Distance Learning

This presentation was part of the PowerPoint Brownbag series organized by Dale Roenigk.  On September 16th, Will Cross and Emily King presented on best practices for using images in teaching.  The information provided were best practices and not legal advice, but more suggestions.  Will Cross shared five best practices for teaching with images: Assume...
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We need your voice—men, women and a variety of accents! SOG (TLS) is searching for voices to narrate some of our e-learning modules and/or to simply read short lines as part of some mini-scenarios that we’re developing. If you’ve wanted to be recorded, think you’ve got a great voice, or if know someone else...
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As a school, we were busy this year providing online training and instruction.  We put on 19 webinars this fiscal year, not including additional webinars offered by EFC.  Our unofficial webinar participant count was 4,379.   If we add in those that signed up for our on-demand webinars and courses (elearning modules), the numbers...
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Yesterday we conducted our second Local Government Legislative Review/Update. It was successful on many accounts, but first, the details… Duration: 2 hours Registered: 84 In attendance (online): 413 Presenters: 12 (Wall, Wunsche, Markham, Bluestein, Crowell, Ducker, Welty, Fairbanks, Whisnant, Hughes, Youens, McLaughlin) Avg. presentation length: 7.5 minutes Faculty Lead: Aimee Wall Program Manager: Carolyn...
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A new book from Nicholas Carr makes the case that our Internet browsing, tweeting, IMing and texting is significantly changing us–the shape of our brains, how we think, our ability to concentrate and learn.  I’ve heard the discussion before and read some of the interesting research on the topic.  It seems to be true,...
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Many of us recently enjoyed listening to David Cupp, professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.  Cupp worked in TV and Radio for over 25 years and teaches voice and diction (among other classes) at UNC. He instructed us on how to more naturally converse with our audiences when they’re not present...
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I read a blog article on Inside Higher Ed today where the author asks why “webinars ALWAYS suck?“.   The brief article is worth the read and makes me chuckle because I know exactly what he’s talking about.  I’ve watched many over the last couple years and tend to agree with his assessment…except… that many...
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Webinars are a major new way we’ve been frugal while providing real value to our clients where and when they need it.  SOG’s use of the webinars as a means of reaching out to clients has increased in recent months. Here are some unofficial numbers as of October 1, 2009: 24 webinars conducted 5...
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Intruguing title, but what isn’t the headline telling us, and what are some of  the relevant  details? The 93 page report examined the comparative research on online versus traditional classroom teaching from 1996 to 2008. Some of it was in K-12 settings, but most of the comparative studies were done in colleges and adult...
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With the Online Modules pilot group, we’ve been discussing ways to make our presentations less wordy, and more visual.  I was impressed with this slideshow on dumping the drone form our presentations, and the way it used so few words—yet it’s still easy to follow even without the audio (narration) or script! It’s geared...
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