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Create Online Courses that Meet Quality Matters Standards
-Sharon Rifkin, Broward College, Florida
-Samita Ghoshal, Lone Star College, Texas
-Diane Jackson, Training Manger, Quality Matters
| This webinar occurred on
Thursday, October 22, 2009 |
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Quality Matters, through a FIPSE grant, developed a set of forty specific elements, distributed across eight broad standards, by which to evaluate the design of online and hybrid courses. These standards help to design the layout of a course, making sure it is optimizing student learning.
SoftChalk provides the unique opportunity to build rich, interactive content material in compliance with these Quality Matters (QM) Standards. Using SoftChalk, the QM rubric can be applied to meet the required standards easily and effectively. These standards include: accessibility, defining learning objectives, student engagement, and course navigation (to name a few). During this presentation we will describe the standards and show examples of how SoftChalk can be used to meet them. A Q&A session will end the presentation.
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Teaching Educators How to Teach Online using SoftChalk Lessons
-Sharon Rifkin, District Director, e-Learning Programs/Faculty, Broward College, Florida
| This webinar occurred on
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
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| This session will show how Broward College provides the necessary professional development to educators wishing to teach online. Through a series of online classes and workshops, Broward has realized their need to properly train and ‘certify’ educators that do online teaching. SoftChalk can provide exciting and interactive activities that include content, video tutorials, links, learning activities and assessments that satisfy learning outcomes. During the presentation you will see demonstrations of the content Broward has created.
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Creating Interactive Math Lessons for Online, Hybrid, and Traditional Courses
-Marilyn Larsen, Associate Professor, College of the Mainland
| This webinar occurred on
Thursday, July 23, 2009 |
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| Marilyn will show how you can use SoftChalk LessonBuilder to ensure that students are actively engaged in the learning process. Marilyn will show how SoftChalk has provided an easy-to-use platform to design visually appealing, interactive and engaging lessons to meet all learning styles. You will see almost all of what SoftChalk has to offer in ways of activities, text poppers, hyperlinks, quiz ideas and tables. The lessons also demonstrate the effective integration of third party media. While the content is math, all disciplines will benefit from this presentation. The presentation will end with a Q & A session.
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Modernizing Student Orientations - Making them Interactive and Measurable
-Erich Hochmeister, Training And Development Specialist
Edison State College in Fort Myers
| This webinar occurred on
Thursday, May 19, 2009 |
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Join Erich Hochmeister as he describes how the college solved the communication hurdle for first time online students. How were students going to learn how to use the Learning Management System? How do instructors measure if students are accessing the materials and grasping the concepts?
The answer: incorporating the media with Soft Chalk. SoftChalk LessonBuilder provides an easy to edit orientation module complete with the ability to embed the many interactive flash activities that the college created. The result: A modern, interactive, and measurable orientation module.
Participants will review the processes and see the end result. A Q&A session will follow.
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Creating Interactive Engaging Lessons for Online High School Courses
-Yvonne Caples,
Project Facilitator
Virtual High School,
Clark County School District
| This webinar occurred on
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 |
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| Faculty and a Curriculum Task Force at Virtual High School in Las Vegas, Nevada are working to develop lessons for a variety of content areas using SoftChalk as the tool. Yvonne Caples, Project Facilitator for their Virtual High School will show how SoftChalk has provided an easy-to-use platform to design visually appealing, interactive and engaging lessons. You will see examples across different curricular areas that show a variety of activities and strategies to reach high school students in a virtual environment. We will look at lessons developed in English Algebra, and Personal Wellness (PE equivalent) to see how SoftChalk can enhance the presentation and interactivity in three very different core subjects. The presentation will end with a Q&A opportunity.
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Developing Dynamic Material for Program Recruitment designed for Events, Presentations, and the Web
-Drs. Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt
Managing partners of Crossroads Consulting Group.
