http://brookdalecc.edu/pages/613.asp en-us ℗ & © 2005 Teaching & Learning Center, Brookdale Community College A show about developing innovative learning objects for courses. Dan Greenwood Project EMIT is an enhanced podcast deaturing interviews and discussions with faculty and staff of Brookdale Community College. The show covers the process of creating new learning objects for college courses. Faculty and staff covers range of topics including: the creative spark that leads to a new learning approach, concept development, project planning and management, financing and more. We also discuss the use of technology to create, assess and deliver learning objects. Project EMIT is a bi-weekly podcast. Project EMIT is an enhanced podcast deaturing interviews and discussions with faculty and staff of Brookdale Community College. The show covers the process of creating new learning objects for college courses. Faculty and staff covers range of topics including: the creative spark that leads to a new learning approach, concept development, project planning and management, financing and more. We also discuss the use of technology to create, assess and deliver learning objects. Project EMIT is a bi-weekly podcast. Dan Greenwood dgreenwood@brookdalecc.edu Dan Greenwood Introducing Project EMIT This week we introduce Project EMIT (Engaging Methods in Teaching) and the purpose of this enhanced podcast. Wed, 7 Nov 2007 15:00:00 GMT 07:08 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Introducing Marie Maber's Arth History Learning Modules This week we introduce Marie Maber of the Art Department and how she got started creating learning modules for her Art History online courses. Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:00:00 GMT 05:10 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Introducing Jim Cody's Dante's Inferno Game This week we talk to Jim Cody about his Dante's Inferno Game and how he came up with the concept. Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:00:00 GMT 05:09 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Introducing Donna Thompson's ECON-225 Online Lectures Modules This week we talk to Donna Thompson of the Economics Department about her development of the Online Business Statistics course, ECON-225 and some of her suggestions for developing the content modules. Fri, 4 Jan 2008 14:00:00 GMT 06:01 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Introducing Doug Coil's and Art Marshall's Interactive Map Test Doug Coil and Art Marshall discuss their HGEO Interactive Map Test project. Why they saw the need for a new approach to this assessment and what they have accomplished with the TLC so far. Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT 05:32 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Introducing Elaine Olaoye's PSYC Mini-Lectures Professor Elaine Olaoye has created a large series on multimedia mini lectures for her courses. In this episode, Elaine explains her motivation for using these learning objects and why she has lectures for more than just the course content. Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT 04:09 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Introducing Debbie Meyer's ITV and Online Economics Lectures Professor Debbie Meyer talks about her development of an ITV (Interactive Television) economics course and how the experience assisted in the development of an online course for Microeconomics and the opportunity for students to take these courses via different approaches benefits students and enrollment. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT 04:59 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Introducing Delores Steinhauser and her Development of an Online Economics Course Professor Steinhauser discusses her motivation and work to create the first online course in the Economics and the advantages in reusing content for all forms of courses. She also highlights the benefit to faculty, adjuncts and students in sharing the content across the Department’s course offerings. Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT 06:07 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 9: Donna Thompson - Getting the longest lifespan from your Mini-Lectures We continue our conversation with Professor Donna Thompson who shares some invaluable recommendations with faculty on how to keep the material they create useful term after term. Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:00:00 GMT 03:29 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 10: Dante's Inferno - Adapting Approaches as Needed Jim Cody and I continue our conversation about the Dante's Inferno Project. In particular, Jim describes how the project evolved with suggestions from Ed Stein of the Art Department. Jim relays our experiences with developing an approach to meet his original project proposal. Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:00:00 GMT 05:03 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 11: Marie Maber - Creating and Effectively Using Your Content We pick up our conversation with Marie about the process she used to determine what material to cover in her online lectures. Marie also shares an innovative approach to make sure that her students watch the mini-lectures. