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OLG Meeting Notes Nov 5, 2004 ...

Ocotillo Online Learning Group
Meeting Nov 5, 2004

South Mountain College
1:30 - 3:30 PM
SES 105
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Multimedia in the Humanities Digital Storytelling and Using Technology in the Humanities

Welcome and Introductions (1:30 - 1:35 pm)

Donna Gaudet (Mesa)
Karen Gurney, Amy MacPherson, and Kent Bullock (South Mountain)

What's New in Online Learning at Our Campus (1:35 - 1:50 pm)

all participants
A round up of who's doing what (briefly!) per site represented.

• GateWay Community College
  Many of their Nursing courses are being offered as hybrids with components in Blackboard. GateWay also has 78 sections online in open entry courses.
• Scottsdale Community College
  Reported that there are no changes on campus since last month's meeting.
• Glendale Community College
  The campus is still exploring new alternative for offering hybrid and online courses. The campus is locked into using Midas for two years. The decision to use Midas is believed to have been financially motivated.
• Estrella Mountain Community College
  A new workshop is being offered for adjunct faculty who will be taking over an existing hybrid course. Two summer workshops will be offered, one for residential faculty and one for adjunct faculty. Estrella is also giving a pre-conference workshop at the League for Innovation in New York.
• Paradise Valley Community College
  Working on assessments for online courses and online testing in math and sciences for next fall. They are also working on the standardizing the process for faculty applications for developing online courses.
• District Office
  A new version of Midas will begin testing late this year. Blackboard 6.2.3 is being tested and has many useful features including built in e-mail and link checker. District is giving a Blackboard Alliance presentation at the League for Innovation in the spring.
• Mesa Community College
  The Business Department is writing courses for the web. They are very interested in "getting out of the textbook business." Students can now purchase e-books for less than one third the cost of a traditional textbook. There are several options available to students. 1. They can purchase the access code only to access a website that has the full text online. 2. Students can pay more to have the access code and a skeleton text that is one color printing with no graphics or pictures. 3. Students can purchase the whole text in printed form. Publisher will allow faculty to customize the textbooks to include specifically what they want.
• South Mountain Community College
  CS105 is completely online now. They are also using online texts. They are researching how to move content from semester to semester in Blackboard. On October 29 the campus faculty developers group hosted a luncheon to showcase electronic portfolios. The event was well attended and several faculty expressed interest in using them.

I Love Stories" Multimedia in the Storytelling Classroom (1:50 - 2:30 pm)

LynnAnn Wojciechowicz (South Mountain) Director of Storytelling Institute Coordinator, Storytelling and Humanities Faculty Faculty
LynnAnn will share with the group her use of multimedia tools,including the use of Digital Storytelling, Eportfolio and DVD's to teachthe art of Storytelling.

LynnAnn spoke to the group about her use of multimedia tools and her time with the District. She has been teaching at South Mountain for 18 years. She began her career in the English Department. From there she developed the Humanities program and taught integrated humanities and storytelling.

She is now the Director of South Mountain Community College's Storytelling Program. She is a self-professed "non techie". She tried working in Blackboard for two years but found it to be time consuming and she spent too much time instructing students how to use it.

In Spring 2004 LynnAnn discovered e-portfolios. She used funds from the Title V grant to develop her e-portfolio this summer with assistance from the Teaching and Learning Center. She attended the Digital Storytelling Learnshop sponsored by the MCLI at Scottsdale Community College this summer. LynnAnn created a digital story called "I Love Stories!", and is available to view as streaming video from the Learnshop Gallery.

She has e-portfolio pages for all the classes that she teaches. Links to the faculty home pages, course syllabi, schedules, and folk tales and quizzes are included in the e-portfolio. She also includes a resource page that contains many links including a live link to the library and http://surlalunefairytales.com/, an interesting site with the historical significance of many fairy tales.

Break (2:30 - 2:40 pm)

all
Enjoy some snacks while networking.

Getting the Maximum out Classroom Technology (2:40 - 3:25 pm)

Donald Hall (GateWay) Humanties Faculty
he use of technology can help students understand information in a variety of ways. Donald will demonstrate the use of five different types of classroom technology to present one lesson on the Parthenon, as part of a humanities course. The students are able to see and experience the material from different perspectives. Blackboard, a cultural CD-ROM, PowerPoint, DVD clips and the document camera will be integrated into one lesson.

Donald Hall began teaching as a non-techie but he has eagerly been studying and has learned a lot. Donald teaches Humanities courses using Blackboard, interactive CD-ROMs, PowerPoint presentations, DVD clips, and a document camera to present many levels of information to his students.

He demonstrated the usefulness of each item in a lesson on the Parthenon. The CDs are used in the library and learning center on campus. Students are required to work in pairs using y-cords to work collaboratively on the CD assignments. DVD clips are shown in class. He pauses often to keep the class interested in the subject matter and stated that he always leaves them wanting more. His favorite tool by far is the document camera. It allows the document (essay, drawing, photo, etc) to be rotated and zoomed in closely for detail. It is also every simple to use. He has shared his passion for the document camera with many campus groups, including adjunct faculty. There are now many document cameras on campus for others to use.

Learn more about Donald's ideas from the mcli Forum Apring 2003 article "Technology In The Humanities: PowerPointing the Renaissance and More"

Door Prizes (3:25 - 3:30 pm)

all
Stick around to see if you win one of the prizes (you must register on the sign in sheet and be present to win).

The prizes for this meeting include:

• Karen Gurney won a Macromedia T-shirt thanks to Macromedia
• Amy MacPherson won Guidelines for Authors of Learning Objects, thanks to New Media Consortium
• LynnAnn Wojciechowicz won Kingston USB Flash Drive (128 Mb) - your file storage on a key chain?
• Dave Fraedrich won Voices & Images of California Art interactive CD-ROM produced and donated by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (thanks to January 2004 Pachyerm Dialogue Day speaker Peter Samis).
• Steve Clayden won Digital Storytelling- Capturing Lives, Creating Communities by Joe Lambert- one of the definitive guides.

We will again make use of the prize patrol tool!

OLG Prize Patrol
by Alan Levine
Get the .swf file to use for yourself or the original Flash MX file to see how it is done.

Next Meeting...

December 3, 2004 at GateWay Community College