Technology

Teaching with Blackboard and Second Life: Strategies and Techniques

  

Abstract:

This workshop designed for instructors who want to learn tips for teaching online courses including assessment techniques will report on pre and post surveys of students in the same face-to-face and online classes and demonstrate the use of Blackboard and Second Life as networked computer software teaching tools.

 

Target Audience:

The workshop is designed for instructors who want to learn tips for teaching online courses through Blackboard and/or Second Life. Preferably, the ideal workshop participant would have some synchronous online teaching experience.

 

Learning Outcomes:

1.    Learn Blackboard software history and uses

2.    Learn Second Life software history and uses

3.    Learn Blackboard teaching and assessment techniques

4.    Learn Second Life classroom creation techniques

5.    Hear of survey results comparing read and second life pedagogies

6.  Compare online teaching strategies

 

Conducted by:

 

Dr. Paul Martin Lester

Dr. Paul Martin Lester is a tenured, full professor of Communications at California State University, Fullerton. He has given keynote speeches, panel discussions, presentations and workshops throughout the United States and in Australia, Canada, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Lester's interests include mass media ethics, visual communications, and new communications technologies.