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Recommended Learning Path for Creating a Distance Education course Online

Developing an Online Distance Learning Course

Duration: (6 Weeks Online)
How better to learn about teaching an online course than being in an online course as a student yourself. Learn how to revitalize current course materials for teaching online.  Please review the system requirements to ensure your computer meets the minimum requirements for participating in an online class. This course will have both synchronous and asynchronous components. A headset microphone or webcam will enhance your learning experience in the synchronous class meetings.

In this workshop you will:

  • Participate in Discussion Boards
  • Participate in an Adobe Connect Meeting
  • Complete an Assessment of Readiness for Online Teaching
  • Complete a Needs Assessment
  • Best Practices and Guidelines for Online Classes
  • Submit Request for Copyright Clearance
  • Submit Course Cartridge to your Instructional Designer
  • Create your Course Objectives
  • Create your Course Map
  • Create your Course Syllabus
  • Collect the materials that will be used in your course
  • Develop a Training Plan with your Instructional Designer
  • Create your Course Welcome Message
  • Create your Staff Information Page
  • Create your Course Menus and Navigation
  • Create your Module/Segment Overviews
  • Upload your Syllabus
  • Complete a Learning Styles Inventory
  • Complete an assignment review
  • Upload Assignments
  • Create Assessments
  • Create additional Gradebook items
  • Create a Blackboard Development course

Faculty Experiences in Distance Learning: Panel Discussions

Duration: (2 hours)
Many instructors teach classroom based classes. So what is the difference you may ask between teaching online and teaching a class in person. Come learn from fellow instructors what tools and resources they use to teach their online class(Synchronous and Asynchronous). Get tips and advice from these faculty members.

Adobe Connect & Adobe Presenter

Adobe Presenter: Overview

Duration: (1 ½ hrs)
Learn how to develop web-based presentations that can be accessed on-demand from virtually anywhere using the Adobe Presenter plug-in to PowerPoint. In this workshop you will:

  • Install the Adobe Presenter Plug-in
  • Create a presentation with PowerPoint 2007
  • Setup the audio source
  • Add Presenter information
  • Add audio to your presentation
  • Add narration to your presentation
  • Modify the Theme of the presentation
  • Publish your presentation

Adobe Connect: Overview

Duration: (2 hours)
This training will provide an introduction to Clemson University's supported web conferencing application called Adobe Connect. In this workshop you will:

  • Setup a meeting
  • Create a Custom Layout
  • Add/Remove and organize pods
  • Upload content to your meeting
  • Learn how to share content, whiteboard, applications and the desktop
  • Create a meeting recording
  • Edit the meeting recording on the web
  • Save the meeting recording to your local machine
  • Create Breakout Rooms
  • Split students into Breakout Rooms
  • Call students back into Main meeting from Breakout Rooms
  • Status and Talk (no longer part of Attendee List and Camera and Voice Pod)
  • Hover feature in Attendee List
  • Q & A Pod

Podcasting & Vodcasting

Podcasting with Audacity

Duration: (1 ½ hrs)
Learn about the equipment, software and techniques for recording an audio podcast with Audacity. In this hands on workshop we will:

  • Define what an audio podcast is
  • Review some podcasting terminology
  • Download and install Audacity and the LAME MP3 Encoder
  • Setup and Configure your microphone for recording
  • Create an audio recording
  • Import music into an audio recording
  • Modify an audio recording
  • Save an audio recording for use in iTuneU or Blackboard

Podcasting with GarageBand

Duration: (1 ½ hrs)
GarageBand is the free music composition program that comes with every Mac. While it�s a great way to unleash your musical creativity, it�s also a dynamite environment for developing podcasts. This hands-on session will show you how to use GarageBand to produce podcasts that include audio, video, and still shots. In this hands on workshop you will:

  • Create an audio recording with GarageBand
  • Edit your podcast audio
  • Add intro or background music
  • Export the Audio file in MP4 or MOV format

Movie Maker—Part 1

Duration: (1 ½ hrs)
Learn how to create a movie with a video camera and download it to your computer using Windows Movie Maker. In this workshop you will:

