If you’re tired of typing at this point in the semester, consider a different way of giving feedback to your students. Check out this link for some fantastic ideas.
Here are a couple of online professional development opportunities to get in on! These will help you get your required PD hours (4 per year for online instructors), and they’re “homegrown” – from our own OK institutions.
OKLIS January Session
OKLIS (Oklahoma Learning Innovations Summit) is offering the following for January…
Virtual OKLIS Session January 26, 11am on Accessibility
This two-part session will include:
11:00am – Accessibility in Office 365 with Ally Sharp of Langston University
12:00pm – Discussion on Legal Aspects of Accessibility with Mackenzie Murphy-Wilphong of Tulsa Community College and Brandee Hancock of Oklahoma State University
Here’s a pretty great resource for thinking about course calendars, and creating them in ways that fosters student success (hey, that phrase sounds familiar…). I’ve found that although the work is a bit front-loaded, once it’s there it really alleviates student stress…and therefore cuts down on the amount of emails and questions I have to field. 🙂 As we’re getting our courses ready, consider giving more detail to your course calendar to give your students an even better shot at success.
Discussion boards in online courses are probably one of the most misunderstood and potential-filled tools that exist in the online world. This misunderstanding leads to a lack-luster and obligatory use, which nobody enjoys or finds value in. The potential of discussion boards, though, lie in recognizing what they’re for.
They aren’t meant to take the place of in-class, live discussion. Nothing can replace that. But they are meant to provide a space for student-student interaction, student-instructor interaction, and discovery by all involved.
Here’s an awesome (short) video with some tips, if you’re wanting to make your discussion boards more awesome and less painful.
AI and teaching with AI is certainly near the top of our brains these days.
OKLIS (Oklahoma Learning Innovations Summit) hosted a session on teaching with AI, and recorded it for us! Watch it below, or access it on YouTube here.
Teaching with AI is fun/hard/weird/unsettling/surprising/all of the above.
ChatGPT gets all the press (plus, saying “ChatGPT” sounds techy and cool), but did you know there are waaaaay more AI Tools out there? To do more things than just generate text?
Oklahoma’s own Dr. Buck Dodd has made an AI Toolkit available through his company ClearKinetic. Check it out below to explore more of what AI can do!
Leave a comment below if you’ve used some in the online or F2F (face-to-face for all you cool kids) classroom.