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Ted Bongiovanni
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nyu
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New Resources to Help You Prepare for Your Class
Dear Instructors:We've been working on developing new materials for you to help prepa...
Dear Instructors:
We've been working on developing new materials for you to help prepare for your classes. It's not traditional documentation with pictures and text, but rather a screencast, where we have short videos, with audio and images that demonstrate how to use features within Epsilen and the Live Classroom. Example screencasts include: how to post welcome announcements, uploading a presentation to the Live Classroom and many, many more.
You can view the "Getting Started for Instructors" at this link: (You'll have to cut and paste it.)
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=CF36291820B3EED0
And creating an online portfolio:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D5C83F5D628C238A
We have also embedded videos within the Lessons section of this course. Let us know what you think of this format.
-Ted
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01/12/2010
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Ted Bongiovanni
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Welcome! SCPS Online Faculty Development Program
Welcome to the Spring 2010 Faculty Development Program. The program consists of seven...
Welcome to the Spring 2010 Faculty Development Program. The program consists of seven workshops designed to provide technical knowledge, procedural skills, and pedagogical strategies for using the new NYU SCPS ONLINE learning platform. All faculty and instructors using NYU SCPS ONLINE for the first time are expected to actively participate in seven workshops or enroll in an intensive workshop. The workshops are:
1. Online Course Preparation I: Understanding Requirements and Setting Expectations (an asynchronous tutorial)
2. Pedagogy for the Online Learning Environment
3. Online Course Preparation II: Syllabus, Lessons, Assignments, and More (an asynchronous tutorial)
4. Real Time Online Learning: Tools and Teaching Strategies
5. Online Classroom Management
6. Methods For Online Assessment
7. Forums, Wikis, and Blogs: Best Practices (an asynchronous tutorial)
Three of the workshops are asynchronous tutorials available 24 hours a day which you may take at your own pace. The other four workshops are real-time sessions conducted online using the Wimba Live Classroom. Review the Online Faculty Development Program Workshop Bulletin to determine when the live workshops are scheduled. The bulletin is available at URL http://distancelearning.scps.nyu.edu/bulletin/index.html
A new workshop available this year is the Intensive Workshop. Faculty and instructors who participate in this workshop can complete all four synchronous online workshops in a single afternoon. See the bulletin for details.
GETTING STARTED:
This course includes the instructional content, schedule, resources, assignments, and communication mediums for all of the workshops. All information is accessed via the course menu on the left side of the window. To start the faculty development program please click
on the SYLLABUS and LESSONS on the ourse cmenu and read the materials.
COURSE CONTENT ORGANIZATION:
The following describes how the information is organized within this course.
The SYLLABUS presents the course overview, learning objectives, prerequisites, course requirements, and the course outline.
LESSONS provide the details for each workshop. For the asynchronous tutorials, the lesson provides a series of instructional modules. For all other workshops, the lesson includes an introduction, the schedule of live sessions, the presentation used to deliver instructional content and guide class discussions, assignments faculty are expected to complete upon completion of the workshop, and resources pertinent to the specified workshop that faculty are encouraged to explore on their own.
The CALENDAR provides the schedule of all synchronous workshops in a month-at-a-glance view.
RESOURCES provides a repository of all web-based resources, journal articles, and text books referenced in the workshop presentations; and, providing information and tools on online teaching strategies, designing active learning experiences, and methods of assessment.
DROP BOXES One drop box contains vendor documentation for the Wimba Live Classroom (the tool for delivering synchronous sessions). The other drop boxes provide a repository for faculty and instructors to submit files with their completed workshop assignments.
ANNOUNCEMENTS display all broadcast messages sent to all students.
MEMBERS list all faculty (i.e. students in this course), administrators, and guest participating in the Faculty Development Workshop Program.
LIVE CLASSROOM: the tool used for participating in synchronous (i.e., real-time) workshop sessions.
**** Note: Please be sure to enter the Live Classroom and execute the Wimba Wizard at least 48 hours before your first live workshop session. The wizard tests your computer to ensure that it is properly configured for you to interact in the Live Classroom. If you experience any technical problems, contact Bobby Aviles at phone: (212) 998-7193 or email: ba33@nyu.edu.
FORUMS: A text-based communication tool used to exchange ideas among class participants. Please post an introduction in the “Introduce Yourself” forum and so we that can begin to know each other.
COURSE MAIL: Use to send and receive email from course participants only. This tool can not be used to send emails to anyone who is NOT a member of this course.
WORKSHOP ASSIGNMENTS: provides details of all workshop assignments.
ADMIN. & TECH SUPPORT: Contact information for the educational technologist (me, one of the instructors for this course), program administrator, and technical support person in the SCPS Distance Learning Department.
Other course menu items, not mentioned above, are learning system tools available for your courses. Procedures, features, and best practice use of these tools are covered in the workshops.
Faculty and instructors are expected to actively participate in the live session discussions and discussion forums activities. I strongly encourage you to share your personal experiences, beliefs, and feelings about the learning theories, teaching strategies, and best practices for teaching online. Whether you are a novice or expert teacher; have taught online or face-to-face, in formal or informal educational settings, we all have valuable perspectives to add to our collective body of knowledge for delivery quality online instruction. We look forward to facilitating this program and working with you to help you prepare your course and strategize effective ways to use NYU-SCPS Online to achieve your learning and communication goals.
Best regards,
Michaele Brown and Ted Bongiovanni
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01/11/2010
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