Connecting With Your Online Students

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Connecting With Your Online Students

• Mary Beth Orrange
• AMATYC Math on the Web Themed Session
• Thursday, November 1, 950 1005
• orrange_at_ecc.edu
• http//south.ecc.edu/orrange

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Personal Connections

• Frequent email
• Announcements
• Course Management System
• Math products
• Discussion forums
• Actions and Alerts
• Personal folders

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Personal Connections

• Dont forget
• phone calls
• office hours (online and traditional)
• in-person meetings (public libraries, other
  schools, local coffee shops, etc.)
• FAX
• eFax (http//www.eFax.com)

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Interactions

• Wikis (repository of information)
• within the course management system
• public (http//wikipedia.com )
• Blogs (online journal)
• within your course management system
• public (http//blogger.com)
• IM (Instant Messenger)

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Interactions

• Discussion Forums for content delivery and
  grading beyond personal introduction
• Ask students to
• post solutions to review questions
• find graphs on the internet and have students
  describe the dependent and independent variables
• identify their calculator model describe the use
  of one feature

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Interactions

• Discussion Forums - ask students to
• describe examples of commutative processes from
  their real life (and one that is not)
• describe one feature of a complicated graph
  (domain, range, intercepts, increasing /
  decreasing intervals, max/min points, equation,
  etc.)
• use your imagination!

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Resources

• Impatica
• add-on to PowerPoint
• audio capabilities
• compressed files
• http//www.impatica.com
• examples http//msumorfords.com/impatica/
  (Courtesy of Jeff Morford at Henry Ford Community
  College)

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Resources

• Camtasia
• full motion screen recording software
• free trial period
• Http//www.softwarecasa.com/pprod/212402dd.htm

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Resources

• SnagIt
• Http//www.softwarecasa.com/pprod/212402dd.htm
• screen capture software
• free 30 day
• trial period

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Resources

• Jing
• captures an image or video of the screen
• loads the material to the Internet
• assigns it a URL (pasting it in your clipboard)
• the URL can be used as any other website URL
• It's not as sophisticated as Camtasia or SnagIt,
  BUT... it's free, it's simple, and it doesn't
  require any server space of your own
• students could use it!

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Resources

• Jing
• http//www.jingproject.com/
• examples http//tcmtechnologyblog.blogspot.com/20
  07/09/merry-christmas-little-early-check-out.html
  
• Courtesy of Maria Andersen at Muskegon Community
  College

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Resources http//www.jingproject.com/
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Resources

• Site Pal
• Avatar and animated characters
• 9.95 a month
• Free trial version
• http//www.sitepal.com/?sourcegawbrand02kwsite
  palcreative686023629

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Resources

• Podcasts
• According to Wikipedia, a podcast is a multimedia
  file distributed over the Internet using
  syndication feeds, for playback on mobile devices
  and personal computers.

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http//www.youtube.com
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General Comments

• Always proof-read anything you post
• Re-write materials that students find confusing
• Check links on a regular basis
• Limit the number of sites you use for
  communications too many will frustrate students

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General Comments

• Respond Quickly to students tell them your
  expected response time up front
• Let students know if you will be gone or need to
  change your response time temporarily
• Make students aware of computer requirements and
  any plug-ins they will need ahead of time

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Want more information?

• Find this PowerPoint show in (2003 version)
• http//south.ecc.edu/orrange
• Or on the AMATYC conference website
• Contact Mary Beth at orrange_at_ecc.edu
• Thank you!