Yavapai County Educational Technology Summit Thursday, February 10, 2011

1. Yavapai County Educational Technology SummitThursday, February 10, 2011 Kistie Simmons Faculty Coordinator of E-learning Prescott College Tom Aldridge Manager, Presentation Technology Services Yavapai College Stacey L. Hilton Manager, Technology Enhanced Learning Services Yavapai College

2. Overview of Distance Education Objective: Raise the level of awareness of distance education tools to a basic understanding.

3. Overview of Distance Education Discussion today will include: • CMS/LMS (Course Management System/Learning Management System) • Synchronous/Asynchronous Communication • Interactive Television/Video Conferencing • Professional Development • Web 2.0/Emerging Technologies

4. Online/eLearning • Hundreds of CMS Options • Yavapai College uses Blackboard (host it ourselves) • Prescott College uses Moodle (vendor hosted) • Both act as containers to store information such as handouts, assignments, discussions, quizzes, grades

5. Terminology for Distance Education • Online: All content is fully online • Hybrid/Blended: At least one meeting scheduled during a specific timeframe where students have to meet (either in person or online). Also includes class meeting in person for specific amount of time/rest of class is online. • Web Enhanced: Instructor teaches in classroom settings during normal length of time, but uses a CMS to post supplemental materials.

6. What does Yavapai College Use? Blackboard is a course management system (CMS) used by faculty, students, clubs, and interest groups at Yavapai College. It is designed to allow faculty and students to participate in classes delivered online or use online materials and activities to complement face-to-face teaching. Note: Blackboard has managed hosting for the K-12 environment.

7. Blackboard enables instructors to provide students with: • Course materials such as handouts, syllabus, presentations, media files (video, audio), etc. • Discussion boards • Virtual chats • Assessments • Grade book • Place to upload attachments, such as assignment files • Plagiarism prevention tool called SafeAssign

8. Blackboard Course

9. Blackboard Assignments

10. Blackboard Discussion Board

11. Prescott College Uses Moodle • Moodle is open source • We use a vendor to host our Moodle who provides 24x7 system management, manages upgrades, limited technical support • Our staff manages course creation, enrollment assignments, student and teacher support. • More information about Moodle see www.moodle.org

12. Moodle Same purpose of other CMS. Based on providing “resources” and “activities.”

13. Moodle

14. Sample Collaborative Activities Group Glossary

15. Moodle Wiki

16. CMS Outside the Classroom • Used for with committee and administrative work groups as collaborative work and sharing, reduces in-person meeting time. • Provide professional development.

17. CMS and K-12 Classrooms • Links to assignments, files/documents • Submit assignments electronically • Common activities • Weekly class blogger • Collaborative Activities • Class Wiki • Parents can view assignment requirements and due dates

18. General Benefits • Allows students to work independently or collaboratively based on activity • Much harder for students to lose work or resources • Allows for easy re-use of information and activities to for commonly offered courses • Allows teachers to oversee student progress • Encourages teachers to share with each other • Encourages teachers to practice technology skills • Information can be shared between Student Information Systems

19. Selecting a CMS • How well does the CMS I am considering integrate with other tools my school uses? • Are the tools in the course management system intuitive? • Is it possible for parents to access the system as observers or guests to review their student’s work and read communication from the instructor? • For what purpose is your school thinking about adopting a new course management system? Do the features of the system meet those needs? • Does the school personnel, vendor, or the CMS offer technical support for teachers and students?

20. Best Practices for Online Engagement • Plan intended learning outcomes • Plan learning tasks • Plan assessment strategies • Plan support strategies • Plan resource needs • Plan organization of the materials

21. Video Conference/ITV (Interactive Television) • Synchronous - Happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time • Commonly supported by media such as videoconferencing, chat, and IM. Synchronous sessions can help learners feel like participants rather than isolates. – Educause Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 4 • Asynchronous – Events not coordinated in time • Commonly supported by media such as email, discussion boards, LMS systems, Web 2.0 tools. Supports relations among participants who cannot be online at the same time.

