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Pump Up Your Pedagogy Week

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Kick off the spring semester with three days of training and faculty development workshops sponsored by the Center for Teaching, Learning and Scholarship, eLearning and Instructional Support, Information Technology, Lesley Libraries, Office of Grants and Research, Office of the Provost and The Creativity Commons.

 

PUMP UP YOUR PEDAGOGY – January 19, 2016

  • “Snow Day Toolkit”: Designing a Blended Experience
  • Powerful & Pertinent Online Discussions
  • Collaborating in the Cloud (OneDrive/ 365)
  • Skype for Business vs Blackboard Collaborate for real-time connection

PUMP UP YOUR PEDAGOGY—January 20, 2016

  • Kaltura Bootcamp: Video Sharing in Your Classroom
  • Peer Review in Voicethread Webinar (VoiceThread trainer)
  • Bring Your Own Lunch and Strategies for Finding Grant Resources — Creativity Commons
  • Popcorn & A Movie: Library Video Databases
  • The Mobile Constructivist Classroom (Ian Camera, Apple Rep.)
  • Appy Hour: Wine, cheese, & mobile applications

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT DAY—January 21, 2016
If it is happening to you, it is happening to me; it is all about inclusivity.
A day of workshops including but not limited to the following:

  • Infusing inclusion and diversity into course syllabi
  • A case based workshop with Counseling and Disability Services focused on classrooms issues related to disability and mental health
  • Humanizing the online learning environment, related to difficult discussions based on race, gender and sexuality

Detailed daily schedules will be coming soon.

 

The First Week of Your Online Class

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If you’re new to teaching online, the first week can be a little overwhelming. It can also be hard to tell if your students are doing anything until they start posting. Below are a few tips to help you get started. You may also want to refer to our Getting Ready for a New Semester post.

  1. Gauging Student Engagement: Use the Performance Dashboard to check on student access to the course. If a student has not accessed the course in the first week, contact them immediately (by phone if necessary). It is possible that students are not using Lesley email or have neglected to link their private email to their Lesley account.
  2. Managing Discussions: Familiarize yourself with an efficient workflow for monitoring, responding to, and assessing discussions or other group activities. A common work-flow for discussion management is:
    1. Check in briefly each day to monitor activity. If students are not on-task, use the Announcements tool to guide them back on track. If private communications are necessary, use course email.
    2. Consider your role in discussions. Keep in mind that too many posts by the instructor could discourage student interaction. On the other hand, do let students know that you are monitoring the discussion, even if your presence via posting isn’t necessary.
    3. When reviewing discussions in detail, use the “Collect” tool to view all the text at one time. You also have the option to print the discussion text.
    4. Use a printout of the students’ names, along with the text of the discussion board (electronic or paper printout), to assess the quality of interaction and postings.

For additional assistance and tutorials please visit our website or contact eLIS@lesley.edu

12 Days of Learning: Assignments

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Atomic Learning has created the 12 Days of Learning, a series of articles designed to kick off resolutions to keep learning in the new year. We thought this was a great idea and have decided borrow (shamelessly steal) it and do our own. For Day 3 of our series, learn how to collect, grade and return student assignments in myLesley.

Tired of searching through your email to find the assignments your students sent? Can’t find where you filed the graded version of their final paper? The Assignment tool in myLesley will allow your students to submit their coursework to a digital dropbox-style space. You can then view, provide feedback and return the graded assignment. myLesley will keep a record in the course of when the student submitted the file, your annotations and feedback, the grade and when you returned the graded assignment to them. Your students can access their feedback at any time by returning to the myLesley course site.

Learn more about how to use this powerful tool by viewing the tutorials below. assessments menu

Create an assignment 

Grade an assignment

 

12 Days of Learning: View and Sort Discussion Threads

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Atomic Learning has created the 12 Days of Learning, a series of articles designed to kick off resolutions to keep learning in the new year. We thought this was a great idea and have decided borrow (shamelessly steal) it and do our own. For Day 2, we will look at how to sort and view discussion threads in myLesley.


The Discussion Board in myLesley (Blackboard) is one of the most used tools. It’s a great way to replicate or continue the classroom discussion online, but do you really know all the tricks to easily navigate, view and sort posts? View this short Atomic Learning video to learn how and increase you myLesley Discussion Board skills. Enter your myLesley username and password when prompted to view.

discussion thread

Fixing Broken Wiki Links

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In this week’s Agent L episode, Gremlins in the System (GITS) try to undermine student collaboration by breaking links to wikis in myLesley courses. It’s Agent L to the rescue.

BenBen Friday: Agent L, it’s a disaster. GITS agent, NeoLuddite, has broken all the links to course wikis in myLesley. Look…

Error: Broken Course Link: Item does not exist in the system. The specified object was not found.

Agent L: What does he hope to accomplish?

Ben: NeoLuddite thinks technology is going to ruin education. By corrupting links to the wikis,  he hopes to stop students from collaborating online. We can’t let him win.

neoluddite_sq

Agent L: Letting NeoLuddite win is not an option. The wiki links can be fixed.

Ben: How?

Agent L: It’s easy, Ben. We simply delete the old link to the wiki and create a new one.

Ben: But won’t that delete the wiki?!?agent L

Agent L: Not at all. The wiki is still there with all the students’ work. We just need to
recreate the link to allow them to find it again.

Ben: How do we do that?

Agent L: Simple. Let’s go into a course and I’ll show you.

First, let’s delete the bad link. Click on the small gray arrow at the end of the wiki title and select Delete from the menu.

course wiki link     deletelink

Remember, this is only deleting the link, not the wiki.

Now, we can recreate the link. go to the Tools menu and select Wikis.

Tools menu

Select Link to Wiki to choose to create a link to an existing wiki and select the name of the wiki from the list. Then click Next.

select wiki link

Add a description or instructions for you students and click Submit. That’s all there is to it.

Ben: It’s working. I can access the wiki and see everyone’s contributions. It’s all there.

Agent L: Of course. NeoLuddite can’t get the best of us. We have technology at our disposal.

 

agent LSee the complete instructions at the Agent Support Site.