CANCELLED - Workshop I: Building Online Community with Emerging Technologies

with Michelle Pacansky-Brock

Tue, 01/19/2010 - 9:00am - Thu, 01/21/2010 - 3:00pm (Pacific Time)

Description

One of the major factors that hinders an online student’s success is the isolation one can experience learning at a distance. As an online instructor, understanding the value of learning in community is critical to cultivating a successful environment for your students. This class will explore the essentials of building online community and provide you with a robust toolkit of tips, learning activities, and creative uses of new technologies for you to integrate into your course design. Your journey will involve participating in and creating your very own social network, creating and sharing your own VoiceThread, and collaborating with your classmates in our own class wiki.

Audience

This course is intended for all faculty and staff that may be interested in establishing or supporting online learning communities.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Facilitate an online class that promotes active learning and fosters online community.
• Validate the role of community in a successful online learning experience.
• Experience the social effects of personalized learning activities.
• Identify the essential instructor and student roles in the development of online community.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of collaborative web 2.0 tools (social networking, VoiceThreads, wikis and blogs) in the development of online community.
• Create a VoiceThread.
• Contribute to a wiki.

Prerequisites:

To be successful in this workshop, you should have:

• basic computer skills (use of word processor, email, file management);
• basic Internet skills (use of browser, searches, uploading and downloading files);
• A willingness to experiment with new technologies and share your individual wiki contributions openly online; and
• The willingness to create three free online accounts: with Ning, VoiceThread, and WetPaint.

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