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Pimp Your Post!

While you’re waiting! Run Audio Wizard! Test your Audio/Video Try Text Chat. Pimp Your Post!. Ideas & Tools (& Reasons!) to Jazz Up Introductory Posts/Activities. If we remember to push the button, this session will be recorded... . Welcome!. Meet Tracy Roberts & Doug Hamilton

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Pimp Your Post!

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  1. While you’re waiting! • Run Audio Wizard! • Test your Audio/Video • Try Text Chat Pimp Your Post! Ideas & Tools (& Reasons!) to Jazz Up Introductory Posts/Activities If we remember to push the button, this session will be recorded...

  2. Welcome! • Meet Tracy Roberts & Doug Hamilton • Today (Elluminate) + rest of week (RRU Learn/Moodle Sandbox)

  3. Here’s the Plan... • Elluminate Warm-Up • Why bother? • Ideas & Examples • Tools: Free, easy-to-use • Goal: 1 takeaway per person

  4. Elluminate Warmup! • Where are you? (chat) • Do you teach online? • Do your courses require an intro post? • What brought you here? Content or title?

  5. Whiteboard Tools • Try all them out! • Add text, move if overlap • Draw stuff • Play • 1 min – go!

  6. Introductory posts: What do we ask people to share?

  7. A Typical Example...

  8. What IS the “ice”? • What separates people initially? • You! • Plain unfamiliarity: these strangers are simply ‘friends that haven’t met yet’ • Differences in culture & status • Willingness to be at your event from: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_76.htm

  9. Why is this important? “Presence,” for one thing… • Central to the effectiveness of online learning is the issue of instructor presence and the role of interactivity in establishing this presence (Mandernach, Gonzales & Garrett, 2006). • Instructor presence is a... “statistically significant predictor of student affective learning, cognition, and motivation” (Baker, 2010).

  10. Why else is this important? In a word… “Community” • ...highest functioning and performing teams are “socially bonded beyond the scope of assignments” (Lam, Chua, Williams & Lee, 2005) • Some degree of community building is critical to online learning success (Palloff & Pratt, 1999)

  11. One way to think of it...

  12. The Mega Example One Example, 4 ways... Text Text with images Text with audio + images Video

  13. 1. The Text Post • Subject: Tracy’s Intro Post Hi, I’m Tracy. I’m an Instructional Designer at Royal Roads University. I’ve been there for about 5 years, and I love it. About a year ago, I moved to the Okanagan and started telecommuting full-time. I have found commonly-held assumptions about telecommuting to be untrue (e.g., you don’t get work done, it’s hard to be part of a team). On a personal note, I like coffee, yoga, cats. I’m a vegetarian so I (am forced to) enjoy cooking 

  14. 2. With Pictures... • Hi, I’m Tracy. I’m an Instructional Designer at Royal Roads University. I’ve been there for about 5 years, and I love it. About a year ago, I moved to the Okanagan and started telecommuting full-time. I have found commonly-held assumptions about telecommuting to be untrue (e.g., you don’t get work done, it’s hard to be part of a team). • On a personal note, I like coffee, yoga, cats. I’m a vegetarian so I (am forced to) enjoy cooking 

  15. 3. PowerPoint Slideshow, with Narration

  16. I’m an Instructional Designer • I work with faculty to develop online courses in Moodle Faculty ID

  17. I working at Royal Roads

  18. I live here, and telecommute... I rely on different technologies MYTH This puts me in learners’ and many faculty members shoes!

  19. My interests and hobbies

  20. Looking forward to working with you!

  21. 4. Video • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea4c_yuH2f8

  22. Which one did you like best? • A – text • B – text + pictures • C – ppt slideshow + audio • D - video

  23. A Whack of Tools.... Free Tools You Can Use... to add images, audio, video

  24. Example: Adding Pictures http://bighugelabs.com/

  25. Mag, lolcatz, movie

  26. Example: Narrated PowerPoint • The Great PowerPoint Sensation of 2010 • Tips: • Keep it SHORT (5-7 slides) • Change Quality  Telephone • Save As.. SHOW • Just attach to message

  27. Example: Video...BubbleJoy • Easy!!! • You need: webcam, mic, internet • How to: • Pick background • Click to record/stop • Get link • Share link in your Intro message

  28. Example: Video - YouTube • Record directly in, or... • Record (locally) and upload

  29. VoiceThread

  30. How about LIVE? • Web/video conferencing: Elluminate • “students in synchronous online courses reported significantly higher instructor immediacy and presence”. Baker, C.The Journal of Educators Online, Volume 7, Number 1, January 2010

  31. Some More Ideas... Add-ons, Icebreakers & Inter-activities to help establish presence and build community...or.... Pimping is not just about throwing Technology at it...

