Tuesday, August 27, 2013

TGIF: Many Ways to be Involved - Teaching Online for Beginners

Read below for TGIF with links, or you can view TGIF on the Web...Click here



Thirty-fourth issue, Volume Six

TLT Group TGIF 8.27.2013           
From Group World Headquarters

Teaching Online for Beginners for Very Smart Dummies The series begins on October 4, 2013 and concludes on November 15, 2013. There are several ways for you to be involved:
  • Participate or observe the PLANNING, tlt.gs/login.  Next planning sessions:
    • 9/5/13, 4:00 PM ET
    • 9/10/13, 4:00 PM ET
    • 9/11/13, 4:00 PM ET
Planning document link.
Course goals and schedule link.
  • Volunteer for various COURSE ROLES. Learn more and sign-up here.
  • REGISTER  as a participant. This link takes you to the registration page.

FridayLive returns on September 13th with “the app guys.”

    More from the TLT-SWG Blog
    http://tlt-swg.blogspot.com/
                                                     
    Members Exchange Kicks Off on September 25th
    DIIGO for Beginners - Specific Uses for Very Smart Dummies (who have a sense of humor!) This is the next in our Designated Learner series.
    September 25, 2013 3:00 pm Eastern Time
    Leaders: Dale Parker, James Mansfield, Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, and others
    (This session is free to TLT Group Members. Fee to others)


    DIIGO is a content curation tool

    Dale Parker, Designated Teacher, will walk James Mansfield,  Designated Learner, through how to use DIIGO to do the following DIIGO basics:

    • Download the tool bar
    • Organize web pages
    • Share web pages

    Beginning online teachers  should find this session especially useful.

    In preparation for the session, create an account in DIIGO  https://www.diigo.com/ and assemble some electronic resources that you would like to collect and share. This link will take you the lessons that are emerging from our Designated Learner instructional strategy experimentation.

    Up-coming  FridayLive! schedule:

    Sept. 13  There's an Ap for that 4.0
    Sept. 20  Social Collaboration in the Classroom: Student Sharing Strategies with Penny Kuckkahn
    Sept. 27  Change that Sticks – Sustainable Strategies for Engaging Faculty Wisdom and Growing Student Learning
    October 4   MOOCow: Teaching Online for Beginners #1
    October 11 The Why and How of Using Facebook to Improve Community College Student Success


    MOOCs Round FOUR


    Teaching Online for Beginners
    schMOOC/MOOCOW
    October 4 - November 15, 2013


    Participate or observe the PLANNING, tlt.gs/login.  
    Next planning sessions:
    • 9/5/13, 4:00 PM ET
    • 9/10/13, 4:00 PM ET
    • 9/11/13, 4:00 PM ET
    Planning document link.

    Course goals and schedule link.

    TLT MOOCow - Teaching Online for Beginners for Very Smart Dummies
    October 4 - Nov 15, 2013
    Presenters; Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey and Others

    Demonstrate, describe, offer experience in teaching/learning online that can be accomplished with imagination, technology, patience... focusing low-threshold options … while respecting more limited, more traditional ways of teaching/learning in online courses.

    The series will consist of four live synchronous sessions, three TLT Member Google Hangouts with veteran online faculty and many ways for you to chose your own path and create your own experiences over a 6 week period of time.

    NOTE: we are looking for a group from an institution interested in participating in the MOOCow together.  Contact Steve Gilbert stevegilbert@tltgroup.org

       #TLTGroup
    Encourage. Enable. Engage.

