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)

Building Class Community with Blogging

Lisa’s @ONE Desktop Seminar presentation on blogging from 2008, with audio.

Building Class Community with Blogging

Slidecast for @ONE workshop from October 2008.

See blogging chart here: http://www.miracosta.edu/home/llane/images/blogging.png

Since this is from 2008, references to Feedraider and Plurk are unnecessary now. Also, Edublogs has improved its services.

Will Richardson’s book can be found here.

Lisa M Lane 2nd August 2011

POT Newsletter #34: POT’s Open, Online Certificate Class

August 2011

The POT Certificate Class is open to all who enjoy learning about online, hybrid and technology-enhanced teaching.

Maybe you want a POT Online Teaching Certificate, or maybe you just want to be involved in a open class in online teaching, and a larger online teaching community.

Beginning September 1, POT will offer an open online class to fulfill your goals as an instructor using the web for teaching and learning.

It is open to everyone, for free. The instructors are members of the POT crew and the class participants themselves. We already have people signed up from other community colleges, universities, and as far away as India and New Zealand. Participants come with a wide array of experiences, ready to help each other explore the web as a place for teaching in a meaningful way.

What we’re doing is pretty special. Learning and working in an open web-based environment is the best way to understand how online teaching can utilize the affordances of the internet to provide a meaningful experience for students.

So take a look at both the Certificate Class FAQ and Pedagogy First! Our new website at Pedagogy First! will be the hub for everyone participating in the class. It includes feeds from all the participants’ blogs, and the full syllabus of what the class will be doing.

 

Lisa M Lane 2nd August 2011

Fall 2011 flex workshops are here!

POT workshop evaluation form is here. Please do one only to cover all the POT workshops.

For Fall 2011 flex week, POT will present separate workshops but all on one day, Tuesday August 16.

9:00-10:50 Jing – Show Your Online Students What You Are Talking About (video is here)
with Robert Kelley and Jim Sullivan, OC4607 OC4804
Jing makes integrating video into your online class a breeze – whether it is for sharing mini-lecturettes, replies to students, demos, or providing students with feedback on their assignments/quizzes. We’ll focus on learning the basics of Jing, then providing your students with a tour or introduction to your class, website, or learning unit, and uploading your videos.

11-11:50 Catch the Wave: Explore MiraCosta’s Professional Development Resources for Online Educators
with Jim Sullivan, OC4607 OC4804 (video is here)

From the Program for Online Teaching’s home page to MiraCosta’s Blackboard training workshops and Pedagogy First (a blog where MiraCosta faculty share tools and reflect on their online teaching) MiraCosta has a strong set of resources for  developing online teaching skils while earning FLEX credit. This workshop will introduce you to those resources and give you some time to explore them.

12:00-12:50 Brown Bag Lunch for Online Teaching
with Julie Vignato, OC4607 OC4809

This workshop is the place to come with questions regarding online teaching.  We can talk about basic online teaching, review a current online course, or discuss items from the current online flex workshops. Come for a fun chat!

1:30-2:20 A New Wardrobe for Blackboard: Technical Basics of Instructional Design
with Andrea Petri and Laura Paciorek, OC4607 OC4804 (slides are here, video is here)

Workshop participants will learn some beginning strategies for instructional design using Blackboard. Includes course examples and a demonstration of how to design content including creating tables, inserting images, and laying out learning modules, with an emphasis on instructor preferences and student success.

1:30-3:20 Second Life for Education
with Randall Cornish and Carolyn O’Barr, OC 4610

Second Life is an animated 3D virtual world where your instructor avatar can teach via the Internet using the free Second Life software program. Class can be conducted in real time in this virtual environment, and include video, slideshows, and voice discussion.

2:30-3:20 Drop-In Work Session for Online Teaching
with Robert Kelley and Laura Paciorek, OC4607 OC4804 — limited to 6 attendees only!
Facilitators Robert Kelley and Laura Paciorek will be available to work with faculty who are creating or updating their online courses (or online materials for an on campus course).

will be filmed for later viewing

Lisa M Lane 26th July 2011

How to Embed Twitter into Blackboard or another site

Eric Robertson’s tutorial on embedding Twitter into Blackboard or another LMS.

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Lisa M Lane 20th July 2011

The Unconference Panel

An open and unedited discussion with Pilar Hernandez, Jim Sullivan, Lisa M. Lane, Pablo Martin, Gloria Floren. From the August 2009 MiniConference. (1 hour, 22 minutes)

Unconference Panel from Program for Online Teaching on Vimeo.

Lisa M Lane 25th June 2011
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