TGIF: Help Clothe the Emperor on FridayLive: April 19, 2013

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Fifteenth issue, Volume Six	TLT Group TGIF 4.16.2013
From TLT Group World Headquarters	A basic introduction to Evernote is being offered on Wednesday during our Member Exchange and Designated Learner Experiment. Checkout how faculty are using Evernote to plan classes in this recent Chronicle of Higher Education article, “Three Applications for Planning Classes.” On Friday we will continue to explore how to help beginning teachers of online courses 1. Reduce the number and pain of avoidable problems 2.  Avoid disasters resulting from unavoidable problems 3.  Survive disasters
	Contribute to MOOC Guidelines during tomorrow's FridayLive Synchronicity Online: Educ/Entertainment/MOOCs Report/Guidelines FridayLive! 4/12 2pm ET tlt.gs/frlv free online #TLTGfrlv
	Members Only Exchange Silver Cloudians Transitioning to Teaching Online: the planning continues April 24, 2013 2:00 pm Eastern Time Register Here Leaders:  Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, Dale Parker, Charles Ansorge, Michael Dabney and others Join our Silver Cloudian group as we continue to explore how best to expand consulting and mentoring opportunities and roles. Take a look at the draft document about transitioning to online teaching. Also we'll explore how to extend volunteer roles in TLT Group activities. Social Media Tools/Designated Learner Experiment: Learn and Use Evernote for Educational Purposes using the Designated Learner Approach April 17, 2013 2:00 pm Eastern Time Register Here Leaders: Featuring Irene Knokh and Steven Grindle along with Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, and others Evernote may be just the application we need to help us organize all of our digital resources. Irene Knokh will show us how using the Designated Learner instructional strategy. This link will take you to what we are learning about the Designated Learner instructional strategy. We will add to this based on your input during the session. In addition, we will explore how Evernote is being used to support learning. In preparation for our session, you will need to create an account with Evernote and download the application. You are encouraged to have a working USB headset and/or desk USB microphone so you can participate via voice as well as chat. During the session you will have the option to watch or follow along. 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: Part 2 April 19, 2013  2:00-3:00 pm ET - free to all.   Presenters; Steve Gilbert and more Register Here Back by popular demand, Clothing the emperor continues: examples of bad things happening in online courses - even good online courses. "Clothing the Emperor - not merely pointing out that the emperor is naked." Consider options, resources and limitations available (to those offering the course,  to YOU?) We will talk together about how to resolve some common examples in depth. The goal is to help beginning teachers of online courses 1. Reduce the number and pain of avoidable problems 2.  Avoid disasters resulting from unavoidable problems 3.  Survive disasters Discussion scenarios will come from these example categories: Everything’s the same Cookie Cutter Courses Kitchen Sink Syndrome Student Behavior: terrorist, troll, thoughtful commentator, whiner, passive Mad Scientist (well intended and not well intended) Do as I Say Not as I Do What Were They Thinking? Egregious errors Up-coming  FridayLive! schedule: (NOTE: schedule changes) April 26 Experience First: A Model for Active Teaching and Learning Strategies May 3 Designing Your Courses for Significant Learning vs Covering the Content with Dee Fink May 10 Voice & Sound May 17 Seven Futures of American Education - MOOCOW begins May 24 Putting EAT (Experience, Apply, Teach) to the Test. Trey Mireles, Psychology instructor, Madison College
MOOCs Round Two The learning continues....	sMOOChers (Smart MOOCs Higher Education Research Subgroup) Still thinking about MOOCs.  MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) have been called ”the single biggest change in  education since the printing press” (Anant Agarwall, President edX). Zaid Alzagoff developed this comprehensive presentation, “Demystifying MOOCs” Educause has also assembled some great MOOC resources
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Contribute to MOOC Guidelines during tomorrow's FridayLive

Amy Woodgate returns to FridayLive tomorrow, April 12th, 2:00 PM ET to continue the conversation about MOOCs. Register here. 

The #edcmooc "eLearning & Digital Cultures" is the TLT sMOOCher's second MOOC. Below are the guidelines that have emerged from our previous conversations as captured by Steve Gilbert. We will continue to add to these guidelines and welcome your contributions as well. Comment below or add to the Google doc. 

