TLP Blog

TLP is here to help you improve your curriculum with technology. During this most disturbing budget crisis, some of you are seeking to create online content for your students to use during your furlough days.

We appreciate your desire to maintain student learning and encourage you to come use our expertise as consultants and instructional designers to help you achieve your goals. While we have limited resources, we do have a number of ways we can support you in this effort:
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Date: Feb 23
Time: 3pm Pacific
Place: Online – Register Here

Presenters:
Dr. Cris Guenter, CSU, Chico
Mike Carter, Pima Community College;
Vartouhi Asherian, College of Southern Nevada;

Mike Carter of Pima Community College teaches his faculty how to use Blackboard. Vartouhi Asherian at the College of Southern Nevada works with Spanish and ESL instructors, and Dr. Cris Guenter – who won the National Arts Educator of the Year Award – teaches arts courses to students in mountainous northern California.

Learn how schools in Arizona, California, and Nevada use online technologies to do everything from teaching faculty how to use Blackboard, to teaching ESL and Spanish online, to reaching very remote students.

The upcoming Spring TILT Symposium schedule features some new technologies being practiced by our faculty, and we’re excited to announce that these sessions will also now be broadcast live online and archived for easy viewing later with Wimba Classroom technology. So even if you can’t make it to the room in person, you can still watch from your home or office and interact live, or watch the replay later.

All sessions will be held in the basement of the Meriam Library in room 031. RSVP FOR IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE – Call TLP Manager, Laura Sederberg at x4326.

You can watch these sessions live online too! Links will be posted before each event. An archive will also be available later on the TILT web page, http://www.csuchico.edu/tlp/tilt.

Thursday, February 12
12:30 -1:30pm
Using Ning.com to Engage Students in the Classroom
Maria Sudduth, Presenter

Thursday, February 19
12:30 – 1:30pm
Vista Communities: How are we using them?
Esther Larocco, Debbie Summers, Jody Prusia, Clint Woeltjen

Thursday, February 26
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Accessible Syllabus: What Are the Benefits to Students?
Laurel Hill-Ward, Kathryn Schifferle, and Julie Schneider

Thursday, March 5
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Exemplary Online Instruction: Experiences to Improve Teaching (Learn How to Apply the Rubric for Online Instruction to Nominate A Course!)
Denny Gier, Colleen Hatfield, Ann Martin, Laura Sederberg

Wednesday, March 11
2:00 – 3:30 pm
Teaching Unprepared Students:
Strategies for Promoting Success and Retention in Higher Education – Part 1 is Motivating Students to Read
Kathleen Gabriel, co-sponsored by CELT and the CSU

Thursday, March 26
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Engaging Students Online: Tips from the Top Hitters in Blackboard Vista & How They Do It
Tony Waters, Lee Altier, Brian Brazeal, and Sean Morgan presenting

Thursday, April 2
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Effective Technology Time-Savers for Teachers
TLP Staff, presenting

Thursday, April 9
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Using Clickers to Teach Mathematics
Jan Costenbader and Math Dept. presenting

Thursday, April 23
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Second Life – How and Why Faculty at CSU Chico are Using It.
Paula Selvester & Rick Ford presenting

Friday, April 24
12:30-2:00 pm
Teaching Unprepared Students:
Strategies for Promoting Success and Retention in Higher Education – Part 2 is Interweaving Assessment and Teaching
Kathleen Gabriel, co-sponsored by CELT and the CSU

by Dr. Graham Thurgood

Play on words intended. One obstacle I have faced with online, or distance teaching, involves English transcription. The task involves basic transcription of English sounds (what a linguist would call phonemics) not a finely-tuned analysis (what a linguist would call phonetics).

However, this semester my class and I worked out a system that seems to get the job done. The students originally had a PDF crib sheet, downloaded and printed out, consisting of symbols for the basic consonants and vowels, along with carefully chosen words containing the various sounds and using appropriate symbols. So far, so good.

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ONLINE WEBCAST

When: December 8, 2008 12:00 pm PST

Where: Online

Register to Attend: Wimba Registration

For years, instructors at CSU, Chico have taught classes that met to face-to-face but simultaneously had students logged in remotely via Wimba Classroom. These remote students were able to see the face-to-face teacher via video and a student assistant who fielded remote students’ questions and assisted the professor. This created a full classroom experience for both the in-person and the remote students – while also providing a unique way to capture lectures via Wimba Classroom.

