I was invited by Barry Dahl to be a panelist along with Todd McCann and Brett Kopf in a webinar on 1/17/12 titled “Text Messaging with Your Students While Maintaining Privacy” that explored the reasons and tools for safely communicating with students via sms.
The link to the complete webinar archive is here and more details regarding the webinar, including slides shared, are here.
Stephen Downes, respected thought-leader in online education, recently gave a talk titled, We don’t need no educator: The role of the teacher in today’s online education at the Norwegian Association for Distance Education (NADE) in which he discussed the rapidly changing role of the educator in online learning and made the case for why instead of the traditional “expert” role, online educators serve in a host of roles, including:
…as Learner
…as Designer
…as Coach
…as Expert
Stephen makes some enlightening points in his talk and I recommend it for anyone interested in the potential for online learning and in particular, the dynamics of learning in a massive open online course. If you find online learning interesting, you’ll enjoy Stephen’s talk. NADE has kindly recorded the talk and made available both part 1 and part 2 and I’m also embedding them below.
Do you agree with the points Stephen has made? What roles did he exclude that you’d suggest be added? Leave a comment with your thoughts!
On September 16, 2011, I led a 4 hour hands-on workshop for faculty at Chicago State University titled, “Teaching with iPads: Tips and Techniques” where I shared tips and techniques for teaching with iPads. Faculty brought their own iPad and Google Account to participate! They were also asked to install the following free apps: Evernote, Google, Dropbox, ShowMe, iBooks, Qrafter, Audioboo.
The interactive online handout and resource site prepared for the session is available at j.mp/CSUiPads11
The most recent upgrade to Blackboard 9.1 at Northern Illinois University has proven to be very successful and has been receiving a lot of positive feedback from faculty and teaching staff. This panel discussion led by NIU Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center staff at SLATE 2011 explored the strategies and practices that made the upgrade a success. We shared the logistics of the support plan, implementation timeline, and the publicity plan. Additionally, we discussed the testing strategies, approach to documentation and the training support offered to NIU faculty, staff and teaching assistants.
Those planning an upgrade for the own institutions can download copies of the upgrade documents from j.mp/NIULMS to customize and adopt them for their own needs.
Have you wondered what Twitter is and what if any practical applications there are for teaching and learning? Perhaps you are among the 30% of faculty who now use Twitter in some capacity and you would like to learn some tips and tricks for better utilizing Twitter in education context. Join us for this FREE online session sponsored by the Northwest eLearning Community where we’ll explore best practices for using Twitter in teaching, learning and professional development.
Thursday, January 27, 2011, 2PM Pacific (4PM Central)
Details and resources can be found at: http://bit.ly/twitterinedu
Have you gotten started with Twitter but now wondering what else is possible? What are hashtags? What are Twitter lists and how do get started using them? How can you easily post photos, videos, and links? What additional online tools and 3rd party apps can be integrated with Twitter to streamline posting of resources? I led this advanced hands-session at Faculty Summer Institute 2010 exploring the answers to these questions. The interactive online handout, resource links, and video archive are available. I also offered an introductory Twitter workshop at FSI with basic steps for getting started.
Twitter is an online application that is part blog, part social networking site, and part cell phone/IM tool. It is designed to let users describe that they are doing or thinking at a given moment, in 140 characters or less. I led this hands-on session at Faculty Summer Institute 2010 introducing the Twitter microblogging tool and discussing its mobile collaboration potential in the learning environment. The interactive online handout, resource links, and video archive are available. I also offered an advanced Twitter workshop at FSI with more tips and tricks.
Do you struggle to keep track of all your favorite Web sites and other online resources? Would you like to share the links to your favorite online resources with your colleagues or students? Using Diigo, you can both easily bookmark your favorite online resources in the cloud and annotate, share, and collaborate in new ways! I gave this hands-on session at Faculty Summer Institute 2010 introducing the Diigo collaborative research tool and explore several practical applications for implementing collaborative resource sharing in the classroom. Interactive online handout, resource links, video archive, and sandbox Diigo group are available.
