All faculty and staff
are invited to attend two upcoming Brown Bag presentations offered by Harper
faculty members Pardess Mitchell and Andy Geary, who were each awarded
Instructional Technology Committee mini-grants and look forward to sharing
ideas on best practices from their recent conference involvements. No registration is required. Specific details regarding each presentation
are as follows:
I.
Please join us for a Brown Bag lunch
session on April 23rd with Pardess Mitchell who will share ideas on
"Using Cognitive Strategies to Improve your Online Class" following
participation in the recent Sloan-C conference:
TITLE: Using Cognitive Strategies to Improve your Online Class
DATE: Tuesday, April 23, 2013
TIME: 12:00-12:45PM
LOCATION: A242
PRESENTER: Pardess Mitchell, Chair, Physical Education Department
DESCRIPTION: This session will present some of the best
practices in online learning. The strategies that will be presented can work
within any online course. These techniques are pulled from cognitive psychology
and research suggests they can help improve student outcomes in online classes.
II. Please join Andy Geary for an afternoon Brown
Bag session on May 2nd to learn new tips for communicating with
online, blended, and even traditional students using a variety of tools and
programs. Before or after attending
Andy’s sharing session, be sure to check out the CII Area’s Open House showcasing
their newly renovated facilities (hospitality will be provided).
TITLE: Facilitating Indirect Communication with Online/Blended (and Traditional)
Students
DATE: Thursday May 2, 2013
TIME: 3:00-3:45PM
LOCATION: F124 (CII Lab)
PRESENTER: Andy Geary of the Harper Math Department
DESCRIPTION: Online and Blended classes offer unique
communication challenges. Often times it is difficult to answer complicated
questions for students via e-mail or even speaking with them directly on the
phone. Students are often working at odd hours because of their schedules and
direct communication, although available, is not convenient. There are several
ways to effectively communicate ideas and problem solving to your students
indirectly using the tablet PC and programs like JING. We will look at writing
messages with image capturing, creating demonstration videos of websites and
programs, problem solving videos and more. We will be using SnagIt, JING, www.ScreenCast.com and
possibly a few other programs in this presentation.
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