TGIF: When Bad Things Happen in Good Online Courses, April 5th

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Twelfth issue, Volume Six	TLT Group TGIF 3.26.2013
From TLT Group World Headquarters	FridayLive returns on April 5th. We are looking for examples of “When Bad Things Happen in Good Online Courses.”  Please share stories of what you have observed or experienced via this link. Keep names and any other identifiable information anonymous. We will talk together about how to address these unfortunate happenings during FridayLive on April 5th.
	More from the TLT-SWG Blog: Social Presence in Online Courses: What's Offensive? Essential? Why/How? FridayLive! TODAY 2pmET tlt.gs/frlv FREE ONLINE “There’s an App for That 3" Slides, links, chat transcript. TLT Group FridayLive! 3/15 tlt.gs/frlv #TLTGfrlv online free
	Members Only ExchangeSilver Cloudians: Let's Get Started Consulting and Mentoring March 27, 2013 2:00 pm Eastern Time Register Here Leaders:  Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, Dale Parker, Charles Ansorge, Michael Dabney and others Social Media Tools/Designated Learner Experiment: Learn Evernote using the Designated Learner Approach April 17, 2013 2:00 pm Eastern Time Register Here Leaders: Featuring Irene Knokh, Steve Grinde and Celeste Smith along with Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, and others Social Media Tools/Designated Learner Experiment: Online Introductions Using Animoto May 1, 2013 2:00 pm Eastern Time Register Here Leaders: Featuring Lisa Star, Beth Kiggins and Denise Hyde with Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, and others
	FridayLive! When Bad Things Happen in Good Online Courses April 5, 2013  2:00-3:00 pm ET - free to all.  Register here. Presenters; Steve Gilbert and guests Clothing the emperor:  Examples of Bad Online Classes and How to Improve Them Up-coming  FridayLive! schedule: April 12 sMOOChers Continue Debrief with Amy Woodgate April 19 Curating & Sharing BOTH Generically and for the TLT Group April 26 Experience First: A Model for Active Teaching and Learning Strategies May 3 Voice & Sound May 10 Designing Your Courses for Significant Learning vs Covering the Content with Dee Fink and Stewart Ross
MOOCs Round Two The learning continues....	sMOOChers (Smart MOOCs Higher Education Research Subgroup) Still thinking about MOOCs. #EDCMOOC sounds like SOLE to me
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When Bad Things Happen in Good Online Courses

We are looking for examples of “When Bad Things Happen in Good Online Courses.” 

Please share stories of what you have observed or experienced. Keep names and any other identifiable information anonymous. We will talk together about how to address these unfortunate happenings during FridayLive on April 5th.   After typing your stories in the boxes below, click "Submit."

Social Presence in Online Courses: What's Offensive? Essential? Why/How? FridayLive! TODAY 2pmET tlt.gs/frlv FREE ONLINE

Penny Kuckkahn's Fluff Discovery ["The Elusive Obvious"]
   Animoto! http://animoto.com/play/xRC1GBqu9X78IE8a2sKRSw
  Would your students be engaged or offended by this intro?

Making Sense of Social Media for Teaching and Learning:

Starting with Your Online Persona
How much Social Presence is too Much?  
March 22, 2013  2:00-3:00 pm ET  REGISTER FREE ONLINE
Penny Kuckkahn, Nicolet Area Technical College

Social Collaboration: What words come to mind?
http://makingsense-sociallearning.blogspot.com/

Questions & Context
How, if at all, can we use social media to benefit our students and ourselves as teachers?  How can we build (and change) our online personas for teaching/learning? (vs. for other online activities?)

We are just beginning to identify and understand how to adapt many of our old beliefs and practices to new conditions and tools of communication.

Old beliefs and practices:
"good manners,"  "common sense,"  "civil discourse,"  "showing respect,"

New conditions, tools, and distinctions:
public/private;  intentional/unintentional;  speed and spread; changing options

Why, How Use Social Media in Teaching/Learning?

• How can we use social media to...
• How can we select social media to...
• How can we decide if and when to use social media to...

Engage students more fully in online or hybrid/blended coursesProvide professional development and collegial interaction  - reducing professional isolation within a college or university.

Social Presence:  Personal/Professional Authenticity Online for Teachers and Learners

• Importance
• Limitations (technological, cultural, personal, stylistic, local, expectations, group composition, context, ...)
• How much is too much?
• Personal vs. Professional   [e.g., Facebook vs. LinkedIn?]

