Tuesday, March 25, 2014

TGIF: Nanovations, the Catalyst for Change on FridayLive

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



Twentyeighth issue         Volume Seven

TLT Group TGIF 3.25.2014           
From Group World Headquarters

What applications and strategies do you think should be included in the next Teaching Online for Beginners MOOCow?

TLT’s next MOOC begins in May.
MOOCow Teaching Online for Beginners (TOL4B)  May 16 - June, 27, 2014

Participate in the planning:
April 23: TOL4B MOOCow Planning Fishbowl

    More from the TLT-SWG Blog
    http://tlt-swg.blogspot.com/

       
                                                

    Members Exchange 

    Voice Transcription Planning

    Date: March 26, 2014 Time: 3-4 pm EasternPresenters: Steve Gilbert, Alexa Schriempf, Lynda Harding, Nicki Ugalde, and Jan Oliver

    Register Here


    Be a part of shaping the content of FridayLive April 4th  by joining the planning session. Link to the planning document.

    Upcoming Member Exchange events
    April 2: Exploring Screencasting Tools
    April 9: Storytelling Goes Digital
    April 23: TOL4B MOOCow Planning Fishbowl

    FridayLive! NANOVATION, SMALL STEPS  ETC

    Date: March 28, 2014Time: 2:00-3:00 PM ET.  Presenter: Steve GilbertRegister Here free to all


    Description:
    Sharing small improvements in small ways - widely, intentionally, repeatedly, collegially.
    Definition of Nanovation  [Example:  Paper Bookmarks]
    Sharing small improvements in small ways - widely, intentionally, repeatedly, collegially.

    Using resources designed to support the sharing, adaptation, and use of specific improvements in teaching and learning with technology.   
    Expanding peer-to-peer dissemination and implementation of small, important steps on a path to bigger improvements in teaching and learning with technology - to incremental exponential revolution.

    Colleagues find these improvements easy to begin using and worthwhile to use more than once.  
    Colleagues are encouraged to endorse and/or enhance the improvement before
    sharing it further.

    Resources are available to enable and encourage ‘sharing further’ of a particular improvement to additional colleagues beyond the first sharer and the first direct beneficiaries.  

    Units of Nanovation
    This idea, “nanovation,” emerged from efforts to identify the essential characteristics of the smallest units of change that could begin and sustain incremental, exponential improvements in teaching and learning with technology.  
    I.e., those units which can enable and encourage individual faculty members each to:
    • Make one low-threshold improvement in one course.
    • Get a little feedback and use that feedback to adapt and try that improvement again. [Or decide to reject this improvement - and explain why to colleagues.]
    • Help two or three colleagues make similar improvements. So that those colleagues are each similarly enabled and encouraged to try, adapt, retry, and help two more colleagues ... and so on.

    Up-coming  FridayLive! schedule:
    April 4 Voice Transcription
    April 11 Twitter for Beginners: for Very Smart Dummies
    April 18 No FridayLive
    April 25 Competency Based Education: What Was Old is New Again

    TOL4B_TLT_logo.jpg
    MOOCs Round Six
    MOOCow Teaching Online for Beginners (TOL4B)

    MOOCOW = Massively Open Online Course (Or Whatever) -- designed to capture the flexible and experimental nature of this course.
        
    Join the planning and help further shape the MOOCow:

    April 23: TOL4B MOOCow Planning Fishbowl

    Link to planning document




    MOOCow
    Teaching Online for Beginners (TOL4B)   May 16 - June, 27, 2014
    Presenters; Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey and Others

    Description
    Teaching Online for Beginners (TOL4B) is a Massive Open Online Course or Whatever (MOOCow) designed to help you, as a successful faculty member in higher education, begin to teach entirely online or include more online resources and activities in your courses. You care about your students and their learning. You are busy and will continue to be busy. By sampling available options, benefits and drawbacks to teaching online you will cross the starting line. You will experience and experiment with a variety of easy to learn, reliable, widely accessible and least expensive tools and resources and strategies related to creating social presence and building community online. You will realize teaching and learning online does not necessarily mean teaching and learning alone, does not require being overworked, giving up your best teaching or losing meaningful contact with students. It can be satisfying and fun.

    The "Action" path through the MOOCow is designed to help you achieve a variety of learning outcomes and ultimately produce a self-introductory video which will become part of a more complete introductory unit in an online course, as per rubric

    You may also want to chose a Design It Yourself (DIY) path to meet your own learning goals.
    MOOCow Schedule will be available soon

         #TLTGroup, #tltgFRLV, 
    Encourage. Enable. Engage.

