TCC 2015 Online Conference

Hawaii 2-0 : The Future is Now | March 17-19, 2015

Are students sleeping in class; it’s time to energize and “edu-tain” them!

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Session Description
Today’s students expect education on their terms. What are those expectations and how do the educators of today meet those expectations? This presentation will provide a venue of technological tools and associated apps that will appeal to and engage a new generation of adult learners.

Web 4.0 technological tools will be discussed and shared. These should be able to be easily deployed to promote collaboration and engagement, of which an outcome is retention in the online world of education of today and beyond.

If students are “edu-tained”, showing up to class becomes a social event. Join us for an interactive session of ideas and suggestions.

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  • Risa Blair, Kaplan University, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Glen Jenewein, Kaplan University, Chicago, IL, USA
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A Handbook for Creating Engaging and Effective Online Courses

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An Online Course Design Handbook (OCDH) was created to systematize an existing design process at a large for-profit university. The OCDH is based on the Backward Design Model (Wiggins & McTighe, 2005) and infuses the principles of the ARCS Motivation Model (Keller, 2010). Participants in this session will learn about the challenges and successes of a pilot of the OCDH pilot in 2014 as the primary resource for faculty and staff involved in the process of online course design. Participants will receive a tour of the OCDH including its more than than twenty supporting worksheets and guides!
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  • Lisa Johnson, Ashford University, Destin, Florida, USA
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Developing and Sustaining Your Professional Learning Community with Twitter

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Do you or your students currently use Twitter chats, such as @LRNCHAT or @PROFCHAT to develop and sustain your Professional Learning Community (PLC)? Do you participate in or view conference backchannel on Twitter to learn from conferences you are attending or cannot attend and to expand your PLC? Students, staff, and faculty in higher education contexts can find a wealth of support and extend workplace and classroom learning using these methods. Participants in this session will learn how one individual uses Twitter in these ways by seeing models of tweets, replies, and conversations and have a chance to participate in real-time contribution to the 2015 TCC backchannel as well as share about their use of Twitter to expand their PLC.

After a brief demonstration of examples of how @KURIOUSMIND uses Twitter during conferences and for real-time chats, participants will be asked to share their Twitter usage; the facilitator will screen-share and show the activity on Twitter. Participants with Twitter accounts will then be encouraged to create backchannel about the 2015 TCC sessions they have or will attend at this year’s conference.

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  • Lisa Johnson, Ashford University, Destin, Florida, USA
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Using Virtual Tours for Hybrid and Online Learning

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Virtual tours utilize the latest in graphics technology to simulate the experience of visiting real places. Today we can go beyond pictures and videos and provide students with opportunities to travel across the surface of the globe in high definition, enter accurate 3-D reconstructions of monumental architecture, and enjoy 360 degree panoramic views. This session will: 1) introduce interactive virtual tours available in the public domain, such as those of the Louvre and Vatican, Google Earth, and Airpano; and 2) demonstrate how to integrate these online resources with one’s own video and still images to create tailor-made virtual tours for the classroom, complete with voiceover narration and captions.

In workshop format, this session will proceed in stages from explanation and demonstration to active audience participation in creative exercises. We will begin with a simple introduction to pre-made virtual tours, encouraging attendees to visit and explore the sites as I am discussing them. Then, using audience input, we will visit both natural sites and reconstructed monuments in Google Earth and demonstrate the basics of creating a simple virtual tour. Utilizing screenshots and screen capture software, we will create our own virtual tour integrating the resources above along with homemade video or still images. The virtual tour is completed by adding voiceover narration, captions and animations to the tour. We then conclude with a discussion of how audience members could use virtual tours in their own classes.

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HOT Classroom: Iterations on Equipping a Here-or-There Instructional Space

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The blending of technology-mediated synchronous instruction with face-to-face instruction has been explored in many contexts and with several technologies. With the advent of web conferencing, the location from which learners could join a synchronous environment has become a non-factor in participation. In a Fall 2013 graduate course, the presenter allowed students to determine whether to participate online or face-to-face on a class-to-class basis. Essentially, students chose to come “here” to a classroom, or participate from “there” by web conference – wherever worked best for them. Subsequently, the presenter began researching and experimenting with a variety of equipment with the intent to ease the burden on instructors using a HOT approach. This presentation will demonstrate selected equipment and review the iterations of equipment and revisions applied thus far for a low-cost, highly effective HOT classroom.
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