Hybrid Done Right

This follows up the presentation Dr. Rod and I prepared for today's TechEd '08 conference.

The audience was predominantly community college folk with a smattering of 4-year and the 2 courageous K-12 representees.

Presentation was well received.

Lisa shared the basic building blocks: the "rules" stuff college people need to know. Hybrid needs to supplement f2f time *meaningfully* not with bigger homework assignments!
I promised 3 things:

• grouping techniques
• examples of collaborative assignments in a CBM like Blackboard or Angel
• my new found passion for the SMS possibilities and how they relate

In hindsight, I needed more time. My closing was meant to be a cell phone "American Idol" type of vote on the tools presented. We really didn't have enough time to authenticate all the accounts so we could SMS our votes.
AND- this crowd seemed like a deeper investigation into the types of assignments used for groups would have been useful.

In a second version:

• grouping techniques
• examples assignments for the different types of groups in Blackboard
• different SMS tease

But man-o-man was this fun!