Good Afternoon Online Instructors,
A couple of weeks ago I shared with you an excellent YouTube on proper APA paper formatting. I have heard from several of you that you really liked the video and have already shared it with your students, which is great.
As a result, I wanted to share the YouTube video with you again in case you missed it the first time. And more importantly, I wanted to share with you the fact that a quiz has now been created around this YouTube video that can also be placed into your courses to help students with APA formatting even more.
If you are interested in having this APA YouTube video and video quiz placed into one or more of your courses, please let your ADOF, Kristen O'Connell, Kelly Schmidt, or myself know and we will be sure to work with you to make that happen.
Thanks and have a great week!
Heather Thomton-Stockman
Online Instructional Specialist
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
October 26, 2011
Good Morning Online Instructors,
Do you have a Group Project in your course? Are you trying to figure out new ways for your students to virtually and effectively connect and work together on the course material? If yes, I encourage you to check out Google Docs as a student resource. With Google Docs, individuals can collaboratively work on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations without having to physically be in the same room or working on the same computer.
As Kristen O'Connell, Online Dean of Faculty, articulated, "the coolest thing is you can do real-time collaboration... If [students] picked a time, they [could] all work on the same document at the same time and their edits [would be] 'live'."
It also has the benefit of being able to edit documents from any computer or smart phone.
I encourage you to check it out, give it a try, and let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Heather Thomton-Stockman
Online Instructional Specialist
Do you have a Group Project in your course? Are you trying to figure out new ways for your students to virtually and effectively connect and work together on the course material? If yes, I encourage you to check out Google Docs as a student resource. With Google Docs, individuals can collaboratively work on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations without having to physically be in the same room or working on the same computer.
As Kristen O'Connell, Online Dean of Faculty, articulated, "the coolest thing is you can do real-time collaboration... If [students] picked a time, they [could] all work on the same document at the same time and their edits [would be] 'live'."
It also has the benefit of being able to edit documents from any computer or smart phone.
I encourage you to check it out, give it a try, and let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Heather Thomton-Stockman
Online Instructional Specialist
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
October 19, 2011
Good Morning Online Instructors,
In last week's faculty meetings Kristen discussed the need to synchronize Safe Assignments in each of your sections if you have a Safe Assignment component in a course. Click here to access a brief tutorial demonstrating the process of:
If you have any questions on this process please let me know.
Thanks and have a great rest of the week.
Heather Thomton-Stockman
Online Instructional Specialist
In last week's faculty meetings Kristen discussed the need to synchronize Safe Assignments in each of your sections if you have a Safe Assignment component in a course. Click here to access a brief tutorial demonstrating the process of:
- Checking whether or not your course has a Safe Assignment;
- Synchronizing your course if it does have a Safe Assignment.
If you have any questions on this process please let me know.
Thanks and have a great rest of the week.
Heather Thomton-Stockman
Online Instructional Specialist
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
October 12, 2011
Good Morning Online Instructors,
As you are finishing up the grading of the first assignments for the quarter, you may be finding yourself wondering how you can help your students with proper use of APA formatting and citations. Here is an excellent YouTube video that I encourage you to share with your students as they are working on their writing assignments throughout the quarter. It does an excellent job of walking students - and instructors - through the proper APA process.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Thanks,
Heather Thomton-Stockman
As you are finishing up the grading of the first assignments for the quarter, you may be finding yourself wondering how you can help your students with proper use of APA formatting and citations. Here is an excellent YouTube video that I encourage you to share with your students as they are working on their writing assignments throughout the quarter. It does an excellent job of walking students - and instructors - through the proper APA process.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Thanks,
Heather Thomton-Stockman
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
October 5, 2011
Good Morning Online Instructors!
Welcome to Fall Quarter 2011; I hope you are having a great first week. As you are getting to know your students and helping guide your students through your course expectations and assignments, I wanted to share with you two great resources Kelly Schmidt, Online Curriculum Manager, put together that can be used in courses where Oral Presentations are a requirement. Or, if you have a "presentation" component in one of your courses and you'd like to add in the oral recording aspect, these can be great resources to use within your assignments and instructions. Screencast-o-Matic is an excellent option for our students when they are recording presentations and these resources walk you and your students through the process.
How to use Screencast-o-Matic to Record an Oral Presentation:
How to Record Your Presentation training doc (if you’re prompted for credentials, use your CampusConnect login)
Video Tutorial
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to let me know.
