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Discover effective strategies to personalize your Astronomy and Physics courses at Chabot College. This session, led by Scott Hildreth, offers simple yet impactful tips to enhance student interest, build relevance, and improve success rates. Learn how to utilize editing tools to customize materials, incorporate multimedia resources, and actively engage students. By tailoring your course content and communication, you can foster a more interactive learning environment that resonates with students and supports their academic goals. Join us to explore innovative techniques that promote student success and enjoyment in learning.
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Personalizing Your Mastering Course! Scott Hildreth Astronomy & Physics – Chabot College – Hayward, CA Simple Tips to Enhance Student Interest, Build Relevance, & Improve Success
Goals for Our Session • Why Edit? What are the Benefits? • Ways to Customize Your Course • Getting Started – Links, Messages • Simple Editor – Links, Hints, Images • Advanced Editor – Complete Control • Adding Your Questions! Your feedback & questions are welcome throughout! Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Let’s See an Example - 1 Live example of my physics class from last spring, showing one problem enhanced with a YouTube videoclip Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Why Customize At All? • Mastering already offers a great range of Problems, Tutorials, Quizzes, & Media with • Dynamic, context-specific hints • Wrong & Right answer feedback • You can be successful without any extra work! But with some easy additions…. • You & your students can have even more success – and fun! Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Why Customize At All? • Remind students about… • Expected Units they might miss (Radians vs. Degrees) • Key Examples from Lecture or Text that will help • Attention to Tolerances & Sig Figs • Adjust problems… • Drop parts you want to skip • Add Hints to good End-of-Chapter Q’s • Import your own Questions & Problems Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Use Mastering Data Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Why Customize At All? • Review Most Missed Problems • Change Hints, Problem Statements • Add resource links, images, feedback • Experiment Next Term • Consider making questions/assignments as designated learning outcomes Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Announcement Examples • Add contact information, and helpful instructions available right from the start of class with announcements Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Announcement Examples • Reinforce HOW the student can use the system, and provide links for help Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Message Examples • Add Messages to Assignments with instructions, caveats, gotcha’s, and encouragement Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Message Examples Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Link Examples • Add Hyperlinks to Assignments • Share videoclips, lecture links, and more Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Let’s Try It - 1Messages & Links Live demonstration in my physics class, adding messages and links Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Problem Examples • Add Hyperlinks to Problems quickly with the Simple Editor Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Let’s Try It - 2Simple Editor Links Live demonstration in my physics class, adding a link to a problem Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Hint Examples • Add Hints to Problems w/ Simple Editor Declarative Hints nudge students Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Hint Examples Socratic Hints ask for students to answer Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Let’s Try It - 3Simple Editor Hints/Parts Live demonstration in my physics class, adding a hint to a problem Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Image Example • Add your own diagrams & parts to problems Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Editing is NOT hard! • Simple Editor always available anywhere you log in Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Advanced Editor • Complete control of everything, including • Variable values & Tolerances • Feedback for all questions • Adding images • Menu-based XML interface • More specific system req’s to use • Windows or Windows emulator • Visit online help for information Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Advanced Editor • Easy to extend variable domains and steps Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Advanced Editor • Easy to enhance wrong answer feedback Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Importing Questions • Easy to import multiple choice/essay questions into Mastering • Follow standard format • Create/Save As “RTF” • Import into Item Library • Instantly start to collect statistics! Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Sample Import File Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Let’s Try It – 4Importing Questions Illustrating how to import a simple set of questions into Mastering. Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Getting Started! Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Additional Ideas • Be patient, explore, & experiment! • Have students suggest YouTube clips they like specific to an assignment or problem • Give Extra Credit for the one(s) students found most helpful Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Questions? Discussion? • Check out a resource list & research http://www.chabotcollege.edu/faculty/shildreth/mastering • Login to my classes to look around • Email me with questions! shildreth@chabotcollege.edu Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
Cartoons…. Images reprinted in the online presentation and available online were borrowed with permission from "e-mail.this.book", The Cartoon Bank, Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1996. Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010
