Interactive articles (and e-books) are an enriched form of digital publication which may build in deep exploration, interactivity, and value-added learning for readers.  These articles integrate multimedia and other digital contents, are accessible and have mobile friendly content.

This webinar will highlight the building of two published articles created with SoftChalk, with a focus on organizational structure, strategic “activity” selection and multimedia choices, and tailoring to a broad audience.  We’ll also discuss the how’s & why’s and do’s & don’ts when considering authoring an interactive article.

The two examples that will be introduced are recent publications in the peer-reviewed Educause Quarterly:

• “Creating an Online Global Health Course and Game” by Brent A. Anders, Deborah J. Briggs, Shalin Hai-Jew, Zachary J. Caby, and Mary Werick
• “The Participatory Design of a (Today and) Future Digital Entomology Lab” by Shalin Hai-Jew

These articles include an exploratory space about insects, a sidebar about rabies prevention, and a built-in game on global health.

The session ends with a Q&A period.

Presenter: Shalin Hai-Jew, Instructional Designer, Information Technology Assistance Center, Kansas State University

In this one-hour Short Course, you will learn how to embed media into a lesson, into a text popper, into a quiz and in a sidebar. The media used will be both local and web based media.

You will be introduced to the “Widget Tool” in SoftChalk

Ready to be amazed at how quickly and easily you can create exciting and engaging e-learning content? Want to simultaneously create content for computers, tablets and smart phones? Want to learn how to increase learning outcomes by adding activities, quizzes, and media? Need to track student learning in, or out of, a Learning Management System? Like to share content and collaborate with colleagues?

Then register today to see how SoftChalk can help you collaboratively CREATE content, CONNECT in the Cloud, and INSPIRE learning online and in the electronic classroom

In this one-hour Short Course you will learn how to create and modify quizzes. You will also see how to examine scores, using the Lesson Reporting feature of SoftChalk and SoftChalk’s ScoreCenter feature.

In this one-hour Short Course you will learn how to create and modify the presentation learning activities in SoftChalk. You will see how to use the SlideShow activity to incorporate PowerPoint slides and many more.

In this one-hour Short Course you will learn how to create and modify the scoring  learning activities in SoftChalk. Crosswords, drag and drop and Sequence are only a few or what will be covered.

This presentation will highlight how two educators used SoftChalk to transform traditional flat texts into engaging, interactive OER course materials.

As a key component of the Reading Curriculum Team for the Kaleidoscope Grant (http://www.project-kaleidoscope.org/), Jacqui Cain developed an interactive reader using SoftChalk to adapt “The Hound of the Baskervilles” for use in lower-level basic skills courses. Ms. Cain will explain the collaboration process and creation of the materials, demonstrate the reader, discuss the next phases of this project and briefly review two OER projects currently in development.

Malissa Attebery from Lone Star College created a World War II ecourse using the OER textbook written by Henry Jud Sage, a Virginia Community College faculty member. His original etextbook is located in the College Open Textbooks repository (http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org). Using SoftChalk, this flat text was made interactive and portable to multiple web-based learning environments, enabling the learner to see, hear, and further explore the content.

Niagara County Community College (NCCC) is one of the 64 State University of New York (SUNY) campuses and a member of the SUNY Learning Network (SLN).   The faculty development materials they create follow the course development and design process developed through the award winning SLN, the instructional design strategies from Quality Matters, and the design research using the Community of Interest (COI) collaboration model.

The presentation will showcase the three major online lessons used by Teaching Well Online to support eLearning faculty:

1. Teaching Well Online at NCCC
2. Hybrid Course Design and Development Process
3. NCCC’s Easy Guide to Course Accessibility

In addition, the presenter will share their two Guides  (“NCCC Course Design Standards, Tips for Successful Course Management”, and “How Visible are you to your Online Students”). Access to all three lessons and the Guides will be available through SoftChalk CONNECT.  The session ends with a Q&A.

Presenter: Lisa Dubuc M.S. ED –  Coordinator/Instructional Designer  of eLearning  - Niagara County Community College