7. More Latino Student Fail Online
• Grade gap between non Latino and Latino is 44% wider in
On Line course than in traditional courses
• 72% of students at Rio Hondo College are of Latin decent
• 98% of my students are of Latin decent
Raymod Kaupp, The Gap Between Latino and White Student Achievement in On line Classes,
The Journal of Applied Research in the Community College
8.
9. Things to try!
✔ Spruce up your syllabus
✔ Beef up your Blackboard
✔ Speak via SKYPE office hours
✔ Face up to Facebook
✔ Voyage into short video clips
✔ Venture into Voicethread
11. Beef Up Your BlackBoard
• Enhanced Banner
• Start Here!
• Quick read syllabus
• Group by learning units
• Make video announcements
• Student Lounge
• Instructor & Skype office hours
Art 105 Virtual College
12. Speak via Skype
n Cal ling!
Londo
• Virtual interviews
• Office hours
• Group work
Interview with Dr. Nigel Spivey via SKYPE
Presentation to Mobile Ed Think Tank
13. Face up to Facebook
• Communication
• Current events in your discipline
• Planning
14. Venture into Voicethread
• Ice breaker
• Foster discussion
• Group presentations
• Assessment
Voice thread demo Prehistoric Art History
15. Things to try!
✔ Spruce up your syllabus
✔ Beef up your Blackboard
✔ Speak via SKYPE office hours
✔ Face up to Facebook
✔ Voyage into short video clips
✔ Venture into Voicethread
Adapted from work shared by Michelle Pacansky-Brock http://mpbreflections.blogspot.com.
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Editor's Notes
----- Meeting Notes (3/16/12 09:54) ----- Im a freeway flyer fell in to tech ed
----- Meeting Notes (3/16/12 09:54) ----- Teacher like students! In a perfect world...
----- Meeting Notes (3/16/12 09:54) ----- We do our best to engage our students… But often we are being percived as a blank screen some student think they are being taught by a computer
----- Meeting Notes (3/16/12 09:54) ----- And their class mates
----- Meeting Notes (3/16/12 09:54) ----- Good teaching reaches all demographic If student had to read every thing you say in a traditonal class?
----- Meeting Notes (3/16/12 09:54) ----- Recent 2011 study shows
----- Meeting Notes (3/16/12 09:54) ----- Tools to increase student engagement It will make you happier too ----- Meeting Notes (3/16/12 10:47) ----- Let's begin with baby steps I know I get overwhelmed with the constant flood of new media tools Choose two new things to try today!
----- Meeting Notes (3/16/12 10:27) ----- Add important insturctions for online classes Build enthusiam show you took the time and care to personalize
----- Meeting Notes (3/16/12 12:00) ----- Start here - detailed instructions for media used Learning Units = clarity SKYPE (application = interviews/group work)
----- Meeting Notes (3/16/12 13:37) ----- Spivey interview organized through Facebook Mesoamerican conference 600 attendees reservations program accomidations transportation