tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174074222024-03-07T00:47:20.850-08:00CGCCtekA blog about instructional technology at Columbia Gorge Community CollegePaula Ascherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414476211132583409noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-86186013756132020722013-01-25T15:59:00.000-08:002013-01-25T15:59:41.702-08:00Learner's Bill of RightsGlobal learning and teaching has a growing voice in our human culture. Here is an <a href="https://github.com/audreywatters/learnersrights/blob/master/bill_of_rights.md">online document </a>that seeks to clarify a vision for this digital age.<br />
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<br />Paula Ascherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414476211132583409noreply@blogger.com102tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-18093448011549056822012-11-27T10:32:00.003-08:002012-11-27T10:32:28.881-08:002 million views<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The CGCC You Tube site http://www.youtube.com/cgcclive just reached 2 million views of more than 500 academic videos. Thank you to our fantastic faculty for reaching out to students with a creative use of technology.Paula Ascherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414476211132583409noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-86217824567822613712012-10-31T07:41:00.003-07:002012-10-31T07:44:41.668-07:00Mt. Hood Independent Film Festival<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Over the weekend I attended the first ever Mt. Hood Independent Film Festival. What a treat to have such an incredible event in our little town of Hood River! The festival accepted the CGCC production of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4doZ4uhHqnE&feature=plcp" target="_blank">"Immanuel Kant"</a>, so I also got to attend as a filmmaker. </div>
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We will be heading south next week to present the <a href="http://www.cgcc.cc.or.us/DistanceLearning/documents/ProcedureManual-QualityMattersatCGCC.pdf" target="_blank">Columbia Gorge Community College Quality Matters Manual</a> as a poster session. It is the first time that the college will be represented at the annual conference. Looking forward to it!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-47180421957376586512012-08-13T10:58:00.000-07:002012-08-13T11:09:38.094-07:00MOOC MOOC<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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At Columbia Gorge Community College (CGCC), the number of courses offered online and partially online (hybrid) increases every year. At last count, they were about 27% of credit classes. This is fairly typical nationwide in higher education. What may surprise you is that in a recent poll, 91% of students said that they are local residents and 62% indicated that they had <u>not</u> taken an online class at another college or university. A likely factor for not "shopping around" is that financial aid is not easily shared between institutions. And of course, students have challenging time constraints balancing work, family, sports, and study. But I also wonder how widespread the skill set needed to surf educational opportunities state-wide, much less nation-wide, is among community college students.<br />
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I am taking a <a href="http://www.moocmooc.com/">MOOC MOOC</a> this week, i.e., a massively open online course (MOOC) about massively open online courses. MOOCs have been in the news lately and one colleague even looked concerned when we discussed them the other day. The reason I am taking the course is that I am interested in what it takes to teach a student how to be a world-class online student. At CGCC, we have an online student orientation, a helpdesk, and instructor introductions to help students succeed. Enrolling in a MOOC involves degree of sophistication in online learning that transcends your local institution, and it also requires a larger skill set. So what can we learn from MOOCs to help our students navigate the wider world of learning?<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-87883793974150728742011-03-09T09:58:00.000-08:002011-03-09T10:27:06.260-08:00Final Review Season? Try Jeopardy!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiff5T14EAcVHnu9Aj-VMjDnFphkize_SOVyvlUscTmLazWoPXAYjXHFWFFQriH8PNyEqQXAl_iNeVyyaXAxV2IhCtxhVdFLZFg5Akj2B7L2Yf-4tLcaoHjmRI2EriSuZVpQvZK/s1600/Trebek.