Welcome! Distance Learning Workshop

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Welcome!Distance Learning Workshop

• Molly Herman Baker
• Director, Teaching/Learning Center and Online
  Learning
• Black Hawk College
• bakerm_at_bhc.edu

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Plan for Today

• Getting started
• Thinking Visual
• Instructional Strategies
• Staying Afloat Tips
• Efficiencies
• Supporting Technologies

• Todays Process
• Focus on the unique 20
• Model/process
• Distance Student
• Multi-task
• You tell me

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Themes

• ITV is a visual medium
• Its not about watching TV
• Its about active learning and interaction
• Secret Keep the best, Adapt the rest

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Is interaction important?

• For learning?
• For retention (persistence)in DL?
• For student satisfaction?
• For faculty satisfaction?

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Jigsaw Instructions

• 3 minutes Read your part of the Tips for
  Being handout
• 1 1 and 7
• 2 2
• 3 3 and 6
• 4 5 and 9
• 5 Molly do 4
• What are the key ideas in your section(s)?
• Teach your group the key ideas from your
  section, in order.

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Quiz T or F

• Interrupting Dr. Baker when she is talking is OK
  I know how.
• Sitting near the TV is optional.
• TV class is very similar to watching TV at home.
• Email is the best way to reach Dr. Baker.
• Submit all assignments electronically.
• I know what to do if the DL system has technical
  troubles.
• A class leader gives class lectures.

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Get Ready, Get SetWhy There are Two Things
Before Go!
Need more or different course materials?
New audience?
Content objs fit new audience?
THEN WHAT?
New assessment issues?
IS LA fit ITV? Need adaptation?
Visuals fit TV? Enough?
Classroom equip training needed?
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Get Ready, Get Set Why There are Two Things
Before Go!
Precourse letter orientation?
Assignment transfer
Script first few classes?
YES
Proctors?
Props and supplies? Lead-in time?
Remote site sizes names
Practice! KISS
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Involve Learners Lecture

• Immediacy behaviors use names, friendly
  nonverbals, humor show interest in them eye
  contact with camera we language, not you and
  us
• Ask lower-order ?s requiring 1-3 word answers.
• Stop at least every 10 minutes to ask a
  higher-order question or shift activity.
• Put more into readings to allow time for
  interaction

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Involve Learners Lecture

• Variations
• tandem teaching
• celebrity guests
• interviews
• panel discussions
• reactor panel
• student mini-presentations
• jigsaw

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Involve Learners Lecture

• Interactive study guides (see handout)
• Scatter site participation wait time!
• Brief lecturettes are good
• Mix with other strategies throughout class time
  8-10 minute chunks with student summaries using
  ISGs
• Gather feedback
• What questions do you have?
• Are you ready to move on?
• Lingering questions? (see handout)

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Visuals Summary

• 30 point font size
• White on darker
• Color/bold for emphasis
• Non-serif font
• Horizontal
• 3x4 ratio
• Pre-focus if document camera

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Visuals Summary

• Blue paper on document camera
• Personal dress understated
• Immediacy in non-verbals of instructor (closer
  camera shot, eye contact w/host and remote)
• Minimize pacing
• 5-10-minute rule change is key!

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Small Group Instructions

• Brainstorm elements of a syllabus onto left side
  of blue paper
• In your small groups (5 minutes)
• Identify what might need to be changed for each
  syllabus element if you teaching on ITV
• Record your ideas onto blue paper
• Identify a spokesperson to share your groups
  ideas
• Share one idea at a time (covering other ideas
  with blank paper), as called upon

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Involve Learners Small Groups

• Form groups early and reuse (3 or less members)
• Begin with trigger video, case, quotation
• Consider individual ideas first
• Post directions on the screen
• Specify time limit
• Focused questions
• Select a spokesperson
• Devise method to turn in unshared ideas

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Involve LearnersSmall Groups

• Share 1 idea from each, to begin
• Then invite more
• Post others to discussion board
• Extend discussions onto discussion board
• Pick top ones to share in class next time
• Scatter site participation
• Switch camera and move into host site audience
  if many groups
• Call on sites pride of site kicks in
• Enlist class leaders tohelp with management

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Involve LearnersWhole-class Discussion

• Post discussion ? at end of prior class at
  beginning of next
• Begin 15 min. before end of class continue
  online
• Call on sites by name randomizing sequence
• As question first, then call on site or person

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Involve LearnersWhole Class Discussion

• Avoid too much teacher talk and too little
  student think time
• Mix lower and higher order questions (see online
  resources for samples)
• Some questions can be rhetorical
• Rotate to each site when asking What questions
  do you have? or Are we ready to move on?

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Tips for Coaching Learners

• Encourage/ expect lots of non-threatening
  participation early
• Establish protocol for getting instructors
  attention
• Remind host students to use same protocol and to
  speak up

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Tips for Coaching Learners

• Remind host-site to bring up questions that they
  ask you at break
• Frequently, let everyone know what is coming
  next, after the break, this week
• Personalize feedback

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Involve LearnersActive Learning

• See Cyrs handout for many ideas
• Send props or post for student advance
  downloading
• Solicit assistance with managing remote-site
  activities from class leaders
• Response to todays class 3x5 want you to
  know, journal, reaction paper, online disc
  board

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Staying Afloat

• Precourse Whos Who survey
• Ongoing formative evaluation
• Students anonymous feedback on visuals, breaks,
  length of lectures, small-group dynamics,
  suggestions for improving, handout/tool timely
  access
• Ongoing invisible monitoring (student
  involvement, student participation, student
  preparedness, student performancewhat clues?)
• Be yourselfDavid Letterman or Clint Eastwood
  youre not! ?

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Efficiencies

• Cant cover as much
• Handouts color code
• Assign discussion groups upfront reuse
• Go over test after answer sheets are turned in
• Relegate assignment questions to IM, email or
  telephone
• Lots of specifics in syllabus
• Give syllabus calendar to tech support staff
  (proctors, etc.)

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Efficiencies

• Disc questions on screen at end of one class for
  the next
• Online pre-class quizzes that expire at class
  time (alltest)
• Grade with Words track changes filter
  assignment submissions?
• Mute remote sites when lecturing or showing video
  (avoid DVD)
• Handouts AHEAD, well-labeled, warn site
  facilitator that they are coming or post online
  for students

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Supporting Technologies

• Use them to help you reduce waste of class time.
• Email daily and filtering
• Chat/IM office hours, individual project work
• Trakstar.com for annotated Web resources

• Telephone
• CMS group work areas, post resources for student
  downloading
• CMS Disc Board extend discussions, QA class
  forum

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What Questions Do You Have?