This is my summary about So, You want to teach online? webinar by Shelly Terrell.
Online formats
- secondlife: create 3Ds stories
- Skype
- Webinar-Platforms: you can upload videos, ppt, chat box, audio
- E-Conferences: Virtual Round Table
- Google Hangouts: Chat with gmail account
- E-courses: EVO
- MOOCs: Massive Open Online Course
Which should I choose?
It depends on many factors: the number of students, your budget, students’digital literacy, Synchronous vs Asynchronous
- Posterous: Easily manage and customize multiple Spaces. Each Space can be customized with privacy settings.
- Skype
- Wikis
- Adobe: not free
- Elluminate: not free
- WizIQ: not free but reasonable price
- Haikulearning
How does teaching online differ from teaching f2f?
Tips:
- need to learn about the tools
- learn from others
- attend online webinars
- test it out: Rehearse
- transform your material
- interactive youtube: My search: The Treasure Hunt, Choose a different Ending, Who Wants to be a YouTubillionaire!? (I loved it!)
- attend host webinars regularly
- learn presentation design (I followed Shelly’s advise and check on Steve Job’s Presentation Secrets)
- present at online conferences
- share on social networks
- post online: Slideshare, Authorstream, Present.me
Tools:
- Edmodo
- Blogs
- Google+
- Google docs
- Posterous
- Livebinders
- Wikis
- Scribd
- Moodle
How to market yourself?
- Create a profile, blog, Google+, FB, Twitter, Start your own youtube channel, collaborate on a project
Where can you present?
- Reform Symposium
- Edublogs Serendipity
- E-conferences
- Virtual Round Table
- Learn Central
- Skype into TeachMeets
- classroom 2.0
- Gllobal Education Conference
- K12 Online
Further resources:
- #Elearning on Twitter
- Teaching Online by Nicky Hockly and Lindsay Clandfield
My reflections after the webinar:
I started teaching online in 2011. Mainly because commuting a big city like Buenos Aires is challenging. Students got to classes late or did not manage to turn up. Too many cancellations. I use Skype and Google docs as our “board”. The main reason for this combination has to do with budget.
After one year I feel that my online classes are usually more efficient, we start on time and finish on time, which also gives me the chance to schedule more classes. I can teach even when not in the city.
I transform my lesson plans a little and blog the resources students need or just provide links.
My next goal was to have a wiki where we can upload all students’activities. This is challenging as most of my learners are not digital literate natives, most of them not even residents. But I will upload their work myself at the beginning and they might learn with time.
After this webinar I am going to do some more research to see if Posterous offers a more friendly platform.