Join Laura Sederberg and Ann Steckel as they explain their unique instructional techniques.

REGISTER HERE

NOW ON ARCHIVE

Original Date: October 21, 2008

Title: Current and Evolving Accessibility Practices: Practical Advice
from Two Institutions

Facilitators:
Afsaneh Sharif & Donna Scalzo, Office of Learning Technology, University
of British Columbia
John Louviere & Neal Legler, Faculty Assistance Center for Teaching,
Utah State University

Description:
Online learning environments hold great promise for expanding access to
education for students with time and geographic challenges. Providing a
supportive learning environment involves considering the needs of a wide
range of learners and instructors, including those with physical and
cognitive disabilities or technical limitations. The ability to do this
can be somewhat challenged within the structure of a course management
system such as Blackboard (WebCT) Vista, as full control of the web
interface may not be possible. In response to student and faculty needs,
educational developers from two institutions, the University of British
Columbia and Utah State University have worked to determine how some of
the issues may be addressed through instructional design, rigorous web
design methodologies and some technical applications. Please join us as
we share current and evolving practices in this important area of online
learning.

View the ARCHIVE

Presented ONLINE by: Paul Lowe, Course Director, MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, London College of Communication

When: September 24, 200 at 8:00am Pacific Time

Register HERE

“Blogs form a vital part of the collaborative space in which postgraduates interact with each other and with tutors and industry professionals; operating as the core of the learning circle, connecting and interlinking its stages and transforming practical assignments into an Schonian repertoire of experience that prepares the student for professional practice. Their real time nature and the seamless mashing up of ideas, reflections, images, links and emotions of the blogging format create the foundations for a future generation of E-flective Practitioners.

This presentation discusses how the School of Media at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, uses blogs alongside synchronous interactions using the Wimba classroom to map the participants learning journey on the course in both full time face-to-face and fully online part time modes, and to build a collaborative community of practice on the course.

Blogs act as a conduit of connected knowledge between the teaching staff and the cohort, offering an unparralled insight into the working methodologies, influences, problems and successes of the group in real time in a way traditional tutorial forms cannot replicate.

The Media School targets mature students who are mid-career professionals looking to deepen and extend their practice, or who are looking to gain the skills and methodological toolbox to operate as professionals in the media and related areas.

Through student feedback and analysis of the role of blogs on the course, the course team identified several key features of blogs, identifying both the strengths and potential problem areas; and how they map onto Schon’s concepts of reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action.”

Sponsored by Wimba

Interested in adding a modern element to your classes? Why not try podcasting? Online training is available on September 30. Learn how to add audio to your online classes by attending this presentation.

Information:
Podcasting with Wimba Voice
Presented by: Matt Wasowski, Wimba
When: September 30 at 7am Pacific Time

Podcasting has arrived in Wimba! Now faculty have the easiest means of creating their own podcasts!

The latest version of Wimba Voice, which is available to ALL CSU Chico faculty, most notably features the Wimba Podcaster – the easiest tool available that enables faculty and staff to record their own podcasts. This presentation shows you how the Wimba Podcaster allows instructors to combine Wimba, RSS Feeds, and iPods to bring their voices to the students!

To attend, Register Here

Did you know that every class in Blackboard Vista has the ability to use audio podcasting? If this interests you, and you want to learn more, please register for the online training to be presented by Matt Wasowski of Wimba.
Date: Aug. 6th
Time: 2pm ET
Place: Online – Register Here

A blurb about the event:

“Podcasting has arrived in Wimba! Now faculty have the easiest means of creating their own podcasts!

The latest version of Wimba Voice most notably features the Wimba Podcaster – the easiest tool available that enables faculty and staff to record their own podcasts. This presentation shows you how the Wimba Podcaster allows your instructors to combine Wimba, RSS Feeds, and iPods to bring their voices to the students!”

On Friday, May 16th faculty and staff gathered in Studio A from noon – 2:00pm for a meeting and lunch provided by Wimba. We talked about how the semester went with WebCT (Blackboard) Vista and Wimba Live Classroom. Kathy Fernandes, Academic Technologies Director, shared her vision about our need to upgrade to newer software, hardware, and origination rooms, as soon as we are able. Cris Guenter gave a synopsis of her pilot test this semester with Wimba’s Classroom 5 (new). We are moving to that over the summer. Here are some photos of our time together.