1. Teaching in Focus 2015 Conference MY BIG FAT ONLINE COURSE

2. About myself……

3. AMPD/Film 1701 Hollywood Old and New

4. Class size and number of tutorials 2006 - 300 students 6 tutorials

5. IT! THE TERROR FROM CYBER SPACE!

6. True Grit: The Webmaster

7. OOI: Shared Online Course Fund

8. Collaboration
Department of Film Faculty of Fine Arts Fine Arts Computing Teaching Commons UIT Learning Technology Services Teaching and Learning in the Office of the Vice President Academic and Provost

9. Deadline
May 2014 – Project Begins August Funding/ Spending for Design Ends January 2015 – Course Begins

10. THE TASKS
Design
Revamp the website and make it more user-friendly, more student friendly
Introduce myself to the students through a ‘welcome’ video
Create links between different components of the course, areas of the website
Make it easier to negotiate the website, by providing an online tour taking them through all the various areas

11. Tasks cont’d Pedagogy Film 1701 Course Glossary Materials
Improve the pedagogical approach and learning experience (making learning more ‘experiential’)
Rewrite instructions, course objectives, learner objectives
Create assignments that would foster greater student engagement and participation
Create an online glossary to which students could contribute their own definitions of concepts, theories and terms used throughout the course –
Create a textbook specifically designed for this course, that would be interactive
Film 1701 Course Glossary
Materials
Introduction Book
Chapter 1: The Western

12. Tasks cont’d
Encourage students to be more independent, self- guided in their learning 
Create a greater sense of online community in the course itself and the individual tutorials
Discussion Forum #3
1) What do you suppose is the significance of the MC character (played by Joel Grey), in Cabaret in relation to the performances, but also what's going on outside the club?

13. Tasks
Design:
Redesigned the lectures, adding imagery to existing audio podcasts
Enhanced the sound quality of the podcasts
Made the website pretty and fun to use – for example using movie theatre marquees for the film links

14. How did we manage?

15. Less Discussion, more work
Some things went well, some things, not so well… We learned a lot for next time
Time constraints
Delegation of tasks
Less Discussion, more work
More awareness at of practical realities of university course management and teaching
More communication between faculty, department and course directors

16. Feedback
……Personally I really enjoyed Week 4, the Crime Films. The Gangster Films we discussed were Gun Crazy and Bonnie and Clyde. I was never really interested in movies like that, but really enjoyed watching those two films
…..I found the discussion forum quite interesting because I was excited to read the different opinions….
….. I really enjoyed both films in Week 3, which were 42nd Street and Cabaret. I am a fan of musicals and had never seen either film before and they both left a good impression..
……This course has forced me to watch movies I wouldn't ordinarily have been drawn to. And that is a very good thing….

17. More Feedback
…The lecture for Week 6 on Planet of the Apes was my favourite because I found that it sparked a lot of critical thinking towards movies and the subtexts in which I never realized existed before. It has made me more conscious while watching movies to think about what is being implied or critiqued….
…I'm glad I took this course because honestly I wouldn't have watched any of these films otherwise. All in all I enjoyed most of the films and lectures…
…I felt that all the films we watched  complimented each other and built upon the theories and lectures to give me a better understanding of film in general and how it reflects the socio- political climate of the times…

18. Feedback cont’d
…Such a fantastic selection of films we watched this term…All  of these films left such an impression on me…
…What always interested me most was the background information Dr. Helfield did on the actors. I would always be on another tab reading up on the actors and how they were connected while listening to those parts of the lecture…
….It has been an amazing course!....

19. AND NOW…. A brief demo of Film 1701!