Recommendations and First Steps

• Caution:  Avoid revealing the wrong things to the wrong people at the wrong time [time of life?]...
• What are some of the easiest, low-threshold, safest options for people new to teaching and learning online?

“There’s an App for That 3" Slides, links, chat transcript. TLT Group FridayLive! 3/15 tlt.gs/frlv #TLTGfrlv online free

 "There's an App for That 3.0" 
Presenters: Steve Kaufman, Aaron Carpenter, Ashland University
[Over 350 registered in advance for 100 free spaces.  Members of TLT Group had priority.  Slides, DIIGO repository of links, and full transcription of text chat available free to all below.  Complete digital recording of the event (and many others) available only to TLT Group members.  Please join!]

Join us every/any week as we continue to share good ideas, resources, suggestions, and specific [small] next steps in the TLT Group's FridayLive! free weekly online sessions.

Digital Archive  Full recording of this online session, which includes audio, slides, and text chat available only if you are a member of the TLT group.  Use this link tlt.gs/memarchives to access the full  collection of available archived sessions.  

Slides for this session available published separately

Text Chat Transcript - 4 sections of full text below: 
1.  Prelims, greetings, informal mention of a few Apps
2.  Fundamental Questions Intro - informal discussion of a few Apps
3.  Actual Session - Links, descriptions, additional Apps offered by participants
4. Afterthoughts "Is there an App for this?" 

I hope you find all this interesting and useful!  
                       - Steve Gilbert, President, TLT Group

TGIF: Create Your Online Persona this FridayLive

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Eleventh issue, Volume Six	TLT Group TGIF 3.19.2013
From TLT Group World Headquarters	Call for volunteers! Looking for people to serve as Voice of Chat for this weeks session, “Making Sense of Social Media for Teaching: Starting with Your Online Persona.” Looking for someone to lead a Members Exchange session on how to use Animoto on a Wednesday in April. Animoto is an application that can be used for online introductions. This example was produced by Penny Kuckkahn.
	More from the TLT-SWG Blog: TLT sMOOChers talked about the #EDCM with Amy Woodgate
	Members Only ExchangeSocial Networking/Designated Learner Experiment: Learn JING for Video Capture using Designated Learner Approach March 20, 2013 2:00 pm Eastern Time Register Here Leaders: Featuring Irene Knokh with Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, Cristina Macias, and others Silver Cloudians: Let's Get Started Consulting and Mentoring March 27, 2013 2:00 pm Eastern Time Register Here Leaders:  Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, Dale Parker, Charles Ansorge, Michael Dabney and others.
	FridayLive! Making Sense of Social Media for Teaching: Starting with Your Online Persona March 22, 2013  2:00-3:00 pm ET - free to all.  Register here. Presenter: Penny Kuckkahn, Nicolet Area Technical College Do you think this video reveals too much? Please take a look at this 2 minute video prior to the session. More will be revealed on Friday. Join Penny Kuckkahn, instructional designer from Nicolet College, as she shares her journey into the big “pie in the sky” world of social media. She will share her pedagogical framework for developing social collaboration and will focus specifically how to develop an online social presence. Penny authored the most recent League for Innovations Cross Paper, "Building Connections through Social Collaboration." This link will take you to the publication. You can also follow Penny through her blog. Up-coming  FridayLive! schedule: April 5 Worst case Online Education, John Sener Returns April 12 sMOOChers Continue Debrief with Amy Woodgate May 10 Designing Your Courses for Significant Learning vs Covering the Content with Dee Fink and Stewart Ross
MOOCs Round Two The learning continues....	sMOOChers (Smart MOOCs Higher Education Research Subgroup) #EDCMOOCers have received their certificates of completion and many are questioning the value. Join in the conversation started by Keeley Soroki Is this Coursera Statement of Accomplishment Worth Anything?
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FridayLive! "There's an App for That 3.0" Tomorrow 3/15 FREE ONLINE tlt.gs/frlv OVERsubscribed; TLTG members login 1st

Including: "Is there an App for this?" 
This session VERY over-subscribed, so TLT Group members will be allowed to login early, and others will be allowed to enter as space permits. 

