In this session, our presentation will focus on the types of technologies we use to deliver content and curriculum in the asynchronous online environment. We will discuss how we use a variety of technological applications such as web conferencing tools, a learning management system, blogs, wikis and other web 2.0 applications to achieve learning goals and objectives in our workshops and courses.

1. Embracing Technology
to Enhance Development
Presented by:
David Caso, Director
Student and Academic Services
Linda Lawrence, Coordinator
Instructor Development
Lisa Rapple, Specialist
Curriculum Technology

2. Large group questions
• How many of you have experience conducting training online?
• How many of you have experience as a student in the online
environment?

3. Small group questions
• What kind of online tools do you have experience with?
• Can you think of ways of using these tools in training and
development?

4. Large group discussion
• What hesitations do you have about conducting training
online?
• What question do you have about conducting training
online?

5. Why we embrace the technology
• Address multiple learning styles
• Increase interaction among participants
• Collaborate and share
• Create communities of learning
• Support individual lifestyles
• Construct personal learning environments
• Provide feedback
• Assess and track performance
• Engage global resources, ideas, and people

6. Delivering Content
Learning Management System (LMS)
• ANGEL
Weblog (Blog)
• Faculty Blog
• Instructor Newsblog
Media
• Web-Tutorial
• Embedded Video
Web Conferencing
• Conference Session

7. Interactive Tools – Engaging Others
Innovations in Online Learning
by the Instructional Design Team
Social Learning
– Wikis for co-authoring written and multimedia projects (wiki in
process)
– GoogleDocs for collaborative writing, idea sharing (Doc in process)
– Blog for authentic learning (role-play)
– Shared ideas, discussions (Facebook)
– Social Bookmarking tool (Diigo)
– Multimedia discussions/critiques (Voicethread)
– Polls and surveys (Zoomerang)

8. Why will you embrace technology?
• Address multiple learning styles
• Increase interaction among participants
• Collaborate and share
• Create communities of learning
• Support individual lifestyles
• Construct personal learning environments
• Provide feedback
• Assess and track performance
• Engage global resources, ideas, and people

9. Our Tips for beginning online instruction: Final Points
• Keep it simple in the beginning. Don’t overwhelm yourself or students with too many changes or too
many technical challenges.
• Teach the course once with an open mind. Evaluate activities for opportunities to improve. Only
employ technology to IMPROVE your course.
• Think out of the box.
– There are things that the Internet can provide that a closed classroom could not.
– Repurpose tools that you are familiar with or can learn easily. Low tech can be highly purposeful.
• Maximize the features of the Learning Management System. (secure with limited features)
– Discussions,
– Pictures in profiles,
– embed some Youtube videos from experts
– use “Team” controls
– Reflective journaling
– Peer-review discussions and drop boxes
• Be aware of privacy settings on Internet tools. Many technology enhancements that we spoke
about MAY be public (open to the Internet world) so be aware of the tool’s settings and be sure
students are informed as well.
• Never use technology just for the flash and sparkle, this will frustrate students and impede good
learning
• You can learn from your students. Don’t think YOU have to be the creative one. Leave choices open
to students to create projects using a tool of their choice. Possibly provide them with a suggestion list.

10. Final Points
Easy tools to start with:
• Blogs – one of the easiest tools to learn for you or students. (Blogspot.com)
– Have student teams create an informational blog.
– Collect student experiences/stories, responses to key issues, or
– Role-play (limited)
– Create a collective document (limited) for a target audience
• Polls/surveys – zoomerang.com
– highlight key learning points
– reinforce previous learning
– collect feedback
– Peer-review
• Voicethread.com – have a conversation around media
– You can create three for free
• Sliderocket.com – interactive PowerPoint
• Animoto.com – images and music (limited features in free version)

11. Questions we didn’t answer?
David Caso, Director
• Student and Academic Services
Linda Lawrence, Coordinator
• Instructor Development
Lisa Rapple, Specialist
• Curriculum Technology

12. Embedded Video
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13. Wiki
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14. Blog
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15. Newsblog
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16. Elluminate
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17. Web Tutorials
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18. Online Polling
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