelearIn reading the title & description on the schedule, I missed the fact that the session is specifically for D2L. I’m still hoping I can take something away from the session.Leslie spent the first bit of the session talking broadly about gamification, does it help students learn, and who the intended audience is. https://twitter.com/evinsmj/status/834071249819140098https://twitter.com/barrydahl/status/834071711599493120The…
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Create-Your-Own Quality, Interactive Digital Curriculum to Engage Students Across All Subjects
David Evans, SoftchalkNormally I don’t attend sponsored sessions, but Softchalk is one of those tools that I haven’t had the opportunity to utilize since my new job over 2 years ago. The session is being done using Softchalk Cloud, which I haven’t seen before. Softchalk Cloud allows you to manage your own learning objects through the…
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Can We Eliminate “Remediation?” Yes – with EdReady
The NROC ProjectI’m going to skip over the first 30 minutes of the morning keynote because it was an impromptu/unannounced business meeting for the Instructional Technology Council. Usually this is an announced meeting, but I think they made it a surprise to have a captive audience. Let’s just say, that didn’t work.Again, moving on…The biggest…
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Preparing Faculty to Teach Online
Ana LopezThe eCert program at Pasco-Hernando State College is a 10-week, 30 contact hour program for faculty to be certified to teach online courses. The certification is good for 3 years, and there is a recertification program that is a smaller program. The recertification focuses on tools rather than pedagogy.Ana is willing to give the…