Supporting online students Christine Sinclair MSc in Digital

Supporting online students 1. What I learned from being an online student 2. Extending

AWá Wikimedia Commons 1. WHAT I LEARNED AS ONLINE STUDENT

Language changes through different media and contexts It isn’t!

Learning the language of the Internet • ‘I wouldn’t use a smiley because I

…with the help of my tutor ‘…but there a lot of conventions, like the

…who also helped me understand lurking Dialogue is important

Text is not the only medium for ideas I mean an intelligent word graven

But I enjoyed playing with text too! Parody of Plato’s Symposium – and of

Clipart courtesy FCIT 2. ADDING TO YOUR TEACHING REPERTOIRE

Synchronous activities work differently I’ve organised you by timezone. You’ve got until Thursday. Your

A course design on Course Design Asynchronous preparation… …then brought together in a Collaborate

You may need to work ‘backstage’ Are you OK? We haven’t heard from you

Your own student experience can be useful As a student, I found long forum

Own experience is also reusable Extracts from my public blog (now lost )

So far… Some things I learned Adding to the repertoire • Students have preferences

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Supporting online students Christine Sinclair MSc in Digital Education University of Edinburgh Christine. Sinclair@ed. ac. uk http: //digital. education. ed. ac. uk/

Supporting online students 1. What I learned from being an online student 2. Extending your teaching repertoire 3. A manifesto for teaching online Petr Trojan. Wikimedia

AWá Wikimedia Commons 1. WHAT I LEARNED AS ONLINE STUDENT

Silence has many meanings

Language changes through different media and contexts It isn’t!

Learning the language of the Internet • ‘I wouldn’t use a smiley because I wouldn’t know what I meant by it’ (2006) (I would now) By Pumbaa 80 (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

…with the help of my tutor ‘…but there a lot of conventions, like the smiley thing, which are there, in a sense, indicating that the social conventions are not just being set aside … people are trying to take account of that. ’ Dr Hamish Macleod

…who also helped me understand lurking Dialogue is important

Text is not the only medium for ideas I mean an intelligent word graven in the soul of the learner… Socrates teaching. From Wikimedia Commons

But I enjoyed playing with text too! Parody of Plato’s Symposium – and of Web. CT – my first assignment You can do more with online assignments

Clipart courtesy FCIT 2. ADDING TO YOUR TEACHING REPERTOIRE

Synchronous activities work differently I’ve organised you by timezone. You’ve got until Thursday. Your group’s got 45 minutes for this exercise Photo by Sebastiaan ter Burg from Utrecht, The Netherlands via Wikimedia Commons Pixabay

A course design on Course Design

A course design on Course Design Asynchronous preparation… …then brought together in a Collaborate session

You may need to work ‘backstage’ Are you OK? We haven’t heard from you for a while?

Your own student experience can be useful As a student, I found long forum posts intimidating. I was fascinated by what people called their avatars

Own experience is also reusable Extracts from my public blog (now lost )

Exploit the potential of the media

A great response from students!

So far… Some things I learned Adding to the repertoire • Students have preferences for (a)synchronicity • Silence has many meanings • Language changes • Dialogue is key • Text is not the only medium • Assignments may have more potential All true in classrooms too! • Synchronous activities work differently • You may need to work ‘backstage’ • Your own experience may be helpful and reusable • Exploit the potential of the media • You will learn from your students

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