
COVID-CONVERTED EDITION #1: Introduction to Actionable Tips and Tricks to Teach Online in Real Time
11/13/21 • -1 min
This special COVID-Converted Edition audio and video podcast series is in response to the impact of COVID-19 on the way we live, learn and work. Teachers all over the world have been thrown into teaching their "COVID-Converted" courses online. This series will focus on moving from this emergency remote teaching and learning to more thoughtfully prepared online learning experiences.
This episode is an interview with Gary Dietz and Shannon Forte, partners in a new venture to bring teachers affordable, practical techniques to engage learners and deliver effective online instruction. We discuss their Workshop including:
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- Presenter backgrounds
- Need for workshops to teach instructors
- Intended audiences for these workshops
- Activities used in the workshop and taught
- Sensorial approaches using music, sound, drawing
- Use of video in place of "talking heads"
- Using private chat to manage classroom
- Advantages of online over physical classroom
- Overcoming obstacles for teachers new to online
- Register for the PADLA Online Workshop: Actionable Tips and Tricks to Teach Online in Real Time
- Presenters: Gary Dietz and Shannon Forte
- Twinkle in the Night by Aakash Gandhi
This special COVID-Converted Edition audio and video podcast series is in response to the impact of COVID-19 on the way we live, learn and work. Teachers all over the world have been thrown into teaching their "COVID-Converted" courses online. This series will focus on moving from this emergency remote teaching and learning to more thoughtfully prepared online learning experiences.
This episode is an interview with Gary Dietz and Shannon Forte, partners in a new venture to bring teachers affordable, practical techniques to engage learners and deliver effective online instruction. We discuss their Workshop including:
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Open Video Podcast on Youtube |
- Presenter backgrounds
- Need for workshops to teach instructors
- Intended audiences for these workshops
- Activities used in the workshop and taught
- Sensorial approaches using music, sound, drawing
- Use of video in place of "talking heads"
- Using private chat to manage classroom
- Advantages of online over physical classroom
- Overcoming obstacles for teachers new to online
- Register for the PADLA Online Workshop: Actionable Tips and Tricks to Teach Online in Real Time
- Presenters: Gary Dietz and Shannon Forte
- Twinkle in the Night by Aakash Gandhi
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Covid-Converted Edition #7: Reshaping Curriculum Design and Attitudes about Online Learning
Click the Title to Play or Download. Interview with Amanda Smith, Chief Academic Officer, Academic Partnerships, and Maria Andersen, General Manager of Coursetune.This special COVID-Converted Edition audio and video podcast series responds to the impact of COVID-19 on the way we live, learn, and work. Teachers all over the world have been thrown into teaching their "COVID-Converted" courses online. This series will focus on moving from this emergency remote teaching and learning to more thoughtfully prepared learning experiences. COVID is reshaping curriculum design and attitudes about online learning.
Academic Partners is "an online facilitator that assists public institutions of higher education in taking their academic programs online and recruits and retains qualified students through program completion. Coursetune helps institutions improve course and program design by focusing on mapping and assessment alignment." We discuss:
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- Amanda and Maria's background
- Overview of Coursetune, an elegant visual course planning tool
- Academic Partnerships' role
- Growth of online programs
- Need for change in curriculum design
- Release of Courseplan ("Coursetune light")
- AP Off Campus toolkit to move instruction from classroom to online
- Critical outcomes alignment and support
- Faculty training
- Role of instructional designers
- Challenge of short term vs. long term thinking
- Integration with the LMS
- New features on the way: "variation layers"
- Wonderful Day by Debbie Poryes Trio - Jazz Pianist, Composer, Teacher & Vocalist
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RPP #198: Adam Geller of Edthena
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- Interview with Adam Geller, Founder and CEO of Edthena. "Edthena is the complete solution for teacher growth, leveraging classroom videos for reflection and best practices." We discuss their video-powered professional learning:
- Adams backgroundAdam Geller, CEO
- History and founding of Edthena
- K-12 Teacher training programs
- Teacher candidates recording themselves
- Use in teaching methods and field experience
- Toolset to support evidence based approach on how to teach
- Eportfolio for sharing and assessment
- Time-stamped comments: question, suggestion, strength or note
- Professional standards video tagging
- Performance dashboards at group and organization level
- Used in HigherEd Centers for Teaching Excellence
- Used to help recruit and retain HigherEd adjunct instructors
- Used in classroom or online (Zoom, etc.)
- Tool to blur video to mask student names or faces
- Supports school district privacy and security requirements
- Links
- Podsafe music selection
- "If Every Day Were Christmas" by Podsafe for Peace.
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