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OLG Meeting Notes Apr 2, 2004 ...

Ocotillo Online Learning Group
Meeting Apr 2, 2004

Glendale Community College
1:30 - 3:30 PM Teleconference Room in HT1 (High Tech 1)
campus map for Glendale showing location of HT1

Technology Poster Sessions Glendale is setting up different technology demonstrations for you to try hands on in the High Tech Center

Welcome and Introductions

Sandra Wells (Phoenix College)

What's New in Online Learning at Our Campus

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

Glendale Technology "Poster" Sessions

High Tech Center 2
We will walk next door to the HT2 "Pit" where you can try and ask questions about the following Glendale Technology demos:

1. The Instructional Palette (Theresa Hilding and Roger Siggs)
   The Instructional Palette is GCC's method of delivering technology to students. It features an automatically created password protected account that gives students access to a "Standard Suite of Tools" that includes Microsoft Office, FTP software, Antivirus software, an IMAP e-mail account, personal networked storage space, and Internet access on both Windows and Macintosh clients. Access to non-standard resources such as Diet Analysis Software, UNIX accounts, and class-specific networked folders is also automatically provided based on the courses that students are enrolled in. All passwords, including those used by MIDAS and GCC's Wireless Network are synchronized by the system. A Roaming profiles are enabled so that students will see their personalized desktops with the same features anywhere on campus. The email, course folders and personal network space are all available off campus as well.
   • Gecko (home of the Palette)
   • Teaching with the Instructional Palette (resources for Faculty)
2. Digital Camera Stuff: Things to know Before Buying One (Tom Foley)
   JPG and TIFF image file formats are discussed, as well as settings on the quality of the JPG compression in both the camera and in the image editor. Photoshop Elements editing examples are given which include histogram levels adjustment, sharpening, cropping, selection, color saturation enhancement, red-eye removal, resizing, saving for prints, and saving for web pages. These editing examples will enhance a mediocre image and make it rock!. There are web pages on the following: What are Pixels, Mega Pixels, & How many MP's should I get?; Examples of several images at different resolutions; Pro's & Con's of Digital Cameras; Additional Expenses - there are many; Things to look for in Choosing a Camera; List of Cameras; Memory Cards & Image Capacity; Camera operation; Workflow - generic steps after a photo is taken; Computer issues; Image Editing in general + step by step examples; Making prints; and Links to other resources.
   Digital Camera Stuff
   MLX Package #1163
3. Student Zines: Electronic Publication and Portfolio Construction with Webscribe (Karen Schwalm)
   This session will show how students submit essays in English 101 and 102 electronically to a class "Zine" and then how they can convert those submissions into an electronic portfolio of their work at the end of the semester. Other students in the class can read the student essays, and faculty receive an electronic copy from which they may grade. Students benefit from reading all the essays of others in the class, but an instructor can also create a "Medallion" Zine containing examples of excellent essays.
   • Medallion Zine for English 102
   • What is WebScribe?
4. Midas- Beyond the Grade Book (Karen Russo)
   Using Midas Course Management Features for Content Delivery (no more copying handouts), Communications (synchronous and asynchronous - chat vs. bulletin board), Surveys, and Testing (who wants to grade tests?)
5. Using Perception and Flash to Develop Web-based Student Study Aids (Karen Conzelman, Betsy Cooper)
   This session will allow users to explore student self-tests/tutorials for general biology course developed using Perception. Graphics and Flash-based animations have been integrated into question bank to illustrate abstract concepts. Flash has also been used to develop an interactive online study module as an alternative delivery vehicle for some of course content. Instructional design considerations and effectiveness will be discussed.
6. Virtual Teaching & Learning Connection (VTLC)r (Mark Montanus, Charlotte Montanus, John Gibson)
   The VTLC is a new innovative project-based system for developing high quality teaching and learning environments at GCC. It is not a place or an employee group. No one administrator manages it. And yet, it has already been a vital force for facilitating the support and guidance needed by faculty to develop courses that may use any variety of materials, media, and/or instructional delivery methods. How can the VTLC help YOU?
7. Online Forums at GCC (Mike Aragorn)
   This session will show how GCC is using open source forum software for various academic departments' online discussion groups. The forums allow for self registration and have all of the necessary tools to manage and deploy course or topic based interactive discussion environments.
   • Snitz Forums Free ASP-based discussion forum software
8. Wireless for Students at Glendale (Josh Krek)
   In January of 2004, GCC opened the "Engarde" wireless network to student access via their own devices: PDA's, Tablets and laptops. This is a second-generation wireless network featuring Symbol Switch Controlled "dumb" access ports, a Vernier Gateway, and password protected authentication via the Student's Instructional Palette Account.
   • Glendale Community College Wireless Project
9. Mailforms and Other Tools (Bobby Sample)
   Many faculty and staff members have the need to publish forms on-line, both for instructional purposes and to support extra-curricular events. A program on the GCWeb server allows anyone who publishes a GCC web site to post such a form. This presentation will review three on-line tools associated with this resource: (1) the code-based instructions for those who edit HTML directly, to create a web page form that will deliver results to a specified e-mail address; (2) the FormWiz application, which allows employees to build such a form without having to write all the form code; and (3) the Mailform database application, which allows managers of such forms to look up results organized into tables (serving as a backup for the e-mailed reports, a way to display multiple submissions in one view, and the ability to share the view with an assigned team).

Break!

all
Enjoy some snacks while networking.

Problem-Solving Corner

all (HT1 Teleconference Room)

Door Prizes

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:

• Carmela Arnoult won "Lessons from the Cyberspace Classroom" by Rena Paloff and Keith Pratt (speakers for the October 23 and 24, 2003 Dialogue Day on "Teaching Hybrid Courses"
• Jim Daugherty won "Usability Engineering" by usability guru Jakob Nielsen.
• John Gibson won "Designing Web Graphics .2" Second Edition of the book by Lynda Weinman
• Jen Mansfield won Olympus C2040 Digital Camera (2.1 Megapixel, USB connection to computer) - a fine digital camera used for 3 years at MCLI.

We will again make use of the prize patrol tool! The newest version now will not repeat chosen numbers.

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...

OLG is taking the summer off! See you in September