Last Monday on my way home from work I pondered the logistics of Oprah’s online class. Since I did not even register until an hour before the class it’s pretty obvious there is no limit on seats. I wondered how they would manage the chaos of a million people in a single chat session. Not [...]
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Oprah's First Class
March 3rd, 2008
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It’s Monday night. After a long day–first day back after being out for a week with the flu–I’m here at the computer. I’ve been anxiously awaiting Oprah’s online class.
I looked over the prework, performed my system check, logged in 30-minutes early.
It’s now 30-minutes into the class and I’ve already checked my email, read my RSS [...]
10 Lessons I Learned From Delivering My First Synchronous Learning Sessions
January 27th, 2008
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Earlier this week Tom and I delivered our first synchronous training to staff at PLCMC. We delivered three Learn to Learn Online* sessions and had about 10 participants in each session. The sessions were great. We only had one major technical problem and luckily that was on our side not the participants side.
Ironically this week [...]
Looking for volunteers to give feedback
January 17th, 2008
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Tom and I are presenting a pilot Learn to Learn Online class next Wednesday, January 23 from 10-11:30am EST. The session is one hour with 30 minutes tacked on at the end for feedback. The objective is to introduce staff to the synchronous learning environment. Eventually this will be required for any staff who take [...]
We’re Live!
January 15th, 2008
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Today Tom and I delivered two drop-in sessions where staff had a chance to try out our new online learning platform Live Classroom. The sessions went very well. We only had two participants who had technical difficulties and I believe those may have been because they were accessing the network over a wireless connection.
The sessions [...]