  • Discuss Preparation and Storyboarding
  • Discuss various equipment and requirements to record
  • Download and edit video
  • Create a short video on a webcam and import into editing software
  • Create a short video on a video camera and observe the import process to a computer

Movie Maker—Part 2

Duration: (2 hours)
Learn how to edit and enhance your movie with Windows Movie Maker. In this workshop you will:

  • Add transitions and special effects to your movie
  • Add titles and credits to your movie
  • Add music to your movie
  • Add narration to your movie
  • Save your final movie for distribution

iMovie

Duration: (2 hours)
Learn how to edit and enhance your movie with iMovie.  In this workshop you will:

  • Capture digital video
  • Add transitions and special effects to your movie
  • Add titles and credits to your movie
  • Add narration, music and still photos to your movie
  • Export the final product

Publishing a Podcast/Vodcast in iTunesU

Duration: (1 ½ hrs)
Learn how to make your Podcast available to your audience through iTunesU. This workshop will:

  • Review the Copyright Guidelines for iTunesU
  • Review techniques for organizing your iTunesU account
  • Review how to upload an audio podcast to your iTunesU account

Free Web 2.0 Technologies

Teaching in a Social World - Part 1

Duration: (3 hours)
Come learn about some Web 2.0 tools that you can use to collaborate and communicate with your students online.

  • Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet.
  • Diigo is not just a bookmarking tool. Diigo allows you to research and Collaborate, bookmark and highlight the websites, add sticky notes to websites, access and search your findings from any PC or iphone, create groups to pool resources for specific projects.
  • Ning allows you to create your own Social Network for Anything! Use Ning to overcome some of the social roadblocks that asynchronous instruction presents, so that true learning communities, based on meaningful participation of all users, become a reality.

Teaching in a Social World – Part 2

Duration: (3 hours)
Come learn about some Web 2.0 tools that you can use to collaborate and communicate with your students online.

  • Blogger.com
  • Wikispaces.com
  • Netvibes

MessageGrid

MessageGrid is web-based software being developed by Dr. Roy Pargas of the School of Computing and several of his students. MessageGrid is web based tool that enables the instructor to develop exercises promoting interactivity in online, laptop, or Tablet PC-enhanced courses. As students submit their work, a mosaic of responses is created. Students can see the collective answers gradually forming and, at the end, the entire class has a global view of all answers submitted. MessageGrid may also be used for out-of-class assignments and team projects. The instructor enjoys great flexibility in designing creative activities in and out of class. Unlike a discussion board, MessageGrid can display all the student responses at the same time in a grid, table, or chart, allowing comparisons among and mergers of entries. The instructor also has the option to keep student submissions anonymous or private. The instructor has the ability to add to critique, correct, and elaborate upon student discussions, making the saved product suitable for students to study with later.

Part 1 - Introduction to MessageGrid

Duration: (1 hour)
MessageGrid is web-based software being developed by Dr. Roy Pargas of the School of Computing and several of his students. It enables the instructor to develop exercises promoting interactivity in online, laptop, or Tablet PC-enhanced courses. This one-hour, hands-on session will introduce the user to MessageGrid's versatile functions, illustrated with examples of how to use the tool in class. In this workshop you will:

  • Setup a MessageGrid account
  • Learn how to access MessageGrid
  • Create a discussion grid
  • Post a response to a discussion grid

Part 2 - MessageGrid Online Discussion Evaluation (ODE)

Duration (1 hour)
One of the latest functions added to MessageGrid is ODE (Online Discussion Evaluation). ODE enables an instructor to have his or her students participate in an asynchronous online discussion. Students may start discussion threads on the assigned topic, reply to other students comments, and include images and links to enhance their submissions. They can also view and participate in the discussion in logical (rather than chronological) order. Using the evaluation tool, instructors can more easily evaluate a discussion, automatically counting submissions, determining whether submissions were on time or late, gathering a single student's submissions in one place, collecting the student's references in one place. This allows instructors to focus on the quality of a student's submission. In this workshop you will:

  • Create a Rubric to grade MessageGrid discussions
  • Grade Student Discussions with the ODE Rubric