  32. What’s your Favourite...? • Book? • "Reading surrounds us, labels us, defines us” (Rich Gold) • fiction, non-fiction, childhood, related to course? • Also: Movie, Music, Food... • Personal/passion w/o controversy • Use: • Easy add-on • Make it interactive: Find 3 others with something in common, comment/ask questions about their posts

  33. “Mug Shots” • Include picture of favourite mug • Tell story of how they got it (where, when, who) • How/does it represent you? • Use: • Easy add-on • Alt. for people who prefer not to use “real” picture

  34. Establish Guiding Principles, Ground Rules, Expectations... • Task: as a group (team or class?), create guiding principles for participation & conduct • Helps: establish expectations & invite people to plan their time! • Use: • Consider ways to brainstorm/get ideas out first (poll, survey, live session...?) • Then a wiki? • Invites interactivity/checking back in

  35. Connect to Content • Course: Organizational Change • Learners completed and shared results on Tolerance for Change Scale • Shared stories/experiences with personal and organizational change (reaction to change, response/handling of change) • What kind of quiz/survey(however “serious” or “valid”) would fit with your course or your pre-assessment goals?

  36. Learning Styles • Learning Styles Inventories • Jung Typology Test (similar to MBTI) • Gardner Multiple Intelligences: • Use: • Easy add-on (incl. Results) • Make it interactive: find & respond to 2 others: 1similar to you and 1 completely different • Make it a reflective/journal springboard • Team formation? (homogeneous or heterogeneous)

  37. What about you? • Do these ideas jog any memories of neat ones you’ve done or heard about?

  38. Miscomm-puter-unication • Ask participants to share most embarrassing computer (or other?) mishap. Share yours too • Good outcome: few laughs, loosen people up if nervous about technology? • Bad outcome: could backfire/create concern • Use with caution...?

  39. Would You Rather.... • ...always win pie-eating contests or wheelbarrow races? • ...be able to hear any conversation or take back anything you say? • ...be invisible or be able to read minds? • ...be the most popular or smartest person you know? • ...be the sand castle or the wave? • ...give up your computer or your pet? • ...never use the internet again or never watch TV again? • ...not be able to use your phone or your e-mail? Source: Teampedia icebreakers for online teams

  40. General Intro/Icebreaker Advice... • Keep it Simple • Understand 'ice‘, match activity to “break” it • Clear expectations, instructions, & timeline for completion (keeps things moving) • consider class & within-team activities • Icebreaker-type activities not ONLY useful at the beginning of a course • Be prepared to participate and moderate

  41. Your 1 Takeaway?

  42. Want to try stuff together? • http://learner.royalroads.ca/moodle/course/view.php?id=506

  43. Shameless Plug: Elluminate Training • Level 3 Moderator Training Thursday

  44. Resources • http://joitskehulsebosch.blogspot.com/2009/03/10-online-icebreakers.html • http://twt.wikispaces.com/Ice-Breaker+Ideas • what superhero are you? http://www.matthewbarr.co.uk/superhero/ • Jung Typology Test (similar to MBTI) http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm • Learning Styles Inventories http://www.learning-styles-online.com/inventory/ • Gardner Multiple Intelligences: http://www.ldrc.ca/projects/miinventory/miinventory.php#form • Baker, C. (2010). The Impact of Instructor Immediacy and Presence for Online Student Affective Learning, Cognition, and Motivation. The Journal of Educators Online, Volume 7, Number 1, January 2010 http://www.thejeo.com/Archives/Volume7Number1/BakerPaper.pdf • Lam, W., Chua, A., Williams, J.B. & Lee, C. (2005). Virtual teams: Surviving or thriving? Proceedings of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference. Brisbane, Australia. • Mandernach, Gonzales, Garrett (2006). An Examination of Online Instructor Presence viaThreaded Discussion Participation. Journal of Online Learning and Teaching Vol. 2, No. 4, December 2006 http://jolt.merlot.org/vol2no4/mandernach.htm • Palloff, Rena M., and Keith Pratt. Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom, San Francisco: Josey-Bass Publishers, 1999.

  45. Tools • Big Huge Labs: http://bighugelabs.com • Voice Over PowerPoint: http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/powerpoint/CH063500681033.aspx Help/troubleshooting if you have trouble: http://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/ppnarration.html • BubbleJoy: http://www.bubblejoy.com/ • YouTube: http//www.youtube.com • VoiceThread: http://voicethread.com • Video Conferencing: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/Tools/conferencing.html

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