PREVIEW:  SEE BELOW FOR LIST OF "APPS TO BE INTRODUCED MARCH 15, 2013 2PM ET" 
Time permitting during the session, or in our weekly "Afterthoughts" (3-3:30pm ET), participants will be invited to describe specific instructional goals or topics or activities, and the "App Guys" will try to suggest Apps or other tech resources that might work.

If you are a member of the TLT Group, you will automatically have access to the full digital archive from this session quite soon. 

EVERYONE will have access to a transcript of the text chat, the intro/conclusion slides, and other related resources via this blog tlt.gs/blog and the DIIGO repository maintained for the TLT Group by Dale Parker tlt.gs/diigo.

TGIF -- Interest in apps exceeds capacity, FridayLive

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Tenth issue, Volume Six	TLT Group TGIF 3.12.2013
From TLT Group World Headquarters	The "app guys," Stephen Kaufman [and a new 3rd partner because Tim has a conflict] Aaron Carpenter from Ashland University, are back by popular demand (March 15th). Here's how popular the demand is, there are already 250+ people registered. Unfortunately we just learned we will probably not be able to expand our Adobe Room capacity (100 logins) for this event we will give TLT Group members priority.                     If your institution has an institutional subscription, everyone affiliated is eligible for a one-year free individual membership, but you must activate that membership online individually. As you probably know, FridayLive! is offered free to anyone who registers in advance, and the digital recordings of the sessions are routinely made available shortly after the events for free, but only to  members of the TLT Group. Since there is so little time before March 15, we urge that you join as a member right away.  If you can't do that, or if you prefer to initiate or renew your institution's annual subscription, we will treat registrants for FridayLive! March 15 as members if you send an email to sallygilbert@tltgroup.org RIGHT AWAY pledging  your intention to have your institution subscribe. If more than 100 members want to login, we'll make sure that any members who are excluded will have access to the digital archive within a few days.   Non-members will have to wait for the next Ap Guys session unless we create some other alternative.  As usual, we will make available at no fee fully public copies of the chat text transcript and other info from the session via our blog at tlt.gs/blog and links to URLs via our DIIGO Repository at tlt.gs/diigo.
	More from the TLT-SWG Blog: TLT sMOOChers talked about the #EDCM with Amy Woodgate
	Members Only Exchange Silver Cloudians: Let's Get Started Consulting and Mentoring March 13, 2013 2:00 pm Eastern Time Register Here Leaders:  Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, Dale Parker, Charles Ansorge, Michael Dabney and others. Social Networking/Designated Learner Experiment: Learn JING for Video Capture using Designated Learner Approach March 20, 2013 2:00 pm Eastern Time  Register Here Leaders: Featuring Irene Knokh with Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, Cristina Macias, and others
	FridayLive! There's an App for That 3.0 March 15, 2013  2:00-3:00 pm Eastern Time - free to all.   Presenters: Steve Kaufman and Aaron Carpenter , Ashland University We're back! In this session will be showing some of the best apps for education across multiple types of devices. It doesn't matter if you use an iPad, Android device, or even Google Chrome, more often than not, there is in fact an "app for that". We will provide examples of fun assignments to conduct using apps, and also show some of the best ways to share an iPad screen or Android screen in your classroom. (Hint: It's not using a Document Camera!) Get some new ideas for your classroom and share some of your ideas of how apps can be used in education. PLEASE LOGIN BY 1:45 Eastern to ensure that you have a "seat." Up-coming  FridayLive! schedule: March 22  Building Connections through Social Collaboration April 5 Worst case Online Education, John Sener Returns April 12 sMOOChers Continue Debrief with Amy Woodgate
MOOCs Round Two The learning continues....	sMOOChers (Smart MOOCs Higher Education Research Subgroup) We have been participating in the EDCMOOC, eLearning & Digital Cultures MOOC sponsored by the University of Edinburgh. The MOOC has concluded but the learning continues. The TLT sMOOChers talked with Amy Woodgate the University of Edinburgh MOOC coordinator on March 8th.  The conversation was so lively that Amy agreed to return on April 12th.  This link will take you to the  list of questions that emerged. You can join in. Register for the event here.
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TLT sMOOChers WORDLE image talked about the #EDCMOOC with Amy Woodgate

TLT sMOOChers talked about the #EDCM with Amy Woodgate on March 8th.  There were so many great questions raised that Amy agreed to return on April 12th to continue the conversation.  This link will take you to the questions.

