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Magical time of the year…

 

 

No, nono holidayt the holiday season.

I’m talking about the “other” magical time of the year.

 

 

National Distance Learning Week at Ohio State!!!!

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OSU’s Office of Distance Education Learning and Teaching Academy (DELTA) is offering a week full of special events and training designed to both assist and inspire you in your online course creation.

Here is the list of events:

I will be attending all of them so COME JOIN ME!  (* This event is a webinar that I will be watching in my office. Bring your lunch and come watch with me!)

To learn more about DELTA’s National Distance Learning Week events, check out this article.

Seeking Canvas Pilot Participants or “Don’t make me cry”

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Seeking Canvas Pilot Participants

As you know from reading my blog that Canvas is the LMS being considered to replace D2L (the “Carmen” branding will remain the same).

The Office of Distance Education and eLearning (ODEE) is getting ready to do a second run of their pilot program for Canvas learning management system (LMS) this spring. Details can be found in this ODEE article.

In the first pilot were 15 courses chosen for the first pilot but there was NO representation from the College of Public Health.  

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Time to change that. 

 

This second pilot

  • is a great opportunity to learn more about Canvas
  • as well as gain first-hand experience teaching with Canvas
  • while being fully supported by both a cohort of peers as well as focused attention from ODEE and myself.

Instructors will receive COMPLETE Canvas training in December as well as ongoing support via ODEE’s monthly Canvas pilot workshop meetings. Along with that I will help you through EVERY STEP of the process. I will come to your office daily with coffee if need be.

Ohio State’s Distance Education Enrollment Plan projects a 450% increase in distance education students by the year 2020 and CPH is actively working to meet the needs of these students by increasing our online offerings.

Ready to be part of the party?

Complete this Canvas Pilot Application form by Wednesday, November 4.

Want to talk more about it? Send me an email and I will stop by.

Want a cat video? Watch this one.

 

 

 

“Amelia’s Sad Face” by Donnie Ray Jones via Flickr CC by 2.0

Innovate 365 Faculty Showcase

I know you all read the email that I sent out on September 15, 2015 about the Innovate 365 Faculty Showcase. I know probably none  most of you went (may or may not be confusing for others [but i get it :)]), but for those that were not able to make it, check out the recorded session here. (Or click here.)

(It takes a while to load the video, but it does work)

 

Why should you care?

  • Ever want to make a mini orientation, prep course or module for your students before they get into the “meat” of your course? Check out Karen Macbeth’s presentation. (Around minute 5 in the video).
  • Are you hesitant to even consider putting any of your content online? Ever consider throwing your laptop across the room experience “Techno Rage” when you try to do anything with technology? Check out how Darcy Hartmen overcame these challenges. (Around minute 12)
  • Want to see what the power of a community working together to create online courses can do? Watch Crystal DunLevy & Jill Clutter speak. (Around minute 20).
  • What, what about some SCIENCE? Learn how Wolfgang Sadee & Audrey Papp build a new online pharmacogenomics , from design to deliver. (Around minute 30.)

 

Awesome, right? That’s why you should go to the next Innovate Lunchtime Address event (check out the Events/Training link on the left) and you should DEFINITELY go to the Innovate 365 Conference May 11, 2016 with me.

What types of content have you been putting online for your students? What has worked? What has not been so successful? Chat me up in the comment section below.

Getting your students to respond or “throw those clickers away”

Top hatLooking for ways to increase classroom engagement? Want to poll your students during a lecture but can’t think of how to do it without chaos ensuing? Want to take attendance with one click? Considering throwing your current clicker across the room?

Time to meet Top Hat. (No, we are not playing dress-up. It’s a real thing.)

Top Hat is a “web-based student response system that allows instructors to create an interactive lecture experience for students. Use Top Hat to poll students, present discussion prompts, display lecture material, track attendance, and sync grades with Carmen.” Top Hat does not HAVE to be used with Carmen, but if you have some course content in Carmen already, integration is nice as it will automatically populate your Carmen classlist into Top Hat.

Here are some magical things Top Hat can do:

  • Present information (there are three ways to do this) and then have students respond to what they just learned, either IMMEDIATELY or at a LATER DATE AND TIME that you determine
  • Ask questions and get REAL TIME replies
  • Take ATTENDANCE with one easy quick click
  • Create ANONYMOUS discussions
  • Create Top Hat grades items in Carmen by SYNCING TOP HAT GRADEBOOK with Carmen Gradebook

Want to learn more about what it can do and how to use it? Check out the links below or just go to ODEE’s Top Hat Resource Page or the”How the Heck Do I Do That?” page of this blog for a complete list of tutorial videos. There are also some great resources for students as well.

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If you are interested in using Top Hat in your class and

  1. Want some one-on one consultation and/or
  2. Would like me to come to one of your classes and help you use Top Hat (that’s right, I will COME TO THE CLASS OF YOUR CHOICE and RUN TOP HAT for you)
  3. Want another kitten video

Send me an email – murphy.1527 or stop by 380F. Feel free to bring chocolate.

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Building a New Online Course: Design to Delivery

Building a New Online Course: Design to Delivery

(Click HERE to learn more and register)

 

Tue, 10/20/2015 | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Online Meeting

Developing a new online course can be a challenge, and even more so for someone who has never taught online before. Join ODEE (Office of Distance Education and eLearning) for a guided discussion as Audrey Papp and Dr. Wolfgang Sadee, share their experience developing a new course in Pharmacogenomics from the ground up, from design to delivery. Hear about the changing scope of biomedical sciences, their challenges, and how they overcame them. 

I have already signed up for this course because I really want to check out their process. If you want to “take it” with me, let me know. It’s offered virtually but we can get together once a week or so to support each other as we go along. Comment below if you are interested or just email me directly.