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 194px; height: 259px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiff5T14EAcVHnu9Aj-VMjDnFphkize_SOVyvlUscTmLazWoPXAYjXHFWFFQriH8PNyEqQXAl_iNeVyyaXAxV2IhCtxhVdFLZFg5Akj2B7L2Yf-4tLcaoHjmRI2EriSuZVpQvZK/s320/Trebek.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582145816675770994" border="0" /></a><br />Searching for a way to do final review in a way that wouldn't put everyone right to sleep, I came across this excellent site: <a href="http://jeopardylabs.com/">Jeopardy Labs</a>. It is a free and <span style="font-style: italic;">easy</span> classroom jeopardy template (I write jeopardy in lower-case letters because it is not affiliated with the TV show), where you simply input the category headings, questions, and answers. When it comes time to play the game, simply project your personalized game onto the classroom screen. Click on the box to view the clue, and after the student answers, click on the "Correct Answer" button to show the answer. It even has a scorecard feature. <span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br />Important note: You must save or bookmark the url for your template after you create and save it! The site kindly does not force you to create an account, but that means you have to keep track of your own url.<br /><br /></span>Of course, an in-class jeopardy game sounds cute here, but what do the students think? As any teacher knows, students are amazingly immune to (what we think are) interesting and engaging activities. Well, my own finicky consumers seemed to love it. Since I made an effort to stop and have a brief discussion about each question, the game prompted a lively review of the concepts we learned over the term. A healthy dose of competition is a good way to get a person involved :) You can check out my version of the game, for a WR 122 class, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/jeopardylabs.com/play/wr-122-jeopardy">here</a><span style="font-style: italic;">.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span>You'll also have to think up some basic rules for the game-- the site doesn't provide those for you.<span style="font-style: italic;"> <span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span>Mine worked pretty well, so I'll enclose them here.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Jeopardy Rules:<br /></div><br />1. Divide the class into three teams. From each team, someone will stand up. This is the designated question answerer (QA). The first team’s QA will select a question (“Fallacies for 300”).<br /><br />2. The QA will have 30 seconds to answer. If she gets it right, that team gets the points, and it’s Team 2’s turn to pick.<br /><br />3. If QA does not get the answer right, that team loses the points, and the second team will have the chance to answer. If team 2 does not get the answer right, they too will lose their points, but they will not lose their next turn.<br /><br />4. Each team gets a turn in order; no losing turns. If a student does not attempt a question, then she remains standing for the next turn. Anyone who attempts a question (successfully or not) must sit down until it becomes their turn again.<br /><br />5. NO talking while QA’s are contemplating their questions. Only one QA at a time may answer.<br /><br />6. This is Jeopardy-- you are being presented with an answer, and you must supply the question. All “answers” will be in the form of a question; if not, you lose your points and the chance goes to the next QA. Eg,<br /><br />A: Thing you type on to send emails and write essays.<br />Q: What is a computer?Megan C., Writing Instructorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01756274974725657172noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-12980500287156731912011-03-08T14:24:00.001-08:002011-03-08T14:24:12.148-08:00Zoho<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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At the Instructional Technology Council's eLearning conference this year, Barry Dahl gave a talk about Zoho, a suite of free online tools. You can get an account at <a href="https://www.zoho.com/">https://www.zoho.com/</a>. There are a lot of nice features including a document writer, wiki, spreadsheet, chat etc.. The document application will save in a wide variety of formats and automatically shares on the web, which can be helpful for online instructors who could update from Zoho and link to the document in Moodle.