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About MelCurrently: Dir. Course Design & Training for Edison Online

Previously: Instructional Designer for Drexel UniversityInstructional Designer for Comcast Spotlight

Online Adjunct Instructor: Multimedia Instructional Design (Drexel)Intro to Public Speaking (Edison)

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About Edison State CollegeOpen admissions Many first generation college students Large # of students are employed full-timeNearly of students are over the age of 24

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Audio VideoDiscussions

Website URLAssignments

Peer ReviewAssignments

StudentGroups

CalendarRSS Feeds

Favorite Features

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Why use these features?Learning is interactive when learners are activelyengaged in a variety of activities, and along withtheir peers and teacher, they are co-constructorsof knowledge. The learning environment providesa sense of a learning community within whichparticipants collaborate with others to negotiateand share meanings.

Chamberlain & Vrasidas, 2001, p. 79

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Engaged Learningo AV Discussionso Website URL Assignments

Student-Student Interactiono AV Discussionso Student Groups

Promote Critical Thinkingo Student Groupso Peer Reviews

Efficient Environmento Calendar RSS Feeds

Learner-led Instructiono Student Groupso Peer Reviews

Reflective Activitieso Website URL Assignmentso Peer Reviews

Learn the Toolso Website URL assignmentso AV Discussionso Calendar RSS Feeds

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Audio & Video DiscussionsStudent-Student Interactiono Students see one another and feel more

connected.o Allow students to get to know their classmates.

Learn the Toolso Low-stakes practice using microphone/camera.

Assessment of Course Competencieso Verbal Communicationo Speech Languageo Effective Listeningo Public Speaking Anxiety

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Website URL SubmissionsIntro to Public Speakingo YouTube upload speeches.o Zentation sync video to slides.o Google Docs ongoing journal reflections.

o Paste URLs as assignment submissionso

Issues when student have spacesbefore/after URLs.o Students paste links into comments box

instead of Website box.

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Peer Review AssignmentsAssign Automatically or Manuallyo Automatically assigned after the due date.o Manually assign date and peers.

Rubric or no Rubrico Students use the same rubric as instructor, or o Create separate peer review assignment.

Students have to submit assignment twice ifinstructor is grading the peer reviews.

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Student GroupsSynchronous Communicationo TinyChat & Conferences (Wimba).o Could be improved with archiving options.

Asynchronous Communicationo Student can start their own threads.o

Complete group discussion assignments.

Learner-led Instructiono Students build course content using Pages.o Share files easily with group members.

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Calendar RSS Feeds Edison Collegiate HS Parents needed to see daily

assignments. Formerly buried within existing site (several clicks). Teachers had to update in multiple places. P r o

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Created two fake user accounts in Google andCanvas: ECHS Freshman and ECHS Sophomore.

Enrolled each user into all grade-level courses. Added Calendar RSS feed to each users Goo gle

Calendar. iFrame calendar into ECHS Lee Web Site.

S o l u t i o n

http://echslee.edison.edu/students/assignments-calendarhttp://echslee.edison.edu/students/assignments-calendar

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Works CitedChamberlain, R., & Vrasidas, C. (2001).Creating Engaging Online Instruction.

Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference onDistance Teaching and Learning (pp. 79-83).Madison: University of Wisconsin System.

Conrad, R. M. & Donaldson, J. A. (2004).Engaging the Online Learner: Activities andResources for Creative Instruction . Jossey-Bass.