PERSONALIZING THE ONLINE

ENVIRONMENTMACUL PERSONALIZED

LEARNING CONFERENCESEPT 25, 2012

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Carol Glanville

Objectives

Understand why teachers need an online presence.

Learn how to build a effective online presence.

Recognize the academic and professional value of various social Web tools.

Warm -Up

Turn & Talk: What do you do to build rapport in

F2F settings? What does that look like online?

Logos Quiz

Being There / Presence

Cognitive Presence: Validation of activities – personal goal setting Connection of ideas – synchronous & asynchronous

communicationSocial Presence:

Create a community Be a ‘real person’

Teaching Presence: Course materials Mentoring, formative feedback, questioning etc.

Boettcher, 2010; Reis, 2010

Being There

Social

Teaching

Cognitive

Presence

Doppelme

What: Avatar generatorCustomize yourself & update

Etc:Use to teach social v. professional image

NetVibes

What: Aggregator –news, twitter, calendar

Etc:Very easy to startMaintains itself

Example site

Diigo & Symbaloo

What: Social Bookmarking units of study, research topics, differentiation,

parent resources Diigo: annotated list Symbaloo: visual icon link

Etc: Diigo: customize resources –student accounts Symbaloo: visual, variety of resources

Example Symbaloo

YouTube

What: Video cataloging / sharing

Etc: Create a channel with playlistsMust be linked to a gmail accountCheck out youtube.com/education

Example

Jing

What:Create 5 minute video tutorialsGroup instructionInformal answers to ??Narrated show & tell

Etc.Students like your voice

Blogger

What: BlogCreate a string of searchable postsClassroom discourse

Etc.Must have a Google accountMonitor comments

Example

Weebly

What:Website –multiple tabs for

organization

Etc:Usually free with paid upgradesCheck for ‘education’ versions

Example

Classroom Platforms

MoodleEdmodoblog (Blogger)Wiki PB WorksWebsite (Weebly)

Next Steps

Pick a space What are you comfortable with? What can you & your users access?

Brand yourself Photo / avatar Name of your site Office hours

Meet your students Tech access survey Online personality test

Resources & Contact

Sloan-C workshop on Teaching PresenceCarol Glanville

Twitter: @cachiras Skype: caglanville Email: caglanville@gmail.com | glanvillec@grps.org Web: westmiedtech.com

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References

Boettcher, Judith V. "E-Coaching Tip #80." Designing for Learning. N.p., 24 Aug. 2010. Web. 6 Sept. 2012. http://www.designingforlearning.info/services/writing/ecoach/tips/tip80.html

Reis, Rick. "The Role of Presence in the Online Environment." Tomorrow's Professor Mailing List. Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning, n.d. Web. 6 Sept. 2012. http://cgi.stanford.edu/~dept-ctl/tomprof/posting.php?ID=1081