Walk-in Webinars

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Talk with GSOLE members about your online teaching needs. Each host has particular areas of expertise, but also a lot of experience, so feel free to ask about any topic related to online literacy and writing instruction. A list of upcoming hosts and recordings of past session appear below.

To request a new session be added for you or your group, please go to the Just Ask GSOLE page.

Starting the Final Week of April, 2020

We've discontinued the regular weekly sessions for now

However, we're still available for consultations.

Just Ask: The demand for our regularly scheduled sessions has tapered off since March, so they will be discontinued, and we'll refocus on our regular program development, which includes topic-based webinars, online learning resources, and other events and initiatives for members of the OLI/OWI community. However, if you are interested in an ad hoc session for you or your group, we encourage you to request a session, as explained above.

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Upcoming Walk-In Webinar Hosts

Each host has particular areas of expertise, but also a lot of experience, so feel free to ask about any topic related to online literacy and writing instruction. If you're looking for a specific topic, consider using your browser's "Find" command to locate a host with corresponding expertise.

Starting the Final Week of April, 2020

We've discontinued the regular weekly sessions for now

However, we're still available for consultations.

Just Ask: The demand for our regularly scheduled sessions has tapered off since March, so they will be discontinued, and we'll refocus on our regular program development, which includes topic-based webinars, online learning resources, and other events and initiatives for members of the OLI/OWI community. However, if you are interested in an ad hoc session for you or your group, we encourage you to request a session, as explained above.

Trending Webinar Topics

Below are topics that have been trending in the Walk-In Webinars. Some of these overlap with past topics covered in a our webinar series. To support our colleagues having to quickly adapt to online teaching and learning, we are temporarily providing non-members free access to our past webinar recordings. Feel free to browse the listings for our main Webinars series.

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Topics Trending for Week 3/30-4/3

•  Working with K-12 students
• Creating and sharing videos for classes
• Designing accessible courses
• Considering accessibility of async and sync coursework
  
• Training online instructors
  

• Setting up online tutoring sessions
• Arranging synchronous sessions
  
• Preparing for fall courses
• Teaching foreign language courses
  
• Motivating students
  
• Maintaining flexibility and responsiveness for students
  

• YouTube Videos
• Facebook
• Blackboard
  
• PowerPoint
  

Topics Trending for Week 3/23-3/27

• Designing mini-courses for graduate students
• Sharing academic articles among the class
  
• Organizing students into synchronous and asynchronic group work
  

• Integrating problem solving into course design
• Teaching academic writing online
• Managing heavy teaching loads
  

• Zoom  Whiteboards
  
• Google Docs

Topics Trending for Week 3/16-3/20

• Designing courses
• Assessing student performance
• Creating videos
• Organizing course content in LMS
• Considering sync vs. async activities
• Supporting L2 learners

• Supporting instructors & tutors
• Doing online presentation assignments
• Setting up discussions
• Facilitating group discussions
• Keeping sense of community
• Doing peer reviews
• Streaming videos/movies
• Using breakout rooms

• FERPA
  
• Zoom
• Blackboard
• Face Time
• Google Docs

Topics Trending for Week 3/9-3/13

• Course design
• Synchronous meetings
• Peer reviews
• Discussion boards
• Video messages
  
• Basic writing online
  

• Anxieties about teaching online
• Communicating with students
• Accessibility
  
• Institutional issues
  
• Polls and breakout rooms
  

• Zoom
• Blackboard
• Canvas
• Wix
  
• Google Forms
  

GSOLE Walk-In Webinar Hosts

To request a new session be added for you or your group, please go to the Just Ask GSOLE page.

Collin Bjork

Areas of expertise: Asynchronous pedagogies, Synchronous teaching via Zoom, course design, peer review, discussion forums

Jen Cunningham

Areas of expertise: Blackboard, asynchronous discussion, peer review, course design

Kevin Depew

Areas of expertise: Synchronous video (Zoom, WebEx), Google Suite, collaboration

Miranda Egger

Areas of expertise: Canvas, relationship-building, designing materials in multiple media for accessibility and engagement

Heidi Skurat Harris

Areas of expertise: Mobile learning, Google Suite, synchronous, accessibility, graduate education

Lyra Hilliard

Areas of expertise: Teaching synchronously in Zoom/ WebEx and Google Docs, Canvas, asynchronous discussions, collaboration.

Cat Mahaffey

Areas of expertise: Canvas, Google tools, asynchronous discussion, creating accessible online content

Dan Seward

Areas of expertise: Canvas, Google Sites, asynchronous discussion design, recording and sharing videos (instructors and students), planning and implementing online organizational conferences

Jason Snart

Areas of expertise: Blackboard, User-centered design, Google tools, facilitating collaboration, OWI/OLI principles

Mary Stewart

Areas of expertise: Synchronous learning (Zoom, Google Docs), peer review, asynchronous discussion, Desire2Learn

Scott Warnock

Areas of expertise: Blackboard, asynchronous discussion, OWI/OLI principles