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DLCC a Volume 3,Issue 1
October 2004
DL Delivery
Inside this issue:
Meet the New 1-2
--all the news that online profs can take in print form DL Mentor
WebCeTera 2
Meet the New Distance Learning Mentor:
Michael Robertson 147 Practical 2
Greetings DL faculty, experience with you to help you stream- Tips
line WebCT functions.
My name is Web Resources 3
Michael I’m looking forward to learning from you
Robertson as well. Since teaching is an idiosyn-
and I’m the cratic enterprise, and often discipline
new Distance
Learning
specific, my knowledge of distance
learning is limited to the liberal arts. I
Important
Mentor at would love to learn how my colleagues Dates
JCCC. I’d in other disciplines have utilized WebCT
• October 1—Spring
like to take in new and exciting ways that might
this opportu- help me solve problems or improve 05 WebCT course
nity to intro- pedagogy. shells created. Be
duce myself sure to update (or
to those of To facilitate this, I have created a Dis- create) your course
you who may tance Learning Listserve for those fac- Welcome Page. Con-
not know me ulty who teach online classes. The pur- tact the DL Mentor
at all—or not very well. pose of the list is to help online faculty for help in creating a
improve pedagogy, course organization Welcome page and/
I’m a professor of Humanities and teach and structure, student/professor com- or rolling over course
both online and WebCT assisted ‘brick- munication, creative uses of WebCT content.
and-click’ classes. Currently I teach In- tools, etc. by sharing our expertise. I’d • October 15—
troduction to Humanities and Classical also like to encourage peer feedback Sabbatical proposal
Mythology online, and Classical Mythol- among DL faculty by giving TA access deadline. Contact the
ogy and World Religions in a mediated to a colleague to review your course DL Mentor if you
classroom. I will be adding World Relig- materials. This is not unlike what we do plan to incorporate
ions to my online offerings in the spring. in Peer Review, where panel members
online technology
I’ve been here at JCCC since fall 1992. visit the classrooms of new faculty, and
into your proposal.
new faculty visit the classrooms of sen-
He’s there to help!
I’ve been interested in, and using, tech- ior faculty so that we can learn from
nology in the classroom for several each other how to be better teachers— • October 17—
years now—well before the implementa- whether in a face-to-face class or WebCeTera ZETC
tion of WebCT. For several years before online. 150-03 begins. For
that I recreated the wheel more times course information
than I can count, building my own web Distance Learning ≠ Online to the ETC Home
pages and links for students to access Courses Page.
online. Although I may have wasted a
lot of precious time, it has helped me Another goal as DL Mentor is to help
refine the organization of my online con- faculty digitize their course materials
tent. Hopefully, I can share some of my and make them available to students
Meet the New DL Mentor
(Continued from page 1) more tools to your WebCT shell, 147 Practical Tips
using WebCT. We all have a course and test them out and fine-tune for Teaching Online
syllabus that we give out to students them in your face-to-face classes, it
at the beginning of the semester. If is a relatively easy step to going Groups: Essentials of
you teach in a face-to-face environ- online. Web-Based Education
ment, why not make this available to
students in WebCT? There is al- If you are interested in Distance This handy little book by Hanna,
ready a course shell created. You Learning and would like help chart- Glowacki-Dudka, and and Con-
already have the Syllabus in Word ing a course toward online teaching, ceição-Runlee can be yours by reg-
or WordPerfect. Why not just click please contact me at ext. 4191, or istering for WebCeTera. In the
“File” “Save As” and save it as an michaelr@jccc.net. I look forward to meantime I’ll divulge some of its
HTML file and upload it into hearing from you. wisdom here each issue.
WebCT? Make your WebCT shell
the default page in Pipeline under Tip 35: Expect learners to review
the My Courses tab, and you’re on WebCeTera readings and materials thought-
your way to making materials avail- fully and reflectively
able 24/7 to your students. If a stu- WebCeTera (rhymes with
dent looses their syllabus and “etcetera”) is a new course offered In an online class, instructors can
needs a copy, they can view it through the Educational Technology create class materials in a number
online and print out a copy. Center that prepares faculty to teach of forms: web-based texts, tutorials,
online classes. WebCeTera is not a file attachments, simulations, or
Are you concerned whether your self-paced course but rather a five- other resources. Instructors can
students are actually reading the week interactive class that gives post material on the web via e-mail
text? Or are you interested in them faculty a chance to experience be- attachments, discussions, content
exploring more deeply ideas in the ing an online student--as they learn pages, etc. Whatever the case, be
text that you don’t have time to ad- WebCT. sure to stress to your students that
dress in class? Create a discussion they must review all the material
topic for students to engage in out- Participants will receive the textbook thoughtfully and reflectively. With
side of class time. You’ll be pleas- (a volume of practical tips for online the right direction, you’ll be sur-
antly surprised at the quality of their groups--a fast read) and upon suc- prised at the quality and depth of
responses. cessful completion, a WebCeTera t- student responses to your questions
shirt. and each other’s responses.
