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Workshop IV: Building Online Community with Social Media

with Michelle Pacansky-Brock

Tue, 02/01/2011 - 9:00am - Thu, 02/03/2011 - 4:00pm (Pacific Time)

Learning is, by nature, a social activity and successful online courses should be designed with this in mind. This class will explore the essentials of fostering community in an online class and provide you with a robust toolkit of tips, learning activities, and creative uses of new collaborative technologies for you to integrate into your course design. Experience new levels of student engagement and retention and see online learning through a whole new lens!

Throughout the class, you will be using a variety of tools to converse with your classmates through voice and video conversations, connect through our own closed social network and collaboratively build a wiki.

Audience

All (@One Certification Enrollees!)

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

Facilitate an online class that promotes active learning and fosters online community.
Validate the role of community in a successful online learning experience.
Experience the effects of personalized learning activities in fostering socialization in an online class.
Identify effective facilitation and course management practices for community building.
Compare the effectiveness of video, voice and text communications to convey social presence in an online class.
Evaluate the effectiveness of collaborative web 2.0 tools (social networking, wikis, blogs, microblogging, and more) in the development of online community

Recommended Skills

Basic computer skills (use of word processor, e-mail, file management)
Basic Internet skills (use of browser, searches, uploading and downloading files)
Familiarity with discussion boards
Basic PowerPoint skills

Other

You will be asked to create three free online accounts that will enable you to utilize VoiceThread, WetPaint (a wiki site), and Ning (a social networking tool). We'll be using these in class.

Fees:

California Public Educational Institution	$75
Private or non-California Educational Institution	$150
Other	$300

Registration

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