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Scottsdale Community College "E-Learning Road Map and Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs)" Welcome and Introductions (1:30 - 1:35 pm)Polly Miller (Estrella Mountain)
The Student Voice (march 4, 2005 OLG Meeting)Polly Miller (Estrella Mountain) A panel of students who have taken or are currently taking online and hybrid courses will be assembled and will give us their view and thoughts on online learning. Those present were asked to identify potential students and submit their names and contact information to Polly Miller. A stipend of $25 will be paid to each student. We are expecting a large turnout for this meeting so please register for it online at: SoftChalk Demo (1:45 - 2:00 pm)David Evans, Director of Training SoftChalk; and Marc Korchin, Sales Manager SoftChalk LLC
From the quick demo (a more in depth session was provided by the presenters earlier that day at Scottsdale), it is apparent that building content in SoftChalk is easy, and can start with content prepped in MS Word. The presenters suggested if this is of interest, to lobby your campus leaders to band together to obtain a district site license. E-Learning Orientation Guide (2:00 - 2:25 pm)Sidne Tate (Scottsdale) and Pat Serrano (Scottsdale) For the past four years, Scottsdale Community College has been offering orientation for students taking online/hybrid courses. Initially the orientation was offered in a face-to-face environment. It was difficult to get those students on campus for orientation. They then created a CD that was mailed to each student enrolled in an online/hybrid course. The CD contained useful information on logging into Blackboard, time requirements, computer requirements and general information on online courses. The cost of creating the CDs and the postage was prohibitive so they decided to put the information into a web-based orientation. The orientation is designed to improve online student retention, communicate expectations, and identify skills and qualities they need to be successful in online courses. There are Blackboard tutorials built into the orientation. Some courses (CIS) require completing the orientation as a course requirement. Break (2:20 - 2:35 pm)all participants Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) (2:35 - 3:25 pm)Lisa Young (GateWay) and Diane Stonebrink (Estrella Mountain) Diane shared some reusable learning objects that she has developed for her hybird ESL classes. She is currently using several programs/websites to develop her learning objects:
Lisa Young is a co-chair of the Ocotillo Reusable Learning Object Action Group. She will post links to the websites that Diane mentioned in her Ocotillo Weblog. "Repositories: are a place to store RLO's. You can search them to get new ideas to use in your class and to store RLO's that you create. The Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) is a repository created for Maricopa Community Colleges. You will probably find RLO's that you can use that are not created in your discipline but that are still applicable to what you are trying to teach. Lisa demonstrated an RLO that she created as a tutorial for students in a hybrid class, available in the MLX as Areal Weighting with Thiessen Polygons (and the MLX comments record a use of this item by a teacher in Indonesia!). The Ocotillo RLO Action Group is hosting an online LearnShop in March to help you create reusable learning objects. You can register online at They are also hosting a dialogue day on April 1 at Glendale Community College featuring Brian Lamb from the University of British Columbia and an in person workshop on RLOs April 2, at South Mountain (this Saturday session was scheduled specifically to attract adjunct faculty). Door Prizes (3:25 - 3:30 pm)all The prizes for this meeting include:
We will again make use of the prize patrol tool!
Next Meeting...March 4, 2005 at Rio Salado College |
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