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)

POT Workshop Fall 2012: HTML, Link and Embed

POT Workshop August 2012: HTML, Link and Embed from Program for Online Teaching on Vimeo.

14 August 2012. Lisa and Laura discuss the behind-the-scenes approach to creating links and embedded media. Program for Online Teaching CC licensed A-NC-SA 2012.

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 […]

Using Open Office to create good-looking pages

Laura Paciorek’s screencast of how she uses OpenOffice to make pages as html files that can be used in Blackboard or anywhere on the web.

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