Teaching Online: Moving from Course Manager to Teacher


Abstract:

Preparing, designing, and teaching an effective online course requires time and effort on the part of the designer/instructor. Teacher educators will share their experiences in moving from the basics of online teaching to more sophisticated strategies for engaging learners. A variety of online tools to support instruction will be demonstrated.


Strategies for moving from manager to teacher:

  1. Introduction

  2. Developing community

  3. From praise to feedback

  4. Blogging

  5. Jing for graduate level feedback on writing assignments-IntroFeedback

  6. Class updates - update

  7. Virtual internship meetings and office hours - VirtualOfficeHours

  8. Voicethread for building community & presenting content. (Voicethread Assistance & Information)

    1. Hear student understanding

    2. Students gauge their own learning/progress

  9. Wiki - example

    1. Share information easily within groups

    2. Interaction

  10. Screencast.com

    1. Embedding video within Blackboard to eliminate issues

    2. Easily share information

  11. Question and answer