Creating Your Own Learning Objects With Mediator 8
Oct 1 and Oct 8, 2005

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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).

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South Mountain Community College
7050 S. 24th Street, Phoenix
602-243-8000
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See also

• MatchWare Mediator software
• Mediator Showcase Examples

This workshop has been pre-approved for clock hours Faculty Professional Growth non-academic advancement.

Creating Your Own Learning Objects With Mediator 8

The Ocotillo Learning Objects Action Group

Oct 1 and Oct 8, 2005

8:00am - 12:00 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 Mediator 8 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

Agenda for Saturday, October 1

• 8:00am - 8:15am
  Welcome remarks, discussion of FPG.
• 8:15am - 8:40am
  Presentation and cooperative discussion on RLOs, a definition, their use and accessing them through repositories.
• 8:40am - 9:00am
  Breakout sessions to determine a course competency to create an RLO for.
• 9:00am - 9:30am
  Discussion on developing an RLO
• 9:30am - 9:45am
  Introduction to the Mediator 8 software
• 9:45am - 10:00am
  Break
• 10:00am - Noon
  Hands-on work developing RLO

Agenda for Saturday, October 8

• 8:00am - 8:30am
  Review from last week. Questions and Answers
• 8:30am - 9:30am
  Hands-on work developing RLO (continued from last week)
• 9:30am - 10:00am
  Introduction and overview of the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX).
  Register and explore the MLX
• 10:00am - 10:15am
  Break
• 10:15am - 10:45am
  Share RLO through the MLX
• 10:45am - 11:00am
  Presentation and discussion on incorporating RLOs into instruction
• 11:00am - 11:45am
  Participant presentation and peer review of RLO using peer review rubric
• 11:45am - Noon
  Complete workshop evaluation

Faculty Professional Growth

This workshop has been pre-approved for clock hours Faculty Professional Growth non-academic advancement.