22. Video Conference/ITV (Interactive Television) Educause Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 4 (October-December 2008)

23. Video Conference/ITV (Interactive Television) • VC/ITV capabilities • Point-to-Point, Point-to-Multipoint real-time Audio and Video Communication • HD Video Capable (Telepresence) • Record synchronous sessions for review or asynchronous delivery later • Connectivity to any place with internet access • Multi-Display, Multi-Camera studio-like Classrooms • Single Display, Single Camera Conference Rooms

24. Video Conference/ITV (Interactive Television) • Desktop Video Conferencing • Skype • Free, downloadable, open community development for applications and ad-ons • No guarantee of service, connects over the open internet (possible privacy, encryption issues) • Proprietary Audio/Video technology • Not designed to connect to non-Skype systems • Cisco TelePresence Movi • Supports encryption needs, centralized bandwidth management, can operate on closed networks • Standards based SIP Audio/Video technology • Can be Complicated and Potentially Costly to deploy

25. Video Conference/ITV (Interactive Television)

26. Video Conference/ITV (Interactive Television) • Additional Resources • Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration • http://www.cilc.org/ • Utah Education Network • http://www.uen.org/ • International Society for Technology in Education • http://www.iste.org/ • United States Distance Learning Association • http://www.usdla.org/ • Pinal County Interactive Television Consortium • http://www.pinalitv.org/

27. Desktop Synchronous Tools • Deliver presentations, share/collaborate to create documents • Engage distance students together with either audio only or audio and video (requires microphone and web cam) • Other products include Elluminate, GoToMeeting, Adobe Connect, Skype, Movi, Big Blue Button, MegaMeeting

28. Elluminate Example • Participant Prompt/Access • Moderator sends invitation to participants • Link within a course site • Depending on details of Elluminate deployment, may be compatible with existing ITV/Videoconference Systems

29. Elluminate Participant View

30. Elluminate Participants’ Window

31. Using Audio

32. Using Chat

33. Application Sharing

34. Introduction to Course Capture Tegrity is a flexible software tool that can capture audio, video and computer screen activity, then wrap it up in a single “Tegrity session” which can be automatically uploaded and linked into your Blackboard course. Tegrity can be used from Tegrity enabled classrooms or from office, home, or studio computers to create lessons, provide communication, and develop materials for a variety of uses.

35. Why Course Capture? • Tegrity is integrated into the Blackboard platform. • Allows instructors to record “chunks” of information or full lectures that can be viewed online. • 12 classrooms equipped on 3 different campuses • Media Studio equipped to record lectures • All instructors (from home or office computer with a web camera) can record content.

36. Course Capture Classroom

37. Benefits of Using Course Capture • Allows students an opportunity to review content over and over again until concept is understood. • Allows students to view content if class is missed. Extremely important when concepts tend to build upon the mastery of each skill, such as Math, Science, or Nursing courses.

40. Case Study: Mathematics

41. Case Study: Mathematics Math (two concurrent courses) Spring 2006: Without Tegrity – 50 percent retention • Class 1: Fall 2007: With Tegrity - 78 percent retention • Class 2: Fall 2007: With Tegrity - 70 percent retention Class 1 & 2 • More one-on-one time with those in class.  • Q&A after lecture is recorded separately; posted as supplemental instruction. • Students request additional “modules” that expound upon specific topics for review later via Tegrity.

42. Compass

43. Graphing Calculator

44. Chemistry

45. Spanish

46. Professional Development • With “connections” schools could have common professional development experiences • Offerings from Yavapai College or Prescott College or Each Other or Vendors • Technology, Curricular, Policy, Procedural, etc. • YC Guidelines to Online Instruction

47. Web 2.0/Emerging Technologies • Wikispaces • Blogger • Google Apps • ePortfolios • Teacher Tube/You Tube • Teacher Academy

48. Questions? Thank you for your participation today.