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.

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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)

POT Newsletter #39 (Feb 2012)

Program for Online Teaching Newsletter #39

February 2012

What’s coming up

Details below!

Friday, March 2: First Friday (Room 4802) * 2:00–2:50 pm, – A Mid-Semester Check-In * 3:00-3:50 pm – Discussion Group for Connections: Virtual Learning Communities

Wednesday, March 7 at 2 pm: Guest Speaker Kelly Trainor from Yavapai Community College

Thursday, March 15: […]

Making a FAQ with internal links

This how to get that cool effect where a student clicks on a linked Q at the top, and the cursor bounces to the corresponding A at the bottom. This is called an internal link or an anchored link.

Here’s how to create those links in a FAQ using OpenOffice. This can then be copied […]

Beyond the Basics: Creating Learning Units

19 January 2012 workshop with Laura Paciorek and Andrea Petri

 

Creating Learning Units from Program for Online Teaching on Vimeo.