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Psst……one of the best-kept secrets
at MCC is the many ways in which technology can be used
in teaching on-campus classes. Read below to find out what
WebCT and Breeze Presentation Software can do for you.
WebCTis the course management software used
at MCC for online classes. It will allow you to help your
on-campus students learn more while decreasing the amount of
time you spend on the mundane parts of teaching. This, then frees
you to focus on the more creative aspects of instruction.
*Do your students often ask “What’s
my grade?” How about an online gradebook? You
can use WebCT to post grades as soon you’ve finished grading
an assignment/quiz/exam. You can even use WebCT to post
comments to individual student assignments. Students can
check their grades twenty-four hours a day from a password-protected
site only they can see.
*Would you like to use WebCT's capabilities
to get your students to read the chapter BEFORE you lecture on
it? You can require students to take an online
quiz on assigned reading material before attending class.
*Do your students sometimes miss important
class updates and information? How about posting online
announcements? If there is a last minute change in plans
for your class, it’s easy to get everybody informed via
WebCT’s capabilities.
*Does your email box get clogged with
class mail? How about using WebCT’s internal mail just
for your class? All class emails will be in one spot, separate
from your general MCC email messages, and at much less risk for
delivering the latest worm or virus to your computer.
*Ever want formative feedback during the
semester? How about an anonymous survey of your
students? WebCT makes this a snap.
*Do you want your students to reflect
upon and discuss important topics but feel constrained by limited
class time? How about creating an online discussion board?
Using WebCT or WebBoard, your students can post any time they
choose, see what their classmates have posted, and respond to
classmates’ postings. Classmates' postings are available
for viewing as long as you, the instructor, wish them to
be.
Breeze Presentation software lets you make
your class presentation notes available to your students for
review at the time of their choosing. And all this at no cost
to you! Sound to good to be true? Read on!
*Do students ask for your Powerpoint
slides? How about putting them online and including
your voice, with the material password-protected so only students
enrolled in your classes have access to it? Using Breeze Presentation
software and WebCT, this is easy to accomplish.
Where can you learn how to use these fantastic tools? The CTL
offers workshops throughout the semester. Click here to
see the schedule of classes for spring, 2005: http://ctl.mc.maricopa.edu/events/display.jsp
Register online for the session you wish to attend. If you want
to follow up the workshop with one-on-one help, make an appointment
with any of these CTL staff people: Peg Johnson (johnson@mail.mc.maricopa.edu,
phone 461-7703), Donna Gaudet (donna.gaudet@mcmail.maricopa.edu,
phone 461-7929), or Melanie Kroening (mkroening@mail.mc.maricopa.edu,
phone 461-7799). Learn what technology can do to make your
classes more effective and less time consuming for
you.
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