Online Instructor Design Series

Blogs, Wikis, and JournalsMarch 26, 2013 10 am - Collaborate - Dr. Tammy Esteves

This session will introduce you to specific online examples of using journals throughout a course, and wiki for a case study final exam. We will also review the use of blogs and other creative assignments and techniques to increase student involvement and engagement with you, with their classmates, and within the course.   

Blogs, Wikis, and Journals

Online Instructor Design Series

• TROY MPA Faculty since 1999 (adjunct) and 2002 (F/T)• Faculty Senate, Global Campus• Instructional Design Faculty Feedback Group

Dr. Tammy Esteves

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffler, Vanguard Management, 1989

Community of Inquiry

Educate the mind to think, the heart to feel, and the body to act. 1887 TROY motto

Community/Collaboration Blogs Wikis Journals Dipity Voicethread New Blackboard SP eQuad, LinkedIn

Blog assignment Age of eGovernment and eDemocracy

Students create personal blog to explore issues relevant to e-Governance while getting better acquainted with some of the technologies

Weekly post plus comments to classmates

Sample blog post

Wiki Final Exam

Sample Journal

Dipity timeline

VoiceThread

In the worksBlackboard SP Enhanced discussions with photos Social learning networks across

boundaries Video Everywhere

Online Instructor Design Series

Blogs, Wikis, and JournalsMarch 26, 2013 10 am - Collaborate - Dr. Tammy Esteves

Questions and Answers

Contact information:• Email: tlesteves@troy.edu• Twitter: @tlesteves• LinkedIn: Tammy Esteves