Faculty in the School of Educational Leadership and Change at Fielding Graduate University.
| This webinar occurred on
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 |
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Drs. Palloff and Pratt are nationally recognized experts and published authors in the area of online learning and teaching. They will discuss why the Fielding Graduate University recognized that marketing its professional development program, Teaching in the Virtual Classroom, demanded a different approach than marketing degree programs. SoftChalk became the answer to this need, allowing them to build modules for recruitment that incorporate audio, video, and graphics that are appealing to the professional adult learner. Since print material has limited appeal in this situation and leaves many questions unanswered, they needed dynamic materials that were easily edited and could be displayed on their website as well as used at conferences and presentations. They also needed to work quickly to produce materials for upcoming events. This session will discuss the development process for our SoftChalk materials and will display the end result. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session.
For more information about our presenters, visit their consulting group at http://xroadservices.com/home/.
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Developing a Professional Development Program using Best Practice
-Angelique Smith and Jennyly Nevarez, Valencia Community College
| This webinar occurred on
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 |
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Faculty and Learning Technology Leaders at Valencia Community College have developed a wide-range of professional development courses for faculty using SoftChalk as the backbone to build instructional resources. By demonstrating best-practice of how to create, implement and assess our training resources, we have increased faculty buy-in and use of SoftChalk as a means to create high-quality instructional resources and repurpose these objects with fellow faculty at Valencia and throughout the State of Florida by publishing these materials to our statewide repository "The Orange Grove". See examples of our professional development resources and several examples from our instructional faculty who have implemented SoftChalk modules into their online & hybrid courses. The session with end with a Q&A.
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Using SoftChalk to Engage Young Learners Through the Eyes of our Youngest Teacher
-Adora Svitak
| This webinar occurred on
Thursday, January 22, 2009 |
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Adora Svitak, the eleven-year-old published author of Flying Fingers and inspirational teacher, has given educators and parents a child’s perspective on successful strategies that encourage children to write. In her distance learning and face-to-face presentations, she teaches about the importance of writing and how to integrate technology into the curriculum. Join Adora in a demonstration of the interactive web pages and learning tools that she created using SoftChalk. By the end of this session, you will learn innovative ways to use SoftChalk to produce results in the classroom and how using SoftChalk can motivate students. The session will conclude with a Q & A period.
To learn more about how Adora can inspire and motivate, or to purchase her books, please visit Adora’s website at www.adorasvitak.com
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Creating Lessons for the 21st Century Skills Framework using SoftChalk
-Hampton City Schools, Hampton Virginia
| This webinar occurred on
Wednesday, November 18, 2008 |
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Hampton City Schools is creating a Model Technology Classroom in which exemplary teachers collaborate with the Instructional Technology Resource Teacher and Teacher Librarian. Together they integrate technology into their teaching strategies and model a learning environment based upon the national 21st Century Skills Framework. In this session a model team will share professional development activities showing how to use SoftChalk as a tool for creating ‘i-21’ lessons that correlate with Curriculum Pacing guides. They will also demonstrate how teachers have access to these lesson plans, models and activities through their Learning Management System. The session with end with a Q&A.
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Learning Objects, Hot Spots, Case Based Scenarios - Our Students Love SoftChalk Lessons
-Dr. Anne Loochtan, Bob Baylor -- Cincinnati State Technical and Community College
| This webinar occurred on
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 |
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Join Cincinnati State Technical and Community College (Cincinnati, Ohio) faculty members, Dr. Anne Loochtan, Associate Dean and Adjunct Faculty member, Bob Baylor, MA, Col. Ret., Program Chair, Safety and Security Management, and Mike Chaney, BS, RRT, Faculty Member, Respiratory Care, who will demonstrate and discuss how they use SoftChalk in their courses to create interactive self-testing and learning objects in both on-campus and online Health and Public Safety courses. Some of the learning objects use the "hotspot" activities to allow students to practice identifying structures. Some are case-based questions and scenarios that simulate credentialing testing environments. SoftChalk lessons greatly augment the online environment for health and public safety students and they can't seem to get enough of them. The session ends with a Q&A period.
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Delivering a Complete Media Package: Integrating Textbook, Ancillary Materials and SoftChalk’s Interactive Activities
-Dr. Marie Maness, Brookhaven College |
This webinar occurred on
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 |
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Dr. Marie Maness, professor of Nutrition and Fitness at Brookhaven College and a full-time online instructor, initially uses a Course Tour developed in SoftChalk to introduce student to her online course. She uses “Chapter Reviews” to reinforce learning objectives with SoftChalk self-test activities. Her fitness students’ ability to record their workouts was vastly improved by an interactive workout log created with SoftChalk. Her completed lessons incorporate images, quick time videos, PowerPoint presentations, audio, and links to the Internet. She uses SoftChalk to deliver a complete media package to her students. The session will conclude with a Q & A period.
