August 2008

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Overview of the next 3 days:

• I. -- NSCC Campus - SeW, NeLSC & TLC
• II. -- Best Practices in e-Learning Pedagogy
• III. -- Lunch & Sharing Time
• IV. -- Technologies -- Building a Foundation -- How to Take Advantage of Your Web Space
• V. -- Open Lab Time -- One-on-One Help
• VI. -- Resources -- How to get Information and Support
• VII. -- Valuable Technologies for e-Teaching
• VIII. -- Lunching with Colleagues Experienced in using Educational Technologies
• IX. -- Assessment
• X. -- Closing

I. NSCC Campus - SeW, NeLSC & TLC (Carol facilitates)
Wednesday, 9/10/08, 9 AM - 10 AM

• Photo-op: Photo and/or short video (with script) of each participant as they come in. We will use these later with the hands-on technology portion of the workshop.
• Introductions: Who are we?
  • presenters (see "Who We Are" wiki link to the left)
    • Services, hours, contact information for the TLC (presented by Coryl)
    • Services, hours, contact information for NeLSC (presented by Carol)
    • Services, hours, contact information for Media Services (presented by Kenji)
  • participants (see "Participating faculty" wiki link to the left)
    • Short (one-minute) introduction by each participant
  
• What this workshop is about:
  • Cover learning Objectives of this workshop: What do we hope you "walk away with"? (see "Objectives" wiki link to the left).
  • Sustainability too! Handling handouts electronically, now called "webouts."
    • Paradigm shift -- "Being green" -- lowering environmental impact: Using online rather than paper copies whenever possible.
  
• On-campus groups:
  • e-Learning & Technology Advisory Committee (eTAC) -- campus wide group who meets monthly to discuss North's directions in eLearning, Technology and Information Resources
    • eTAC minutes & activities including a Technology Vision Draft for North: eTAC wiki
  • DOES-IT BUZZ -- Faculty & staff meet informally over lunch every two weeks (DOES-IT = Dialogue on e-Learning Successes, Issues and Technologies)
  

More about online resources:

• Resources for faculty/staff: Faculty Education and Resources available on the TLC website
• Resources for faculty/staff:The NSCC e-Learning Faculty Resource wiki
• North's e-learning website for students: The Virtual College
  • Evaluating readiness to being a "distance learner" (Virtual College link)
  • Orientation for online students (Virtual College link)
  • How students find their way to your virtual classroom (Virtual College link)

• Discussion by participants:
  • Review the objectives
  • What are your needs?
  • Will this workshop meet them?
  • How?

BREAK Wednesday, 10 AM - 10:15 AM



II. Best Practices in e-Learning Pedagogy (Tom facilitates)
Wednesday, 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM

• Why use educational technologies (i.e. "e-learning" or "e-tools")?
  • What is "e-learning"?
    • Conceptual diagram of fully online, blended & web-enhanced on-campus learning (see e-learning concept "webout")
    • "Seat Time" and "Credit Hours" challenged by new live and asynchronous classrooms
    • "Outcomes-based" learning and "student choices of learning tools" are better fits
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• Meeting student needs -- distance, scheduling, convenience, learning style, resource access
• An observation & comment:
  • "It's not about the technology; it's about the learning. Students want to succeed and hard work is involved. Students depend on skilled instructors to teach and guide them. Educational technologies may be impressive or just basic but what matters are the skills of the instructor at using tools that contribute directly to student understanding of difficult concepts. Highly skilled, communicative and dedicated instructors teach great courses, whether online, blended or in a traditional classroom." (tom)
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• Evidence that student needs are being met
  • Strong student enrollment -- e-learning growth rate (presentation chart)
  • Variety of delivery modes (presentation chart)
  • Positive student feedback (Virtual College student survey link)
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• Connections / partnerships -- (Wiki Link) (Introduction by Carol)
  • State Board of Community & Technical Colleges (SBCTC):
  • e-Learning Director Cable Green Blog
  • State Strategic Technology Plan
  • WSU -- e-tutoring, co-admit program
  • WAOL
  • eLearning Council

• How are educational technologies being used?
  • Electronic "table" and "diagram" of potential tasks and the associated technologies that can help to perform those tasks (table webout, diagram webout).
  • Examples of e-learning technologies in use at NSCC (webout)
  • HAND-ONS: Using the handout to find and view particular tech uses (15 minutes)

How can faculty better prepare for teaching online, blended and web-enhanced campus classes?