    Tuesday, August 20, 2013

    TGIF: Register NOW: Teaching Online for Beginners for Very Smart Dummies

    Read below for TGIF with links, or you can view TGIF on the Web...Click here



    Thirty-third issue, Volume Six

    TLT Group TGIF 8.20.2013           
    From Group World Headquarters

    Two mini planning sessions have been added in preparation for the September 11  “fishbowl” planning session (NOON ET).  Join by using this link tlt.gs/login
    • Thursday, August 22nd, 4:00 PM ET. We will rough out assessments and learning activities. This link will take you to the draft course goals. Please feel free to add to this document at any time. This link will take you to the more comprehensive planning document.
    • Monday, August 26th. 4:00 PM ET. Brainstorm various entry/ OL course introductory activities, the first step in community building.
    Register your faculty NOW for Teaching Online for Beginners for Very Smart Dummies The series begins on October 4, 2013 and concludes on November 15, 2013. This link takes you to the registration page.

    FridayLive returns on September 13th with “the app guys.”

                                                       
      Members Exchange Kicks Off on September 25th
      DIIGO for Beginners - Specific Uses for Very Smart Dummies (who have a sense of humor!) This is the next in our Designated Learner series.
      September 25, 2013 3:00 pm Eastern Time
      Leaders: Dale Parker, James Mansfield, Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, and others
      (This session is free to TLT Group Members. Fee to others)


      DIIGO is a content curation tool

      Dale Parker, Designated Teacher, will walk James Mansfield,  Designated Learner, through how to use DIIGO to do the following DIIGO basics:

      • Download the tool bar
      • Organize web pages
      • Share web pages

      Beginning online teachers  should find this session especially useful.

      In preparation for the session, create an account in DIIGO  https://www.diigo.com/ and assemble some electronic resources that you would like to collect and share. This link will take you the lessons that are emerging from our Designated Learner instructional strategy experimentation.

      Up-coming  FridayLive! schedule:

      Sept. 13  There's an Ap for that 4.0
      Sept. 20  Social Collaboration in the Classroom: Student Sharing Strategies with Penny Kuckkahn
      Sept. 27  Change that Sticks – Sustainable Strategies for Engaging Faculty Wisdom and Growing Student Learning
      October 4   MOOCow: Teaching Online for Beginners #1



      MOOCs Round FOUR


      Teaching Online for Beginners
      schMOOC/MOOCOW
      October 4 - November 15, 2013



      TLT MOOCow - Teaching Online for Beginners for Very Smart Dummies
      October 4 - Nov 15, 2013
      Presenters; Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey and Others

      Demonstrate, describe, offer experience in teaching/learning online that can be accomplished with imagination, technology, patience... focusing low-threshold options … while respecting more limited, more traditional ways of teaching/learning in online courses.

      The series will consist of four live synchronous sessions, three TLT Member Google Hangouts with veteran online faculty and many hands-on experiences over a 6 week period of time.

      NOTE: we are looking for a group from an institution interested in participating in the MOOCow together.  Contact Steve Gilbert stevegilbert@tltgroup.org

         #TLTGroup
      Encourage. Enable. Engage.

      Wednesday, August 14, 2013

      TODAY!Aug14 3pmET Open planning session for TLT Group Oct4 MOOCow: Teaching Online for Beginners[Very Smart Dummies]

      We'll offer updates about goals/outcomes and roles: incl. mentors, 
      facilitators, designated learners (individuals and groups), content providers, etc. 
       login today = http://tlt.gs/login   
      MOOCow=MOOC or whatever
      MOOC=Massive Open Online Course


      We'll continue discussing, planning, developing, deciding about 
      • How we'll introduce generic LMS features and 
      • Central task for participants in the guided  "Course" path through this MOOCow.    Planning the first 15 minutes of your first online course    [yeah, we know lots of online courses are fully asynchronous and don't exactly have a first 15 minutes...] 
      • Orientation/Intro module.]
      I hope you can join us.  
      Thanks to all who have been helping develop this new MOOCow!
      Steve


      [Next planning session September 11, NOON ET]

      IMAGE found by Steve Gilbert 20130801
      Photo of "Yin-yang symbol on coffee"
      http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Yin-yang_symbol_on_coffee.JPG/512px-Yin-yang_symbol_on_coffee.JPG
      http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AYin-yang_symbol_on_coffee.JPG
      http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Yin-yang_symbol_on_coffee.JPG
      By User:Mattes (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

