Online Teaching

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Online Teaching

• Ideas for Success
• Debora Constable
• Linda Mullins
• 2nd Annual Southeaster Scholarship
• Conference on E-Learning
• September 29, 2006

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Preparation

• Load all course material before the semester
  begins.
• As the demo student, do a trial run.
• Do not change the structure during the semester.
• Make the syllabus available before class starts.
• Post to the instructors website
• E-mail syllabus to students
• Ask students to confirm receipt of syllabus

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Learning Support

• Link to WebCT tutorial
• Self-analysis for Are you ready to be an online
  student?
• Link to technical support/Help Desk
• Browser check reminder
• Pop-up blocker reminder

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Organization

• Less is more!
• Control access to course material.
• Package material into learning modules.
• Focus their attention!

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Financial Accounting ACCT-2101-195 Professor
Debora Constable
Syllabus General Introductions
Syllabus Chapter Discussion
Quiz One
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• Managerial Accounting ACCT-2102-195Profess
  or Linda Mullins
• START HERE!!! Syllabus
  Course Linda Mullins'
• 
  Content Homepage
  
• Always go the extra mile...it's never crowded.

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Communication of Course Objectives

• Have a detailed syllabus
• Include ALL class policies, expectations,
  location of material, etc.
• Prepare a quiz over this information to stress
  the important issues.
• Q1
• Q2
• Q3

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Question 1

• Do you know if your computer is compatible
• with the Web CT program? a. Yesb. I need to
  check on that with the instructions given in the
  Web CT student information section.c. I haven't
  a clue and I will just wait to see if it crashes
  during a test.d. Yes, and I have thought of a
  backup plan if my computer is not functioning.

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Question 2

• I understand that test and the final exam are
• only given on the days listed.a. Yesb. Yes,
  but I will still ask to take these on a different
  day. (An advance warning...this will not
  work.)c. No, because I did not read the class
  procedures. (This does not mean you are excused
  from this procedure.)
• d. I didnt think this class had a final exam!

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Question 3

• What is the due date for BE1-5 and  E1-7, your
• first graded homework assignment? a.
  September 3, 2006b. August 31, 2006c.
  September 9, 2006d. E-mail your instructor for
  that information.

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Directions

• They must be detailed, repeated in different
  locations and explicit!
• Example
• How do you make a peanut butter sandwich?
• If directions are not followed, refer student to
  the syllabus or other location. Do not retype for
  students who have not (or are too lazy) to find
  themselves.

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Communication

• Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I'll
  remember. Involve me and I'll understand.-
  Confucius
• The greatest problem in communication is the
  illusion that it has been accomplished.- George
  Bernard Shaw

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Communication Skills

• Use email, announcement, and discussion tools
  simultaneously for all major communication.
• Limit e-mail to WebCT.
• List non personal questions on the discussion
  board.
• Respond to all questions promptly.
• 24 hours during weekdays.
• Return grades in a timely manner, including
  comments and correct responses.
• Be the sage on the stage and the guide on the
  side.

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Personalization

• Post your introduction first and make it
  personal!

Just a bit about myself to add to the
introductions. Like most of the people I have met
here, I am not from Atlanta. I hail from Indiana,
with degrees from Purdue and Indiana
Universities. Since I have logged over twenty
years in Georgia, I do consider myself as close
to a native as possible. I have taught at GPC
since 1993 at both Lawrenceville and Clarkston
campuses. Besides my online classes, I also teach
face to face full and half semester classes and
hybrid classes. I knew since eleventh grade that
I wanted to be an accountant. I feel fortunate to
not only have that drive early, but also to have
not lost that passion and desire so many years
later. My husband, Dean, and I just celebrated
our twenty-four anniversary. Our sons, Nick and
Brandon, are the joys of our lives. Nick, sixteen
years old, is a junior taking honor's and AP
courses. He even had an online class last year!
Watch out...he has his drivers license. Brandon,
thirteen years old, is in eighth grade in the
gifted program. We have been blessed with
wonderful kids, in and out of the classroom. They
both sing in the advanced high school chorus and
just returned from singing at the Winter Festival
in Prague, The Czech Republic during Christmas
break. If we acquire more animals, we might need
a zoning permit as a zoo. The rest of our family
includes Reggie, a Sheltie, Buster, a Jack
Russell terrier, Midnight, our precious cat, a
parakeet named Dinner because of the feline, and
a drawf hotet rabbit, Snowman. My free time is
spent teaching Algebra and Geometry to a couple
of home schoolers, helping/reviewing homework
with our children, church, travel, snow and
water skiing, golf, four-wheeling, watching
baseball, and spending time with my family in
anyway they want.
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Ice Breakers

• Respond to each of your students introductions.
• Three Truths One Lie
• Students post and guess about other students.
• Students reveal truths and lie after all have
  guessed.

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Humor With a Message

• Is this how you feel after taking a test?
• Start studying now!
• Your next test is October 3rd.
• A study guide has been posted on the course
  homepage.

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Personal Responsibility
B Zone
C Zone
A Zone
Q Zone
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The extra mile is a stretch of road that is
never crowded. author unknown

• Offer a face to face study session in a
  comfortable surrounding.
• Use the chat room as an alternative.
• Add voice to your power point presentations using
  Camtasia.
• Continue to learn your craft by attending
  conferences, internet searches, etc.
• Create entertaining, educational games.
• Stress the importance of not procrastinating by
  offering bonus points.
• Be an academic advisor and/or club advisor.

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