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Eric Robertson on creating professional-looking video

Google Sites for Educators: Thursday, 30 October, 2:00 pm – 3:20 pm (OC 4607) – POT Flex Workshop

Google Sites can be useful for instructors in face-to-face and online courses. If you are interested in learning more about Google Sites and trying them out, please register for and attend the following flex workshop:

Google Sites for Educators: Thursday, 30 October, 2:00 pm – 3:20 pm (OC 4607) – A Program for Online Teaching Workshop

Google Sites is free a free tool that can be helpful for educators in many ways. Come to this workshop to explore how to create a Google Site, add content to the site, customize it to fit your needs, add in other Google applications, and share it with students and others. Creative uses for Google Sites for educators will be explored. Student uses for Google sites will also be explored. This workshop can assist faculty in improving instruction when Google Sites are used to enhance classroom activities. Attendees should have a Google account before arriving at the workshop. To set up a Google account, visit: https://accounts.google.com/SignUp

You may register for the workshop at our college’s flex website:http://www.miracosta.edu/flex. Go to “My Flex- Manage Your Transcript” to register. We hope to see you at the workshop!

POT Presentations for Professional Development at MiraCosta Community College

2014 sessions

WordPress Q&A with Laura Paciorek is available as a Collaborate recording.

These sessions (2012), and were part of the certificate class also:

Lisa’s presentation on Control and Freedom in Online Classes is available as a Collaborate archive session.
Ted Major’s presentation on Audio and Video is available as a Collaborate recording here.
Lisa, Eric, Todd, Ted and Zack presented in Collaborate on Personal Learning Networkson Feb 2. Slides and audio (till Feb 28, 2014) are posted here.

These sessions were simul-learn workshops (video and Elluminate): (2011-12)

Giving Students The Bird: Using Twitter in the Classroom with Eric Robertson (4 Nov 2011) [also available: full session to download, slides/audio movie, audio only mp3]
Creating Meaningful Discussions in an Asynchronous Environment with Sue Simpson (demo of Wimba Voiceboard) (6 Oct 2011)
More Than a Passing Fancy: How Blogs Are Enriching Online Teaching and Learning with Jim Sullivan (2 Sept 2011)

These sessions were simul-learn workshops (video and Elluminate): (2010-11)

Redesigning Your Class with Jim Sullivan (6 May 2011) also available as audio podcast
Google Forms with Barbara McPherson (1 April 2011)
Strategies for Groups with Claudia Faulk (4 Mar 2011)
Blackboard Wiki vs. External Wikis with Donna Marques (4 Feb 2011)
The Interactive Syllabus (3 December 2010) Lisa M Lane and Jim Sullivan show the advantages of creating an interactive syllabus for online, on-site and hybrid classes, and demonstrate how to do it inside Blackboard 8 and 9.
Online Quizzes: Implications for On-site and Online Classes (1 October 2010) Jim Sullivan discusses the uses of online quizzes as teaching tools, with implications for subject testing and the possibilities of using visuals and creating unique questions.
Multimedia E-Books (starts 10 minutes into session — sorry!) (3 September 2010) Robert Kelley shows how to use Crocodoc to create multimedia e-books that students can annotate, highlight and add to.