Quick Bytes: Become a Better Educator without leaving your Desk
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BECOME A BETTER EDUCATOR WITHOUT LEAVING YOUR DESK
Amy BakerProgram Resource Director
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EXTENSIONShort Attention Span Theater
Encouraging and supporting intra-organizational learning
AN ONLINE ENRICHMENT COURSE COMING JANUARY 2012
DEVELOP A PROFESSIONAL LEARNING NETWORK ONLINEQUICK BYTE #1
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Premise Maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual
learning
Why? Ideas, energy, opportunities, support, perspectives,
friendship
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Do it online! Connecting, collaborating, problem-solving with colleagues
VIRTUALLY A far-flung network is possible Using tools of Web 2.0: wikis, twitter, skype, blogs,
facebook…
You don’t have to love the technology to love the community
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ParticipateLearn
eNrich
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My PLN
DEVELOP A PROFESSIONAL LEARNING NETWORK ONLINE
My comfort zone
Things & people that make my
profession worthwhile
and interesting
Adapted from “why do we connect?” by Shelly Terrell
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Find where conversations are happening and join in Blogs Message boards Ning sites Facebook Twitter chats Skype chats (video-conferencing)
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1. Get your own twitter account Add people you know Add people they follow who look relevant Add from compiled lists (search google)
2. Ease in: Retweet, live tweet events, reply to tweets, ask questions
3. More advanced: tweet found links, original material, links to own material
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BLOGS
1. Setup a feedreader
2. Search google and find 5 blogs relating to your profession
3. Follow them
4. Leave comments
5. Explore their links and blogrolls
UPDATE/CREATE YOUR PROFESSIONAL ONLINE PRESENCEQUICK BYTE #2
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STEP 1 Fill out your Google profile page.
Photo Experience/expertise Contact info Links to your other
online profiles
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STEP 2 Update other online profiles
LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Moodle
Update regularly with professional info on new projects or interests
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STEP 3
Create extendr.compage
ONE PAGE TO RULE THEM ALL!!
Link to this in: Other profiles Emails Presentations
http://amybaker.extendr.com
SHARE YOUR PRESENTATIONS ON SLIDESHAREQUICK BYTE #3
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Upload presentations—free unlimited public presentations
You can make an mp3 recording and sync it up Embed in a website, Tweet the link Add your slideshare feed to LinkedIn and FB profiles
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IDEAS Get colleagues’ comments on your presentations Use it as a presentation library for your team Archive event presentations (like Program Conference!)
EXPLORE ALTERNATIVES TO THE TRADITIONAL LECTUREQUICK BYTE #4
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ICK BYTES • EXPLORE ALTERNATIVES TO THE TRADITIONAL LECTURE Spice it up! Prezi presentation
TAKE AN ONLINE COURSEQUICK BYTE #5
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TAKE AN ONLINE COURSE
What is an online course? An online course is curriculum that is delivered mostly or
completely online. There are typically no face-to-face meetings. The online learning experience includes all the educational components of a well-planned traditional-format course, but delivered in an alternative manner to allow for flexibility in location and timing.
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Most instructor-led online courses offered by real colleges are cost- and time-prohibitive
Look for online classes that include an instructor (these are actually quite hard to find!) Learnable.com, LERN.org
Try looking for something else you’re passionate about Things that are not really an online course:
Recorded lectures Khan academy
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Be prepared to set aside considerable time Be organized Read and post to the discussion board or comments Do the assignments, even if they are just suggestions
EXTENSIONShort Attention Span Theater
Encouraging and supporting intra-organizational learning
AN ONLINE ENRICHMENT COURSE COMING JANUARY 2012
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