adding an online component to your classroom presented by: blair roy project specialist otan...
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Adding an online component to your classroomPresented by: Blair RoyProject [email protected]
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What experience do you have with online learning or teaching?
What do you think of when you hear “online”?
Have you taken an online class?
Have you created an online class?
Have you created a Web site for your students?
What are you expectations for this presentation?
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What do your students need?
Created using wordle.net + text from NEA Guide to Teaching Online Courses
Are we ready for the changes?
Barbara Treacy, EdTech Leaders Online
“The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and isn't optional” – Clay Shirky, author and professor, NYU
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler & Herbert Gerjuoy
What is the definition of online learning?
Allen & Seaman, Class Differences – Online Education in the United States, 2010
What does online learning look like?
CMS – course management system
provides a secure environment for teachers and learners
to interact with the environment and one another
to construct knowledge with and for one another
independently or collaboratively
Why offer an online component?
An online component can offer: content
activities
collaboration
reflection
assessments
in an always accessible online environment
Other reasons?
What are the opportunities?
Flexibility: anytime, anyplace learning
Access: to experts and resources that may not have been available locally
HippoCampus.org
USALearns.org
Personalization: custom paths with multiple learning styles addressed
Reflection: learners have time to reflect
Pacing: individualized as allowed by the teacher Repeat material as needed by student
How can you add an online component?
CMS or LMS – course/learning management system
Angel, BlackBoard, Desire2Learn, Sakai, Schoology, Edmodo, and many more
Hosting – free or for a service fee
GoDaddy, Remote Learner, OTAN, MoodleRooms, KeyToSchool
OTAN hosts a Moodle site – free hosting to eligible CA Ad Ed agencies
What can you have in your online class?
ACTIVITIES ANDRESOURCES
ADULTEDCOURSES.ORG – MOODLE SERVER HOSTED BY OTAN
What does an online course in moodle look like?
Navigation & docking
Assignments
Assignment grading summary
Assignments submitted
Assignments Grading page
Assignment graded student view
Assignment Creation
Assignment Creation
Assignment Creation
Assignment Creation
Editing a moodle course
Hot potatoes quizhttp://hotpot.uvic.ca/
Moodle made quiz
Moodle made quiz
LESSONS – DELIVER CONTENT, CHECK FOR COMPREHENSION AS THEY PROCEED, DIFFERENT BRANCHES
Glossaries to reinforce vocabulary, interactive activities by students
Mp3 Recording for listening activities, student recordings, dictation
Forums for discussion, reflection, testing
Books for content
Best practices with online teaching
Provide explicit directions
Respond in a timely manner
Stay engaged to keep students engaged
Use a variety of activities and resources
Consistency
Consider file formats
Monitor student progress and activity
Update course content as necessary
Be a present online teacher
College Transition & Career Development (Some adv esl teachers are using this course)
Advanced esl
18 topicsForumsLessonsQuizzesAssignmentsGlossary
USALearns Wrap Around Course
20 Units
USA Learns content
Glossaries
Quizzes
Assignments
Forums
EL Civics Through Distance Learning by Susan Escobar of Elk Grove Adult School
ESL Citizenship Preparationby Kay Johnson, JAS
14 topics
Assignments
Forums
Glossaries
Hot Potatoes
Lessons
Quizzes
The Write Stuff by Francisca Wentworth, JAS
What can otan offer you?
For Adult Ed agencies who are WIA funded:
Advanced ESL, USA Learns 2nd Course Moodle Wrap Around, College Transition & Career Development
EL Civics Through Distance Learning, ESL Citizenship Preparation, The Write Stuff
Free hosting
Free Moodle training – 3 hour face to face and/or online workshops
Administrative Tools
Change the settings of your course, Topic vs Date
Back up your course (import easily to another Moodle server)
Reports – see course activity, who signed on, what they did
Manage users and grades
Manage Questions Banks for Quizzes
Grades
See grades listed by student
See individual student performance
Scalable Custom Grading
Scales Moodle does the
math!
Question Analysis
Backup, Restore, Reset
• Back ups of all or some content
• Restore your course if needed
• Reset Your Course Each Semester to remove student data
Reports
Why add an online component to your class with a CMS?
Could you use Moodle?
Discussion Is using an online component viable for your
classes? Would an online component enhance student
persistence? What do you perceive as barriers to adding an
online component to your classroom?
Other Comments? Suggestions? Feel free to contact me at:
[email protected] or (800) 894-3113 (CA only) (916) 228-2357 direct
More Information:
Free software, community, information:
http://moodle.org/ Commercial support and other
services: http://moodle.com/ Moodle demonstration site:
http://demo.moodle.org/ Moodle documentation:
http://docs.moodle.org/ OER (Open Educational Resources):
http://www.oercommons.org/
Are you ready?
OTAN Free Professional Development Face to face workshops at your site
Online workshops
OTAN OTAC – Online Teaching Academy
A year of support
Application process
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