Connecting With Your Online Students NYSMATYC Math on the Web Themed Session Saturday, April 5, 2008 Mary Beth Orrange

Personal Connections Frequent Announcements Course Management System Math products Discussion forums Actions and Alerts Personal folders

Personal Connections Don’t forget phone calls office hours (online and traditional) in-person meetings (public libraries, other schools, local coffee shops, etc.) FAX eFax (

Interactions Wikis (repository of information) within the course management system public ( ) Blogs (online journal) within your course management system public ( IM (Instant Messenger)

Interactions Discussion Forums for content delivery and grading – beyond personal introduction Ask students to: post solutions to review questions find graphs on the internet and have students describe the dependent and independent variables identify their calculator model; describe the use of one feature

Interactions Discussion Forums - ask students to: describe examples of commutative processes from their real life (and one that is not) describe one feature of a complicated graph (domain, range, intercepts, increasing / decreasing intervals, max/min points, equation, etc.) use your imagination!

Resources Impatica add-on to PowerPoint audio capabilities compressed files examples: (Courtesy of Jeff Morford at Henry Ford Community College)

Resources Camtasia full motion screen recording software free trial period od/212402dd.htmHttp:// od/212402dd.htm

Resources SnagIt d/212402dd.htmHttp:// d/212402dd.htm screen capture software free 30 day trial period

Resources Jing captures an image or video of the screen loads the material to the Internet assigns it a URL (pasting it in your clipboard) the URL can be used as any other website URL It's not as sophisticated as Camtasia or SnagIt, BUT... it's free, it's simple, and it doesn't require any server space of your own students can use it!

Resources

Resources Jing examples:

Resources Site Pal Avatar and animated characters $9.95 a month Free trial version d02&kw=site+pal&creative= http:// d02&kw=site+pal&creative=

Resources Podcasts According to Wikipedia, a podcast is a multimedia file distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. multimediaInternetsyndication mobilecomputers

Meeting Software Live Meeting – Microsoft product Vista based Illuminate Centra Live! Wimba In general: expensive and need an institutional commitment to be purchased/used.

General Comments Always proof-read anything you post Re-write materials that students find confusing Check links on a regular basis Limit the number of sites you use for communications – too many will frustrate students

General Comments Respond Quickly to students – tell them your expected response time up front Let students know if you will be gone or need to change your response time temporarily Make students aware of computer requirements and any plug-ins they will need ahead of time

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