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		<title>By The Numbers&#8230;a year in review</title>
		<link>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/tls/?p=1018</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 08:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 climb beyond 5000.  Those are impressive numbers considering we only really started our online instruction 2 years ago.  More important than the numbers, of course, is the value we provide to those who register for our training and instruction.  Here too, the feedback is impressive. (survey summaries)  We&#8217;ve seen volume and interest grow both from our faculty and our clients, and I expect that trend to continue for the foreseeable future. Over a year ago, I wrote a post titled &#8220;A (budget) Crisis is a Terrible thing to Waste&#8221; .  In it Possibly related posts:2010 Local Government Legislative Review/Update Webinars at the SOG: The Numbers


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		<title>Presentation promo example (flash)</title>
		<link>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/tls/?p=998</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago, David Ammons was asked by conference organizers to provide a short (30 second) promo for one of his Benchmarking presentations. David generated the script and provided some basic visuals.  Greg Whisenhunt recorded David&#8217;s narration in the soundbooth, added some graphics and animated the final piece.  The end result is a flash file which can be easily embedded in webpages and blogs. Possibly related posts:Promoting SOG Conferences &#038; Training Sessions &#8230;a bit differently


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		<title>Online Text and learning: To Scroll or Not to Scroll</title>
		<link>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/tls/?p=942</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish I had come up with this my self, but this one interesting small study said people performed better on a quiz after reading a PDF (article-style layout), than they did after reading the same text on a website style layout.  One of the culprits appears to be scrolling http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Students-Retain-Print/22088/?sid=pm&#038;utm_source=pm&#038;utm_medium=en http://www.theonion.com/articles/nation-shudders-at-large-block-of-uninterrupted-te,16932/ Possibly related posts:Online Learning Communities: Time To Get Wet?


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		<title>Why most webinars &#8220;suck&#8221;?&#8230;and why ours don&#8217;t.</title>
		<link>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/tls/?p=930</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a blog article on Inside Higher Ed today where the author asks why &#8220;webinars ALWAYS suck?&#8220;.   The brief article is worth the read and makes me chuckle because I know exactly what he&#8217;s talking about.  I&#8217;ve watched many over the last couple years and tend to agree with his assessment&#8230;except&#8230; that many (most?) of our SOG webinars don&#8217;t!  Our evaluation data suggest our clients are very positive about our webinars&#8230;or are being less than truthful.  What do we do that make ours different? A blog commenter and webinar producer provides 5 tips for successful webinars .  We regularly implement the practices among others not on his list that help us buck the trend. Write for the medium (webinars are not f2f presentations and need more interaction!) Know your platform and its capabilities/limitations (we do&#8211;Adobe Connect Pro) Test, test, test (we provide links for clients to test their system, we provide instructions, helpdesk support, and test our own equipment before each event&#8211;and provide backups in the event of failure.) Practice, practice, practice (we provide orientations, review slides, and conduct dry-runs/rehearsals) Running the actual event (we go well-beyond the suggestions here) Arrive early Webinar Environment Review Have a wingman (or [...]


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		<title>Live Question Tool</title>
		<link>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/tls/?p=924</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned this nifty classroom question tool in an earlier post, but felt it needed it&#8217;s own post as it could be widely applied in our face-to-face and some online programs at the SOG. Live Question Tool is a web-based tool that lets clients at your presentation post questions for the speakers. As questions are posted, other class participants can submit comments and cast votes for the questions they hope to see answered first. It is hosted on Harvard University’s Berkman Center website, where it is freely available to anyone who wants to use it.  The presenter can address the questions during the session, wait for a Q&#38;A break, or start answering questions when clients return from lunch for example. It’s free, easy to use and can also be effectively used to level the question-submitting “playing field” for courses that mix both remote and local participants. Furthermore, it is a great (alternative?) use of laptops and other web-enabled devices in our SOG classrooms.  Eileen Y. recently pointed me to this article on classroom laptop use worth sharing that also mentions use of these tools in the live classroom. 5 Steps: Go to the Live Question Tool website. Create a new [...]