      IMAGE found by Steve Gilbert 20130814
      "Fisher-Price, Inc....Title...Moo-oo Cow pull toy...A Moo-oo Cow pull toy in the permanent collection of The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis....Date ca. 1969...Medium Wood...Accession number 85.1.19603...Source/Photographer Daniel Schwen"
      http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/TCMI_Moo-oo_Cow_1.jpg/512px-TCMI_Moo-oo_Cow_1.jpg
      http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATCMI_Moo-oo_Cow_1.jpg
      Permission...(Reusing this file) See license http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/TCMI_Moo-oo_Cow_1.jpg
      By Fisher-Price, Inc. (Daniel Schwen) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

      Tuesday, August 13, 2013

      TGIF: Volunteer opportunities: Teaching Online for Beginners MOOCow

      Read below for TGIF with links, or you can view TGIF on the Web...Click here



      Thirty-second issue, Volume Six

      TLT Group TGIF 8.13.2013           
      From Group World Headquarters

      There are many ways to be involved in the upcoming TLT MOOCow, Teaching Online for Beginners for Very Smart Dummies:
      • mentors
      • facilitators
      • designated learners (individuals and groups)
      • content providers
      • This link will take you draft job descriptions for the various volunteer roles. Contact Steve Gilbert with your interest, stevegilbert@tltgroup.org
      Join the fishbowl planning session tomorrow to find out more,
      August 14, 3:00 PM ET or
      September 11, NOON ET
      and contribute to the planning document.

      The Teaching Online for Beginners for Very Smart Dummies series begins on October 4, 2013 and concludes on November 15, 2013.

      Look for FridayLive to return on September 13th with “the app guys.”

                                                         
        Members Exchange Rescheduled:
        DIIGO for Beginners - Specific Uses for Very Smart Dummies (who have a sense of humor!)
        (This session is free to TLT Group Members.
        Fee to others)
        September 25, 2013 3:00 pm Eastern Time
        Leaders: Dale Parker, James Mansfield, Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, and others
        (NOTE: Mother nature prevented Dale from Joining us in July as planned. She and James are back!)

        This is the next in our Designated Learner series.

        DIIGO is a content curation tool

        Dale Parker, Designated Teacher, will walk James Mansfield,  Designated Learner, through how to use DIIGO to do the following DIIGO basics:

        • Download the tool bar
        • Organize web pages
        • Share web pages

        Beginning online teachers  should find this session especially useful.

        In preparation for the session, create an account in DIIGO https://www.diigo.com/  and assemble some electronic resources that you would like to collect and share.

        This link will take you the lessons that are emerging from our Designated Learner instructional strategy experimentation.

        Up-coming  FridayLive! schedule:

        Sept. 13  There's an Ap for that 4.0
        Sept. 20  Social Collaboration in the Classroom: Student Sharing Strategies with Penny Kuckkahn
        Sept. 27  Change that Sticks – Sustainable Strategies for Engaging Faculty Wisdom and Growing Student Learning
        October 4   MOOCow: Teaching Online for Beginners #1


        MOOCs Round FOUR


        Teaching Online for Beginners
        schMOOC/MOOCOW
        October 4 - November 15, 2013



        TLT MOOCow - Teaching Online for Beginners for Very Smart Dummies
        October 4 - Nov 15, 2013
        Presenters; Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey and Others

        Demonstrate, describe, offer experience in teaching/learning online that can be accomplished with imagination, technology, patience... focusing low-threshold options … while respecting more limited, more traditional ways of teaching/learning in online courses.

        The series will consist of four live synchronous sessions and four modules.


        NOTE: we are looking for a group from an institution interested in participating in the MOOCow together.  Contact Steve Gilbert stevegilbert@tltgroup.org

           #TLTGroup
        Encourage. Enable. Engage.