T3+-+Teaching+with+Technology

Making large online classes manageable:

-divide your students into groups (with a class of 70, try 10 per group) - resist the urge to jump into every conversation - provide participation marks - perhaps even an assessment based on a critical analysis of a previous forum post -build collaboration into assessment - learners can e 'lurkers', 'irtuosos' or 'flashers' -have netiquette and protocols - provide a space for students to post 'A-HA' moments (forum/wiki) - allow students to 'opt-in' to group work, if they want to work alone - let them! -give instant feedback (quizzes are great for this) - how to make content accessble for non-readers - look for Moodle plug-ins (or other integrated tools if working with another LMS) - ask learners what THEY want - weaving - copy & paste forum posts into a doc or wiki and highlight important stuff

-virtul worlds / second life (sloodle) - collaborate with other institutions (talk to Terry Neal, Aaron Griffiths or Clare Aitkins

Links: Sloodle : http://slenz.wordpress.com Nano-Gong : http://gong.usb.hk/nanogong/ (Applet - online tool that "jut works", this one allows recording tool & is easy to use)