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MERLOT 101: Share Teaching and Learning Materials with The Online Community

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Merlot 101 1 Mar 2012
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Merlot 101 2 Aug 2012
Track: 
Tools and Techniques
Level: 
Level 1 - Beginner
Sloan-C Certificate Program Eligibility: 

This online workshop can be counted toward the Sloan-C Certificate.

Workshop Description
Introduction: 

Formerly titled: MERLOT 101: An Introduction to MERLOT

Just as you might share a bottle of wine, you’re invited to share in MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching). MERLOT ‘s goal is to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning by increasing the quantity and quality of peer reviewed online learning materials that can be easily incorporated into faculty-designed courses. It’s a free and open online community designed for faculty, staff and students from around the world.  This webinar shows you how to easily navigate the MERLOT site and assignments will allow you to tailor work to your own disciplines and courses you are currently teaching. Participants can create “play lists” for materials that can be used for both face-to-face classes and online classes.

Resources Provided: 
  • Presentations, readings, web links, discussion threads and other materials, viewable online for 1 year
  • 1-Hour Live Workshop Orientation - Learn about Moodle 2.2 and BlackBoard Collaborate. Navigate the workshop space
  • 1-Hour Live Panel Discussion - Participation in Live Q&A
  • Viewing of Live Sessions available for 1 year
Learning Objectives: 
  • Become a member of MERLOT and build a Member Profile
  • Familiarize yourself with the MERLOT website, including understanding how to Search and Browse
  • Be able to make Member Comments
  • Know how to Contribute Learning Material to MERLOT
  • Build and share a Personal Collection
Facilitators
Facilitator(s): 

Cathy Swift, MERLOT
Cathy's formal title with MERLOT is Director-Academic Partner Services. She works with all of MERLOT's Editorial Boards (all 23) to ensure that they continue to maintain the collection of materials in their disciplines. Their most important task is to complete the Peer Reviews, which is one of the unique things about MERLOT. Cathy was a faculty member in the College of Business Administration at Georgia Southern University for 15 years. She became involved with MERLOT back in 1999 as the Leader of the Business Team. That position evolved into Editor of the Business Editorial Board, which she currently still is.

Pricing and Cancellation Policy

Price: $345 Each
Sloan-C Member price: $195 w/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process)
College Pass Member Pricing: No Cost w/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process)
*Members receive unlimited discounts with membership and College Pass holders receive 100 (50 or 25) "free" seats in the entire Sloan-C Workshop series.

Cancellation Policy: 

If you register and pay for a Sloan-C workshop and are unable to attend or if Sloan-C reschedules/cancels a workshop, we will be happy to apply your payment to another Sloan-C workshop/seminar at your request. However, no refunds will be given. This offer is good for one year.

Technical Requirements/Minimum System Requirements

Combining the capabilities of industry leaders Wimba and Elluminate, Blackboard Collaborate provides a comprehensive learning platform designed specifically for education. It is helping thousands of higher education, K-12, professional, corporate, and government organizations worldwide deliver a more effective learning experience through online, blended, and mobile learning.

System Requirements:

  • Click here to check the system requirements and support browsers for using Elluminate
  • Click here to find out if your computer has the right Operating System and Java version installed to run Elluminate and to configure your system.

     
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Moodle: Sloan-C uses an open-source LMS called Moodle for the asynchronous component of workshops. Moodle provides a flexible and user-friendly set of asynchronous collaboration and learning tools. As with most open-source technologies, the Moodle software is free, making it a very cost-effective software package for any institution or company, without sacrificing quality. Moodle is a robust environment that is dynamic, interactive, and provides cross-platform learner access through a standard web browser.

System Requirements

Moodle will work in any modern web browser, however, moodle works best in a range of specific browser types (see below). Your browser should also have both cookies and javascript enabled. These are typically enabled by default, but if you think these settings might need enabling, check the documentation for your particular browser for how to do these.

To make best use of what moodle has to offer, it is recommended that users choose a browser that supports moodle's in-line HTML editor. This is a WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor with an interface much like you would see in most word processing packages.

This in-line HTML editor will only appear if you use one of a specific range of browser types that knows how to start the editor. If you do not use one of these browser types, you can still use moodle just fine, but without the luxury of a WYSIWYG editor. Luckily, there is a supported browser that will work on all major operating system types. The list of supported and not supported browsers is shown below:

Browsers that support the HTML editor Browsers that do not support the HTML editor
Recent versions of: 

Internet Explorer (v5.5 or later) 
Firefox (all versions) 
Mozilla (v1.7 or later) 
SeaMonkey (all versions) 
Netscape (v7 or later) 		 Any versions of: 

Opera 
Safari 
Camino 

 
Register now for session: 
Merlot 101 1 Mar 2012
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Merlot 101 2 Aug 2012
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