We are the Program for Online Teaching, a group of volunteer faculty helping other faculty teach better online.

Our focus is on pedagogy as the guiding force for using technologies for teaching.

Many of us are from MiraCosta College in Oceanside, California. MiraCostans may access the Teaching/Technology Innovations Center for technical help, resources, news and more.

The POT Network

  • POT Diigo group
    (see tutorial on how to save bookmarks)
  • POT Facebook group
  • POT Vimeo Channel (workshops)
  • POT YouTube Channel
  • Twittter (please use hashtag #potcomm)

Course Website Tour Workaround

by Laura Paciorek (June 2011)

This video gives the viewer an idea for how a course website tour can be created using the tools available in Blackboard instead of through video programs that must be downloaded/installed and may require payment. Course website tours can be helpful at the start of each semester when students are […]

Blackboard 9 Tutorials

Karen Korstad has created an entire class of modules for learning Blackboard 9. These count for flex credit as you work through Beginning, Intermediate and (soon) Advanced levels. Each unit successfully completed within the following Bb Modules is worth 1 hour of Flex credit. To successfully complete a unit you MUST take the exam and […]