Tuesday, August 20, 2013

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

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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

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    Encourage. Enable. Engage.

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