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All links on this page should open in a new window.  These first are your top recourses for GCCCD faculty, Cuyamaca specific!
Teaching Online for Cuyamaca College Faculty (your best online resource created by Thomas Doyle for his sabbatical project)
Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) at Cuyamaca College (loaded with workshops, tutorials, etc.)
Faculty Resources (Blackboard, WebAdvisor, Microsoft Office)
Workshops at Cuyamaca
How Online Learning Works? (compiled by Cindy Morrin for students and faculty)
Subscribe to the Cuyamaca Blog (If you are Cuyamaca faculty, you want to do this to get updates on Blackboard and technology.  Just put in your email address and once you get an email, confirm)

Detailed Steps in Creating your Blackboard Course (from the self-paced course offered at Cuyamaca College)

Blackboard Tutorials (captioning on videos is coming to be accessible)

• Blackboard Instructional Manual (Go to your control panel of your Bb container and look under Help.  This is very comprehensive...this is your best source of information to guide you through the features in Blackboard.  Save this to your desktop.  It is also located in your Blackboard (Bb) container)
• Ordering a Blackboard container for GCCCD Faculty (By Rhonda Bauerlein)
• New Logging in Directions to Blackboard (By Rhonda Bauerlein, PDF here)
• Login & navigation (By Jodie Reed, video - 1 minute)
• Course Availability (By Cindy Morrin, making your course available for students to view)
• Add students (By Jodi Reed, video - 8 minutes)
• Course Design and Course Options (By Cindy Morrin, video/audio, how to add a banner, design buttons, and change the navigation of your buttons)
• Announcements (By Jodi Reed, video - 5 minutes)
• Discussion (By Jodi Reed, video - 2 minutes)
• Assignments (By Jodi Reed, video - 3 minutes)
• Creating Assignments (By Cindy Morrin, video/audio)
• Adding Assignments (By Blackboard, video/no audio - 3 minutes)
• Uploading your Syllabus (By Cindy Morrin, video/audio)
• Creating Tests/Assessments (By Cindy Morrin, video/audio)
• Gradebook overview (By Blackboard, video/no audio - 5 minutes)
• How to Upload an Assignment (By Cindy Morrin, from the student perspective, video/audio)
• GCCCD Campus online Faculty Support page for Blackboard (website)
• How to attach an Image-photo (by Rhonda Bauerlein)

Training

• @ONE makes it easy for California Community College faculty and staff to learn how to use technology to enhance student learning and success. @ONE’s programs provide training, online resources and support for free - or at a very low cost - thanks to funding from the California Community College Chancellor's Office Telecommunication and Technology Infrastructure Program (TTIP).  @ONE offers online classes, self-paced training, desktop seminars and more.
• California Virtual Campus Online Courses in California (all Disciplines)
• Getting Results - A professional Development Learning Course for Community College Educators

Content

• Merlot is a library of learning objects.
• Learning Activities Presentation:  Learning Activities Presentation  (also available as PowerPoint presentation).

Technology Tools and Resources

• http://www.gcccd.edu/online/- A wealth of support is given to faculty and students here (how online classes work, requirements, equipment/software, tutorials, orientation, how to apply/register, schedule of online classes, FAQ's, online resources, and tips for online success).  READ and KNOW THIS WEBSITE!
• Ordering/copying and modifying your online container - Start at http://www.gcccd.edu/online/.  click on Support for Faculty (this will prompt you to your college username and password.  My college username is cindy.morrin.  My password is something I created to log into the network.  Only GCCCD employees have access to order a container.  If you are not a GCCCD employee, email me so I can create a practice container for you.  Once you have logged onto the Support for Faculty you will find directions and links to order containers, information on web resources, online resources, etc.)  Read and bookmark this page!
• CCC Confer - free online office hours, classes, and more
• GCCCD Online - tutorials and resources to help your students
• Free PDF Creator for Windows
• Quick Frontpage Review
• Video on FrontPage (23 minutes)

Accessibility

• Section 508 information
• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• How to Make Accessible Web Content Using FrontPage
• High Tech Center Training Unit
• Training Manuals and Tutorials
• Webaim (make accessible Word documents)

Research and Articles on Online Teaching and Learning

• Effective Workload Management Strategies for the Online Environment
• Thirty-two Trends Affecting Distance Education: An Informed Foundation for Strategic Planning. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration. Fall, 2003.
• Faculty Self-Study Research Project: Examining the Online Workload. June, 2004.  Journal of Asynchronous Learning.
• Online Teaching and the 24-Hour Professor.  May, 2002. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 
• Cheating in Online Student Assessment: Beyond Plagiarism.  Summer 2004.  Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration.
• Evaluating Online Learning, Challenges and Strategies for Success (k-12)
• Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning

Student Preparation—the Student’s Role

• Confessions of an E-Dropout.  Why do student drop online classes?  What went wrong? How would you change the situation? (Allison Rossett is Professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State University).
• Strategies for Learning at a Distance
• What Makes a Successful Online Student? Illinois Online Network discusses qualities that the online student should possess:
• Tips for Online Success Illinois Online Network gives advice to online students.
• Are distance-learning courses for Me?  The Center for Independent Learning has created a survey for potential online students.
• Self Evaluation for Potential Online Students  Another self-evaluation quiz for potential online students.
• The Core Rules of Netiquette  The Core Rules of Netiquette are excerpted from the book Netiquette by Virginia Shea. Click on each rule for elaboration.

Roles of the Online Instructor

• What makes a successful online facilitator?
• Wearing Four Pairs of Shoes.  In this model, an e-learning facilitator "wears four pairs of shoes"--acting as instructor, social director, program manager, and technical assistant.
• Online Learning Essentials.

Building the Online Learning Community

• Building a Learning Community Online.  Explores the roles of online instructors and its relevance to building online community
• Campfires in Cyberspace. David Thornburg.

General Online Learning Resources

• Distance Education Clearinghouse

Plagiarism and Cheating

• Plagiarism.org
• Thinking and Talking about Plagiarism  Teacher offers an alternative to the heavy-handed turnitin.com approach.
• Educating Students about Avoiding Plagiarism.  Use this to help educate students about the issues, includes links to print-friendly handouts
• Plagiarism and the Web  Great advice from a teacher who has given this a lot of thought
• Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers
• Plagiarism seminar