Things we discussed:
- Accreditation
- Canvas Update
- DE Visioning/Planning
- Accessibility – 3CMedia Solutions
- WordPress
- Reports from the Field
Below are materials to support the DE Academy – Transitioning a Course to Hybrid/Online Workshop of 09.11.15:
Hybrid/Online Course Redesign Checklist
Regular Effective Contact Resources
Other Resources
Blended Learning Toolkit – https://blended.online.ucf.edu/
Blended Learning Simmons College – http://at.simmons.edu/blendedlearning/implement/simmons.php
Below are links to support the DE Academy: Is Your Course Ready for Accreditation? workshop from 09.04.15:
Regular Effective Contact Resources
Accessibility Resources
3C Media Solutions
Here you can create an account, upload videos, and request captioning.
Thanks to all the presenters and participants, and a special thanks to Molly Senecal for joining us!
Presentation Materials:
The Grand Scheme of Things
Transitioning a Course to Hybrid or Online
Spent the evening or May 7th at a recognition event for donors to the college. The Innovation Center has been a direct recipient of Falcon Grant monies – that’s how we got the Printrbot – and an indirect recipient in partnership with Geosciences, enabling us to upgrade to a better quadcopter for dolookdown.org. I had the opportunity to explain the various projects, and to talk to Foundation members and donors about our plans to remake the IC as a makerspace. Several seem very excited about the idea!
@One recently made available this five part accessibility series.
Creating Accessible PDF Documents with MS Word and Acrobat Pro
Your Online Course Usability: 10 Ways to Kick It Up a Notch
Evaluating Web Content for Accessibility
Creating Accessible Online Presentations
Presentation slides from Beyond the LMS: Tools for Increasing Student Engagement & Success
Notes:
Using Google Hangouts through Los Rios Google Apps
https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/apps.losrios.edu/wxxxxxxx?authuser=1
Replace the x’s with your id number, and it’s always best to be logged in to apps.losrios.edu prior to clicking the link. Personally, I use Chrome for apps.losrios.edu and Firefox for all Google things linked to other GMail accounts. Once you start the Hangout, you will be able to invite individual users, or share the link in D2L. Students won’t need to use a private Gmail and you will be under the umbrella of Los Rios.
Accessibility and VoiceThread
1. New Dean – Molly Senecal – Hurray!
2. Distance Education Strategic Plan – Spring 2016?
Revisit SWOT analysis from 2012?
3. Crash Course – May 21 and 22
4. Library Lyna
Our Mission – To host the largest collection of high quality educational 3D models to foster learning of the blind and visually impaired.
5. Full-time Adaptive Media Design Specialist
7. Email from D2L – Summer 2015
Presentation slides from a talk I gave at EdTech back in November 2014, about DS106, a distributed online course at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia.
Kite? Check. Helium? Check. It takes quite a bit of gear to execute a proper field day. Professor Jason Pittman arranged a KAP/BAP field day, and we headed up to the wetlands on the north end of campus to meet students around noon. Following a brief safety talk and protocol orientation, one team set out to launch the balloon, while the other team assembled and attempted to launch the kite.
Half-full, balloon #1 revealed some pinhole leaks, so we tried to move the gas to a second balloon, which didn’t work at all, and we popped the first one in the process. Fortunately, we were able to get one of the spares filled and in the air.
The kite team struggled with inconsistent wind. After many heroic attempts, they eventually scrapped the launch and joined the balloon team to walk the wetlands.
We flew for ~40 minutes, with the camera (iPhone on the picavet, running Timelapse at 10 second intervals), and captured some really good shots. (Link: The full set images from 04.24.15 BAP field day.)
At 2 o’clock, we headed back to the cars to stow the gear and head out. A few students hung around and had a chance to fly our newest quad.
All things considered, a successful field day.