1. My Experiences With a Hybrid Course Ellen F. Maleszewski Ellen.maleszewski@liu.edu

2. My Concerns I was worried about building that community experience I was worried about not getting that connection I was worried about the time and effort that I would have to put in  I was right to worry about that…ha ha I didn’t know how to get that same classroom feel

3. What did I do? I made these movies!  Don’t work on iPads…am still working on that  I always give my powerpoint as well as the movie, so they can print it, and take notes with the lecture (like in real time)  I sometimes gave just the mp3 or audio  Sometimes I put myself to sleep  Try to shut your ringer off and lock your children out of your room….and don’t record a lecture next to your spouse...it may put them to sleep  Don’t use crazy backgrounds

4. Blackboard Make sure your first class you give everyone the opportunity to sign in and check out blackboard I tried to tell everyone when to have hw assignments in, and when I would grade them by.  Uhm…that did not work out so well I tried to have assignments not be overly complicated

5. Blackboard to build a community I tried to use the blog feature and discussion and wiki to have assignments that people would be able to see what each other said.  The Wiki, I required people to post totally different comments, like we built a hypothesis wiki ( I used this for LIS 514 – Research Methods) – because we were not in the classroom, and not discussing topics and hypothesis as a class, I used the wiki to create pages for types of libraries, and then the class added topics to those pages and then hypothesis to each others topics Use the journal feature and you can keep information private

6. Explicit directions Acceptable and unacceptable posts When to post what & What I expect them to post Gave examples Gave Rubrics Posted announcements at every opportunity  Keep announcements short Use the calendar…  Not sure how to use the notifications sections Kept assignments in the same format from week to week

7. Rubrics If I had an assignment, they could look into the section for rubrics. I always told them to look at the rubric to see how I graded My rubrics are directly related to the assignment, not very complicated, and usually related to how much did they follow directions…yeah even in grad school you have to do that!!!

8. Assignments I used the assignment section in Blackboard IT helps with the grading  Watch out, the new version of the gradebook is very clunky…ugh But it is very easy for students to post assignments and easy to grade

9. The following slides are screenshots of my Blackboard See I made my own section for rubrics I posted my curriculum and info in the info button I haven’t decided if I like to put hw separate in one folder and lectures in another, or if I prefer to use separate folders from week to week. Use the modules too – but not sure if I like them If you are teaching two classes, try to differentiate between classes with color…take my word for it