Distance Education modernization Project (DEMP) Publications for the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL) - 2006/2007
Description
Over the period of July 2006-August 2007, I was contracted by Simon Fraser University as an "Educational Technology Instructional Designer" and international consultant for the OUSL Capacity Enhancement Section of the Distance Education Modernization Project. The objectives for my contract included:
-Collaborate with the open and distance learning consulting team in institutional capacity building through training and curriculum development.
-Continue development of a post-graduate program in instructional design and digital education.
-Train, coach and mentor OUSL faculty and staff in the design, development and use of instructional materials and enhanced use of ICT including MOODLE.
Production Notes:
During my contract, I produced several publications which should now be in use at the Open University. Some of the documents include: Creativity and Instructional Design - Academic Study, Senate Proposal for a Post Graduate Program in Instructional Design and Education Technology, Online Course Style Guide, Categorizing Courses within a Course Design Model, training documents for the many workshops I presented and an Instructional Design, Development and Delivery Manual to guide Online Course work at the university. The terms of my contract do not allow me to make these documents publicly available.
In 2003, Mark and I did the unthinkable.....
we sent out a Christmas 'e-card'. Some people weren't surprised...they
expected such a greeting from a couple of nerds. But we only did it
because we were late in sending out traditional festive greetings.
Production Notes:
This ecard was a joint effort with my husband,
Mark. After being dismayed by the dirth of options at familiar ecard
sites, we thought a fun card, rich with sounds and animation was needed.
The caveat was that it had to be produced quickly.
It was fun working with Mark - he took his job
of reviewing, critiquing and downloading sounds and images very seriously!
The punch line is also from Mark, it comes from a traditional card
he received a few years ago. I was responsible for the animations
and syncing the sounds - it was a great project.
I believe we ended up with the fun, dynamic card
we wanted...I giggle each time I view it!
This video was created with Tina and Molly in
our final summer working towards our Masters of Educational Technology
with Michigan State University. We wanted to provide a twist on the
thought that ""Teachers are the Key to Education".
(If there is no image below, you must download
the latest quicktime video player from here
to view the video.)
Production Notes:
What if we were to flip-flop the idea of "Teachers
opening the door to education"...what if we were to say that
students are the doors and we, as teachers must find ways to 'open'
those doors? It is, in fact, our students who have the "key"
to their education.
The doors throughout the video represent all
the different students and the 'faces' they put forth. Some students
come to you with 'directions' ("push to open") and they
are the ones who easily ask for help or you can easily tell how to
'reach' them. While other students are closed or locked up (notice
the doors in the video without door knobs). In all cases, teachers
have to find ways to get the students to 'open up' to the learning
around them. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't - that's
why we didn't want to show the door actually opening.
If we had more time...I think we would probably
re-edit the ending to add the marker squeaking to make the video come
full circle (Tina's great idea!), we'd also add a ringing phone sound
effect in the bedroom and we would re-do the slow motion effect at
the beginning which doesn't work properly. Lastly, the black
at the beginning catches people off-guard but we thought the odd sound
would carry people through that part -some people think the video
isn't working though - ugh. (2megs, 2min.25sec.)
This learning object, created in Flash, was one
of several I produced in 2004 for the Ontario Management Development
Program's Communication Online Course.
Production Notes:
OMDP has been a successful program in classrooms
throughout Ontario for workers who are interested in improving their
management skills. In 2002, the OMDP decided to port their courses
to the Internet -I have been contracted by several colleges to produce
online learning objects for the OMDP Web CT delivery. The OMDP online
courses have proven to be very popular with students many of whom
are first-time online learners.
This exercise requires that the students work
through an animated 'comic-book' (with sound) which provides examples
of communication barriers in a workplace. They then answer questions
on a form sent to the instructor from the webpage.
