KISS & Tone
Tone: keep it friendly, smile, be personable, treat them with respect and dignity, be yourself, talked to the students like you would like to be talked to
KISS--Keep It Structurally Simple
What do I need to do? How will I get to it? How will I be graded? Tell all these answers up front.
Give them an opportunity to be successful. Spell out your rules. Make info easy to find and accessible.
Carolyn Weber, MNWCTC
doesn't use power point alot right now (moved away from that) might re-think that
Yes, students learn as well, some better, in an online environment
Yes, it is more work--but it is worth it!!
Teaching Public Speaking online for several years.
Keep it simple. Too much information can be counteractive. Be consistent. Introductory quiz on syllabus. Set course up in units, roll it out weekly. Have a library unit, where Librarian develops content, does an assignment and monitors discussions.
Challenges--keep it updated.
Introductions. Respond to all--builds community.
Talk about nervousness, as a unit, early
Challenges--discussions.
Be PRESENT. Don't be the sage on the stage.
Challenges--students with literacy issues.
Quizzes used only first 3 weeks (gets them acclimated)
Challenges--missed deadlines.
Quality versus Quantity with speeches
Students upload their videos and tag her in it.
She has a speech Facebook page.
Students review/evaluate each others work. Self-assessments. Rubric (they complete the final speech rubric on their own speech) Posted before hand.
Adobe-connect account. Interactive, web cam, document and video capabilities
Jay Sieling, Alexandra Technical & Community College
Speech Studio (looked up online--resource section coming soon)
Embedd "great speeches" read text first. "What do you think is happening?" (Critical analysis first) and then watch it.
Online Speech Bank. Top 100 Speeches.
YouTube has resources you can use too.
Get across the importance of the audience and the importance of the moment.
You can do stuff that is very contemporary.
example on youtube about importance of delivery, GOP Candidate Phil Davidson
Has only gone as hybrid with Public Speaking to keep importance of moment and setting.
Internet Archive takes a snapshot of what's on the web. Also keeps a bunch of films that are now free domain. (Prelinger archive)?
Roberta Freeman, MSCTC-Fergus Falls
Public Speaking completely online
Even all face to face classes are now hybrid
Challenges: How do you do that?
She has a youtube account where they send videos to a folder she's sent up. But also has option for alternative routes (videotapes, flashdrives). But most are now coming online. Which she strongly recommends.
Has to teach them about her expectations on context (turn off tv, film whole body, no shoes--no service)
Fergus Falls has them "have to" pass an online quiz before they can sign up for an online class.
"I work hard on helping them find an authentic audience"
She has them do an evaluation at the end of the course. Uses that feedback to adapt her class for the next offering.
Right on registration page it says, you must meet audience requirements.
Audience Requirements:
10 or more people
appropriate to the content of speech
Require that they get feedback forms from each audience member
Show the audience before and after
Q & A must be a part of the presentation
They have to watch their own speech before submitting.
"I feel like I don't have to be there. It's not about me." "Feels in many ways more authentic than the classroom"
It takes a whole lot of work.
They evaluate former students. Evaluating the paperwork too. She put her own speeches up online (one on delivery). So they get to know her that she can "demonstrate and model" what I'm teaching. Has them evaluate her speech.
Engage class in discussion area. Only respond to the "ask the instructor" posts--leaves the others for authenticity between students.
Uses the chat room for an online small group chat session (challenge--time) Grades after the fact (prints off transcript), but doesn't interfere in the process.
Online virtual office hours. Post hours and expectations for availability online. Use of "office hours" varies.
Tries to think of pedagogy.
Tapes face to face classes. Online class actually gives one more speech than F2F. Believes the quality is as good or sometimes better than what she gets in F2F class.
With the online class--Only difference is that I'm not in the room. Maybe a good thing?
Freemaro2 on youtube.
Virginia Gregg, MN state University Moorheard
Things that are out there for you to use:
Joomla
udutu
softchalk
Joomla--can do alot of webstuff w/o html
Softchalk creates a book for you
Communication tools
Wiki--edit each others work--free
Wetpaint Wetpaint Cenral (now has ads)
PBWorks (lots of options--but might be a bit scary for tech-anxious)
Beyond the handout Teaching Tools
Dropbox (the program not the D2L tool)
Lecture capabilities:
Wimba
GoToWebinar (synchronous or asynchronous)
PanPTO
Power Point to Vidoe
Acoolsoft (takes powerpoint and transfers it to video to almost any format) About 29 dollars
Have them test an audio and video capabilites
SOFTCHALK:
Pages turned into books (TITLES come up in contents page)
Can create different kinds of assessments (Sorting)
Grades can be self-assessed or automatically transferred to D2L gradebook
Can jump to different pages
Can add additional resources as a side bar (content, video, links)
Embed video and comes back automatically without having
Streaming Video
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