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-56513372478381893142011-01-17T12:57:00.000-08:002011-01-17T13:02:31.726-08:00Rekindling a Lost ArtNote-taking has indeed gone the way of the dodo. Check out a <a href="http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-and-learning/the-lost-art-of-note-taking-when-writing-a-research-paper/?c=FF&t=F110117">recent Faculty Focus posting</a> that offers a good suggestion for an in-class note-taking activity. Such information-gathering may help students to write research papers that are more reflective and analytical.Megan C., Writing Instructorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01756274974725657172noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-24338728789409762792011-01-11T21:59:00.000-08:002011-01-11T22:24:35.669-08:00Thinking About Google Scholar<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_yi0q7Cqb1u-Fx8E17L1OxwbkcW80GS3VYNsu-fvWepOCskNuCSMDtoQCQSbJxTOXclzn-laq8Sn6hOciyhkSBYti24AYST58tvUwm93xT13cX2Awu6mVp0wupz6ZYMIe7f_V/s1600/Google_Scholar_Beta_logo.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 276px; height: 110px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_yi0q7Cqb1u-Fx8E17L1OxwbkcW80GS3VYNsu-fvWepOCskNuCSMDtoQCQSbJxTOXclzn-laq8Sn6hOciyhkSBYti24AYST58tvUwm93xT13cX2Awu6mVp0wupz6ZYMIe7f_V/s320/Google_Scholar_Beta_logo.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561181471366242626" border="0" /></a><br />Last term in an online writing class one of my students submitted an annotated bibliography for an upcoming research paper. In one of her entries, she cited Google Scholar as her source. Curious and skeptical, I looked up this Google Scholar, which I hadn't heard of before. Turns out, Google Scholar functions similarly to Google's regular search engine, only it returns only "scholarly literature," rather than just any old web page. I also turned to one of CGCC's trusty librarians, who told me that Google Scholar is pretty reliable, but like any information that is freely available on the web, "students will need to do some critical thinking to evaluate it." Another problem is that GS also "directs you to sites that require payment for the articles"-- a notion that is antithetical to what a student is usually trying to accomplish (ie, find freely available information).<br /><br />My main concern, however, lies not with Google Scholar specifically. It's that GS signifies a growing number of information databases on the web-- information middlemen, essentially-- that obfuscate for students the true sources of information. When my student had cited Google Scholar, she should have actually been citing the journal that GS procured in her search. And GS may profess to value scholarly research, but can we say the same for WebMD, Wikipedia, and About.com? Some may say I'm comparing apples and oranges here, but I think the overall premise holds. A preponderance of online clearinghouses for information makes data easier to access, sure. But are these sources being responsible with their data? How can I make sure that my students are vetting their sources carefully without simply proscribing a long list of "database-type" web sites, or forcing them to only use the databases available in the college library?<br /><br />As with innumerable technologies now available to students, I'm afraid a point gained for convenience means a point lost for learning. What is a teacher to do?Megan C., Writing Instructorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01756274974725657172noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-39403760784610324212011-01-03T16:49:00.000-08:002011-01-04T13:08:26.004-08:00Quality Matters Reviews<div style="text-align: center;"> <b> Quality Matters Reviews</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">some suggestions for visual and hearing components</div><div style="text-align: center;">By Grace Windsheimer <a href="mailto:%20gwindsheimer@cgcc.cc.or.us">gwindsheimer@cgcc.cc.or.us</a></div><br />
One of the ongoing issues in passing the Quality Matters rubric, is #8.2, visual and hearing impaired students. There are actually court cases against colleges right now from students who feel they don't have access to online courses because of their disability. Here is the information on the court cases for you. <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Blind-Students-Demand-Access/125695/%20%20">http://chronicle.com/article/Blind-Students-Demand-Access/125695/ </a><br />