Great Diigo edu resources – check it out: RT~@jrhode: : “Social Bookmarking 2.0: Research…using Diigo” at http://tiny.cc/fsi2010diigo
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I gave this online talk along with Ann Morgan as a Wimba Distinguished Lecture on 4/30/2010 sharing Northern Illinois University’s journey offering live online faculty development workshops using Wimba Classroom as well as making online workshop archives available for on-demand viewing either online, in iTunes, or on a mobile device. Emphasis was placed on NIU’s step-by-step workflow for using the MP4 archive download capabilities in Wimba Classroom 6.0 to deliver archived online faculty development programs in podcast form. The presentation included considerations for hosting archives outside Wimba Classroom as well as the steps necessary to create a podcast RSS feed, submit to the iTunes store, and update the necessary files when a new MP4 archive from Wimba Classroom is available. Slides are available for download at jasonrho.de/wimba2010. Video archive, full online presentation archive in Wimba, and podcast via iTunes formats are available.
Podcasting Online Faculty Development Programs from Jason Rhode on Vimeo.
I recently gave a talk at the UIC e-Teaching Symposium sharing practical tips for teaching with blogs. Here’s the video from the session recorded on a Flip HD pocket video camera along with the interactive handout in the form of a blog at uicblogs.blogspot.com. The Flip HD automatically stopped recording after 1 hour, so unfortunately the archive is missing the final 30 mins. of the talk
Teaching with Blogs: Tips and Best Practices from the Trenches from Jason Rhode on Vimeo.
Blogs have become common tools for communicating and collaborating online. While setting up a blog takes only a matter of minutes, effectively incorporating blogs into online teaching requires purposeful planning and structuring of activities to leverage the power that blogging brings to the learning environment. This presentation I gave at the 2009 SLATE Conference shared the experiences of incorporating instructor and student blogs into an online course as well as practical recommendations for those considering utilizing blogs in online learning. Sample instructor and student blogs as well as activities designed specifically for blogs were reviewed.
In addition to recording the session using a FlipVideo camera and sharing via Vimeo as well as a podcast in iTunes, I also experimented with live streaming the session using Twitcam. My colleague, Stephanie Richter, moderated the live stream / Twitter comments. The interactive online handout contains all the links, screen shots, and examples that I shared and/or referenced. Enjoy!
Cite this presentation as:
Rhode, J. F., & Richter, S. L. (2009, Oct. 16). Blogger beware: Teaching with blogs best practices. Presented at the 2009 SLATE Conference, Chicago, IL
I’m leading the following hands-on workshops at the 2009 Faculty Summer Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Follow @fsi and #fsi09 on Twitter.
Rhode, J. F. (2009, May 19). Getting started creating web pages with Google Sites. Presented at Faculty Summer Institute on Teaching Technologies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. | handout | links |
Rhode, J. F. (2009, May 19). Quick and simple creation of educational tutorials. Presented at Faculty Summer Institute on Teaching Technologies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. | handout | links |
Rhode, J. F. (2009, May 20). Mastering micro-blogging. Presented at Faculty Summer Institute on Teaching Technologies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. | handout | links |
Rhode, J. F. (2009, May 20). Web 2.0 gizmos and gadgets. Presented at Faculty Summer Institute on Teaching Technologies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. | handout | links |
Several weeks back I came across Prezi beta that claims to allow,
…anyone who can sketch an idea on a napkin to create and perform stunning non-linear presentations with relations, zooming into details, and adjusting to the time left without the need to skip slides.
Have you ever been in a presentation that dragged on and on? Or perhaps are you looking for an alternative approach to presenting information in a concise and memorable way? Then you need to give Pecha Kucha a try!
Pecha Kucha is a presentation format (usually creative) in which information can be easily and informally shown. This presentation style started back in 2003 in Tokyo, Japan, by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham. Originally, this presentation form was created for young designers to meet, network, and show off their work.
The idea behind Pecha Kucha is to present information in a concise way. Each presenter is allowed to show 20 images, with 20 seconds per slide. The goal of the presentation is to keep interest high and information flowing. Pecha Kucha has sprung interest all around the world and currently occurs in over 157 cities.
Since there are no restrictions to the type of information presented in a Pecha Kucha style presentation this formula can be used in all types of learning formats. As several of my students have pointed out, there are numerous applications for how this type of abbreviated, engaging presentation format in any number of contexts.
Here’s a sample pecha kucha presentation to get a taste of what the impact is like…death to bullet points!
I’m giving a presentation at the 2008 Sloan-C International Symposium on Emerging Technology Applications for Online Learning on the topic of socially constructed self-paced learning environments. In particular, I discuss the implementation of CMUOnet, an instance of the Elgg open source social application engine, for fostering organic, informal interaction among participants in an online self-paced professional development certificate program.
The slides for the presentation are available here along with the links I reference. If I am successful in recording the audio for my presentation, I’ll eventually add there here as well as on my edtech podcast.
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