first+meeting

=Teaching and Learning Committee--online=

We had our first meeting at 9:00pm Oct 26th in Tapped In

Summary of Online TLC October 26th Discussion in Tapped In Participants present: Margaret Riel, Linda Polin, Tony C., Paul Sparks, and Linda Purrington We discussed how to access a designated discussion in Tapped In, the right size for managing discussion groups, how to slow down discussion to support everyone’s full engagement when the group is large. Paul talked shared a free association task he uses to get a quick measure of understanding, Linda suggested creating occasional pauses for reading and Margaret described a use of the pasteboard to have some composing taking place on the side. We discussed the nature and purpose of Wikis and Margaret shared how she used a Wiki for collaborate student work to provide a public model of how students move from taking notes to writing a literature review. We also discussed the possibility of using the online questions and answers as way to identify topics that would be good to include in a written document about online teaching and learning strategies.

We decided to pursue ordering a text to read and discuss as a group:  Online Professional Development for Teachers: Emerging Models and Methods (Paperback) by Chris Dede (Editor) ($30). Margaret and Linda will check on getting it ordered.

We hope the rest of you will want to join in our future discussions online. We decided to meet and experience Tapped In discussion again next month and then move to Skype for the following meeting.