I have been playing around with jing for screencasting, slideshare, and made a youtube video welcome for the course.
check it out! http://screencast.com/t/3P0pV2El
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Monthly Archives: March 2008
i am huetagogynous
i learned a new word last monday and since then i have been smitten and giddy with self-awareness and relvelation. I am huetagogynous!… I learned the word, huetagogy, from my friend Bill. I had always thought that in spite of my boring high school experience, my Bard education had taught me to think and to write… and to learn. I felt like “a life long learner” – self-directed and motivated to learn what i needed to know, when in needed, and how i needed it. That is how i have proceeded through life since college. I taught myself to be a Spanish translator. I taught myself desktop publishing. I taught myself graphic design. I taught myself instructional design. I taught myself online instructional design…part intuition, part being genetically blessed, and part knowing how to learn stuff has resulted in who i am today, what i know, and how i apply stuff to keep learning about what interests me.So…my insatiable desire to beta test stuff… the millions of accounts on every social networking and web2.0 site… my unerring ability to sniff out the latest widget… I am not a geek, i am not a technophile, i do not burn to write code… i don’t even have a cell phone. But i am driven to do whatever it takes and learn what ever i need to to accomplish whatever i need to for a particular purpose. Most recently i have been playing with seesmic… in beta. quite a tool for asynchronous audio/video disucssion. very cool. Developing learning skills in the learner is characterized by John Anderson as “in pedagogy, what is to be learnt, and how, is both determined and directed by the teacher; in andragogy, it is determined by the teacher and directed by the learner; in heutagogy, both determination and direction shift to the learner.” I am hetagogynous… i like having that label and self-awareness.
assumptions i have about online faculty motivation
i have “trained” more than 3,000 online faculty since 1995. Twice a year, almost from the first year, i have had an average of about 300 faculty in my online conference for new online instructors. that is about 10% of the total number of faculty in SUNY, that is also the national average of number of faculty that teach online…. not bad. The main difference between this course and that one will be that the “students” in this course will be taking the course for credit and i will need to evaluate them in some way resulting in a grade. Grades and credit… powerful motivators. Students in this course will complete the activities required for this course as i design them because then want or need the grade/credit… and because they want to pass, and because they want to learn the course content – how to teach online. Since i have never done this before I don’t know what to expect. I assume there will be added motivation to complete the course as i design it.Faculty participate in my conference because they are asked to, told to, are paid to… and because they want to learn to teach online effectively, and SLN (I) present them with a step by step process to achieve that objective. Since i have facilitated this conference a million time i know that new faculty all have similar concerns about online teaching and learning, that most are interested in discussing their concerns and that having them participate in an online course on how to develop and teach an online course is online effective the first month or so of development. Because once they start working on their actual course and working with their instructional designers and attending the f2f trainings, they don’t have time, or want to come back to a course where there are no consequences, if they don’t complete it and I can’t “make” them attend, participate, or complete the online conference. So I design the conference accordingly.
breaking the ice
thinking about icebreaking activities for the course. want to use voicethreads for introductions for the audio and video features… community building. have to have them create their blogs in edublogs for the reflecting pool activity… have to have them get into their moodle course shells, have to get them into diigo. – still trying to figure out how i will use diigo.