Turning your oncampus faculty into online Jedi

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Turning your on-campus faculty into online Jedi
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Turn Your On-Campus Faculty into Online
Jedi Presenters Kristyn Rose and Cindy
Chovich from Mesa State College
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Introduction

• Who we are
• Training needs at Mesa State College
• Workshops to encourage Web use
• What we teach
• WebCT 6 CE
• Add-ons
• The faculty perspective

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Types of Padawans

• Advanced
• Average
• Beginner
• Not suited

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The Instructor

• Knowledgeable in the ways of the Force
• Able to communicate
• Patience

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Be prepared

• Technical problems
• MY workshop Padawans
• Listeners vs. rogues
• Listeners
• Rogues

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• Patience
• Plan activities that buy time
• Watch for the lost
• Others work while one gets help

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Setting up a workshop

• Accommodating schedules and sites
• Two-hour sessions
• Multi-day schedule
• Catch up sessions
• Topics
• Beginning and Advanced WebCT
• Instructional design included
• Hands-on experience
• Retention
• Confidence

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Filling the seats

• First invitation
• Second invitation
• Reminder
• Workshop materials
• Make it fun!
• Have extras ready
• Investing time helps attendance

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The faculty perspective

• How I use WebCT at MSC
• Will cover
• Important tools
• Why they are handy
• Disadvantages to know upfront and solutions
• Faculty need to know
• What they can do
• Why its useful to know how to do it

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Advantages

• Pop-up announcements
• Email within the course system
• Tracking students
• Syllabus online
• Calendar
• Assignments
• Rubrics and checklists
• Questions answered for all

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• Electronic copies of student work
• Readability level
• Storage
• Check It Out forum
• Web site links
• Forum for multiple courses
• Hidden instructor forum
• Extended access
• Exchange of student work
• Monitor groups

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Disadvantages solutions

• Students believe youre there 24/7
• Students expect an easier course
• Plagiarism
• TurnItIn
• Technology errors
• Hand-holding
• Using different formats
• Lacking technology skills
• Unfamiliar with course system (WebCT)

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• Discussions
• Must participate, but not over-participate
• Encourage students in the beginning
• Limitation of Grade Book
• Attachments too large for WebCT email

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Questions?
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Need to ask a Jedi?

• Contact us
• Kristyn Rose
• krrose_at_mesastate.edu
• Cindy Chovich
• cchovich_at_mesastate.edu