Alternate Delivery Program

MANAGING ONLINE DISCUSSIONS

All of these materials and links are available in the Hybrid Course Design Workshop Blackboard site. We are providing them externally to perhaps broaden the audience who may be interested in them.

PRESENTATION

"Online Discussion Portfolios: How NOT to Grade 'I Agree Posts" (MP4 file) by John Fritz, OIT.

• This presentation was delivered online to the SU2007 version of LLC616 "Cyberspace, Community and Culture, but is broadly generalizable after the brief introductory reference to the instructor, Diane Maloney-Krichmar.
• This presentation is an M4A "enhanced podcast" that can be viewed in iTunes or with QuickTime. It was made using ProfCast, a simple, cheap ($30) podcast creation software for the Mac. Snapkast does a similar job for the PC.

10/26/2007 Educause 2007 Presentation

07/23/2008 Wimba Distinguished Lecture Presentation ( Wimba Archive | MS PPT)

MATERIALS

Assignment "Handout" for Students & Sample Rubric (MS Word | HTML)
Participation Portfolio (MS Word Form)
How to make MS Word Forms

• This presentation was made for UMBC English Professor Sally Shivnan, who is part of the WT2008 ADP cohort, but is easily generalizable for other faculty wanting to use MS Word forms. The presentation was produced with Jing, a free (for now) screencast capture tool made by TechSmith.com, which also makes Camtasia.
• For what it's worth, here is the next Jing capture showing Sally how to use Blackboard to collect the assignments created with MS Word Forms.

FACULTY TESTIMONIALS

UMBC Blackboard Best Practice Videos

• The link above goes to Karin Readel and Chris Swan's iTunesU interviews about their use of online discussion board portfolios.