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		<title>State of the Internet</title>
		<link>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/tls/?p=918</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always drawn to this type of information. The data helps me decide what not to follow, and what internet usage trends and webtools are worth paying attention to. Internet trends may lag significantly in government compared with trends in other areas of our lives, but keeping up with the state of the internet is helpful in determining how reach and provide services for our clients in the future. I&#8217;m glad we didn&#8217;t jump on the second life bandwagon? We&#8217;ve put our toe in the water on the Facebook bandwagon&#8230;we&#8217;ll see where that leads. We&#8217;ve fully committed to webinars, and I believe we (and our clients) are already seeing the benefits of that service. What&#8217;s next? Not sure, but the Internet and how people access it (hint: mobile) will probably play a key role. http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet/ http://www.focus.com/fyi/information-technology/state-internet/ No related posts.


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		<title>New Constitutional Tales Website</title>
		<link>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/tls/?p=900</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who enjoyed Ann McColl&#8217;s Constitutional Tales series as much as I did, Nancy Kiplinger shared Ann&#8217;s recent website announcement with me&#8230;TLS was instrumental in helping Ann create media for, and refine many of her original tales. -Joel G. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- February 15 is not just President’s Day.  We might think of it as “Constitutional Right to Education” day.  And to celebrate, I want to share with you the launching of the website for Constitutional Tales. Why today? Because on February 15, 1868, Reverend Samuel S. Ashley introduced on the floor of the North Carolina Constitutional Convention an amendment to the Declaration of Rights.  That amendment articulated education as a fundamental right of the people of this state.  We continue to benefit from his bold action as it became a foundation for our North Carolina Supreme Court’s interpretation of a right to an equal opportunity to a sound, basic education. I invite you to go to http://constitutionaltales.net/ and see what engages you in the initial offering.  You might be interested in the video clip from the State Capitol presentation on the Freedmen’s Convention and the contributions of African Americans in the pursuit of free public schools.   If you [...]


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		<title>7 Things You Should Know&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/tls/?p=895</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) has created a great series of  2 page documents entitled &#8220;7 Things You Should Know About&#8230;&#8220;  This series provides concise information on a host of emerging learning technologies and related practices. Use these briefs for a no-jargon, quick overview of a topic and share them with time-pressed colleagues.  Each document focuses on a single technology or practice and describes: What it is How it works Where it is going Why it matters to teaching and learning One in particular that I find intriguing with implications for our larger, day or longer conferences is this one on Live Question Tools.  This could be a way of getting an audience to submit questions they&#8217;d like addressed by the end of a conference. Take a look at the series, you&#8217;re sure to find some up and coming teaching and learning technology, trend or practice you wanted to learn 7 things about! -Joel G. No related posts.


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		<title>Changes in TLS</title>
		<link>http://sogweb.sog.unc.edu/blogs/tls/?p=881</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This note from Georgia, __________________________ Good Afternoon, Over the next several months the services from the Teaching and Learning group within ITD will be changing to address growing needs within the School. As the School becomes increasingly responsive to the economic climate and the travel restrictions of our client groups, the demands for production of online materials are increasing. In response to this need, we have decided to expand our production capabilities and have made the difficult choice to reduce general instructional design services in order to increase production capacity. Nancy Kiplinger has been providing instructional design services, and her last day will be at the end of her contract period on January 15th, 2010. Over the past several years, Nancy has provided excellent instructional design services for our faculty and staff, and we appreciate greatly the effort she has put toward helping the School’s instructional experience be as effective as possible. Her skills and camaraderie will be greatly missed. We are in the process of bringing in a person on contract to support production of online materials. Instructional design services will still be available through Joel Galbraith, albeit on a more limited basis. In addition, Joel will manage the [...]


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		<title>SOG Blogs: The Numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Moore</dc:creator>
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