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)

Multimedia E-books

Robert Kelley’s handout on how to make your own interactive, multimedia ebooks using pdf. From his September 2010 workshop.

Multimedia E-books Handout [pdf]

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http://hub.miracosta.edu/teaching-academy/online/handouts/EBookWorkshopHandout.pdf

How to embed a YouTube video in a Moodle forum

by Lisa M Lane

Grading multiple essays on one screen

A 2-minute tutorial on how to grade many essay answers on one screen.

by Lisa M Lane

Jing Tutorial

Provided is an example of using Jing by TechSmith to create a 5 minute (or shorter) video tutorial… Jing makes it incrediably easy to create a screen recording, upload it, and to share with others. The recording can with just one click either be uploaded to ScreenCast.com (you get 2 GB free) or to your […]

Model: Chapter-based design

Handout #3 for Beginners Workshop

A graphic showing setup for chapter-based menu in Blackboard or another LMS.

Storyboard Design #1 [pdf]

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http://lisahistory.net/pot/StoryBoard1.pdf

by Pilar Hernández