Listen in on CTL Podcast with the Professor Episode 2 as Bruce Peterson, Communications Faculty from Red Mountain, discusses his Required Office Hours experiment this semester. For links to the articles Bruce mentions, visit his home page at: http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~vocewld

Recording notes: The audio for this podcast was captured using portable podcast technologies (iPod video device and Micromemo recorder). The sound was edited the podcast was created using Garage Band.

 

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Have you ever needed to give a student or students access to an exam, after the deadline has passed, while denying access to the others? This could happen if you have a student or couple of students that do not make an exam deadline for some reason. This can be done, and the steps are not difficult, but you must be careful when applying them. So…here goes: (more…)

I’ve not had a chance to fully play with this yet to see the implications, but what it does indicate is a move towards media that just works regardless of your platform of choice. QuickTime, Flash, RealMedia, and Windows Media have been duking it out for a while now. Microsoft is now providing free of charge a component you can download that allows Mac users using QuickTime as their player of choice to be able to play Windows Media Files. It’s actually made by a company called Flip4Mac and you can purchase their full version if you want to CREATE WMV files on your Mac. (more…)

 

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If there is a specific icon/picture in your course that you want to customize, you will need to have the new picture/icon stored in your files area to do this. There are no pictures to browse for within WebCT automatically. You will need to upload the pictures you wish to use. Below are the recommended steps for customization. (more…)

Have you wondered what all the excitement about WebCT is? Peggy Johnson explains!

 

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Dr. Christine Hall, District Director of Employment & Recruitment, came to speak to our adjunct faculty on Monday and the response was wonderful! We had more than 35 attendees from a wide range of disciplines come to get tips on how to best apply for residential faculty positions at Maricopa County Community Colleges.

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PowerPoint often gets bad reviews by educational psychologists and graphic designers such as Edward Tufte (mentioned in Brad’s earlier blog). They claim it is harming teaching and learning. I would like to address the criticisms of Edward Tufte as listed in the Wikipedia article about him. (more…)

I’m not about to become an authority on the subject of constructivism, but one of the challenges with early online learning where instructors who knew their subjects very well but didn’t understand how less-productive it could be to just toss students into an online learning environment and expect that their instincts would take over and they would just ‘figure it out’. Most distance-learning students (including myself) have a certain amount of online survival mechanism built in that very closely mimics survival in the real world.

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Ever “lost” students in your WebCT Gradebook (i.e. you don’t see them in your WebCT Gradebook but you KNOW they were there at one point)?

Try this:

• From the Teach tab, click Gradebook
• Look under the Gradebook Options menu and select “Show Unenrolled Member Data”
• Students who have been unenrolled from WebCT will appear in red

If you want to hide them again, go back to Gradebook Options and select “Hide Unenrolled Member Data”.

Join us for a short interview with Vince DiFranco, Mesa Community College faculty member in the Business Department. Vince discusses his use of the “weekly email” to alert students to upcoming events and to provide an advanced organizer for the next class session. (more…)

 

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