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Global Education, Technology & Research Associates Center (GETRA)
The 24-Hour E-Learn Management Journey
Workshop I: Zoom Virtual Classrooms and Blackboard Learn to Collaborate
Start Date: Open End Date: Open
Venue: Zoom Videoconferencing
Duration: 8 hours
Coordinator: TBD by
Presenter: Dr. Joyce Pittman, USA
Zoom and Blackboard Learn Collaborate are two popular virtual classroom and meeting systems. In you will develop an understanding of how to facilitate engaging lectures, custom tutorials other teaching and learning activities online using both Zoom and Blackboard Learn to Collaborate. This course will cover hands practical skills in using Zoom and Blackboard Learn to Collaborate and explore how virtual classrooms are used at colleges and universities for teaching, learning research.
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Participants will familiarize themselves with the use of chat, wikis, blogs, webcams, whiteboards, websites, polls, social media and emoticons for communication in the virtual world. Participants use the presentation area to view and interact with local Information Technology Services (ITS) available to them to connect to the workshop site.
All training and Webinars are offered in a virtual classroom format.
The workshop in virtual classroom format will be led by a trainer and conducted using Zoom and Blackboard Learn to Collaborate. To participate in courses in this format you will need a computer with Internet/ broadband access, webcam and a headset with an attached microphone.
The classroom link and setup instructions will be emailed to participants 3-5 days before the start of the session. To allow instructions to be sent out you must register for the online courses at least 5 days prior to the start time, minimum 3 days.
This five (5) course modules will enable participants to:
- Appreciate the range of possibilities for the use of virtual classrooms in teaching and learning.
- Setup and manage a virtual classroom or meeting room.
- Use different communication and feedback methods to “flip the classroom” from passive to active learning.
- Use image files, videos, applications and the whiteboard in presentations.
- Record virtual classroom sessions.
Supplementary Learning - Teach Online Strategies Resources
Video Lectures and Tutorials: Will be included.
Integrating Digital Web Technologies and Social Networking Tools to “Flip Collaborating, Teaching, and Learning ”
Outcome: Virtual Project
1. Putting it all together
2. Presentation
3. Evaluation
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Workshop 2: Creative Course Site Design in Blackboard Learn
Start Date:
End Date:
Venue: Zoom or Blackboard Learn
Duration: 8 hours
Coordinator: TBD by
Presenter: Dr. Joyce Pittman
This hands-on course includes five (5) modules to explore course site design and building.
Bring your Blackboard course site, content ideas. We will help you to design and build a course that looks professional and supports your students' learning.
You will work through orienting and welcoming students to your course using real-time tools. Help your students by developing navigation that enables students to spend their time learning not "wandering". Course graphic design is introduced and practiced in this course. Explore using Blackboard features that make your site work for students. Learn to present online resources so they can be easily accessed and downloaded by students when required for hands-on work.
This course assumes you are familiar with the content of the Blackboard Basics course.
This course will enable participants to complete:
Modules
1. Develop an orientation and welcome for students.
2. Design and evaluate a navigation structure for course sites.
3. Create courses and resources that are accessible to all students.
4. Present information for easy online access.
5. Provide strategies for integrating learning technologies and social media, Web 2.0
Outcome: Virtual Project
1. Putting it all together
2. Presentation
3. Zoom Session Template
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Workshop 3: Creative Strategies to Manage Global Learning Places
Start Date:
End Date:
Venue: Zoom Room
Duration: 8 hours
Coordinator: TBD client
Presenter: Dr. Joyce Pittman
This hands-on course includes ten (10) modules that explore emerging virtual pedagogy and answers the question: What is it?
Modules
1. Re-designing Classrooms as “Centers of Learning”
2. Flipping Instructional Styles
3. Flipping Course and Program syllabus
4. Introducing Creativity and Innovation in Online Education
5. Engaging Learners in e-learning with Digital and Web Technologies
6. Preparing Learners for and Learning Styles
7. Managing Instructional Design to Control Information Overload
8. Assessment and Testing
9. Diversity and Equity, Policies and Practices
10. Contemporary Global Learning Issues, Language and Immigration
Outcome Project
1. Putting it all together
2. Presentation
3. Evaluation
Notes: Ask about to earn E-Learning Management Certificates for Act 48 /credits