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:00:00 GMT 05:03 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 12: HGEO Map Test - Lessons Learned So Far Our conversation with Doug Coil and Art Marshall continues. They explain some of the things they learned when the Map Test was deployed for the first time. They also explain the importance and benefits of working with the Testing Center on this project. Thu, 01 May 2008 11:00:00 GMT 05:20 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 13: Elaine Olaoye- Using PowerPoints and "The Learning Journey" Professor Olaoye continues her discussion about her mini-lectures. In particular, she shares her views on the use of PowerPoints and her "Learning Journeys" for her Psychology courses. Fri, 16 May 2008 10:11:00 GMT 04:38 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 14: Delores Steinhauser’s Hints and Advice on Creating Content We continue our conversation with Professor Steinhauser. Delores shares some of her experiences and some great advice on creating mini-lectures for her courses. She also shares some of her response from students on the material. Fri, 30 May 2008 08:00:00 GMT 07:46 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 15: Michael Qaissaunee: Educational uses for Video (Part 1) Associate Professor Michael Qaissaunee of the Engineering and Technology Department shares some of his innovative ideas on using video in courses. In Part 1 of this interview topic, Mike explains how both students and faculty can become involved in creating videos to improve learning. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:00:00 GMT 06:57 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 16: Michael Qaissaunee: Educational uses for Video (Part 2) In the second part of our Video conversation, Mike shares some excellent examples on using video. We also discuss the use of video hosting servoces and Mike provides some ideas on how you can get started creating your own video content. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:00:00 GMT 09:29 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Debbie Meyer's Approaches to Engage Students in Economics Courses Professor Debbie Meyer explains some of the ways she gets her face-to-face and ITV students engaged in her Microeconomics courses by using current events and technology. Thu, 3 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT 05:20 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Marie Maber's Use of Publisher Materials to Improve Learning Professor Maber explains how she took advantage of the transition from WebCT to ANGEL to take a new look at her online course. She explains how online materials from the text publisher can help students improve their understanding of the course material. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:45:00 GMT 05:25 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Mike Qaissaunee Explains Viral Videos and PowerPoints Our conversation continues with Professor Qaissaunee explaining what viral videos are and the concept of viral PowerPoints and how they cna be used with online course materials. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:45:00 GMT 04:41 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 20: Art Marshall and Doug Coil - Planning the Maptest Project and Suggestions We pick up our conversation with Art and Doug sharing some suggestions on project planning, working with the TLC and the importance of faculty having access to resources when working on a project such as the HGEO Maptest. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:30:00 GMT 06:36 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 21: Sherri West: Engaging Millennial Students In this first part of my interview with Professor Sherri West of the History Department, we talk about adapting teaching approaches to engage today’s students. Sherri explains why this is important and also how she finds some of her course materials. Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:55:00 GMT 05:30 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Sherri West: Using New Technologies for Teaching We continue our talk with Professor West. Sherri explains a few of the new teaching approaches she is taking for the Fall 2008 term including using BLOGs, videos and leveraging ANGEL to allow students to continue discussions outside of their face-to-face courses. Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:55:00 GMT 04:06 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 23: Mike Qaissaunee: Second Life for Education Professor Qaissaunee explains what Second Life is and how it may or may not be beneficial in an educational environment. Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:55:00 GMT 07:01 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 24: Raj Wesley's Discussion Forums (Part 1) In this episode, we talk with Professor Raj Wesley of the Psychology Department. In this first part of our conversation, Professor Wesley explains her use of Discussion Forums for her online courses. She explains how her post questions encourage students to provide a wealth of excellent information. She also explains how she manages to handles grading the large amount of material her students create. Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:30:00 GMT 06:32 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 25: Professor Raj Wesley's Discussion Forum's (Part 2 ) We continue our conversation with Professor Raj Wesley of the Psychology Department. Raj discusses how she responds to student posts in her forums and also the benefits she and her face-to-face classes get from the discussions in her online courses. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:00:00 GMT 08:14 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 26: Sherri West's Assessing and Learning New Technologies We conclude our conversation with Professor West about how she plans to assess the results of her introduction of blogs and videos to her courses. Sherri also talks about student reaction and using technology to get students more involved in courses. