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Ocotillo Online Learning Group
Meeting Sep 5, 2003

GateWay Community College
1:30 - 3:30 PM in the Learning Center (Room 144 in the Instructional Building)
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Electronic portfolios: what are they and what are they used for? Hear about some experiences using one and try one yourself!

Also new! Be sure to sign in to be eligible for door prizes drawn at the end of the meeting.

Welcome and Introductions (5 minutes)

Sandra Wells (Phoenix College)
Welcome back to our first meeting this academic year. We have some new announcements about OLG for this year. A full meeting schedule has been set so you can plan for us, and meeting times have been shifted earlier.

Sandra Wells, co-chair from Phoenix College welcomed everyone. Anna Rosa Lampis co-chair from GateWay Community College was unable to attend. Sandra posed the question, what is the OLG? The answer: a group of people with shared interest in online learning.

What's New in Online Learning at Our Campus (15 min)

all participants
Being the first meeting of the year, we'll do a quick round of who's doing what (briefly!) per site represented.

• Phoenix College ­ there are 3000 students registered in WebCt classes this semester, with 120 sections online. Kurt Chambers working on proposal to get free a0 license copt of RoboDemo.
• Scottsdale ­ introduced their new Ocotillo chair Jim Elam; created student and faculty cd¹s for online registration which they will be showcasing in December
• Estrella Mountain ­ upgraded to Bb 6; 100% of residential faculty using Bb. 30% of adjunct using it
• South Mountain ­ good feedback from students
• Chandler-Gilbert ­ eportfolio System Summer Institute
• District ­ Midas open house on September 18 from 2-4 at Rio, handouts
• Paradise Valley ­ Bb 5.5 working well, upgrade next summer
• Mesa ­ online courses growing

Maricopa Learning eXchange (10 min)

Alan Levine (MCLI)
MLX is a collection of learning tools created by faculty and staff within the Maricopa Colleges District. A friendly competition among colleges has a deadline of September 30th. Alan will show examples of learning tools that can be submitted and talk about the great prizes available:

Descriptive Details: Characters
Rochelle Rodrigo (Mesa Community College)
This is a discussion board prompt that will help students to construct vivid descritions for characters in a story.

Interactively Engaging Online Students
John Arle (Phoenix College)
This package shows an example of how online classes can combine the best of teacher, text, and technology. By combining multiple learning modalities, the learner becomes the pilot of his/her own education.

Southwest Indian People - an online assignment
Pam Petty (Chandler-Gilbert Community College)
This is a short on-line assignment designed to lead students through an extensive website maintained by the Council of Indiabn Nations.

Tissue and Membrane Puzzle
Angela Ambrosia (Rio Salado College)
This is a puzzle that incorporates critical vocabulary need to know about tissues and membranes.

All MLX Items that contain "Blackboard"

All MLX Items that contain "WebCT"

We also have created a tool that allows a unique URL to generate all the MLX packages created by a person:

David Weaver's MLX Packages

Charlene Thiessen's MLX Packages

In addition, with this meeting and future ones, we are asking all presenters to provide access to their demonstration materials in the MLX.

electronic Portfolio Summer Institute (ePSI) at Chandler-Gilbert (40 min)

David Weaver and Bill Mullaney (Chandler-Gilbert)
Hear about the reasons and outcomes for a June summer institute for faculty at Chandler-Gilbert, where a group joined the "ePSI Generation". The initial workshop allowed participants to brainstorm ideas and issues regarding electronic portfolios and also to experience three different ePortfolios tools, including one developed by the local technical wizards. Faculty participants were "assigned" to develop a working ePortfolio with one of the three tools and share it at a "show and tell" session.

• Four day program in June for residential and adjunct faculty "join the ePSI generation!"
• David Weaver shared e-portfolio used in his physics courses, where he provides much of his course materials. The students keep a journal of what they learn in each class. David uses the "blog" tool to describe what he thought he taught in class, and students are asked to "blog" about what they learned. David is anxious to see how they compare. He also has students use video to dcoument 3 hours of class (using a 1 hour tape), edited down to 10 minute moves, also posted to his ePortfilo.
  