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I found a ppt reader that students can download. Tried it and it reads both ppt (2003) and pptx (2007) text, so I'll be adding that to my Moodle pages for students to download if they choose.<br />
Here is the link to the PowerTalk download-easy to download and use.<br />
<a href="http://fullmeasure.co.uk/powertalk/#requirements">http://fullmeasure.co.uk/powertalk/#requirements</a><br />
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Here are some links to screen readers: from Linda Hughitt<br />
<ul><li><a href="http://www.naturalreaders.com/index.htm">http://www.naturalreaders.com/index.htm</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nch.com.au/verbose/index.html">http://www.nch.com.au/verbose/index.html</a></li>
</ul>Free screen readers:<br />
<ul><li><a href="http://www.datafurnace.net.au/sayzme/%20">http://www.datafurnace.net.au/sayzme/ </a></li>
<li><a href="http://speakcomputers.com/">http://speakcomputers.com/</a></li>
</ul>Listing of programs:<br />
<ul><li> <a href="http://speechcomputing.com/texttospeech">http://speechcomputing.com/texttospeech</a></li>
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I also try to find videos with CC (closed captions) to add to my Moodle shells for the hearing impaired-they are getting easier to find. Here is a web page with closed caption videos <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=is:free&tbs=vid:1,cc:1">http://www.google.com/search?q=is:free&tbs=vid:1,cc:1</a> You can also search on YouTube for cc videos. Here are some videos on You Tube for CGCC <a href="http://www.youtube.com/cgcclive%20%5D-nbsp;%20have" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/cgcclive</a> that have automatic captions.<br />
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Try them out, they actually are done quite nicely and for those that are hard to hear for all of us it is a great alternative.gwindsheimerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18054743568680116543noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-68474785712681880022010-09-15T13:26:00.000-07:002010-09-15T13:26:27.637-07:00More about Prezis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDy7S4u8gO9dkeMtHS56obJ188IQloSPdxp2xLmCiXSXwWzsH4PGs8w0KzvxoX6EnSf8HlUl0Zpz6wsscHjvuDNsHf3S91NBCRuPwbtJgsHyt1uT4CZ7tnWTmSfSwSJldD-nXW8A/s1600/prezi.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDy7S4u8gO9dkeMtHS56obJ188IQloSPdxp2xLmCiXSXwWzsH4PGs8w0KzvxoX6EnSf8HlUl0Zpz6wsscHjvuDNsHf3S91NBCRuPwbtJgsHyt1uT4CZ7tnWTmSfSwSJldD-nXW8A/s320/prezi.jpeg" /></a></div>If you use powerpoints and are looking for something new, you might try Prezi. <a href="http://prezi.com/">http://prezi.com</a> I got a free educational license and made a "prezi" for my fall faculty inservice workshop this coming Saturday. The non-linear approach was helpful in organizing my thoughts.<br />
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You can check out my "Moodle Tune Up" workshop prezi at <a href="https://prezi.com/secure/f3f08a6a0d9d18c0be190edd7af1c4c4d21cb8f2/">https://prezi.com/secure/f3f08a6a0d9d18c0be190edd7af1c4c4d21cb8f2/</a> To navigate around the presentation, use the arrow key (which is my pre-set "path"), or click on the screen, or use the zoom on the right side of the screen.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-8987616139109577782010-08-10T10:15:00.000-07:002010-08-10T10:27:04.952-07:00The Important Elements of a College Web Site<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1ehXefE96I7kKqSZpTEzzGJnA9kzAysHaC2C5jDA0l7Wg4S4CzCdiIc4YjTTqkZu30hOZKEE6wotFqI_y14sPbNJhyphenhyphenfS-krrEVvLCAc9dzzJV01deMq70HDpxHTVD86zGuXUT/s1600/university_website.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 223px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1ehXefE96I7kKqSZpTEzzGJnA9kzAysHaC2C5jDA0l7Wg4S4CzCdiIc4YjTTqkZu30hOZKEE6wotFqI_y14sPbNJhyphenhyphenfS-krrEVvLCAc9dzzJV01deMq70HDpxHTVD86zGuXUT/s320/university_website.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503832201034788082" border="0" /></a><br /><br />A <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/08/04/websites">recent article in </a><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/08/04/websites">Inside Higher Ed</a> </span>discusses this amusing cartoon. Let's hope that, as we gear up for an overhaul of the CGCC web site, we can take some valuable lessons from this!