1. An online utility belt for educators
Using web based tools to enhance instructional delivery.

2. The times they are a changing
Delivery of instructional content is in a period of great change
Students and administrators have higher levels of expectations from teachers
Resulting in more responsibilities and a bigger workload for teachers
Jeffrey Diamond
Santa Rosa Junior College

3. Students Expect Remote access to class information
Quick feedback to questions and grades
A variety of web-based resources to supplement their texts
The ability to work collaboratively with their peers
A sense of community in the class
Jeffrey Diamond
Santa Rosa Junior College

4. Administrators want Full classes High levels of accountability
Optimal use of facilities
Fill in the blank but it usually involves more work for professors
Jeffrey Diamond
Santa Rosa Junior College

5. What can teachers do without a big budget
Provide materials online including:
Online check-in
Schedule
Syllabus
Links to supplemental materials
Access to grades
Virtual communities
Forums- posts are part of grade
Online galleries- incentive to do best work
Jeffrey Diamond
Santa Rosa Junior College

6. Syllabus & Schedule
Provides accountability to members of the learning contract (teacher and student).
Keeps students on track
Enables easy class starters (review of last class’s work) and closers (review of today’s work and reiteration on HW assignment)
Tools Used:
Dreamweaver
Word
Acrobat
Jeffrey Diamond
Santa Rosa Junior College

7. Supplemental materials
1/11/2019
Supplemental materials
Review of class notes
Links to online tutorials
Text-based
PDFs
Other HTML pages
CBTs on your own site
Camtasia Studio
Macromedia Flash
Project files that can be downloaded
Jeffrey Diamond
Santa Rosa Junior College

8. Access to grades Timely feedback
Dispenses with student claiming they did not know how they were doing
Provides teacher with documentation when it is time to submit grades
Useful to have back-end support but not essential
Excel spreadsheet
CGI- Perl program (back-end)
Jeffrey Diamond
Santa Rosa Junior College

9. Virtual Communities Forums Galleries
Allow students to ask each other questions
Allows teacher to answer a question ONCE for all to see
Provides opportunities for dialogue
SimpleForum Lite is free
Galleries
Work becomes public
Opportunity for healthy competition
Makes grading easier
Jeffrey Diamond
Santa Rosa Junior College

10. Back-end Support Useful
Class check-in
Online grades
Group
Online Testing
Online drops
Jeffrey Diamond
Santa Rosa Junior College

11. Other Useful Tools CCCCOnfer Moodle.org Synchronous Coursework
Free Course Management System
Jeffrey Diamond
Santa Rosa Junior College

12. Camtasia Tips Disable hardware acceleration
Capture 800 x 600 either by re-setting screen resolution or using Capture> Input> Region
Adjust Audio Setting to 22 KHz, 16 bit mono or use the MP3 setting
Jeffrey Diamond
Santa Rosa Junior College

13. That’s All Folks
Jeffrey Diamond
Santa Rosa Junior College