Nipissing University "ITEACH" workshops - Winter 2006
Description
In January, 2006 I taught two workshops for Nipissing University Bachelor of Education - teacher-candidates (and anyone else interested!):
Blogs, Podcasts, Wiki's and Screencasts - A Teacher's Introduction
Broaden your teaching strategies (or at least your geek language!) by learning about these new tools. In this workshop you will get an overview of four powerful learning technologies which you can apply to your teaching. I will 1) provide many examples of how they are currently being used (from Primary to Senior), 2) address some of the associated problems and 3) highlight some of the reasons why a teacher would want to incorporate blogs, podcasts or screencasts into their curriculum - What do the students get out of it? What learning opportunities arise? Lastly, I will outline some of the software and skills needed to produce these tools. The workshop is focused on "Awareness" as a first step into these new teaching strategies - you will not create blogs, podcasts, wiki's or screencasts during this session but my goal is to leave you WANTING TO!!
Hot Potatoes - Software for creating Quizzes, Crosswords, and other worksheets
In this hands-on workshop we will investigate the exercises and quizzes you can create using free Canadian software from the "Half-Baked" software company. Come to the workshop with the software loaded onto your computer and we will walk through the creation of Short Answer quizzes, Jumbled Sentence Exercises, Crossword puzzles and Matching/Ordering Quizzes, and of course, multiple choice questions. Although the software provides web-based exercises, many can be easily altered for paper-based delivery, as well. You will leave the workshop with at least two products you can use on your next placement!
Production Notes:
Here's my bio for these workshops: Backed by a Masters in Education Technology, Susan Lister has extensive multimedia experience in Canada, the United Kingdom, Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates. In addition to her 8 years of college-level teaching, she has instructed online courses, mentored online instructors and developed many e-learning courses. She enjoys presenting at conferences and providing teacher-development workshops. Susan has taken a break from teaching full-time and is now 'on the other side of the desk' enrolled in the Bachelor of Education program at Nipissing University. Her dream is to have a balanced work life of education research/development and teaching both online and in the classroom.
This website is the 'front door' to Dubai Men's
College (DMC), Applied Media Studies or CommTech program. As the Multimedia
and Visual Communication instructor for 4.5 years at DMC I was also
responsible for maintaining the program's website.
Production Notes:
The purpose of the site is three-fold: provide
program information to prospective students / teachers / parents;
allow a means for students to show their work; be a portal to students
and instructors for online course work.
One of my favorite sections was the photo gallery.
The first year visual communication students loved to see their photos
highlighted on the web. Eventually the students were provided access
to their own web space on the CommTech webspace and then the website
became an important jumping block to the student's portfolios.
Select the image below to view a mix of my favorite
photos, photos that have been used professionally in some capacity
or photos that received special recognition.
Production Notes:
I purchased my first SLR camera in high school
after taking a photography class at night school. During that time,
I also operated a darkroom out of a space in my basement. Although
I always enjoyed taking photos and even produced a multi-projector
slide show in university, I didn't get back to a more serious approach
to photography until I went to the Emirates, some 20 years later.
At Dubai Men's College, my supervisor asked me to teach a first year
Visual Communication course and that was it... the camera got dusted
off and my creative eye got the exercise it craved.
This powerpoint presentation was used in a Visual
Communication course where we discussed the social implications of
photo manipulations with students who were planning to be graphic
designers, journalists and video producers.
Production Notes:
This was a fun lesson because the students were
just beginning to realize the power they possessed with Photoshop
and a photo or two.
The slide show presented a historical view of
photo manipulations because I wanted to get across that over-zealous
editing of photos has occured for a variety of reasons over time and
not all are the result of "photoshop" touch ups. We looked
at some options for today's photo journalist to distinguish an edited
photo and whether or not photo manipulation is in fact a problem.
Lastly we looked at techniques to produce good photo manipulations.
This website was produced by the Communication
Technology Year 3 students to summarize and showcase their trip to
Canada in October, 2003. The students used this website as one way
to thank the many sponsors who helped them with their trip.
Production Notes:
This website was a joint effort of the ten Year
3 students where the journalism students wrote the text and did most
of the voice-overs, the graphic design students were responsible for
the layout, graphics and flash products and the video production students
completed the video and audio for streaming on the internet.
The website is a good example of leveraging multimedia
to present information. One gets a true sense of the trip because
audio, video, images and text are used purposefully throughout the
site.
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