Designing and Delivering Effective Online Instruction

Providing Curriculum/Supplementary Materials via Web

Session Outline:

1. Relevant Pedagogical Suggestions from John Dewey
2. Instructional Material Options
   1. Textbook readings
   2. PDF articles
   3. Graphic Organizers
   4. Instructor audio
   5. Instructor video
   6. Interactive whiteboard (live and archived)
   7. Flash animations
   8. Compressed videos (streamed or on CD)
3. PDFs
   1. Limitations of PDF use
   2. Free PDF Creation Tools
   3. Adobe Acrobat Professional Options
      1. Feature differences
      2. Editable PDFs with Adobe Reader for students
   4. Document scanner / document feeder scanner use and limitations
   5. Compressing PDF files
   6. Combining PDF files
   7. Xerox document scanners
   8. HP PDF Senders
   9. Benefits of CD distribution
4. Graphic Organizers
   1. Benefits / Needs for visual representations
   2. Inspiration demo (Inspiration.com)
      1. Quickstart Guide (PDF)
5. Audio Recording
   1. Microphone options
   2. Software options
   3. Topic selection
   4. Content chunking
6. Instructor Video
   1. Using webcam and software
   2. Using camcorder and DV editing software (Moviemaker2 / iMovie)
      1. MovieMaker2 How-To Guide
   3. Camtasia Studio
   4. Document camera / Elmo recording
   5. Topic selection
   6. Content chunking
7. Flash animations
   1. Ubiquity of flash format
   2. Locating online
   3. Creating from scratch with Flash
   4. Using commercial curriculum
   5. Examples:
      1. Online tutorial about Blogline
8. Interactive whiteboard
   1. CMS whiteboard options
   2. Smartboard equipment and benefits
   3. Whiteboard in Breeze
   4. Requirements and limitations of live delivery
   5. Whiteboard session archiving and retrieval
9. Compressed videos (streamed or on CD)
   1. UnitedStreaming
   2. Steps for compressing existing VHS or DVD video
   3. Copyright / Fair Use considerations
10. Conclusions
    1. Learning Points for Today
    2. Online Session Evaluation