Thanks,
Heather Thomton-Stockman
Online Instructional Specialist
Welcome to Fall Quarter 2011; I hope you are having a great first week. As you are getting to know your students and helping guide your students through your course expectations and assignments, I wanted to share with you two great resources Kelly Schmidt, Online Curriculum Manager, put together that can be used in courses where Oral Presentations are a requirement. Or, if you have a "presentation" component in one of your courses and you'd like to add in the oral recording aspect, these can be great resources to use within your assignments and instructions. Screencast-o-Matic is an excellent option for our students when they are recording presentations and these resources walk you and your students through the process.
How to use Screencast-o-Matic to Record an Oral Presentation:
How to Record Your Presentation training doc (if you’re prompted for credentials, use your CampusConnect login)
Video Tutorial
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to let me know.
Thanks,
Heather Thomton-Stockman
Online Instructional Specialist
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
September 14, 2011
Good Afternoon Online Instructors,
This will be my last blog post for Early Fall Quarter 2011, but I will start back up again during week one of Fall Quarter 2011. As such, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind you of the many resources and instructional tips I've shared with you in the past as you prepare your fall quarter courses. If you haven't tried a new course enhancement before, now is a great time to start! Or, if you've added things in, I encourage you to try out yet another enhancement or resource during fall quarter.
If you look at the right hand side of the blog you will find a list of all of the different topics I have mentioned in this blog. Simply click on the item that sounds interesting to you to learn more about that particular resource! I encourage you to give one or more a try in your fall course(s). (And don't forget to let me know how it goes :))
Finally, I'd like to take this chance to also ask you what you'd like to learn more about. Drop me an email and let me know if there are certain topics you'd like to see covered in the blog during fall quarter or if you have a tip or trick that might be very beneficial to share with other online instructors.
Thanks and have a great rest of Early Fall quarter. I'll be blogging again in fall :)
Heather Thomton-Stockman
Online Instructional Specialist
This will be my last blog post for Early Fall Quarter 2011, but I will start back up again during week one of Fall Quarter 2011. As such, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind you of the many resources and instructional tips I've shared with you in the past as you prepare your fall quarter courses. If you haven't tried a new course enhancement before, now is a great time to start! Or, if you've added things in, I encourage you to try out yet another enhancement or resource during fall quarter.
If you look at the right hand side of the blog you will find a list of all of the different topics I have mentioned in this blog. Simply click on the item that sounds interesting to you to learn more about that particular resource! I encourage you to give one or more a try in your fall course(s). (And don't forget to let me know how it goes :))
Finally, I'd like to take this chance to also ask you what you'd like to learn more about. Drop me an email and let me know if there are certain topics you'd like to see covered in the blog during fall quarter or if you have a tip or trick that might be very beneficial to share with other online instructors.
Thanks and have a great rest of Early Fall quarter. I'll be blogging again in fall :)
Heather Thomton-Stockman
Online Instructional Specialist
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
September 7, 2011
Good Afternoon Online Instructors,
It is crazy to think it is already September! I sent my oldest off on the bus yesterday for his first day of Kindergarten so I guess fall is "unofficially" upon us (even if the calendar says otherwise). With the onset of fall it also means the coming to the end of Early Fall quarter, which is a very busy time for our students as they are finishing up research papers/projects and preparing for final exams. As they are working on these course aspects, I encourage you to share with them this Smarthinking.com tutorial. I know I've mentioned Smarthinking.com before, but it truly is a great resource and something all students can benefit from, especially at this time of the quarter, so it begs a repeat.
If you have any questions on this, please let me know.
Thanks,
Heather Thomton-Stockman
Online Instructional Specialist
It is crazy to think it is already September! I sent my oldest off on the bus yesterday for his first day of Kindergarten so I guess fall is "unofficially" upon us (even if the calendar says otherwise). With the onset of fall it also means the coming to the end of Early Fall quarter, which is a very busy time for our students as they are finishing up research papers/projects and preparing for final exams. As they are working on these course aspects, I encourage you to share with them this Smarthinking.com tutorial. I know I've mentioned Smarthinking.com before, but it truly is a great resource and something all students can benefit from, especially at this time of the quarter, so it begs a repeat.
If you have any questions on this, please let me know.
Thanks,
Heather Thomton-Stockman
Online Instructional Specialist
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