Humanizing Your Online Class Fall 2020
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We can make our online classes more "Human" in a variety of ways that better connect with our students.
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Humanizing Your Online Class Fall 2020
- 1. JIM MARTENEY DISTANCE LEARNING TRAINER HUMANIZING YOUR ONLINE COURSE
- 3. How We See Ourselves
- 4. An Online Course Can Be Challenging Depressing Isolating
- 5. An Online Course is Not a Correspondence Course
- 9. SO, HOW DO WE “HUMANIZE” OUR CLASSES?
- 10. Online Learning Experience Has Two Parts Instructor Participation
- 11. Online Learning Experience Has Two Parts Class Structure
- 12. “Build it and they will come.”
- 20. Humanizing with: Welcome Letter
- 21. Humanizing with: Welcome Letter “This is a fully online course, which you will be able to access upon the first day of class. Many of the assignments and quizzes can be done on your time at your own pace. We will also have a number of live, online Zoom meetings and we will participate in group art projects with fellow students. Hey, you are going to learn how to paint! You might grow beyond your comfort zone and you will not be alone! Through our weeks together, you will be forming supportive online relationships with your peers.”
- 23. LET THEM GET TO KNOW YOU
- 28. What topics might you use?
- 30. Choose Your Words Find Emotionally Charged Words You are not writing a grant. Friendly tone Welcome your learners Encourage your learners Stay away from 3rd person
- 34. Ask how they relate to the content
- 35. “From your text, name and describe 3 types of punishment used in the past, no longer used today.” “From your text, name a form of punishment used in the past that you would like to bring back and why you would like to use that type of punishment today.
- 37. Use Videos
- 38. Try Reacting to Poetry
- 39. Debates
- 41. MAKE IT THEIR CLASS Give them a Choice of discussions
- 42. MAKE IT THEIR CLASS Give them a Choice of discussions
- 43. MAKE IT THEIR CLASS Let them Contribute Content
- 44. MAKE IT THEIR CLASS Pages Pictures Current Events Videos Advice
- 45. MAKE IT THEIR CLASS
- 47. USE PICTURES
- 48. PUT YOURSELF IN PICTURES AND VIDEOS
- 49. Despairinc.com
- 50. CREATE YOUR OWN VIDEOS
- 54. Even Fonts Count Fonts have human-like personalities Clean clear and simple fonts, project certain emotions
- 55. Even Fonts Count The appearance of the font gives off a certain mood which can impact the effectiveness of your content. Elegance
- 56. Even Fonts Count Offers only one default font But you can paste in text with a different font
- 57. Comic book fonts create an aura of fun Serif fonts like Times New Roman feel more traditional Sans serif typefaces like Helvetica Neue, the one Apple uses for iOS, feel more modern Not sure how important all this is, just food for thought. Even Fonts Count
- 58. Even Fonts Count Size Matters According to a “new study” People have more of an emotional brain response to words in larger fonts than in smaller ones
- 59. Even Fonts Count Get ready for my big font joke!
- 60. Even Fonts Count Comic Sans Papyrus and Brush Script walk into a bar. Bartender says, “we don’t serve your type.”
- 61. Be Consistent Use same text, size, and color in your modules Avoid the ransom note look.You don’t want to feel like you’ve been kidnapped Variety Not Needed Here Even Fonts Count
- 62. Even Fonts Count Red Blue Green Orange Never Use What Color?
- 63. Even Fonts Count Red Blue Green Orange Never Use What Color?
- 64. INTRODUCING MODULES Get you students interested Sell them on the topic You can always include a video What’s in it for them?
- 65. INTRODUCING MODULES The crocodile’s jaws gape wide… but you are quicker than the fearsome monster of the sacred river! You have your prize. Up you stand, placing the handful of red earth in a pouch. Tonight you will grind the clay to make your colors! The painted portrait of the beautiful princess will impress the Gods and the princess will live for eternity, because of you. You are dangling from a palm tree over the golden waters of the Nile river, reaching down into the rich, red clay on the banks. You scoop it up hastily. Crocodiles are swimming towards you. You are willing to risk your safety because you are an Egyptian artist with the skill to paint portraits of the dead, allowing them to enter into the afterlife. You need this red ochre clay to paint the complexion depicting the face of a beautiful princess. Just…one…more…scoop of clay…
- 66. INTRODUCING MODULES This unit will begin to give you an understanding of these same skills, putting you in the shoes of these ancient artists. By the end of the course, you will become the keeper of these same secrets. You will learn about the pigments from nature which are fundamental in the creation of paint. It will enhance your understanding of the great masterpieces in our museums. This will change the way you see the world around you. Artists working in the land of Egypt in the third century C.E. were seen as masters of their craft. They practiced time-honored skills which provided income and gave them respected social rank. Equally as important, they were viewed as keepers of artistic secrets which linked humanity with the divine. John Paul Thornton
- 67. INTRODUCING VIDEOS To start, I thought it would be fun to watch this short humorous video from KCTV, Neil Jones on the "Top five ways our lives will change even after the Pandemic is over." So, now that we've had a laugh, and I know we need to laugh, let's look at this Pandemic.
- 68. INTRODUCING VIDEOS Students must watch the YouTube video on “Stress Management.” After watching the video, students must upload their responses to the following questions in the discussion section: 1.Which activity or tool is the most effective strategy to reducing your own stress level? 2.How fast did you experience your results using the exercises, activities or tools to reduction
- 70. GET INTERACTIVE
- 73. Get a Crossword Puzzle
- 74. INVITE GUEST EXPERTS Adds valuable content and insight Students appreciate experts Easier to recruit online experts Gives you a break
- 78. Be You
- 80. Keep the Class PositiveNo Interaction is Neutral
- 82. Quality Coaching Coach John Wooden
- 83. Quality Coaching Coach John Wooden
- 85. Quality Coaching
- 87. BE ENTHUSIASTIC
- 90. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. ---Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 91. We should not be about creating educational content. We should be be about creating educational experiences.
- 92. That’s the Difference Between A Boring Online Course
- 93. And an Engaging Online Course
- 94. “I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” --Albert Einstein
- 95. Thank you