  David also described the Honda "cog" commercial, used as an inspiration for student's "Rube Goldberg" machine projects (as well as a funny paradoy of the Honda ad).
• Bill Mullaney shared his e-portfolio for his writing classes. His portfolio was created as a model for his students to use as they develop their own. It is used to showcase students' work in his English courses and uses slide shows as well. The students post essays and captions to their own e-portfolio.

Chandler-Gilbert ePortfolio tool
http://eport.cgc.maricopa.edu/

ePortfolio for F'2003
by David Weaver

Direct link to ePortfolio:
http://eport2.cgc.maricopa.edu/published/w/ea/weaver/home/1/index.shtml

Electronic Portfolio for Journeys into American Life, a Learning Community
by Bill Mullaney

Direct link to ePortfolio:
http://eport2.cgc.maricopa.edu/published/m/ul/mullaney/home/1/index.shtml

All ePortfolio MLX items from Chandler-Gilbert

Break! (15 min)

all
Enjoy some snacks while networking.

Other ePortfolio Systems (35 min)

Alan Levine (mcli)
Learn about other electronic portfolio systems in used at Maricopa and elsewhere. Alan suggested investigating these to start a conversation about how we might use electronic portfolios and what they should provide.

• Ocotillo ePortfolio hub
  • Chandler-Gilbert ePortfolio tool
  • epsilen tool (from ePortConsortium) Maricopa has joined this consortium for 2002-2003 and all can have access for experimentation/exploration.
  • Weblog as ePortfolio tool introduced as the "BlogShop" to Chandler-Gilbert ePSI workshop. You can create a free weblog via Blogger.com. Also see what Phoenix College's LTD is blogging or Alan's "CogDogBlog"
  • TaskStream (used by Teacher Education)
  • Open Source Portfolio Initiative
    
• Electronic Portfolio Dialogue Day Oct 18, 2002
  • ePortfolio resources
  • shared exmaples

As you can see there are many directions being taken with ePortfolios (not to mention new features likely coming to Blackboard and WebCT). To get involved, contact your local Ocotillo Chair or join the Ocotillo eportfolio listserv.

Problem-Solving Corner (10 min)

all
This is a new regular OLG meeting feature-- your opportunity to bring a specific question about online tools or methods, or to ask for help from the participants in dealing with any issue of using online learning technologies.

This time we discussed the issues, merits, and problems of using timed tests in a course management system -the idea came from a nursing faculty who felt students needed more experience taking standardized exams (which are timed) and wondered if the same should be done for tests in WebCT.

Door Prizes (5 min)

all
Stick around to see if you win one of the prizes (you must register on the sign in sheet and be present to win).

The prizes for this meeting include these books (even autographed by the authors!):

• Kathleen Murphy (GateWay) won "The Web Collection: Macromedia Flash MX, Dreamweaver MX, and Fireworks MX" by Sherry Bishop, Jim Shuman, and Barbara Waxer.
• Julie Magadan (District) won "Lessons from the Cyberspace Classroom- the Realities of Online Teaching" by Rena Paloff and Keith Pratt (speakers for the October 23 and 24, 2003 Dialogue Day on "Teaching Hybrid Courses"
• Deby Kurtz-Weidinger (Phoenix College) won "The Virtual Student" (Donated by Estrella Mountain!) by Rena Paloff and Keith Pratt (speakers for the October 23 and 24, 2003 Dialogue Day on "Teaching Hybrid Courses"

Debut of our new random number winner identifier tool!

OLG random number winner identifier
by Alan Levine
Get the .swf file to use for yourself or the original Flash MX file to see how it is done.

Next Meeting...

October 3, 2003 at Mesa Community College.