<br /><br />The cartoon is by Randall Munroe, and you can see his web site <a href="http://xkcd.com/773/">here</a>.Megan C., Writing Instructorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01756274974725657172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-65954905643775839952010-07-07T23:02:00.000-07:002010-07-07T23:18:07.504-07:00Playing With Prezi<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcdQKo17R-bNnCCJKb6OHG2nPavJV2GHlTBHqzdn3bXvYEV2LweQ_gk8nHccycAEYDWrkV2UGwW35FfEVFH3A6t-HVaftWPfOHLdY647PUr5YXTyU8RbtBL0VEf5uobQ-dQA5m/s1600/index.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 129px; height: 56px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcdQKo17R-bNnCCJKb6OHG2nPavJV2GHlTBHqzdn3bXvYEV2LweQ_gk8nHccycAEYDWrkV2UGwW35FfEVFH3A6t-HVaftWPfOHLdY647PUr5YXTyU8RbtBL0VEf5uobQ-dQA5m/s320/index.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5491415191439582866" border="0" /></a><br />In my online travels I recently stumbled across Prezi, a presentation program that claims to put PowerPoint to shame. Having also recently read about the scientifically researched "PowerPoint fatigue" and having seen my own students fall into a slumber over my PowerPoint presentations, I figured the bar was set pretty low. I'd say Prezi has more than cleared it.<br /><br />Once you get the hang of it, it's fun to use, although it certainly doesn't take any less time to prepare than PowerPoint. You can use text, images, a small selection of shapes, and I'm not sure but I think audio might be possible too.<br /><br />Check out my <a href="http://prezi.com/9gkedhrxczjk/run-ons/">experiment</a>: a presentation on Run-On Sentences that I made for my Writing 121 class.<br /><br />What do you think? Does Prezi have a higher educational value? Or is it just the next tekky fad?Megan C., Writing Instructorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01756274974725657172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-37654884736479071782010-02-24T16:29:00.000-08:002010-02-24T16:40:40.522-08:00Videocaptioning Therapy at ITC eLearning 2010<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP55w7PYaPqLnSp3FfYM88jHpR28My_JwnhiduZxIm9j_-C1kb9zOM9x7DmyWeuWhy_qYgM9v3mXk_INAroaZ7zYpvLk7ykIVPhION_7DKRUaFrK8HbXfHAWtJnsJsvnxRW4m_cw/s1600-h/eL2010Logo3.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 76px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP55w7PYaPqLnSp3FfYM88jHpR28My_JwnhiduZxIm9j_-C1kb9zOM9x7DmyWeuWhy_qYgM9v3mXk_INAroaZ7zYpvLk7ykIVPhION_7DKRUaFrK8HbXfHAWtJnsJsvnxRW4m_cw/s320/eL2010Logo3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441974477809792690" /></a><br />Just got back from a <a href="http://www.itcnetwork.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=84">great conference</a> in Fort Worth Texas. Check out <a href="http://itcelearning2010.blogspot.com/2010/02/no-budget-video-captioning.html">Sage Freeman's blog</a> for details and pictures. I shared a "how-to" <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/cgcclive#p/u/6/4xoz2PDdzCM">video about videocaptioning</a> on You Tube while we "therapized".Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-4290502892161756622009-11-09T14:14:00.001-08:002009-11-09T14:14:33.832-08:00Waving at myself<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyrW8q-qsld2Cg-HJGh_hNrg0QnaqU6N48-sbXYuEUM1Q0PBxOv08cvLjTi3ByNGLxOZnT2PesRY6lMoKQVnT0dGERRUF4pWDAHwN26wJ2y4tKd_bCmHHmVil1maJmDepO6LMLmA/s1600-h/wave_logo.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 164px; height: 40px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyrW8q-qsld2Cg-HJGh_hNrg0QnaqU6N48-sbXYuEUM1Q0PBxOv08cvLjTi3ByNGLxOZnT2PesRY6lMoKQVnT0dGERRUF4pWDAHwN26wJ2y4tKd_bCmHHmVil1maJmDepO6LMLmA/s320/wave_logo.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402229958536700610" /></a>Google Wave certainly seems to have a lot of potential in education. I wish I could give other folks invitations so I could have more people to wave with.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-51031055600783397312009-10-20T15:51:00.000-07:002009-10-20T15:59:47.973-07:00CGCClive on You Tube<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjANjmiLwHOBn3oQO25OmGQtq0lACpaDBj0hygX13yO4EKpw84-_w2intrshQdLOWnAnu9Q3WVFvVlHS2ErDqSTakVrUrRYAohBCi2sV3G8BbcKQHNQWHM0tNFATJdcaUIHjVR4iw/s1600-h/youtube-logo.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjANjmiLwHOBn3oQO25OmGQtq0lACpaDBj0hygX13yO4EKpw84-_w2intrshQdLOWnAnu9Q3WVFvVlHS2ErDqSTakVrUrRYAohBCi2sV3G8BbcKQHNQWHM0tNFATJdcaUIHjVR4iw/s320/youtube-logo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394820719613560722" /></a><br />The college presence on You Tube has grown to more than 150 videos. We have been adding captioning for the hearing impaired as well. Tune into CGCClive for videos ranging from the holiday door contest to thevenin's theorem. