Posted by Jennifer on August 6th, 2008 in Uncategorized
Each week BTC hosts an online Show and Tell session using Elluminate Live! Everyone is invited, so feel free to pass on the information. The eLearning department will spend a few minutes sharing new tools and resources, and then turn the time over to participants. Come prepared to share resources, links, projects, ideas, questions and [...]
Posted by Jennifer on July 30th, 2008 in VPD
This is the message I sent out to our campus. Feel free to invite your educator friends!
Greetings, eLearners! Tomorrow, Thursday, July 31, we will again hold our 11:00 AM Elluminate Live! online Show and Tell Session. Elluminate Live! is a tool for delivering presentations and communicating in a live online environment. [...]
Posted by Jennifer on July 17th, 2008 in Uncategorized
Greetings, eLearners! Each week we hold an online Show and Tell session using Elluminate Live!, our web conferencing software. I spend a few minutes sharing things I’ve been working on, interesting new tools, or great Web sites I’ve found. Then I turn it over to the audience to share their finds. I invite our instructors, [...]
Posted by Jennifer on June 26th, 2008 in Uncategorized
I host weekly Show and Tell sessions for BTC instructors using Elluminate Live! We’ll be hosting another Show and Tell session at 11:00 AM PST today. I’ll share a few things about eLearning and then turn the session over for our instructors and guests to share. Please come prepared with your files or links if [...]
Posted by Jennifer on February 29th, 2008 in VPD
It has been a little more than a month since my first post on Viral Professional Development (VPD) and I thought it would be nice to update my progress. I went back to the original post to see if anything has changed from my initial thoughts. I still believe in the basic characteristics [...]
Posted by Jennifer on February 19th, 2008 in Uncategorized
I have a confession to make. I am guilty of encouraging instructors to avoid synchronous communications in online courses and focus on asynchronous discussion boards and other means of communication. I think this started when I was a WebCT administrator and the synchronous tools never worked. It continued as I moved to another institution and [...]
Posted by Jennifer on February 11th, 2008 in Uncategorized
Thank you to everyone who attended our session today, and especially to Cable for such an insightful look into the opportunities and challenges of Open Educational Resources. Here are some useful links for those who wish to review or didn’t have a chance to attend the session. I have received some great responses on the [...]