Course Introduction Video

Hi, everyone, this is the welcome video for the course, and will serve as a short overview of the website for the course, as well as the syllabus, I'll bounce back and forth a little bit between my face here and the website To give you a little bit of a tour of the site. So starting out with a tour of the site.

Up in the top is where you will find the main navigation that you've probably already found. The main course content will fall under this area. And you'll see that there are three main sections to the course, section one educational theory and teaching practice section to designing and constructing digital course. And then section three, conducting educational research and assessing the digital courses. So The first section will really be about educational theory and teaching practice. The second one will be where we're thinking about the nuts and bolts of the course and building the course. And then the third one will be putting both of those together into building your course thinking about conducting research, and also thinking about assessing your course. So we look at that piece for them. The second area here is assignments. So you'll see that in here.

There are weekly assignments that happen every week, or just about every week. So there are 10 of them here. And these are designed to help you with your course with building your course. So I've tried to design them to be something that will help you create an artifact for the course think about something that's important for your course, or otherwise be useful to you. You'll see that there do each week, Just about probably Friday morning, Thursday night, You know, as long as they're turned in the in your portfolio by Friday at noon, I think will be good with that.

Each of those will be do each week up through about the beginning of October, beginning of November. Once we get to this assignment, 910 and 11. These are sometimes a little easier to do once you're further along in your course. And you may or may not be further along or further enough, far enough along in your course at that point that you're able to do it. So those the due date is really a little bit more relaxed than the rest of them.

Then we have four big project assignments, the course design proposal, the course design project, the mentored research proposal, and the digital portfolio. And those are all linked here in the Assignments tab as well. So the course design proposal is the first of them. And it is due on September 20, which is two weeks from today. And you'll want to put it into your digital portfolio and share that link with me. And we'll talk about the digital portfolio in a few minutes. This assignment is designed to be an overview document, One to two pages, it should not be something that you spend an abnormally long amount of time writing, it's really something that I want you to be more thinking about. Thinking about things like the course title and number of brief description of the topics, Some overall goals for the course, Is it going to be a hybrid or a fully online course? What are some things that you think will be easy for you, or what are some things that you think will be difficult for you as you're doing the course. And then also thinking about any other information that's relevant to you, you're going to be able to modify this over the course of the semester. So don't worry about if you're not sure on something, just do the best you can at this point. And we'll keep working on it. 

The second assignment, which is related directly to this is the course design project. And in this, you're going to see, this is going to be what you're going to be doing for the end of the semester. So, so we're going to have the proposal that you turn in, you're going to do a screen cast a draft version of your presentation, I believe that's mid November, but will confirm it on the syllabus. And then you'll turn in a final screen cast of your project during finals week. So that'll be that piece of it. The third assignment is your mentored research proposal. So This is something that's designed to get you thinking about educational research and how educational research is done. I know a lot of people enrolled in the class have taught. And so you may have some experience in doing research in your course. And a lot of you have not taught and So using this project is a way to think get you thinking about how to do some research in your own classes, and also to prepare you for the certificate or certification in college teaching program that we offer through the college. And if you're doing that this will be a requirement of it. So it helps you get a head start, What you're going to be doing with this is just producing a proposal, you won't actually be doing the research. And instead, what you'll be doing is producing a proposal that is outlined here on the website, I do have a rubric for assessment that's in here. And then I also have a sample proposal for you to see and get a sense of what this might look like. The last assignment on here is the digital portfolio assignment. And that is going to be something that you're working on throughout the semester. And so you're going to be adding things from the course the weekly assignments, the project assignments, Any other artifacts or things that you're producing related to this course, you'll be adding to this portfolio. And I'll be producing a second video to guide you through thinking about where that portfolio is going to live. But This is something that you'll be adding to this is how you'll turn in your assignments. And we can work on ways that you can either make them very public, if it's something that you're ready to make public as part of your scholarship, or that where you can keep them a little more private, just sharing them with me and or the rest of the class. So those are the big team assignments. The rest of the site here goes through, We've got team conversation, which when you click on it, it will launch Microsoft Teams for you. And you can download the application or join on the web. And you'll log in with your net ID and password. This is a service and a product that MSE provides for faculty and students on campus. And The big thing to remember about the team's conversation is that the conversation would happen Both asynchronously or synchronously. So if some of you happen to be on the course thinking about things working on it, and you're typing conversation into the team site, Then someone else who was there might be responding back to you in real time or synchronously. But Other times you may be posing a question and no one may be answering you. Maybe it's the middle of the night or a time where all the rest of us are busy. And so it can also be used asynchronously like that where you are posing the question, and someone else is going to be answering at a later time. So the team conversation is there. And then lastly is the syllabus. And I won't take a ton of time because I want to keep this video under 10 minutes. But just to give you a sense of it, The syllabus a couple of important things, the syllabus has version numbers in it. And I've explained this a little bit in in the past, or I believe in the document. But I keep these version numbers so that we're always on the same page about what document we're talking about. At no point will I change the document the due dates in the syllabus or anything like that to be sooner, But I may extend deadlines or I may fix a typo or things like that, that we find. And I want to be able to reference the right documents so that we're all on the same page. So you'll see that the version numbers might change and the date will always change. And that's available at the top of this page, and also down in the footer Here in each page. So as we go through the class, a big thing that have been questions that people have asked is about meeting times.