    Tuesday, March 18, 2014

    TGIF: Teaching Online for Beginners starts May 16th

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



    Twentyseventh issue         Volume Seven

    TLT Group TGIF 3.18.2014           
    From Group World Headquarters

    It’s all about MOOCs this week.   On Wednesday we will be planning TOL4B version #2 and on FridayLive we will debrief the 7 Futures schMOOC and MOOCs in general.   Join us!


    TLT’s next MOOC begins in May.
    MOOCow Teaching Online for Beginners (TOL4B)  
    May 16 - June, 27, 2014



    Participate in the planning:
    March 19: TOL4B MOOCow Planning Fishbowl April 23: TOL4B MOOCow Planning Fishbowl 

      More from the TLT-SWG Blog
      http://tlt-swg.blogspot.com/

         
                                                  

      Members Exchange
      TOL4B MOOCow Planning Fishbowl
      March 19, 2014 3-4 pm Eastern
      Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, Nicki Ugalde and others
      Teaching Online for Beginners (#TOL4B) Vs2MOOCow, (Massive Open Online Course Or Whatever) [for Very Smart Dummies]

      Join us as we test whether it is possible to create a mini self introduction during an Adobe Connect session. In order to participate in this experiment, you will need to do the following:
      • CREATE account(s) for YouTube (use your Google Account)  and Screencast-O-matic. In You-Tube, you will also need your own You Tube channel.
      • DEVELOP a mini introduction script, 1 - 2 minutes. This link will help you do that.
      • LOCATE 2 digital images that you will use for your introduction i.e. an image of yourself and one representing your college or discipline.

      Visit working draft instructional design site using Dee Fink's integrated approach to design.
      Please consider joining and adding to our DIIGO Teaching Online for Beginners Repository
          
      All TLT Group Members and subscribers are welcome to attend and participate. If you are not a member, please email sallygilbert@tltgroup.org or dailey@tltgroup.org if you would like an invitation to participate and attend.  
      Register for the MOOCOW Here
      Future planning event: April 23

      Upcoming Member Exchange events
      March 26: Voice Transcription Planning Meeting
      April 2: Storytelling Goes Digital
      April 23: TOL4B MOOCow Planning Fishbowl

      FridayLive!
      Lessons from MOOCs and schMOOCs
      Date: March 21, 2014
      Time: 2:00-3:00 PM ET.  
      Presenters: Steve Gilbert and Beth Dailey, John Sener
      Register Here free to all

      Description:
      Help us debrief the latest 7 Futures schMOOC experience as well as MOOCs in general.  Let's share what we are learning so future MOOC design and our participation as a learners can be informed.

      Topics to be addressed:
      • Offering various learning paths
      • The role of the Designated Learner
      • How do or should we define success?
      • Should we offer a certificate?
      Interesting resource suggested by TLT Member Ilene Frank, adjunct associate professor at UMUC
      Steven D. Krause, S.D. & Lowe, C  (2014)
      Invasion of the MOOCs: The Promises and Perils of Massive Open Online Courses, Parlor Press, San Francisco, CA. NOTE: there's a free PDF version of the book at

      Up-coming  FridayLive! schedule:
      March 28 NANOVATION, SMALL STEPS  ETC
      April 4 Voice Transcription
      April 11 Twitter for Beginners: for Very Smart Dummies

      April 18 No FridayLive

      TOL4B_TLT_logo.jpg
      MOOCs Round Six
      MOOCow Teaching Online for Beginners (TOL4B)

      MOOCOW = Massively Open Online Course (Or Whatever) -- designed to capture the flexible and experimental nature of this course.
          
      Join the planning and help further shape the MOOCow:
      March 19: TOL4B MOOCow Planning Fishbowl
      April 23: TOL4B MOOCow Planning Fishbowl

      Link to planning document




      MOOCow
      Teaching Online for Beginners (TOL4B)   May 16 - June, 27, 2014
      Presenters; Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey and Others

      Description
      Teaching Online for Beginners (TOL4B) is a Massive Open Online Course or Whatever (MOOCow) designed to help you, as a successful faculty member in higher education, begin to teach entirely online or include more online resources and activities in your courses. You care about your students and their learning. You are busy and will continue to be busy. By sampling available options, benefits and drawbacks to teaching online you will cross the starting line. You will experience and experiment with a variety of easy to learn, reliable, widely accessible and least expensive tools and resources and strategies related to creating social presence and building community online. You will realize teaching and learning online does not necessarily mean teaching and learning alone, does not require being overworked, giving up your best teaching or losing meaningful contact with students. It can be satisfying and fun.

      The "Action" path through the MOOCow is designed to help you achieve a variety of learning outcomes and ultimately produce a self-introductory video which will become part of a more complete introductory unit in an online course, as per rubric

      You may also want to chose a Design It Yourself (DIY) path to meet your own learning goals.
      MOOCow Schedule will be available soon

           #TLTGroup, #tltgFRLV, 
      Encourage. Enable. Engage.