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)

Archive

This is the archive site for the Program for Online Teaching (2005-2017)

Lisa’s Top 10 Tips for Canvas

Now that I’ve experienced conversion (including full immersion if not a blinding experience of insight), I offer my tips:

1) Use the calendar, even if just for you

The calendar is drag and drop. You can leave everything without a due date, then set them in the Calendar by opening up the “undated” items […]

POTLuck Cookbook is here!

The POTLuck Cookbook, full of great ideas for online teaching, is available in print from the PDP Office.

Or you can download it here.

Last year’s publication of Pedagogy First!, our blog post collection of even more great ideas, can be downloaded here. There are still some copies left in the PDP office if you […]

Videos on pedagogy

Some of our favorite pedagogy videos from POT:

 

 

Student readiness multimedia

The following multimedia units for students can be linked from online classes. For more information, see the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office Online Education Initiative Student Readiness website, which also includes some mini-quizzes.

01-Introduction to Online Learning View 02-Getting Tech Ready View 03-Organizing for Online Success View 04-Online Study Skills and Managing Time View 05-Communication […]