So This course will meet

primarily online, We may have some times that we meet face to face in small groups. But primarily we will be meeting online and we will be meeting asynchronously online. So we will not necessarily be on there At the same time. But we will be working just through the course Sometimes we'll meet and I'm always happy to meet with any of you for office hours or other things like that. So know that there isn't really a set meeting time, even though the course schedule says that there's one that actually isn't a set meantime that we use. So looking back through here, You have some information about the class. And what we're covering has some of the sections that I talked to you with you about some of the course objectives.

So readings are

kind of optional, really, for this class. readings are something that I provide each week for you. But they're designed to be something that helps you understand how the topics that we're covering might be used in your work. So use them as they're helpful to you find other readings and please feel welcome to suggestion suggest them to others. But really, what I want you to be doing is engaging with the topics in a way that's meaningful to you. I often find that a lot of people in this course want to reference the course material in the months or years after they take the course. And that's because some of these things are something that you know a little bit about now, and you don't really need to know about it, but you want to come back to it later. And so I always try to keep the course open so that you can see all of the stuff at a later time. Scrolling down then just last bit here to the course schedule. Just to give you a sense. So in here is the week that we're working on. So we're starting here on Friday, nine, six, and we are going through so our first week is going to be from today, through next Thursday. And what we are focusing on is the introduction of the class and the digital portfolio workshop. So I will be producing and giving you a digital portfolio workshop, which I alluded to earlier. I want you to understand more about the project assignments. And so please feel free to ask some questions about that. And through conversation on teams, we're going to be talking about getting to know each other and the class materials. Why are you in the course? What do you want to get out of it? Who has some common interests as you who has common sets of experiences as you do? You all filled out the survey that I send. And I'll be providing you with a generic set of answers to that. So we can get to know who's in the class and who's in the room and doing what. But I also want to have that conversation with each other and see who's doing what who's interested in what as we start to work on that your weekly assignment will be to work on planning your digital portfolio, We will do that online intro to digital portfolios. And we'll work on getting this portfolio up and running by September 20. Starting next Friday will introduce educational theory and start with that. But I can talk about that each week as I produce a video, that's an overview. And hopefully most of them won't be as long as this one is. So you can scroll through here and see what we'll be doing. At some point during the semester, I will be introducing the ELI Review tool for peer review. So that's how we will be turning in some of our assignments will be doing some group peer review around that. And the groups that I formed for peer review are going to be groups that we formed out of conversation. And those might be small groups that are your peer support group through the semester. And so we'll talk about that in the coming weeks. So I'm really happy to have you all in the class. And I'm excited to see how this goes this fall. The class itself has not been taught online for a few years. And so teaching it online is always an exciting way to practice what we're working on in the class. And so I welcome your feedback on what's working, what's not questions you have, etc.

At any time. So welcome and I will see you all soon.

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