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)

Looking to get an online teaching certificate this year?

We’ve added these to the Cool Tools List page:

Online Teaching Certificates CSU East Bay Online Teaching and Learning Certificate @ONE Certificate (for California Community College faculty only) UNSW Learning to Teach Online MOOC UCSD Extension Teaching Online Certificate University of Wisconsin-Madison Professional Certificate in Online Education UCI Extension Virtual Teacher Certificate […]

Focus on teaching

Welcome to the POT website (we have moved to pedagogyfirst.org/pot). If you’ve been here before, you might be looking for our resources. They are still here, under the “Resources” and “Tutorials” menus above.

From March-June 2015, this website hosted Pedagogy First!, featuring a number of authors writing posts about teaching using technology. We featured […]

Encouraging Community Online

Rachèle DeMéo, MiraCosta College (French)

As an online student, it can be challenging to feel part of the “classroom”. I can identify as a student–one of my two Master degrees was completely online. But I can also identify as an instructor. So what are some ways to keep our students feeling a part of a […]

Snippets, tweets and other desserts

I promise this post will be short.

Perhaps my discontent began with a perfectly innocent study, claiming student satisfaction with short video lectures. Or perhaps it was when I was cruising through Netvibes reading bits of things. Or maybe it was the student in the corner before class, starting the videos of a guy playing . . . → Read More: Snippets, tweets and other desserts

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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 #mccpot)