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:30:00 GMT 06:43 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 27: The project so far and moving into year two In our last episode of 2008, I review the project so far. Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:45:00 GMT 01:17 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 28: Paul Keating: Gettings Students Involved In our first episode of 2009, we begin a conversation with Professor Paul Keating. Paul talks about how he gets sdtudents involved in course discussion and how the demographics of his students has changed. Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:55:00 GMT 06:04 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 29: Paul Keating: Gettings Students Involved (Part 2) In this portion of our conversation with Paul, he describes how to get students active in the classroom, the important role that classroom furniture can play, and how he might change his approaches for different classes. Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:55:00 GMT 08:50 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 30: Dara Evans: Group Discussions (Part 1) In this episode we meet Dara Evans who is a new instructor for the English Department. Dara talks about teaching for the first time and also a discussion activity she has tried with one of her classes. We'll continue our conversation in coming episodes. Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:55:00 GMT 04:51 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 31: Dara Evans: Getting Students Involved (Part 2) We continue our talk with Dara Evans about how she uses out-of-the-classroom technology to students to expand their in-class discussions. This episode also includes the first portion of our conversation about Dara preparing to teach her first fully online course. Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:00:00 GMT 06:53 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 32: Paul Keating: Getting Students Involved (Part 3) This week's episode picks up on our conversation with Paul Keating. Paul explains how he is able to use an action as common as handing back student papers to get student communicating about the course material inside and outside of the classroom. Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:20:00 GMT 03:48 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 33: Dara Evans: Getting Students Involved (Part 3) We complete our conversation with Dara Evans of the English Department. Dara shares some of her other ideas on the use of new technologies in teaching and also her experiences being mentored by several members of the Department. Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:30:00 GMT 04:58 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 34: Open House Interview with Gail Harrigan This episode is our first video podcast for EMIT. Our roving reporter Denise Vigil interviewed some of our faculty at the TLC Open House on April 22. Denise asked people how they engage their students. In this episode we learn how Gail Harrigan of the Nursing Department uses Camtasia Studio and also how she is now interested in interactive video content for nursing courses. Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:45:00 GMT 03:00 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 35: Open House Interview with Sherri West Here's another one of Denise's interviews from the 2009 TLC Open House. This one is with Professor Sherri West of the History Department. Wed, 6 May 2009 09:30:00 GMT 01:29 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 36: Introducing Quality Matters and QM reviews Earlier this week I attended a day-long training session to learn how to evaluate courses using the Quality Matters Rubric. This episode introduces Quality Matters and the Review Process. Fri, 22 May 2009 09:30:00 GMT 04:44 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 37: Introducing Quality Matters (Part 2) In this episode, we continue our introduction to QM. In particular I discuss what is NOT part of the QM review process. Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:30:00 GMT 05:26 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 38: Quality Matters - General Standard 1 (Part 1) This episode introduces and explains the first QM general standard that is used for course reviews. Standards 1.1 - 1.3 are explained and illustrated with examples. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:30:00 GMT 06:26 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 39: Quality Matters - General Standard 1 (Part 2) This episode completes the description of QM general standard 1. Standards 1.4 - 1.7 are explained and illustrated with examples. Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:30:00 GMT 06:55 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 40: Quality Matters - General Standard 2 Essentials Standard 2 of the Quality Matters rubric contains four essential requirements that are reviewed in this episode. Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:30:00 GMT 02:22 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 41: Quality Matters - General Standard 3 Essentials In this episode, we review Standard 3 of the Quality Matters rubric which contains three essential requirements for the use of assessments in a well-design online or hybrid course. Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:30:00 GMT 03:46 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center Dan Greenwood Episode 42: Quality Matters - General Standard 4 Essentials General Standard 4 of the QM rubric, which relates to the development and use of course materials, is reviewed in this episode. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:30:00 GMT 03:19 Project EMIT Engaging Methods in Teaching Brookdale Community College Teaching and Learning Center