The syllabus and discussion tools
are two ways to engage students WebCeTera is offered twice a se- Tip 49: Myth—Technology will
online without much time or training, mester. The next course begins Oc- always work
especially if you’ve not taken a tober 17th and ends November
WebCT class. Over time, and with 23rd. To register login to Pipeline/ Keep in mind the following sugges-
some training from the Educational EASI and click “Add Classes.” Enter tions:
Technology Center, you can gradu- the CRN 30221 to display the
ally automate much of what you do course number ZETC 150-03. For • Plan your use of technology
in class, from making your overhead more information surf over to the carefully
lecture outlines available to students Educational Technology Center’s • Provide students detailed in-
to help them study and prepare for Home Page at http://web.jccc.net/ structions on what they should
quizzes and/or exams, to online edtech/. do when the technology doesn’t
testing itself. Teaching “brick-and- work
click” classes (face-to-face supple- • Develop a backup emergency
mented with digitized materials) also plan when all else fails
is Distance Learning.
The “brick-and-click” model is a
good stepping-stone to Online
teaching. As you gradually add
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DL Delivery
DLCC at JCCC
Mission of the Distance Learning Coordinating Council:
Bill Lamb, DLCC Chair
web.jccc.net/academic/dlcc We will explore barriers and opportunities related to education and services outside
the face-to-face classroom model. We will develop goals and implement action plans to
coordinate Distance Learning initiatives across campus.
Jonathan Bacon
Janet Brandeau Charge:
Donnie Byers
Cody Copeland
* To identify barriers to the development of distance education courses and to elimi-
Clarissa Craig
Shirly Kleiner nate them.
Del Lovitt
Ed Lovitt * To develop processes that encourage and enhance the delivery of distance education
Marilyn Rhinehart courses.
Michael Robertson
Ann Schwartz
Denise Scofield
MargE Shelley
Alan Swarts
Judi Vaughn Johnson County
Randy Winchester
Community College
Web Resources for the Online Instructor
Survey Results, and the WebCT the puzzle generator the first time,
Student Manual. you'll have an option of going
through the tutorial (really just in-
Each year the WebCT Exemplary structions to read). The application
Course Project recognizes online is very easy to use. Just have your
courses that meet high standards list of words (terms) and defini-
in the following areas: Course De- tions ready. The next page of this
sign, Interaction and Collabora- module has a crossword puzzle
tion, Use of Technology, Assess- created using EclipseCrossword.
ment, and Learner Support. You
T his issue's web links focus on
sites that will give you some spe-
can view the winning courses from
the last few years here: http://
Game Show developed by
AliveTek.com. You can go to
www.webct.com/exemplary. http://showcase.alivetek.com/ia/
cific resources for making your scroll to the bottom of the page
online classes even better than Interactive online games are an and find the link that goes to one
they already are. effective tool for helping students of two free educational interactive
The Distance Learning Coordi- learn course material. Eclipse- games offered for educational use.
nating Council site (http:// Crossword, which creates cross- Read the instructions, complete
web.jccc.net/academic/dlcc/) has word puzzles from the words and the online form, and you can gen-
recently been redesigned and up- definitions you provide. You can erate a Game Show automatically
dated with much more material for read about EclipseCrossword at that uses the questions you enter
JCCC online instructors. The site http:// online.
now contains an extensive docu- www.greeneclipsesoftware.com/
ment collection: Expectations for eclipsecrossword/ and download DL Delivery, a newsletter for online
Distance Learning Faculty, Best the free crossword puzzle genera- instructors at JCCC, will be published
Practices for Distance Learning, tor from the same page. Eclipse- on a semi-regular basis during the
Online Faculty Checklist for In- Crossword runs only on Windows academic year.
structors New to WebCT, Online systems. Send all questions, comments, praise,
Faculty Semester-by-Semester After downloading and installing insults, flames, and spam to Michael
WebCT Checklist, Online Student EclipseCrossword, when you run Robertson, editor, at
michaelr@jccc.net.
