[4 formats for running webinars] Have you ever attended an online seminar or ‘webinar’? If so, did it follow this pattern? introduction by moderator talk by presenter (with PowerPoint slides) question-and-answer time Chances are that it did. This is a common format for a webinar, and an example of the chalk and talk presentation style, [...]
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Not waving but drowning
Coping with social media, professional development and information overload Meet Olga. Olga teaches English several hours a day. Apart from preparing her classes, teaching, and marking assignments, in the course of a normal week she also does the following things: She accesses the online staffroom of her school to download material to use in some [...]
5 Ways to Use Video (in your online course)
Video has been around for ages. We’ve been using it at home and in our classrooms for decades. There is plenty of research suggesting that learning in all fields is enhanced by the judicious use of video. That said, how about reviewing your own use of video in the online course(s) you teach? How often [...]
Activities for online courses: The End
Closure, outcome, achievement. Ending, end of the road, conclusion. Full stop, period, finish. Which word would you choose to describe the end of your online courses? How do you handle that final stage? Do you simply send a goodbye email and unenrol everybody from the course? Do you give grades and feedback on a final [...]
Activities for online courses: The Middle
In my last blog post, I suggested that a good online course is like a play or story – it has a beginning, middle and end. It has a clear storyline that develops over time, and leads to some sort of meaningful conclusion (I’m excluding books like Ulysses, or plays like Waiting for Godot from [...]
