Wiley Faculty Network: Connecting with Other Faculty

Wiley Faculty Network

Do you need a few more tips and tricks to make your hybrid course more effective? Are you having a hard time assessing the students' work in D2L, and could use advice from an expert?

Consider streaming online lectures from the Wiley Faculty Network: http://www.wiley.com/college/wfn/

Go to View > Archived Online Events and you will see the long list of topics of past Wiley "Online Events". Some past presentations that pertain to online/hybrid teaching are:

• Providing Quality Feedback in Your Online Course: How to Do It and Keep Your Sanity
• First Principles of Instruction (about instructional design)
• Getting the Most Out of an Online Course: Effectively Facilitating Discussion Threads
• Putting Your Course Online: Practical Strategies for Getting Started (10.3 Session)

There are also discipline-specific presentations, such as "Technology in Nutrition: Using Dietary Analysis Software to Enhance Student Engagement".

You can access a list of the lectures without creating an account, but to view the recorded lecture or enroll in upcoming web events, you will need to create a free account. Go to the Wiley Network homepage (link above), click on "Log In" in the top right of the page, and sign up for an account.

Liven Up Your D2L Discussion Board with VoiceThread!

Has the novelty of your D2L Discussion Board waned with the progression of the fall semester?

Do you feel the need to increase student participation in the hybrid element of your course?

Do your students view PowerPoints for homework but you are looking for a way to improve student interaction with these materials?

Then please attend my VoiceThread workshop: Hellems 145 Tuesday, October 30th 3pm-5pm OR Wednesday, October 31th 10am-12pm

VoiceThread is an online interactive program that allows you to easily create a digital slide show using photos, video, or documents. The VoiceThread creator can then add comments (audio, text or video) and doodles to that slide show and share it with others who can comment as well. Last year, CU purchased a site license for VoiceThread which has done much to facilitate the use of this program in your class. For instance, CU students now log in to VoiceThread using their IdentiKeys and VoiceThreads can easily be embedded in D2L.

Please contact me if you plan to attend the workshop: Courtney.Fell [at] colorado.edu

Here is an example VoiceThread from my Continuing Ed Spanish class from last spring.

Instructions for Installing and Setting Up the VoiceThread App:

http://tinyurl.com/voicethreadapp

Event: Desire2Learn Workshop at ALTEC

Next week is the fourth FLTP workshop for the fall semester at the Anderson Language & Technology Center, "Media in Desire2Learn". This workshop is open to Continuing Education faculty who are teaching hybrid and I strongly recommend that you all attend if possible!

Viktoriya Oliynyk and Brad Grabham from OIT will lead us through this workshop to customize our D2L pages and to explore the media capabilities of D2L.

Come learn how to: 

• "Insert Stuff" such as YouTube videos and film via Kaltura
• Customize your course homepage
• Create "New Widgets"
• Embed GoogleDocs and VoiceThreads
• Edit your course's navigation bar
• Add external links to your course

Workshop Logistics: 
Hellems 145 Tuesday, October 16th 3pm-5pm
OR
Wednesday, October 17th 10am-12pm

To sign up for this workshop or to ask any questions please email Courtney.Fell [at] colorado.edu

For this workshop, you must have a Desire2Learn page. It can be a page that you are using/would like to use for a specific course or a Sandbox (a test page). If you are unsure if you have a D2L Course, try logging in at https://learn.colorado.edu with your CU log-in information. If you are unable to log-in, then you need to request a course or a Sandbox from https://mycuinfo.colorado.edu/

Event: ALTEC's Fall 2012 Guest Speaker

My center, the Anderson Language & Technology Center is excited to announce our guest speaker presentation for this fall. Christopher M. Jones from Carnegie Mellon University will be presenting on "Open Educational Resources and Language Instruction", Tuesday October 9th from 12-1pm in Hellems 145.

Presenter: Christopher M. Jones PhD, Carnegie Mellon University 

• Professor of French and Computer-Assisted Language Learning 
• Director, Modern Language Resource Center 
• Director, Masters in Applied Second Language Acquisition 

Presentation: "Open Educational Resources and Language Instruction"

• The history of the sharing of instructional resources and OER 
• A demonstration of the French Online course through the Open Learning Initiative 
• A discussion of possible future directions in OER 
• What could OER mean for the individual teacher 

Email Courtney.Fell [at] colorado.edu with any questions!