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Entertaining, Educating and Ellluminating

A Triple “E” Teaching Philosophy in Action

It Is the Show Time

A fifteen minute live lecture

Topic: fertilization

Instructor: Dr. Bei Zhang

Participants: Students of Bio261

Where: Elluminate live!

Fertilization

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Where Does It Occur?

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as Pearson Benjamin Cummings

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Cummings

Implantation

Practice and Rehearse

Do the solo

Practice with colleagues

Rehearse using recordings

Two roles in one show

The Show Begins

Not just solo

Make your student the star

Have fun together

Bei asked me to share how I as the Academic Technology Specialist have promoted Elluminate on campus to enhance learning. Elluminate has become a major technology tool we use to enhance learning and it is very widely used on campus

First strategy—We at Thomas University had a Kick off program to promote best practices in using elluminate. Many faculty were required by Academic Affairs office and VP of University to attend. Great turnout and faculty became excited about elluminate to enhance interactive teaching and learning.

Elluminate employees conducted training.

I (the Academic Technology Specialist) was invited to dept. meetings to train faculty and staff on using elluminate and I geared each presentation to department specific ideas for using elluminate.

Tech. committee support --Ties in with vision and mission of TU for Technology infused teaching and learning.

Presented professional development workshop and numerous quick start training sessions to show faculty how elluminate can be used.

Created accounts and virtual offices for all faculty and staff and reached out to faculty and staff to show all on campus how they could use it to benefit their program.

TOP FLIGHT TRAINING AND POLLING

Set up various Meetings and Sessions to teach faculty to use elluminate

Promote quick start trainings on campus on using elluminate

Offered faculty opportunity to have the Academic Tech. Specialist attend the first few sessions faculty had with students as tech back up in courses and this helped faculty build a comfort level in using elluminate.

summer innovators workshop on elluminate and

virtual office hours every Tuesday for an hour drop in time to learn elluminate or blackboard.

Faculty were thrilled to learn they could do elluminate tutorials, classes and even have guest speakers and have these sessions recorded and be available for viewing later.

Quick start trainings included powerpoints that reinforced what faculty were learning that were put in el luminate sessions for hands on training. Also, the 12 powerpoints were emai led to faculty requesting them or posted to faculty sharing blackboard site for training purposes.

I try to make elluminate sessions appeal to all learning styles: Visual, Auditory and Tactile—faculty and students are taught to interact online with whiteboard tools

FACULTY AND STUDENTS RECEIVED HANDS ON TRAINING AND PRACTICE

Faculty were assured that my office (Academic Technology) would offer regular year round orientations/trainings for students to get trained in using elluminate and faculty knew students could ask me for assistance if they had technical issues or contact Elluminate’s 24/7 help.

I taught faculty how easy elluminate is to use since we integrated into blackboard

Trainings for faculty are geared towards needs of each department with examples of using elluminate in terms of best practices from other universities

Student Support Services,Tutoring, library and other offices like Alumni Relations and Admissions Office and Academic Advisors learned to use elluminate.

MOCK CLASS SESSIONS were offered where faculty got to try out conducting classes in elluminate.

I encourage faculty to attend Elluminate’s own moderator trainings which are excellent in addition to our own Thomas University training.

Webpage with student and faculty elluminate resources on it and workshop training schedulehttp://www.thomasu.edu/Content/Default/4/621/0/academics/academic-technology.html

Students wanting an orientation to elluminate can click on the following link to learn about elluminate:  http://www.elluminate.com/support/docs/9.5/participant-pdf/Elluminate_Live%21_Participant_Quick_Reference_Guide_v95.pdf 

 Students can test to see if their computer is ready to use elluminate by going to http://www.elluminate.com/support/

Faculty/Staff Support

Faculty can receive online and hybrid course instructional design support, multimedia support, and academic technology training (including blackboard, softchalk, video, and elluminate) by contacting Mary Prentice at [email protected].

 Faculty wanting to use elluminate can view an elluminate orientation and quick reference guide by clicking on the following link: http://www.elluminate.com/support/docs/9.5/moderator-pdf/Elluminate_Live%21_%2520Moderator_Quick_Reference_Guide_v95.pdf

  In addition, faculty learning to use elluminate can receive training by clicking on the following link: http://www.elluminate.com/support/docs/9.5/moderator.jsp

 Elluminate Technical Support Representatives are available to assist 24-7 with elluminate concerns by calling: Toll Free: North America:               866-388-8674         866-388-8674, option #2

 Student Support

I t r i ed to show facu l ty how e l l umina te a l l ows facu l ty to do many o f the same th ings l i ke qu i zzes and po l l i ng as they wou ld i n F2F c lass . Facu l ty l ea rned how to use emot i cons and hand ra i se too l s tha t off er facu l ty and s tudents chance to g i ve each o ther feedback (v i r tua l handc lap , smi ley face , con fused l ook , e tc ) . S tudents i n on l i ne c lass can even ra i se the i r hand and get ca l l ed on by the teacher i n v i r tua l c l ass room. E l l uminate a l l ows facu l ty to off er ente r ta in ing and educat iona l c l ass sess ions o r s tudy sess ions

Questions?

Thanks for attending. We welcome questions or comments.

Thank you. Bei Zhang and Mary Prentice of Thomas University