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/cgcclive">http://www.youtube.com/user/cgcclive</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-84344658398345725852009-07-13T13:21:00.000-07:002009-07-13T13:25:28.182-07:002009-1010 Distance Learning PlanNot a minute too soon, I have the distance learning and instructional technology plan finished up for 2009-2010. The fiscal year starts July 1, so we are already rolling! <a href="http://www.cgcc.cc.or.us/DistanceLearning/webctfactech.cfm">Link to all the plans since 2005</a>. Happy New Year :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-68503213941299854302009-05-01T15:24:00.000-07:002009-05-01T15:35:37.000-07:00Closing the gap<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeRFG6n6fcjPlA1HJ-2FsZrasEY8kEI6tvFzOyfgnrky0OAesv6JJI9vN-q3mQkG7nlnMDiNNX5CeppFs22GPK-T_yejcyreinHtM_YawJqK_nOe-W6GvZAuewSEnO74SqjEonzw/s1600-h/CGCC+Color+Logo+with+Name+Horiz+small.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 163px; height: 65px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeRFG6n6fcjPlA1HJ-2FsZrasEY8kEI6tvFzOyfgnrky0OAesv6JJI9vN-q3mQkG7nlnMDiNNX5CeppFs22GPK-T_yejcyreinHtM_YawJqK_nOe-W6GvZAuewSEnO74SqjEonzw/s320/CGCC+Color+Logo+with+Name+Horiz+small.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330987672785977762" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The institutional researcher, (or queen of data as I call her) compiled the statistics of student completers for 07-08 (summer 07 thru spring 08) at CGCC. Successful completion is an A, B, C or Pass<br /><br />All classes: 83.9%<br />Telecourse: 87.9%<br />Hybrid: 86.3%<br />Onground: 84.3% <br />Online classes: 81.5%<br /><br />In 06-07, the difference between online and onground completion rate was 6.3%. A year later, as shown above, the difference was 2.8% (83.9% - 81.5% = 2.8%). We seem to be closing the gap! I attribute this to a focus on high quality courses via the implementation of Quality Matters on campus.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-38507603029541942612009-04-24T13:27:00.000-07:002009-04-24T13:40:22.468-07:00You Tube<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoyZrAcPUwrEDQDOjHv7eIRXQt0GCud5Y28Y3yfQmTKtXcZTlv_hq9wufFO-X0PO4w0tagKwsI517hr240hujPe6K75PcYTzRYC0mWhXRGFZm3Kqk8y8-ISbfgpUalMmJYVa_fEA/s1600-h/You+Tube.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 95px; height: 40px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoyZrAcPUwrEDQDOjHv7eIRXQt0GCud5Y28Y3yfQmTKtXcZTlv_hq9wufFO-X0PO4w0tagKwsI517hr240hujPe6K75PcYTzRYC0mWhXRGFZm3Kqk8y8-ISbfgpUalMmJYVa_fEA/s320/You+Tube.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328360532737587986" /></a><br />This school year, Columbia Gorge Community College started using You Tube for some of the instructional videos we produce. This experience has made me a fan of You Tube because it is so easy to use. Also I really appreciate the easy system for captioning videos. The college has 28 videos on the site now, and I have about 40 more to add. We are slowly adding captions and moving them from our website. It seems to me that the 10 minute limit on videos is a good thing for instructional videos. Teaches us long-winded people to focus and be brief!<br /><br />To see any of the college videos, just search for Columbia Gorge Community College on the You Tube site. Here is a video about how to reset your Moodle class:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dLTztFSK1E">Reset your Moodle class</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-79234901533343197032009-03-17T14:12:00.000-07:002009-03-17T14:23:38.476-07:00Fun stuff from eLearning<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.itcnetwork.org/file.php?file=/1/eL2009Logo2300.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 359px;" src="http://www.itcnetwork.org/file.php?file=/1/eL2009Logo2300.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />I have been back from eLearning for a few weeks now, but just started unpacking my brain! Here are some free tools for online learning:<br /><a href="www.toondoo.com">www.toondoo.com</a> <br /><a href="www.pbwiki.com">www.pbwiki.com</a> <br /><a href="http://www.wetpaint.com/ ">http://www.wetpaint.com/ </a><br /><a href="http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/">http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/</a> <br /><a href="http://www.netvibes.com/#General">http://www.netvibes.com/#General</a> <br /><br />See <a href="http://barrydahl.com/ple/">http://barrydahl.com/ple/</a> for more!