Here’s the OER Resource Directory, where you can find a list of Open Educational Resources that are free and available for students and instructors to use. If you’re interested in OERs, you might also be interested in this syllabus that Cailean Cooney from City Tech developed for an OER Fellowship Seminar there.
Blog
Customizing Blackboard and Blogs@Baruch
Blackboard: This is a presentation by an Instructional Designer at Baruch, Kevin Wolff. It discusses some of the possible ways professors can customize Blackboard to fit the needs of the class. If you’re interested in learning more about these customizations, Kevin is available for individual conferences at [email protected].
Blogs@Baruch: Blogs@Baruch is run on WordPress. Craig Stone ([email protected]) and Christopher Silsby ([email protected]) in the CTL office are available to field questions about customizing your course site. Additionally, the WordPress codex is an excellent resource for finding answers to questions about site design. The YouTube channel WordPress Beginner also provides free video tutorials.
Learning Objectives and Backwards Design
Here’s the backwards design template that we used in the workshop at the February 3rd meeting. And here’s a link to “The Professor and the Instructional Designer: A Course Design Journey.”
Before the February 3rd Meeting
Hi everyone!
Here are your “homework” assignments to complete before the first meeting on February 3rd.
- Watch the hypothesis how-to video and make a hypothesis account.
- Join the hybrid seminar hypothesis group here, and make sure to annotate the articles in the group rather than in the public option.
- Read + annotate “Teaching and Turing Machines: The History of the Future of Labor and Learning” by Audrey Watters
- Read + annotate “The Professor and the Instructional Designer: A Course Design Journey” by Adrienne Gauthier and Thomas Jack
- Get a Twitter account if you don’t have one, or get a new handle if you don’t want to use your own. Tweet at us at Baruch_CTL introducing yourself and your course. Use the hashtag #CTLHybridSem in your tweet.
Blogs @ Baruch vs. Blackboard
Are you deciding between using Blogs@Baruch and using Blackboard?
We developed this handy comparison chart to help you think through some of the differences between the two.
Do you have something to add? We’d love to hear from you! E-mail us at [email protected]