Hangout! Using Twitter & Facebook to Improve Critical Thinking in an Online Graduate Nursing Class

Hangout On Air!

Using Twitter & Facebook to Improve Critical Thinking
in an Online Graduate Nursing Class

Wednesday, July 10th

9am-9:30am PST/ 11-11:30am CST

no registration required
View Live at: http://facultyecommons.org/learn-with-michelle-hangouts-on-air/
Tweet questions during the Hangout with hashtag #learnwmpb

In this Hangout on Air, I will interview Dr. Sabita Persaud, of the Notre Dame of Maryland University School of Nursing who will discuss how and why she facilitated a 7-week nursing case study by dawning a fictitious patient identity.

Throughout the online course, students followed and responded to Facebook updates and Tweets from the patient, “Cee Veeay,” who shared evolvingly complex symptoms and reached out for advice through social media exchanges.  Students actively engaged in lengthy discussions with “Ms. Veeay,” offering her advice about her symptoms, leading to greater student engagement, critical thinking, and increasing the relevancy of their learning experience. These interactions prepared students for their exams. Dr. Persaud will also share how this teaching approach refreshed her own engagement as a college instructor!

I am so excited to speak with Dr. Persaud about this inventive teaching approach and I hope you will listen in and ask questions via the Twitter backchannel! 

Dropbox: Freedom from flashdrives (free webinar)

Friday, June 21

9:00-9:30am PST/ 11:00-11:30am CST

Advanced Registration Required: http://facultyecommons.org/event/dropbox/ 

After you register, you will receive the webinar link via email 24-hours prior to the event.

Increase your teaching efficiency for the Fall term! When you teach your classes you may often find yourself logging in from more than one device and wanting access to files that are not always available to you.  Flash drives used to be a solution to this challenge. Today, Dropbox offers a free (and premium), cloud-based solution for managing your content from any device with an internet connection.  You can also share anything in your Dropbox folder with anyone quickly and easily with a simple link or set up folders and share their contents with groups of users to foster collaboration at a distance.

This webinar will:

1. Provide an overview of how to use Dropbox to access and share content from any device with an internet connection.
2. Encourage existing Dropbox users to share additional experiences, tips, and strategies.

 More support for your online teaching needs from the Faculty eCommons:

• Get more info about the "Learn with Michelle" series.
• Sign up for the Faculty eCommons Newsletter to receive updates about future events.
• View archives of past events.

Archive: Animoto for Creating Engaging Videos!

Last week's free "Learn with Michelle" webinar, Animoto for Creating Engaging Videos, was fun and energetic! Thanks to all who participated. A special thanks to +Michael Kieley for the great ideas he contributed during the webinar and the fabulous course promotion video he added to the "bag" and to +Ludmila Smirnova for also sharing a link to her course promo video in the webinar resource "bag." 

The full archive (video, "bag" of resources, and slides) is now available here:

Animoto for Creating Engaging Videos
http://facultyecommons.org/learn-with-michelle-webinar-animoto-for-creating-engaging-videos/
Share your great teaching ideas in the Google+ Learn with Michelle Community.  
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101282894995851206911

Archive: Twitter for Increasing Student-Student Interactions

The 30-minute video archive, "bag" of resources, and presentation slides from my Learn with Michelle webinar, Twitter for Increasing Student-Student Interactions are available at:

http://facultyecommons.org/twitter-for-increasing-student-to-student-interactions/

By the end of this webinar, you will be able to:

• Consider an online learning case study suggesting the efficacy of Twitter in improving student-student interactions.
• Identify how and why hashtags are helpful when teaching with Twitter.
• Identify suggested guidelines for integrating Twitter in online courses.
• Evaluate a collection of useful tools for teaching with Twitter.

Gamify Your Class With VoiceThread Mobile & A Free Webinar!

I would like to invite you to engage in my most recent blog post at the Faculty eCommons, a free online social learning ecosystem for faculty across the globe to learn, collaborate and share research about effective online teaching and learning, brought to you by Academic Partnerships.

My post is titled "How to Gamify Your Class with VoiceThread Mobile" and explores a specific pedagogical approach for integrating the VoiceThread Mobile app into your students' learning.  The best part, however, is the VoiceThread shared within the post that invites you to listen to some very creative teaching ideas shared by educators about how you could use the app to gamify your class.  Don't forget to share your own idea after you're done listening! I am hooked on this great conversation!

Click here to go to the post, How to Gamify Your Class with VoiceThread Mobile.

 

Free Webinar: VoiceThread Mobile

Also, you are invited to join me for a free webinar, VoiceThread Mobile: Multisensory Learning On-The-Go on May 9th at 12pm PDT/3pm EDT. Register on the Faculty eCommons.