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-5055850594428689882009-02-19T11:26:00.000-08:002009-02-19T11:32:18.173-08:00eLearning 2009<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh99sRZqU4JFhcs7h6AxyeFVPNYPOGrHcQFr9HheeSS_VnM_kNUdDLnRZpbTPOyze8WhbJRnDGcQ5oemHgFmOo31-GYfvl7jFtpOgI67hExfWJEjp05prcnP-NvVp1clbTX7LNdrg/s1600-h/fourcafe_002.bmp"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 217px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh99sRZqU4JFhcs7h6AxyeFVPNYPOGrHcQFr9HheeSS_VnM_kNUdDLnRZpbTPOyze8WhbJRnDGcQ5oemHgFmOo31-GYfvl7jFtpOgI67hExfWJEjp05prcnP-NvVp1clbTX7LNdrg/s320/fourcafe_002.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304592663580371778" /></a> Getting ready to go to eLearning conference this weekend in Portland. I will be doing a pre-conference workshop called "Avatar Boot Camp" and another (not hands-on) session later in the program with my colleagues in the Second Life island project for community colleges in Oregon. I am looking forward to being closer to home this year :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-23418035050398392622008-11-17T16:32:00.000-08:002008-11-17T16:38:52.355-08:00Ampitheatre and lots more on the college island<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt4ihPPxOh4S180nQ1nvUcqnCGtnBuwz3B8q0wEmiYm_kRA6ThC2tEYJOAkXSmUazXRvgJgTkReyO9atoVTX1qbc-b5ldBZt3lbrSb4NzPm15PODKehFT8-rnHnsSccb43oKY5bw/s1600-h/monicaampbuild3small.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 191px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt4ihPPxOh4S180nQ1nvUcqnCGtnBuwz3B8q0wEmiYm_kRA6ThC2tEYJOAkXSmUazXRvgJgTkReyO9atoVTX1qbc-b5ldBZt3lbrSb4NzPm15PODKehFT8-rnHnsSccb43oKY5bw/s320/monicaampbuild3small.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269789073929105138" /></a><br />So much is happening on the OR Community College island in Second Life, including the building of an ampitheatre, based on the Elizabethan theatre in Ashland. <br />Here is the information site link: http://sites.google.com/site/orcommunitycollegesisland/HomeUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-52819126113325694592008-10-16T13:51:00.000-07:002008-10-16T13:55:04.482-07:00Oregon CC Island Blog<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEXkh0Wtf_a_B91FLHTpbTsjakLeuL8_3OahLwXFoagz5kDV03lz4Mawp-huLwESn6IUbE-KuiUFaS-zrzo7DPlt1Yxb9zhX8WaLAFOvlYqACAp-URF2CVsftCyhubAYBaTLnQJA/s1600-h/blogPix_emptyIsle1_002.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEXkh0Wtf_a_B91FLHTpbTsjakLeuL8_3OahLwXFoagz5kDV03lz4Mawp-huLwESn6IUbE-KuiUFaS-zrzo7DPlt1Yxb9zhX8WaLAFOvlYqACAp-URF2CVsftCyhubAYBaTLnQJA/s320/blogPix_emptyIsle1_002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257858083504586034" /></a><br />There is a new blog for the Oregon Community College island: http://slorcc.blogspot.com/Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-77622535276221976682008-09-23T16:39:00.000-07:002008-09-23T16:51:07.407-07:00Video Camp 2008<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO59WUtDcCG3L6XELK-SQ24aFbQ6g2OqoNme5tEyHv5NRPY-crYHxpPCmd6a75sQU4-9QTjnPaWCzXb5KBmDBes-TlQ3KbqhRtuixSHgB73VU8Wt2Tf0IJzVCNgkdlUQyyeFCiNg/s1600-h/Picture1.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO59WUtDcCG3L6XELK-SQ24aFbQ6g2OqoNme5tEyHv5NRPY-crYHxpPCmd6a75sQU4-9QTjnPaWCzXb5KBmDBes-TlQ3KbqhRtuixSHgB73VU8Wt2Tf0IJzVCNgkdlUQyyeFCiNg/s320/Picture1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249368498014430114" /></a><br />This year we added special effects to the mix. Here is a link to <a href="http://www.cgcc.cc.or.us/Academics/Faculty/BillNoonan/Descartes.wmv">Bill Noonan's video about Descartes</a> where we used our new bluescreen to create an out of body experience!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17407422.post-17562888520409018572008-07-07T15:17:00.000-07:002008-07-07T15:23:42.388-07:00Project WonderlandI recently tried to attend the opening of Project Wonderland. There was quite a crowd! So much so that most of us were not able to join the tour. No doubt there will be new opportunities. Here is a <a href="http://media.nmc.org/nmc-virtual-worlds/open-virtual-worlds.mov">helpful introduction</a> to this project.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1