Creating Your Own Learning Objects With SoftChalk
Sept 8 and Sept 15, 2005

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Your Organizers
This event is being organized by the leaders of the Ocotillo Learning Objects Action Group. For more information, contact co-Chairs Lisa Young (GateWay) or Donna Rebadow (Paradise Valley).

Event Location
GateWay Community College
108 North 40th St, Phoenix
602-286-8000
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See also

SoftChalk LessonBuilder
SoftChalk Sample Lessons
Create RLOs with SoftChalk (MLX Package by Karen Russom Glendale Community College)

This workshop will be submitted for pre-approval of 8.0 clock hours Faculty Professional Growth non-academic advancement.

Creating Your Own Learning Objects With SoftChalk

The Ocotillo Learning Objects Action Group

Sept 8 and Sept 15, 2005
GateWay Community College
Room - SO1200
1:00 - 5:00 pm

The Ocotillo Creating Your Own Learning Objects Learnshop is open to all Maricopa faculty. This hands-on learnshop will provide faculty with an opportunity to create and share their own Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) using SoftChalk software.

Goals

The facilitators of this LearnShop plan to

Initiate district-wide discussions on what RLOs are and how they can be used in a variety of academic disciplines and incorporated in existing curriculum.
Offer the knowledge and experience of faculty who have designed and used RLOs.
Offer the knowledge and experience of national experts in RLOs.
Encourage faculty from all disciplines to consider using RLOs for their instruction in a pedagogically sound manner.

Audience

All faculty are invited to participate in the Learnshop. The presenters will target faculty who have expressed an interest in learning about the use of RLOs for their instruction as well as faculty and administrators who want to learn more about RLOs and how they can be created.

Facilitator(s)

The two Co-Chairs for the Ocotillo Reusable Learning Objects Action Group will serve as the facilitation team:

Donna Rebadow, Co-Chair Ocotillo Reusable Learning Objects Action Group, is a faculty member at Paradise Valley Community College, having taught in the Maricopa District for 23 years as both adjunct and residential faculty. She received her Bachelor's degree from Wayland Baptist College (Plainview, Texas) in Psychology and Physical Education and her M.S. from Canisius College in Buffalo, NY. She's been involved with the utilization of technology in education since 1982 and helped to create numerous online and hybrid courses for a variety of programs at PVCC. She has presented at institutional, local and national, and international disciplinary and interdisciplinary workshops about technology, including: "Technology for Learning: Mirage, Reality, or Magic," "What a Site: Finding, Evaluating, and Integrating Web Sites ," and "©opyright Doesn't Mean "Copy it Outright!". This is her second stint with an Ocotillo project, having served as Chair for "The Authoring Group" in 1995
Lisa C. Young, Co-Chair Ocotillo Reusable Learning Objects Action Group, is a faculty member and Program Director at GateWay Community College. She has taught classes in water resources and occupational safety and health and managed the programs for over eleven years. She was one of the first faculty members at GWCC to use online resources and online and hybrid delivery methods in her classes. She holds a M.Ed. in Learning and Instructional Technology from Arizona State University.

Learning Objectives

You will be able to give a broad definition of RLOs and repositories.
You will identify a course competency that would benefit from being instructed using an RLO.
You will create an RLO.

Agenda for Thursday, September 8

1:00pm - 1:15pm
Welcome remarks, discussion of FPG.
1:15pm - 1:40pm
Presentation and cooperative discussion on RLOs, a definition, their use and accessing them through repositories.
1:40pm - 2:00pm
Breakout sessions to determine a course competency to create an RLO for.
2:00pm - 2:30pm
Discussion on developing an RLO
2:30pm - 2:45pm
Introduction to the SoftChalk Lesson Builder software
2:45pm - 3:00pm
Break
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Hands-on work developing RLO

Agenda for Thursday, September 15

1:00pm - 1:30pm
Review from last week. Questions and Answers
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Hands-on work developing RLO (continued from last week)
2:30pm - 3:00pm
Introduction and overview of the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX).
Register and explore the MLX
3:00pm - 3:15pm
Break
3:15pm - 3:45pm
Share RLO through the MLX
3:45pm - 4:00pm
Presentation and discussion on incorporating RLOs into instruction
4:00pm - 4:45pm
Participant presentation and peer review of RLO using peer review rubric
4:45pm - 5:00pm
Complete workshop evaluation

Faculty Professional Growth

This workshop will be submitted for pre-approval of 8.0 clock hours Faculty Professional Growth non-academic advancement.