New Member of the EdTech Team
EdTech welcomes a new member to our team. Marc Menhart joins us as the Video Services Manager/Systems Engineer. Marc comes to us from a consulting position at JD Power and Associates.
Marc is also a 2004 graduate of the Ohio State University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
If you need assistance with a videoconference or a streaming media even, contact Marc, 2-7233 or Menhart_2@fisher.osu.edu
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Carmen Help is Just a Mouse Click or Phone Call Away
Autumn quarter is upon us and maybe your Carmen course needs some work. Need help? Contact the Fisher Carmen Support Team.
Randy Spears, 8.8468 – spears.4
Christiana Cordiano, 7-6946, Cordiano.2
Or email carmen@fisher.osu.edu
Carmen Version 8.3 Launched
Just after Spring quarter, TELR upgraded Carmen to the latest version, Carmen 8.3
Some of the new or revised features are:
- Control over size of widget panels
- Upgraded Content management
- More fluid discussion item creation
- Improved class roster sorting
Why I Teach Online
One Instructor's Answer
William Wade of West Kentucky Community College chronicles how and why he got started with online learning and how he has changed his teaching methods because of his experience with online learning.
Link the article
How to Activate Your Carmen Course
When you look at your list of Carmen courses, you may ask yourself what does the logo below mean?
That means your course isn’t active for students to access.
To active your course, follow these simple steps:
- Select "Edit Course"
- On the Course Admin Tools page, select "Course Offering Information"
- Then select the checkbox next to "Course is Active"
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Online Discussions - Greater and More In-Depth Interation
Usually, in a face-to-face class, only a small amount of time is set-up for question and answer leaving little time for quality interaction. With this brief amount of time, only a few students can interact.
Why not consider moving some of your interaction time online? Using Carmen’s Discussion forums allows instructors to develop questions and to place them in the forum for students to respond. Unlike in the face-to-face class where time is limited and only a few students respond, with an online discussion, students have time to develop contemplative answers and everyone gets to participate.
Some Tips for Online Discussion Questions
1. Ask open ended questions (e.g. “Define market segmentation taking into account…)
2. Provide word limits (e.g. 150-250 words)
3. Provide guiding criteria (e.g. Define CEO…in terms of 1) their role, 2) their responsibilities, 3) their stakeholders)
4. Consider asking students to respond to and critique their fellow students.
5. Spell out what you expect in their responses
6. Provide a clear deadline
7. Stress positive online etiquette skills
It’s advisable to start slowly and explore using online discussion gradually and see how your students respond. You also have to be careful not to inundate yourself with more responses that you can manage.
If you have questions or need advice on how to best manage online discussions, contact Christiana Cordiano or Randy Spears in EdTech.
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Videoconferencing: How You Can Use it for Your Course
Ever been teaching when you felt that if you had just the right expert you could get the optimal point across to your students? Flying that person in is improbable due to costs and scheduling, but what if you could still bring that person in via videoconferencing?
Videoconferencing allows you to connect with just about anyone, anywhere. The real benefit of videoconferencing when compared with a phone conference is that with videoconferencing you can bring in the person almost as if they were in the room with both video and audio.
EdTech has two portable videoconferencing units that can be deployed in to any classroom with internet access and proper audiovisual capability.
The first to setting up a videoconference is to contact EdTech. Videoconferencing is not an on-demand service; there are some critical items that must be determined. We only use Internet Protocol (IP) videoconferencing. The person you want to connect to needs to have access to videoconferencing facilities.
Lead time is vital to determine these things and to perform testing. We also need to determine that we have the personnel and facilities to host your event.
As for costs, EdTech charges a reasonable hourly fee for IP videoconferencing. If the connection requires more capabilities than EdTech provides, some additional fees could be incurred.
To learn more or to arrange a videoconference, contact: edtech@fisher.osu.edu
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