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Welcome to new to online converting your course. My name is Ann Musgrove and I’ve been teaching
face to face and online since 1999 in Educational technology and adult learning. It will be
my pleasure to be the facilitator in this course. I also serve as a faculty mentor,
instructional designer. I’m a graduate of the Sloan C certificate program in online
teaching and I’m also active with quality matters. I have 2 courses nationally recognized.
I’m a master course reviewer and I also facilitate workshops for quality matters.
Pedagogy before technology. We know that an increase in technology doesn’t equal an
increase in learning. Technology is a vehicle it is not a destination. When we’re designing
learning experiences we need to make sure that the content is easy to access, that learners
are interacting with the content and not struggling with the course. And one of the article that
we’ll read as your defining what your definition is of course content talks about an absolutely
riveting online course and one of my favorites is principle 7 in that article, a great web
interface will not save a poor course, but a poor web interface will destroy a potentially
great course. A lot of planning has to go into an online class before it even starts.
You need to set yourself up as a student so that you can see it through their eyes. Try
to anticipate what their issues may be in the class and there’s always revision, revision,
revision. And it’s still really about great teaching whether it’s online or face to
face. Communication is the key. Communication between the learner, the instructor, the learners
and each other, and the learner and the content. It’s difficult when you’re teaching online
to know when you’re losing them. Raise your hand if you’re not here? Doesn’t quite
work. Engagement and community. You really need to stay actively engaged and encourage
your online students so that they avoid isolation. That can really be the fun part. In fact I
find that it’s easier to have a one on one relationship with my student in an online
class than it is sometime in even a smallish lecture hall with maybe 30 or 40 students.
Learner to connect to each other as well as you. We’ll be looking at tools in this class
for conversion of traditional print media some those will be zamzar, scribd, authorstream
and voice thread. And alternative tools for text books like course smart, cengage or do
your own text books with lulu or scribd. And then there’s open educational resources
too such as flat world knowledge and wiki books. We’ll look at synchronous online
classroom tools like collaborate, oovoo, sykpe, spreaker, usteam and scriblink. The graded
assignments and due dates. We really only have 2 assignments. One is due by the end
of Tuesday and it’s a course content inventory for the course you’re working on and a discussion.
And the second one is a course content conversion which is due Friday at the end of the day
and for that one you’ll actually look at the tools and convert one item from your course
using one of those tools to make it more web friendly format. And when I say the end of
the day, I mean the end of the day in your time frame. So stick with those grading deadlines.
There are no late submissions unless you’ve contacted me ahead of time. I’ll try to
grade things quicker than this but technically I have 3 business days from end of the due
date and I’ll send out email announcements when I’m done grading and I’ll also send
out an emails to you if something needs to be resubmitted or tweaked in some way to be
passing. So I’ll see you online and welcome again to the workshop.