Archives of the 'Innovators Online Webinar Series'

Innovators in Online Learning Session Date and Time

Building Lesson Plans - Combining a Digital Library and SoftChalk

Dr. Susan W. Mills, Appalachian State University

 This webinar occurred on Mon, July 14, 2008 View Archived Webinar!
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.
Innovators in Online Learning Session Date and Time

Working with the Jittery Online Student

Jacob Guerra, South Texas College

 This webinar occurred on Tues, June 3, 2008 View Archived Webinar!
Learn how Jacob Guerra, Instructional Designer for South Texas College, uses SoftChalk to create fully Interactive Lessons that are not only visually appealing , but engaging for those that need to move around in order to learn. Since reaching students of all learning styles is a key ingredient to any online course, thi s presentation will describe the real life issues of dealing with a Tactile/Kinesthetic Learner and show examples of lessons created to address them. The session ends with a question and answer time.
Innovators in Online Learning Session Date and Time

Readers and Scanners - How SoftChalk Enhances Diverse Learning Styles

Stephen Holland, Muscatine Community College

 This webinar occurred on Tues, April 22, 2008 View Archived Webinar!
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.
Webinar Series: Innovators in Online LearningSession Date and Time

How Course Tutorials Promote Success, Retention,
and Accountability for the Online Student

Online educator in Doctoral and Associate Degree Programs

 This webinar occurred on Wed, March 19, 2008 View Archived Webinar!
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.
Webinar Series: Innovators in Online LearningSession Date and Time

Using SoftChalk as a Tool for
Formative Assessment

California State University, Fullerton

 This webinar occurred on Wed, March 12, 2008 View Archived Webinar!
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.
Webinar Series: Innovators in Online LearningSession Date and Time

Students use LessonBuilder
to Develop Critical Thinking

-Glendale Community College
Maricopa Community College System, AZ

 This webinar occurred on
Wednesday, November 7, 2007		 View Archived Webinar!
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.
Webinar Series: Special Partner WebinarSession Date and Time

ANGEL/LessonBuilder Integration-
Special Partner webinar

-SoftChalk and ANGEL Learning

 This webinar occurred on
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
 View Archived Webinar!
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.
Webinar Series: Innovators in Online LearningSession Date and Time

Using Online Learning to successfully engage at-risk students

-Heartland Area Education Agency, Johnston IA

 This webinar occurred on
Thurs, September 27, 2007		 View Archived Webinar!
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.
Webinar Series: Special Partner WebinarSession Date and Time

Blackboard/LessonBuilder Integration- Special Partner webinar

-Florida Community College System, Jacksonville FL
-Blackboard Corp, Washington DC

 This webinar occurred on
Tues, September 25, 2007		 View Archived Webinar!
In this session, Bill Ganza the Director of Professional Development at Florida Community College at Jacksonville, will show how lessons created with LessonBuilder can be imported into Blackboard. He will show how the lessons are saved, brought into Blackboard and how the quizzes and learning activities become part of the Blackboard gradebook. Prior to Bll's presentation Jan Day from Blackboard will describe the Blackboard-SoftChalk partnership.
Webinar Series: Innovators in Online LearningSession Date and Time

Delivering Professional Staff Development Online with PowerPoint and LessonBuilder

-St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix AZ

 This webinar occurred on
Wed, August 22, 2007		 View Archived Webinar!
Margo Saum, RN, MSN, MBA, Informatics Project Manager, Center of Education & Development, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ. will discuss their development of learning modules and professional development for hospital staff who must complete annual competencies. St. Joseph's has recently moved a portion of new hire orientation to online learning. They have built over 100 lessons with 80 in PowerPoint and 20 in LessonBuilder; in the next year they plan to move over half of their online lessons to LessonBuilder. A Learning Management System (WebInservice/MCStrategies) is used to deliver the content developed to the staff. How the Softchalk lessons are incorporated into and delivered with WebInservice will also be discussed.
Webinar Series: Innovators in Online LearningSession Date and Time

Creating a Roadmap for eLearning using Instructional Events and Learning Outcomes

-Broward Community College, Florida

 This webinar occurred on
Wed, July 25, 2007		 View Archived Webinar!
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.
Webinar Series: Innovators in Online LearningSession Date and Time

Reusable Learning Object Initiative - Creating a Systemwide Repository

-The Maricopa Community College System, GateWay Community College

 This webinar occurred on
Wed, June 13, 2007		 View Archived Webinar!
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.
Webinar Series: Innovators in Online LearningARCHIVED SESSION

Language Instruction and eLearning from Grammar to German to SCORM integration

-Virginia Commonwealth University, School of World Studies

 This webinar occurred on
Wed, May 9, 2007		 View Archived Webinar!
In this one-hour session, Dr. Robert Godwin-Jones, Professor of Foreign Languages at Virginia Commonwealth University, will discuss and illustrate language instruction, with examples of lessons for teaching grammar, for working on reading comprehension, and for teaching culture. He will show sample lessons, created with LessonBuilder, from elementary to the advanced level, including how LessonBuilder created lessons are being used in distant-learning courses in intermediate-level German instruction. This will also involve the integration of the lessons into a learning management system, using Blackboard as an example, and how lessons saved as SCORM modules offer benefits over content imported as normal zip archives.
Webinar Series: Innovators in Online LearningARCHIVED SESSION

Creating Curriculum for Talented Students in Primary and Middle School

-Duke University, Talent Identification Program

 This webinar occurred on
Thurs, April 19, 2007		 View Archived Webinar!
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.
Webinar Series: Innovators in Online LearningARCHIVED SESSION

Partnering With a Major Publisher to Create Content for a National Audience

- Florida Community College at Jacksonville, SIRIUS program

 This webinar occurred on
Mon, March 26, 2007		 View Archived Webinar!
In this one-hour session, Dr. Chuck Lombardo, the Director of Creative Learning Services, and Bill Ganza, the Director of Professional Development, will describe Florida Community College at Jacksonville's SIRIUS program. FCCJ has teamed with McGraw-Hill Education to market the programs nationally. The program has gained national attention because of its team orientation and goal of developing high-quality courses, along with a nationally recognized faculty development program. Course materials consist of a textbook, CD with multimedia, documentation, exercises, and a web-presence. SoftChalk LessonBuilder is used to navigate the student through the material on the CD as well as the web content, and to add additional materials such as learning activities, quizzes, text annotations and sidebars. Following FCCJ specifications, SoftChalk has also developed four Custom Style Sheets, each emphasizing a different discipline.

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