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LOL Weekly Session Follow-up: The Power of Padlet [Recorded 11/17/2020]

11/19/2020

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This week, The CTLA's own Kali Andrews, Instructional Designer, joined us to share one of her favorite tools -  Padlet! Kali shared the basics of setting up Padlet, strategies/activities, two ways to include your live Padlet discussion wall within Canvas, and her thoughts on free (Padlet Basic) vs. paid (Padlet pro).

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LOL Weekly Session Follow-up: Webex Teams vs Zoom (recorded 11/10/2020)

11/12/2020

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The Best $30 You'll Ever Spend...

11/10/2020

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You all know that I am the biggest advocate ever for free tools, but this week I want to share one of the most-used tools in my arsenal, which did in fact cost me about $30 - TechSmith's SnagIt.

A lot of software companies these days work on a subscription basis, but the $29.99 education price pays for a license, not a periodic subscription fee (you will need to provide proof that you are an educator in order to take advantage of the education pricing).
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I use SnagIt pretty much on a daily basis, for many tasks:
  • To create graphs for handouts
  • Capturing images, especially for guides and how-to documents
  • Editing, resizing, setting transparent backgrounds, image reflections, text overlays, etc.
  • Combining images for headers, slides, etc.
  • Screencasting (I use it regularly to provide students with video feedback)

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LOL Weekly Follow-up: Give Your Presentation Some Panache (Recorded 11/3/2020)

11/5/2020

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This week we looked at recommended practices when creating presentation slides, AND gave three awesome resource sites for you to find ready-made slide templates! There are basic slide decks, slide decks for games, hyperdoc slide decks - you name it, you'll be able to find it!

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Webcam Question

11/3/2020

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This week's post is in response to a question that I received recently about the best hardware to use for recording. Anyone who knows me will be able to guess my response: "It depends!"

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LOL WEEKLY FOLLOW-UP: Webex Breakout Sessions (10/6/2020)

10/8/2020

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This week in LOL, we collectively made our first foray into Webex Breakout Sessions! As this feature has only been "live" for Maricopa Webex Meetings for about 2 weeks, there are still some questions we may not immediately have the answers to - but if you do have questions after watching the video, be sure to use the "LOL Suggestion Box" form to let us know, and we'll try to find the answer(s).

The 40 minute video below includes the host [instructor] perspective, the participant [student] perspective, and a brief view of what Webex will record if you are using Breakout Sessions (no, you cannot record the individual breakouts at this time).

RESOURCES:
  • Get your own copy the slides from Tuesday's "Webex Breakout Sessions" presentation: https://bit.ly/LOL-breakout
  • Use the LOL Suggestion Box (https://bit.ly/LOLsuggestionbox) to share:
    • Topics you would like to see in future LOL sessions
    • Ideas you would be willing to share (we'd love to have anyone who is interested as a guest, or to have small groups with a common interest as a panel!)
    • Questions or comments you may have about LOL specifically, or about synchronous online teaching in general!
  • Remember, LOL will be held every Tuesday afternoon from 2:30-3:30 PM! The session room will open 15 minutes prior to start time. No registration necessary - just use this link to join: https://bit.ly/LiveOnlineLive
We hope to see all of you at next week's LOL session!
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Hot on the heels of Webex Breakout Rooms, we want to share strategies and activities that will allow you and your students to make the most of this tool!
Tuesday, 10/13 | 2:30-3:30PM (session room opens 15 minutes prior to start time)
No registration necessary.

Use this link to join the Webex session:
https://bit.ly/LiveOnlineLive

The link to the webinar recording will be made available to you weekly - watch your email!
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LOL Weekly Follow-up (9/22 Some Good News)

9/24/2020

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This week was our first ever "LOL... Some Good News Edition." We had live guests AND good news shared via email, conversation about tools, student engagement, instructor presence, creative workspace hacks, and more!

Shout out to our email contributors...
  • Bill Guerriero
  • Marie Huntsinger
  • Andrea O'Brien
  • Lisa Ruschak
  • April Ström
  • Zoila Tovar-Blank (Dr. Z!)
  • ... and a few Good News snippets from Dr. Peterson's 9/18 Newsletter!
  • Thanks also to Base Camp 12, our final Summer 2020 Base Camp, for letting us take their picture!
AND to the Live participant/contributors...
  • Joni Burris
  • John Dean
  • Kerry Gerle
  • Colette Lawson-Nichols
  • Gloria Pearson
RESOURCES:
  • Get your own copy of the "Survival Tips" session slides: https://bit.ly/LOL-SGN1
  • Use the LOL Suggestion Box (https://bit.ly/LOLsuggestionbox) to share:
    • Topics you would like to see in future LOL sessions
    • Ideas you would be willing to share (we'd love to have anyone who is interested as a guest, or to have small groups with a common interest as a panel!)
    • Questions or comments you may have about LOL specifically, or about synchronous online teaching in general!
  • Remember, LOL will be held every Tuesday afternoon from 2:30-3:30 PM! The session room will open 15 minutes prior to start time. No registration necessary - just use this link to join: https://bit.ly/LiveOnlineLive
We hope to see all of you at next week's LOL session!
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Yes, that's right - Scott Adamson and April Ström will be with us next week to showcase the work they've been doing in their online classes! Tuesday, 9/29 | 2:30-3:30PM (session room opens 15 minutes prior to start time)
No registration necessary.

Use this link to join the Webex session:
https://bit.ly/LiveOnlineLive

The link to the webinar recording will be made available to you weekly - watch your email!
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No Doc Cam? No Problem!

9/22/2020

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Remote teaching can turn into an expensive gig. But do you know who is always on a tight budget, and really knows how to think outside the box? Teachers, that's who!
Laptops, webcams, document cameras... working from home can be effective, but it also takes work and often some specialized equipment. That gets expensive - and even if you don't mind spending the money, the demand is very high so it can be a challenge to get hold of the hardware that you want. Fortunately, there are a lot of clever (and determined!) teachers out there, and luckily for us, they share on social media!

Let's take one example that the CTLA has been fielding questions about - the document camera. No doc cam? No problem!


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LOL!

9/1/2020

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CGCC faculty spoke, and we listened! By going through all of your feedback from this Summer’s ten Base Camp sessions, we learned that many of you want to know more about teaching online – in particular, teaching Live Online. So we’re cooking up a new weekly series to meet your needs:

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