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Promoting Higher Level Thinking Skills: Using Bloom's Taxonomy with SoftChalk LessonBuilder
-Lyn Hawks, Duke University |
This webinar occurred on
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
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In this one hour presentation Lyn Hawks, Coordinator of Independent Learning at Duke University TIP, will show how you can you use LessonBuilder to ensure that students are thinking at their highest level. Bloom's Taxonomy is a familiar framework for educators as they help students explore levels of knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis. Learn how the Duke University Talent Identification Program harnesses LessonBuilder quizzes, activities, and hyperlinks to provide meaningful skill practice and assessment at the highest levels of critical thinking. See examples of elementary, middle, high school, and college level lessons at work. The session ends with a Q&A period. (Space is limited. Please register now for best selection!)
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Building Lesson Plans - Combining a Digital Library and SoftChalk
-Dr. Susan W. Mills, Appalachian State University |
This webinar occurred on
Monday, July 14, 2008 |
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This online session will describe how she creates Lesson Plans for use by elementary and middle school teachers. To do this Dr. Mills combined SoftChalk LessonBuilder software with a digital sound and photo archive called The Digital Library of Appalachia. As a result, the Lesson Plans provide complete resources including stereo quality audio recordings and photos, in addition to links for further study and examples of Appalachian music and arts. The session ends with a question and answer time.
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Readers and Scanners - How SoftChalk Enhances Diverse Learning Styles
-Dr. Stephen Holland, Muscatine Community College |
This webinar occurred on
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 |
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Learn from Stephen Holland, chair of the English Department at Muscatine Community College, how designing content for online students with different learning and reading styles can be compared to the concept of newspaper layout where there are both 'readers' and 'scanners'. SoftChalk's navigation tools allow instructors to focus both readers and scanners for better comprehension of content. Using SoftChalk features such as links, sidebars, text poppers, and activities enables students to move through the lessons the way they want - and still comprehend the key points. In addition, you will see how creating content with SoftChalk makes the educators' job easier when working with a Learning Management Systems.
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How Course Tutorials Promote Success, Retention, and Accountability for the Online Student
-Online educator in Doctoral and Associate Degree Programs |
This webinar occurred on
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 |
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During this presentation, Lisa Harrell, Online Course Instructor and Developer, will discuss the use of online course tutorials to increase student success, retention, and accountability. The online learner faces unique challenges as compared to the traditional classroom student. Lisa is using SoftChalk Lesson Builder to promote their success by developing online course tutorials addressing such topics as program orientations, course navigation, using course e-mail, how to access and submit assignments, participating in online discussion boards, using online libraries, using online data bases, and understanding grading rubrics. During the presentation, examples of these tutorials will be shown including how SoftChalk Learning Activities can be used effectively. The presentation will be followed by a Question and Answer period.
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Using SoftChalk as a Tool for
Formative Assessment
-California State University, Fullerton |
This webinar occurred on
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 |
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This online presentation by Dr. Lynda Randall from California State University Fullerton, will offer formative assessment strategies to provide ongoing feedback to students and to allow teachers to determine the extent to which students are gaining competence. SoftChalk was purchased as a tool for enhancing student learning in face-to-face, hybrid, and online instruction. In early implementation, Dr. Randall developed several modules that support student success with text readings and the development of competencies in critical areas. These areas of competence include developing goals and objectives, understanding brain-based development of cognition during adolescence, and creating holistic and analytic trait rubrics. Master's degree students in Secondary Education, who are currently teaching in public schools, have also developed several SoftChalk lessons. The webinar will provide a window into these lessons and their initial impact on student learning, as well as perceptions of students and faculty about the usefulness of the SoftChalk tools. The session ends with a Q&A period.