sMOOChers talk with Amy Woodgate on March 8th

TGIF -- sMOOChers Debrief with Amy Woodgate, FridayLive

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Ninth issue, Volume Six	TLT Group TGIF 3.5.2013
From TLT Group World Headquarters Late breaking news on the March 15th session with "the app guys."	Join a collective discussion with Amy Woodgate on what we have learned in the #EDCMOOC today at 2:00 PM ET register here,  The "app guys," Stephen Kaufman [and a new 3rd partner because Tim has a conflict] Aaron Carpenter from Ashland University, are back by popular demand (March 15th). Here's how popular the demand is, there are already 250+ people registered. Unfortunately we just learned we will probably not be able to expand our Adobe Room capacity (100 logins) for this event we will give TLT Group members priority.                     If your institution has an institutional subscription, everyone affiliated is eligible for a one-year free individual membership, but you must activate that membership online individually. As you probably know, FridayLive! is offered free to anyone who registers in advance, and the digital recordings of the sessions are routinely made available shortly after the events for free, but only to  members of the TLT Group. Since there is so little time before March 15, we urge that you join as a member right away.  If you can't do that, or if you prefer to initiate or renew your institution's annual subscription, we will treat registrants for FridayLive! March 15 as members if you send an email to sallygilbert@tltgroup.org RIGHT AWAY pledging  your intention to have your institution subscribe. If more than 100 members want to login, we'll make sure that any members who are excluded will have access to the digital archive within a few days.   Non-members will have to wait for the next Ap Guys session unless we create some other alternative.  As usual, we will make available at no fee fully public copies of the chat text transcript and other info from the session via our blog at tlt.gs/blog and links to URLs via our DIIGO Repository at tlt.gs/diigo..
	More from the TLT-SWG Blog: If you can't walk the walk, is it OK to limp the limp and talk the talk? Or better to do/say nothing? Can you predict or change the future? Do you really want to? See short story "6 Months, 3 days" by C. J. Anders
	Members Only Exchange Silver Cloudians: Let's Get Started Consulting and Mentoring March 13, 2013 2:00 pm Eastern Time register here,  Leaders:  Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, Dale Parker, Charles Ansorge, Michael Dabney and others Social Networking/Designated Learner Experiment: JING Again March 20, 2013 2:00 pm Eastern Time register here,  Leaders: Featuring Irene Knohk with Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, Dale Parker, and others.
	FridayLive! sMOOChers Debrief with Amy Woodgate March 8, 2013  2:00-3:00 pm Eastern Time - free to all. register here,  Amy Woodgate, University of Edinburgh MOOC project director, joins "sMOOChers" who participated in THE INTENTIONALLY EXPERIMENTAL #EDCMOOC "eLearning and Digital Cultures," https://www.coursera.org/course/edc.  They will discuss their experiences, lessons learned, recommendations, druthers, things to avoid.   This is one of six MOOCs being offered by the University of Edinburgh.  Edinburgh was offering this "course" both as a MOOC and as a more traditional course simultaneously, so Amy can also compare and contrast the two approaches and how they might fit together.  We will also explore ways in which faculty  can integrate MOOCs (entirely or by selecting modules)  hosted by other colleges and universities in their own undergraduate courses. For the last 15 minutes, participants will be invited to discuss emerging plans for the TLT Group to offer a MOOC-ish experience based on John Sener's recent book "Seven Futures of American Education:  Improving Teaching and Learningin a Screen Captured World." Up-coming  FridayLive! schedule: March 15  There's an App for That 3.0 March 22  Building Connections through Social Collaboration April 5 Worst Case Online Education, John Sener Returns
MOOCs Round Two The learning continues....	sMOOChers (Smart MOOCs Higher Education Research Subgroup) We have been participating in the EDCMOOC, eLearning & Digital Cultures MOOC sponsored by the University of Edinburgh. The MOOC has concluded but the learning continues. I want to share some of the amazing digital artifacts that were created by my VoiceThread friends.  If you explore these examples you will see amazing creative examples using different technologies. Keeley Sorokti: EDMC MOOC: A Maiden Voyage Ligia Toutant: Transhuman Technologies and Disability Marianne  W. Preisler: Draft of Artifact Fran Monaghan: Final Assignment Felicia Sullivan: Connecting to a learning community through technology Rick Bartlett: Human Worth #EDCMOOC Virginia Travato: The informationocean Beth Dailey: Being Real in a Cyberspace Environment
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