Applying the Quality Matters (QM) Rubric

9:00am - 4:00pm - Wednesday, February 17, 2010, Odum Library Room 3270
Instructor: Brenda Boyd, Certified Quality Matters Trainer

VSU personnel - Fee Waived
Non-VSU personnel - $175 ( you will be billed after registration)

The Applying the Quality Matters (QM) Rubric, Part 1 course is designed for participants to learn and to apply the Quality Matters Rubric and process. This workshop is for Faculty members, instructional designers, administrators who want to know more about Quality Matters National Standards in Distance Learning Course Design, and how to apply the standards to their own online courses. Participants will learn about the QM Rubric and process, how to score the rubric, how to write effective recommendations, and how to apply the QM Rubric to an actual online course.   Participants will complete the activities in QM Modules 1-6, which include a brief objective quiz, applying the QM Rubric to a demo course, posting to the essential standards discussion forums, and completing the Check Your Understanding quiz.  Participants will receive a  certificate of completion.
Completing this workshop satisfies a prerequisite for Part 2, Applying the QM Rubric (Part 2 is offered online and requires online teaching experience). A noon break will be provided for lunch on your own.

Applying the Quality Matters (QM) Rubric

9:00am - 4:00pm,  Thursday, February 18, 2010, Odum Library  Room 3270
Instructor: Brenda Boyd, Certified Quality Matters Trainer

Fee:
VSU personnel - Fee Waived
Non-VSU personnel - $175 ( you will be billed after registration)

The Applying the Quality Matters (QM) Rubric, Part 1 course is designed for participants to learn and to apply the Quality Matters Rubric and process. This workshop is for Faculty members, instructional designers, administrators who want to know more about Quality Matters National Standards in Distance Learning Course Design, and how to apply the standards to their own online courses. Participants will learn about the QM Rubric and process, how to score the rubric, how to write effective recommendations, and how to apply the QM Rubric to an actual online course.   Participants will complete the activities in QM Modules 1-6, which include a brief objective quiz, applying the QM Rubric to a demo course, posting to the essential standards discussion forums, and completing the Check Your Understanding quiz.  Participants will receive a  certificate of completion.
Completing this workshop satisfies a prerequisite for Part 2, Applying the QM Rubric (Part 2 is offered online and requires online teaching experience). A noon break will be provided for lunch on your own.     

Accomplished Teaching with Blackboard Vista

1:00pm - 3:00pm, Thursday, February 18, 2010, Odum Room 2634
Instructor:  Harold Powers,  Blackboard "Dr. C"

Fee:  FREE to registered conference attendees

Once you are past the basic set-up of your online course, how can you use the tools provided in Blackboard Vista to make your course even better? This hands-on 2-hour workshop is for online instructors who are ready to take advantage of new course design and instructional delivery strategies. The workshop explores and discusses more advanced features of Blackboard Vista
used at University System of Georgia institutions (known as BlazeVIEW at VSU).  Learn tips for course development and delivery including community building, use of student performance reports, communication tools, alternative assessments, and the grade book.  Participants should be familiar with the Blackboard Vista course management system.

Inside the Cloud:  VSU's  Datacenter for eLearning and Information Technology

2:15pm - 3:00pm, Thursday, February 18, 2010, Oak Street Parking Deck, Room 2317
Guide: Ike Barton, Asst. Director for Enterprise Infrastructure Services

Fee:  FREE: pre-registration required

Ever wonder where your online assignments go when you click "Submit"? Information technology and eLearning digital transactions at VSU are all processed through the institution's state-of-the-art data center. This 45 minute tour of the data center bunker examines how VSU maintains, tracks, backs-up and protects your data for email, online courses, and administrative transactions.

Inside the Cloud:  VSU's  Datacenter for eLearning and Information Technology

3:15pm - 4:00pm, Thursday, February 18, 2010, Oak Street Parking Deck, Room 2317
Guide: Ike Barton, Asst. Director for Enterprise Infrastructure Services

Fee:  FREE: pre-registration required

Hands-on Activity

11 - 11:45 AM

Room 360

Show Me - Assessing Performance with CommuniCoach

3:15pm - 4:15pm, Thursday, February 18, 2010, Odum Room 2634

Fee:  FREE: pre-registration required

How will you know when your online students have mastered performance objectives?  CommuniCoach offers a powerful means of assessing performance through online video. In addition to the obvious advantage of playback that video offers in general, and the facility with which it can bridge distances, CommuniCoach allows Instructors to easily tie their feedback to specific video segments. The feedback can then be reviewed and processed much more efficiently and meaningfully by students; with the click of the mouse, students can view the video segment to which the feedback refers. Frequently used comments can be collected and categorized for easy insertion of feedback. Customizable rubrics and criteria can standardize assessments. Students can also perform assessments of their own work or videos distributed by instructors. This one-hour workshop demonstrates how evaluations work in CommuniCoach, basic tasks involved in setting up course sections, activities, evaluations, managing comments, including a brief discussion of some of the more advanced features such as custom rubrics. For a preview, you can review the VSU CommuniCoach Support Page (http://www.valdosta.edu/coe/CommuniCoach.shtml).