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August 26, 2004
What are we going to do this year?
Welcome to the Learning Objects Blog! Donna and I are busy researching and planning Ocotillo activities for your learning pleasure. :-)Lisa C. Young is the Program Director and residential faculty for the Water Resources Technology and Occupational Safety Technology Programs at GateWay Community College. I have been teaching in Maricopa for over eleven years. This past year, I was the project manager for Gateway's training initiative and conversion to Blackboard 6.1. I am currently working on my Ph.D. in geovisualization looking at whether the use of geovisualization enhances learning. I have been actively using online instruction for many of my classes for over seven years and consider myself a water and technology geek. I had the pleasure of being an MCCCD International Fellow in Australia, where I looked at water resources and online education and utilized this knowledge through an Internationalizing the Curriculum Grant. For fun, I like to SCUBA dive.
Donna Rebadow is a residential faculty member at Paradise Valley Community College. Her academic disciplines are Health Science, Wellness Education, Psychology and Computer Information Systems. She has been a faculty member at Maricopa for 22 years. She's been using computers since 1968, been online since 1988. Donna developed and taught the first online course at PVCC. She has been involved with Ocotillo since 1994 as Chair of the Multimedia Authoring group. Going back to 1991, she has presented at workshops and conferences domestically and internationally on "teaching with technology." She has actually gone through the MCLI HTML tutorial. In her spare time, she trains seeing eye dogs, does pet therapy work at Maricopa Medical Center, and is currently working on the Pam Te Project bringing laptops to the indeginous Mayan Indians in the Chiapas region of Southern Mexico.
But let's talk about learning objects... We think Learning Objects are going to revolutionize education in so many ways and on so many levels.
Our mission for the Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) Ocotillo Sub-Committee is to provide the Maricopa teaching community with resources to aid them in the adoption, use and creation of RLOs.
We plan to do this by:
* conducting research on RLOs and communicating a summary of this research to the Maricopa teaching community.
* providing a working definition of RLOs and a repository of RLO resources to the Maricopa teaching community.
* continuously increasing the collective knowledge regarding RLOs in the Maricopa teaching community through internal and external events.
By the end of the year, we hope to tickle your brain with information that will allow you to utilize existing RLOs as well as create your very own RLOs that you can share with others through Hands-on Learnshops, Discussion Boards, Virtual Seminars with reknowned experts in the field of RLOs, Electronic Communications (blog, wiki, and listserv).
In addition, we plan to visit your campuses and gather information about how you and your colleagues already know, would like to know or want to know more about RLOs and share hot, new ideas!
Some characteristics of RLOs are, that they are:
* customizeable,
* efficient,
* already done,
* flexible,
* cost effective,
* don't have to reinvent the wheel,
* provide pedagogical consistency.
Join us in exploring the wonderful, new and engaging world of RLOs.
Lisa and Donna
Posted by lyoung at August 26, 2004 12:43 PM in category
General Info
Comments...
Lisa and Donna,
At this point, do you have any plans for seminars/session this October and November? I'd like to start putting a master schedule together and promoting it across the district.
Posted by: John Arle at September 8, 2004 03:16 PM