For People Enrolling in a MOOC-like Resource for the First Time

1.    Double-check that you have registered as required - notice whether you have received an email by the designated starting date...  register again if you have any doubts.

2.    Understand what the expectations of the sponsoring institution are of each participant; understand what your own expectations (goals, amount of time and effort, ...) as early and specifically as possible.

3.    Jump in and try it and notice what elements seem to be good/bad fits for your own learning style and preferences.

4.    Use your own reflective abilities to identify characteristics of MOOCs that are most comfortable and likely to be effective for YOU - characteristics that you will seek again in future MOOCs.

5.    Make some choices very early (even before you select your first MOOC) about what you want to get out of it and how much massive amounts of info and multiplicity of media will be appealing or overwhelming... avoid the "richest" most "connectivist" MOOCs at first?   Don't be embarrassed or feel guilty about finding one kind or another more comfortable after you begin!  

6.    Offer live synchronous event at end of MOOC to debrief in all directions (from instructors to learners, from learners to instructors, etc.)

7.    Good to have Twitter feed visible at "top" (entry page) of the MOOC website

8.    Explore tools like TweetDeck to participate in (and manage) Twitter interaction

9.    Understand the purpose of groups within a MOOC - required, informal, optional, ... synchronous, asynchronous, ...  text-only,  text+voice, ....  eg.  Voicethread...   formed based on interest, geography, time zone, ...

10. Notice the influence, power of hearing people's voices - live or recorded!  Google+ Hangout or Voicethread

B.  For People Who Will be Using MOOC-like Resources to Teach Others

1.    If you are requiring a group of learners to use all or part of a MOOC or similar resource, TELL THEM QUITE EXPLICITLY HOW TO REGISTER, AND HOW TO CONFIRM THAT THEIR REGISTRATION WAS ACCEPTED.

2.    How do you find out what options - technologically, logistically, legally,  and ethically - apply to identifying and making "outside" use of resources that are made available within the MOOC

3.    Double check how fully, effectively and completely any archives or recordings of "events" within the MOOC include elements that are important for later use - or for use by people who did not participate in the actual event initially. 

TGIF: Applying what we are learning about MOOCs, FridayLive: April 12

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Fourteenth issue, Volume Six	TLT Group TGIF 4.9.2013
From TLT Group World Headquarters	How can we apply what we are learning from our MOOC experience to TLT FridayLive and to your own educational setting? On April 12th we will talk again with Amy Woodgate, University of Edinburgh’s project director. There have been some changes to the FridayLive schedule.  Check this out below along with the great Member Exchange events.
	Synchronicity Online: Educ/Entertainment/MOOCs Report/Guidelines FridayLive! 4/12 2pm ET tlt.gs/frlv free online #TLTGfrlv
	Members Only Exchange Silver Cloudians Transitioning to Teaching Online: the planning continues April 10, 2013 2:00 pm Eastern Time Register Here Leaders:  Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, Dale Parker, Charles Ansorge, Michael Dabney and others Join our Silver Cloudian group as we continue to explore how best to expand consulting and mentoring opportunities and roles. Take a look at the draft document about transitioning to online teaching. Also we'll explore how to extend volunteer roles in TLT Group activities. Social Media Tools/Designated Learner Experiment: Learn and Use Evernote for Educational Purposes using the Designated Learner Approach April 17, 2013 2:00 pm Eastern Time Register Here Leaders: Featuring Irene Knokh, Steven Grinde and Celeste Smith along with Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, and others Evernote may be just the application we need to help us organize all of our digital resources. Irene Knokh will show us how using the Designated Learner instructional strategy. This link will take you to what we are learning about the Designated Learner instructional strategy. We will add to this based on your input during the session. In addition, we will explore how Evernote is being used to support learning. In preparation for our session, you will need to create an account with Evernote and download the application. You are encouraged to have a working USB headset and/or desk USB microphone so you can participate via voice as well as chat. During the session you will have the option to watch or follow along. 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! sMOOChers Continue Debrief on MOOCs with Amy Woodgate April 12, 2013  2:00-3:00 pm Eastern Time - free to all. Register Here Amy Woodgate, University of Edinburgh MOOC project director, rejoins "sMOOChers" who participated in THE INTENTIONALLY EXPERIMENTAL #EDCMOOC "eLearning and Digital Cultures," https://www.coursera.org/course/edc.  This is one of six MOOCs offered by the University of Edinburgh.  Edinburgh was offering this "course" both as a MOOC and as a more traditional course simultaneously. Amy will share insights gleaned from participant feedback and you are invited to join in conversation regarding some of the questions raised during her last session. This link will take you to those questions. We will continue to add to the MOOC guidelines that are emerging. Other questions to explore: Is TLT FridayLive a MOOC? How can TLT FridayLive learn from MOOCs and incorporate changes in form and function? 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 Learning in a Screen Captured World." Up-coming  FridayLive! schedule: (NOTE: schedule changes) April 12 sMOOChers Continue Debrief on MOOCs with Amy Woodgate April 19 When Bad Things Happen in Good Online Courses: Part 2 April 26 Experience First: A Model for Active Teaching and Learning Strategies May 3 Designing Your Courses for Significant Learning vs Covering the Content with Dee Fink May 10 Voice & Sound
MOOCs Round Two The learning continues....	sMOOChers (Smart MOOCs Higher Education Research Subgroup) Still thinking about MOOCs.  It really helped me to establish my own learning goals before I started the MOOC. The one thing I did not do was to figure out how to assess my own learning.  The need to do this became evident when I was faced with submitting an artifact, a requirement of the MOOC.  This notion of MOOC assessment is carefully explored by Felicia Sullivan in this white paper, submitted to Tufts University, CIRCLE (The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement)
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Synchronicity Online: Educ/Entertainment/MOOCs Report/Guidelines FridayLive! 4/12 2pm ET tlt.gs/frlv free online #TLTGfrlv