• First Steps:

• "Essential Elements: Prepare, Design, and Teach Your Online Course" by Bonnie Elbaum, Cynthia Mcintyre and Alese Smith (Atwood Publishing, 2002
• Receive your personal copy!
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• Best Practices & Practicalities at North:
  • An online practical guide (webout) created from the "Essential Elements" book also including NSCC's own procedures and our faculty's own shared insights and experiences.
  • Many templates and links to the "NSCC e-Learning Faculty Zone" including the sections entitled "Tool Box" (wiki link) and "Community" (wiki link).
  • Detailed workshop "webouts" on designing course websites (through FrontPage) & utilizing course management systems (such as WebCT), and current technologies available through the NSCC e-Learning Faculty Zone (wiki link) or directly on the web (link).
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• Especially for blended online/onsite learning --
  • Blended Learning research, resources, models and preparation process (webout)
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• Next Actions:
• For an orientation to e-learning, follow the NeLSC preparation process (webout) with self-paced online modules for specific elements.
• To design and develop a new online course, step through the review process of the CAS (Curriculum & Academic Standards) Committee composed of your peers. A checklist of procedural steps is available (webout). The CAS "Distance Learning" website is at: https://frontpage.northseattle.edu/casdl.
• Attend TLC workshops during the upcoming year (link to TLC's calendar for upcoming year with tentative dates).
• Attend the informal lunch-time gathering on every other Friday called the DOES-IT BUZZ (link to description) -- and learn from the experiences of your colleagues!

What educational technologies are available?

• "Choice" is an important element of the way educational technologies are supported at North. Generally, you can choose what best works for you and your teaching style and your students' needs! That being said, we cannot support every technology available -- but we also rely on you to guide us in the best directions to take when new and potentially effective technologies are developed.
• Check out our ever-changing selection of educational technologies on our support list (see bottom of webout).

COURTYARD LUNCH DISCUSSION (Tom, Jane facilitate discussion)
Wednesday, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

III. Sharing Time

• What are the questions you would ask of colleagues who are already using technologies?
• What are your individual goals?
• What do you think are the greatest challenges in using educational technologies?

IV. Technologies -- Building a foundation -- How to take advantage of your web space
Wednesday, 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM (Tom, Carol, Joanne, Coryl facilitate)

You have a website!

• An introduction to your web space (facweb) and its alternative identity (the www folder): (step-by-step orientation to the "Triple-Dub" is available at www folder -- workshop webout.
• Examples of web pages at http://facweb.northseattle.edu and https://frontpage.northseattle.edu/community
• Setting passwords for specific web pages
  • Issues of copyright, fair use and online access
  • Email distance@sccd.ctc.edu to request passwords
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• Hands-on Activities -- Working with your www folder as a "file cabinet"
  • Simple document transfers to and from the www folder:
    • Using Windows Explorer on campus
    • Using a thumb (flash) drive for home to campus transport
    • FileZilla from home (link to IT Services instructions)
    • Working from home using SFTP Drive
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• Hands-on Activities -- Working on simple web pages in your web space
  • Creating and editing web pages (web editing -- workshop webout)
    • Using a web editor such as FrontPage, Expression Web, Dreamweaver or Google Apps
      • Creating your own "faculty profile" -- working from a template page. We will step through the next several actions together in order to become familiar with the process.
      • To access a simplified "faculty profile" template, go to https://frontpage.northseattle.edu/templates
      • Open TomB-1 and save it to your own www folder using the process itemized below:
        • Process for downloading web pages to your hard drive so you have a personal electronic copy of your own to "write on"
        • Mozilla Firefox: Right-click and "Save As..." or "Convert to PDF" or "Download to Excel" OR
        • Internet Explorer: Click on "Page" and "Save As...". Select "Entire web page" if that option is not already selected in the download dialogue box.
      • Open FrontPage and convert your web space to a "FrontPage" website.
      • Incorporate your name, short biography, photograph and links of interest
      • Your photograph's size may need adjusting -- right click on it to resize it.
      • Save as your "index.html" web page and browse for your new profile!
      • Creating a web page from scratch -- opening a new page and developing its design and content. Step by step tutorials are available at https://frontpage.northseattle.edu/distance (scroll down to the FrontPage tutorials).
      • Creating a course website from a basic template. The template we have used is at https://frontpage.northseattle.edu/coursetemplate. Notify us at distance@sccd.ctc.edu and we will copy it over to your www folder (or help you do this yourself!)
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• Reasons to use cascading style sheets and "dynamic web templates" for your faculty profile and course website:
  • Introduction to dynamic web templates & cascading style sheets (Joanne's work)
  • How to do it: Contact distance@sccd.ctc.edu to get started with ccs and dynamic web templates.
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• Hands-on Activities -- Personal editing of saved web documents
  • Using WORD or PDF highlighting & comment tools
  • Copy this web page to your hard-drive and open it for editing
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An invitation to sign up for specific one-on-one "open lab / tutorial" times tomorrow (Thursday, 9/11) either in the TLC or NeLSC or both. See sign-up sheet.



V. OPEN LAB TIME -- One-on-One Help
THURSDAY, 9/11/08, 9 AM - 2 PM