The week of March 20, the Center for Learning Technologies, the Office for Distance Education and the Perry Library will present “Teaching on Television” for summer faculty.
While anyone may attend the workshops, the emphasis will be on preparing faculty for teaching summer TELETECHNET and video-streaming courses. The goals of the workshops are to prepare faculty to:
•operate the equipment and resources in the Gornto Center classrooms;
•prepare and manage the distribution of materials for campus and remote students;
•design instructional materials and strategies that are compatible with television and streaming video delivery;
•communicate effectively with remote students;
•utilize the library resources and services available to faculty and students; and
•deal with the special issues that are part of distance learning at Old Dominion.
“Whether you are new to TELETECHNET or an old hand, these sessions will prepare you for the fun and pitfalls of distance learning,” said Bill Gideon of the Center for Learning Technologies.
To register for a workshop visit the center’s Web site at www.odu.edu/clt. For those unable to participate this month, these and other workshops will also be offered at the Summer Institute in May.
•Teaching in the Video Classroom – Monday, March 20, 9-11 a.m., 202 Gornto Center So, what about all this cutting-edge technology you’ve been hearing about, and how can it support and enhance your teaching? In this session, you’ll work with instructional technologists and control room operators to plan support for your curricular materials and teaching strategies. What should you be able to operate? What level of support can your control room operator provide? Pull it all together in this key introductory class.
•Veteran Distance Teachers Roundtable – Monday, March 20, 1-3 p.m., 149 Perry Library Old Dominion has a wealth of talented, trailblazing teachers. They’ll share their experiences – good and bad – and suggestions for success. What worked for them? What do they wish they had done differently? Get the straight scoop from other outstanding faculty who have “been there, done that.”
•Classroom Communications in the Digital Age – Two sessions: Tuesday, March 21, 9-11 a.m.; and Thursday, March 23, 1-3 p.m., 411 Gornto Center Chat rooms, discussion forums and Web pages – unheard of just a few years ago, are today’s standard classroom fare. Old Dominion faculty use a variety of resources to communicate with a diverse and expanding student body. This workshop will touch on design and use of Web pages, discussion forums, chat rooms and e-mail. The session will also focus on preparing presentation materials for classroom, television and Web page.
•Video-streamed Instruction that Works – Tuesday, March 21, 1-3 p.m.; and Thursday, March 23, 9-11 a.m., 411 Gornto Center Video-streamed faculty may need to rethink some basic strategies to teach in this new venue. What are the special communications concerns if your course is being video-streamed? Do your Web students have different needs from your remote-site or campus students? What support is available to help you maintain your quality standards? This session will present an overview on developing instructional materials and techniques that work for classroom and Web-streamed students. You will also learn about the staff and facilities that are there to help you make it all work.
•Supporting Distance Learning Teachers – Wednesday, March 22, 9-11 a.m., 202 Gornto Center Getting course materials to all your students requires planning and orchestration. When your students are all over the map, from ships in the Persian Gulf to corporate sites in California to community colleges in Arizona, planning becomes crucial. This workshop gives you the tools to deal with course administration, preparing and distributing course materials, ordering textbooks and software, providing academic and logistics support for your students, and dealing with remote sites. Learn how to ensure it all works for you, from the director of distance education and her staff.
•Anywhere-Anytime Library Resources – Wednesday, March 22, 1-3 p.m., 163 Perry Library One of the best resources you can give your students is access to the literature on your area of instruction. The portal for access is via the Old Dominion and remote-site libraries. Learn about Perry Library’s incredible array of services for faculty, as well as on-campus and distance students – services that can be electronically accessed virtually any time, any place. Online reserves, locating content resources and accessing libraries worldwide are just a sampling of what you and your students will find at our totally accessible new digital library.
•Copyright and Intellectual Property Issues – Wednesday, March 22, 3-4 p.m., 163 Perry Library The rules that permit fair use of copyrighted materials in the traditional classroom are essentially inapplicable in the electronic classroom. Even the foremost copyright authorities can’t agree on what is permissible. Where can you go for answers? What are the issues for using copyrighted materials in the classroom? Do fair use guidelines apply when you teach on television? What do you need to know and do to avoid problems? Faculty create and use copyrighted materials. This workshop will acquaint you with procedures for permissible use of copyrighted materials to support teaching at a distance.
•Distance Teaching Questions & Answers – Friday, March 24, 9-10 a.m., 202 Gornto Center If you make it to Friday with questions still unanswered, this open-ended session is intended to provide answers regarding teaching at a distance – where to get specific help or training, how to ensure learning objectives are satisfied on campus and at a distance, how to assess distance student performance, and just what do you mean by “asynchronous?” Whatever the question, we’ll get answers, and perhaps identify topics for future expanded workshop coverage.
•Practice Teaching Sessions – Friday, March 24, 1-3 p.m., 204 Gornto Center Faculty who wish to try out the technology can do so in these sessions. Sign up to check out your PowerPoint presentation materials. See how you look in that new Armani outfit. And where are those camera controls?