Synchronized?

Role of Synchronicity in Education, Entertainment... MOOCs

Join TLT Group's FridayLive! April 12, 2013 2pm ET Register free online: tlt.gs/frlv

"Streaming Sites and the Rise of Shared Accounts" - NYTimes.com April 6, 2013 "No TV? No Subscription? No Problem," by JENNA WORTHAM

See, especially, last half of article about "social viewing" (i.e., synchronous participation)! HIGHLY RELEVANT TO OUR DISCUSSION OF MOOCS!


EXCERPT:

"We live in a world of on-demand entertainment, where people can consume programming in many formats at any time. That makes shared, cultural experiences more important than ever. Although we can plow through “House of Cards” at our leisure, all in one sitting, do we want to? Or would we rather tune in to Twitter and follow along to see our friends reacting in real time? There’s room for both approaches, but whatever company figures out how to put them together may very well emerge as the dominant force in television.

"“The best content is watched live or near-live,” said Alex Iskold, the founder and chief executive of GetGlue, a social TV application that lets users check in and inform their friends about the programs and movies they’re watching. People have become accustomed to chatting along to big television events while on Twitter and Facebook, so that social component “has to be real time,” he said.
...
"“It’s critical to let people do their own curation and share that with friends.”"
More excerpts:

TGIF -- FridayLive Returns, When Bad Things Happen in Good Online Courses, April 5th

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Thirteenth issue, Volume Six	TLT Group TGIF 4.2.2013
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 Exchange Silver Cloudians: Check in/ Update for Silver Cloud Planners April 3, 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 and Use Evernote for Educational Purposes using the Designated Learner Approach April 17, 2013 2:00 pm Eastern Time Register Here Leaders: Featuring Irene Knokh, Steven 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 & John Sener Clothing the emperor:  Examples of Bad Online Classes and How to Improve Them 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 Up-coming  FridayLive! schedule: April 12 sMOOChers Continue Debrief on MOOCs 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.  I’m looking for a new MOOC.  Here are two I have run across: 1. Instructional Design for Mobile Learning (#IDML13) – Free Professional Development This is a micro MOOC which means that it is focused with targeted skill building in the MOOC format. Kickoff event is 4/16/2013, 1pm CT April 15 - May 12, 2013. 2.  Today’s Blended Teacher: A MOOC made for Community and Curation Offered by the Blended Schools Network.  They will be using Google Plus and SoftTalk Cloud.  5 weeks beginning 4/15/13. Please send more suggestions to me via Twitter @Iluv2playgolf
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We have received some great examples of when bad things happen in good online courses. Please keep those examples coming by contributing using the survey below. Join the FridayLive discussion on April 5, 2:00 PM ET, register here.