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Students use LessonBuilder
to Develop Critical Thinking
-Glendale Community College
Maricopa Community College System, AZ |
This webinar occurred on
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 |
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During this presentation, you will learn from Mary Jane Onnen, a full time faculty member and Faculty Development Facilitator at Glendale Community College in Arizona, how her use of LessonBuilder evolved from using it as a simple testing tool to having her students create content in LessonBuilder to help them develop critical thinking skills. For a Basic Reading class, LessonBuilder textpoppers are used to emphasize vocabulary, and recorded text is integrated with the lesson content. In a College Reading Skills class, students use LessonBuilder to create content that is then used to assess the student's summarizing and critical thinking skills, as well as grammar, punctuation, and spelling.The session ends with a questions and answer period.
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ANGEL/LessonBuilder Integration-
Special Partner webinar
-SoftChalk and ANGEL Learning |
This webinar occurred on
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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| During this presentation, co-presented by Angel Learning and SoftChalk, we will show how lessons created with LessonBuilder can be imported into Angel. We will show how the lessons are saved, brought into Angel and how the quizzes and learning activities become part of the Angel gradebook The session ends with a questions and answer period.
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Using Online Learning to successfully engage at-risk students
-Heartland Area Education Agency, Johnston IA |
This webinar occurred on
Thursday, September 27, 2007 |
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| In this session, Gene Behrens, Professional Development and Leadership Consultant, at Heartland Area Education Agency in Johnston, Iowa, will describe how they have worked with at-risk students that have had a history of resisting reading and writing instruction. Softchalk LessonBuilder has been used to create interactive supplemental reading and writing activities for at risk students in shelters and a juvenile detention program. The program is design to be used with a broad range of student reading and writing skills, ranging from beginning reading to middle school/high school levels. Participants will be able to see how LessonBuilder's interactive activities (Seek a Word, ordering, short answer, sorting, matching, and crossword puzzles) have successfully reinforced student learning. |
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Creating a Roadmap for eLearning using Instructional Events and Learning Outcomes
-Broward Community College, Florida |
This webinar occurred on
Wednesday, July 25, 2007 |
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| You will learn from Jeff Larson, the Director of ELearning Content Solutions and Sharon Rifkin, ELearning Faculty Associate, at Broward Community College, how they focus on providing faculty with an Instructional Event model which quickly ramps up their ability to prepare eLearning content. (Hidden in this model, is the end-result of digital content being "chunked", a first step in getting it ready for a Learning Object Repository). We will discuss how an Instructional Event is driven by a Learning Outcome and/or used to achieve a Learning Outcome. Because of the nature of the tools in Learning Management systems, like Blackboard/WebCT, SoftChalk LessonBuilder is an important resource to develop the templates as well as the content and self-assessment for their eLearning classes. |
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Reusable Learning Object Initiative - Creating a Systemwide Repository
-The Maricopa Community College System, GateWay Community College |
This webinar occurred on
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 |
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| In this one-hour session, Lisa Young, the e-Learning Coordinator at GateWay Community College will describe the Maricopa system-wide Reusable Learning Objects (RLO) initiative and LessonBuilder's role in its success. The Maricopa Community Colleges has a two year initiative on reusable learning objects in which they first built awareness of RLOs, then helped faculty learn skills on where and how to find RLOs for their use and finally they taught them how to create their own RLOs and share them in Maricopa's repository, called the MLX (Maricopa Learning eXchange). Maricopa adopted the use of SoftChalk LessonBuilder for development of RLOs. Learn how this initiative went and how faculty responded.
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Creating Curriculum for Talented Students in Primary and Middle School
-Duke University, Talent Identification Program |
This webinar occurred on
Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
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| In this one-hour session, Lyn Hawks, Coordinator of Independent Learning at Duke University TIP demonstrates how Duke TIP has used SoftChalk's LessonBuilder to develop secondary English curriculum. The Writer's Journey, Volume I, harnesses a variety of LessonBuilder features to teach the writing process as a hero's journey. Students experience captivating illustrations and meaningful content, rigorous activities and assessments, and exploratory Web links and exercises to better understand such concepts as sensory and resonant diction, meaningful purpose, and lively writer's voice. Participants will see how such LessonBuilder features as textpoppers, flashcards, hotspots, Seek a Word, crosswords, quizzes, and sidebars can be used for multiple purposes to provide accelerated and enriching curriculum for English students for all ages and readiness levels. |
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