If you consider that the students in your seats could (should?) be leaders in the near future, this article present a thoughtful perspective how to approach students.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemyatt/2012/12/19/the-1-reason-leadership-development-fails/
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Monday, January 7, 2013
Prepare for Spring!
The IT department wishes you a successful Spring
semester! To help that happen, we
suggest reviewing the following best practices and tips for updating your
Moodle courses.
- Prepare your online quizzes to avoid time out problems, set security settings, and to promote quality assessments. To do so, see these links.
- Optimal Security Setting for Moodle Quiz Activity
- Time Limits for Moodle Quizzes and Tests
- Best Practices for Classroom Assessments
- Make sure your course is available to students by January 14. See this link for instructions.
- Preview resources and assessments, checking that images are viewable, hyperlinks are still active, and that content is up to date.
- Online instructors can use this template to welcome students to their course.
- Check that open/close dates are accurate for activities and quizzes.
New Course Creation Process
- If you haven’t already, please import content into your SP2013 course. See step-by-step directions here.
- If you want to combine sections into one Moodle course, please email IT@svcc.edu
Don’t Forget!: Get Ready Get Set Day!
IT is hosting “Get Ready Get Set Day!” this Thursday, January
10th. See the flyer
for details on our two morning sessions on active learning strategies and
student motivation, and for details on our afternoon Moodle Studio.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Flipped Learning: A Response To Five Common Criticisms
If you have been reading the IS/IT Blog over the past 18 months, you have read about the flipped classroom and Eric Mazur. The response, which is linked here, does a good job of describing a balanced approach to the flipped classroom. The five common criticisms are all important for an instructor to understand and think about when considering flipping a classroom.
My own criticism of this article comes from this quote,
A few quote highlighted from the article.
"In a Flipped Learning environment, the teachers are more important than ever."
"At least in the classroom, they get some kind of interaction with me and with their peers."
"...do not replace an hour-long classroom lecture with an hour-long video."
"Make sure you provide more than just video."
"You do not have to have all of this material from the start; you can build your library over time."
"...his goal is to have the best teachers he can find teaching his students every single day."
http://novemberlearning.com/resources/articles/flipped-learning-a-response-to-five-common-criticisms-article/
My own criticism of this article comes from this quote,
"To continue, we would guess that a large majority of students who do not do their work at home are not doing it because they are either bored and feel like the work is there simply to keep them busy, or they are struggling and do not understand the work."I would not say the only reasons for students not doing work at home are boredom or lack of understanding. What do you think? Leave a comment on this post.
A few quote highlighted from the article.
"In a Flipped Learning environment, the teachers are more important than ever."
"At least in the classroom, they get some kind of interaction with me and with their peers."
"...do not replace an hour-long classroom lecture with an hour-long video."
"Make sure you provide more than just video."
"You do not have to have all of this material from the start; you can build your library over time."
"...his goal is to have the best teachers he can find teaching his students every single day."
http://novemberlearning.com/resources/articles/flipped-learning-a-response-to-five-common-criticisms-article/
Monday, November 26, 2012
Ted Talks
If you have yet to discover TED Talks, you are missing an inspiring and thoughtful resource on ideas that are shaping our present and our future.
For the uninitiated, TED talks are short videos (presenters are given no more than 18 minutes) to share their idea. TED was started with the idea of sharing ideas in the areas of Technology, Entertainment, and Design, but has grown to include many more topics. These topics include business, science, math, education and global issues.
Access the videos on education here, or go their home page, www.ted.com.
Two of my favorites.
Margaret Wertheim: the Beautiful math of coral
Dave Egger's Wish: Once upon a school
-Greg Noack
For the uninitiated, TED talks are short videos (presenters are given no more than 18 minutes) to share their idea. TED was started with the idea of sharing ideas in the areas of Technology, Entertainment, and Design, but has grown to include many more topics. These topics include business, science, math, education and global issues.
Access the videos on education here, or go their home page, www.ted.com.
Two of my favorites.
Margaret Wertheim: the Beautiful math of coral
Dave Egger's Wish: Once upon a school
-Greg Noack
Monday, October 29, 2012
Deleting Quiz Attempts
Occasionally faculty need to delete a quiz attempt for a student who needs to retake an online quiz. To do so, go the quiz and click on the Results tab.
Students will be listed in the order that they completed their attempt. Next to each name is a check box. Select the attempt(s) you wish to delete.
After the list of attempts you will see a button for Deleting Selected Attempts. Click it. You will see a pop up window asking if you are absolutely sure you want to delete the attempt. If you are sure, say yes, and the attempt will be deleted.
Students will be listed in the order that they completed their attempt. Next to each name is a check box. Select the attempt(s) you wish to delete.
After the list of attempts you will see a button for Deleting Selected Attempts. Click it. You will see a pop up window asking if you are absolutely sure you want to delete the attempt. If you are sure, say yes, and the attempt will be deleted.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Moodle Monday - Course Creation FAQ
Since we announced the new, automated course creation process
for Moodle courses last week, we’ve received several questions.
Q. How does the new
process differ from the way IT has been creating Moodle courses?
A. In the past, we used a manual process to create blank courses
for instructors to build courses or to back up and restore a new version of an
existing course. Instructors had to contact us to request a Moodle course and
to specify several details to communicate exactly what was needed. The new process
is automated. A computer program has been devised to create a blank course for
every class scheduled at SVCC. The import process simply copies the materials
from past courses into the new, blank one. The import process is similar in
many ways to the reset feature in Blackboard, with which many of you may be
familiar.
Q. Do I have to completely rebuild my course?
A. You will not have to
rebuild your course; you will simply copy the materials you want into the
automatically created Spring 2013 course. If you import all materials from your
old course, your new course will look exactly the same as the course from which
you import the materials. There is no need to rebuild your course unless you
choose to do so.
Q. Will I still need to fill out the Moodle Course Request Form
for each class?
A. No, the Moodle Course Request Form will no longer be
necessary, since your course will be ready and waiting for you to copy your
materials through the import process.
Q. How much of my time will this import process require?
A. Generally, the import process is quick and requires only a
few minutes for each course.
Q. What if I don’t use Moodle with my students?
A. If you choose not to use the automatically created Moodle
course, do nothing. The courses are hidden from students upon creation. Your
course will only become visible to students when you make it available to them.
We’ve prepared a tutorial demonstrating how to import course
materials into a new course and
a tutorial on how to convert hidden
courses to ones visible to students. If you prefer, you may attend any of several sessions
scheduled in the Instructional Technology Center, where we will be available to
answer questions and offer assistance. Dates and times of scheduled sessions
appear below. Please feel free to contact us at extension 229 with any
questions.
Date Time Place
November 2, 2012 1:30
p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ITC,
Room 3M17
Nov. 8, 2012 2:30-4:00
p.m. ITC, Room 3M17
Nov. 16 , 2012 1:30-3:00
p.m. ITC,
Room 3M17
Nov. 29 , 2012 2:30-4 p.m. ITC,
Room 3M17
Dec. 12, 2012 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. ITC, Room 3M17
December 13, 2012 8:30
– 10:00 a.m. ITC,
Room 3M17
January 2-11, 2013 By
appointment ITC,
Room 3M17
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Linky Thursday October 4th Edition
Are you hooked on Pinterest yet? Mentormob.com operates in a
similar manner, but is for education.
See the What is MentorMob video at the link below to view an
overview of the site.
Are you frustrated by a file that you received in the wrong
format? Upload your file to Zamzar.com
and indicate the format you’d like to convert the file into, and you’ll soon
receive the converted file as an email.
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