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These tools are useful for asynchronous learning on Moodle.

Most useful: Moodle book containing integrated video clip content, activities ("scaffolding") via H5P and Moodle tools. Padlet is a great non-Moodle resource for collaboration and feedback.

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This page was created with Padlet, this is a canvas-type digital pinboard that can be edited by any user it is shared with. It is a great method to gather ideas, feedback, questions etc., from students both synchronously and asynchronously. It is a great tool for a whole range of uses.

The UoP is going to have a site licence for Padlet soon, in the meantime you can make your own account. More info in this video.

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This has been automatically added to all Moodle pages, the content is organised by week. You should write an introduction or (even better) record a video introducing the learning activities for each week. There are then categorised elements to fill in including (1) Self directed (lecture content, slides, quizzes, Moodle books etc.,), (2) Collaboration (details of face to face or online live sessions). For more detail see this video.

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This is a tool that allows a huge array of interactive learning activities that is embedded in Moodle. It works best if you embed the activities into a Moodle Book (see below). You access H5P through your Moodle page and the 'add activity button'.

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Nearpod is an online power-point like slide maker  but with much more interactive content. It is best for making slides with integrated quizzes and other activities for live online sessions, although it can be used asynchronously too. The great thing about Nearpod is that the students can follow along with the slides on their own screen, so you do not need to show them though WebEx (see example here). It is also great for showing videos in a synchronous online session. The main problem with Nearpod is that the University only has 300  licences. Email elearn@port.ac.uk or Tom Langston for access. See this video for more info.

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This is a standard tool on Moodle that allows you to add in multiple elements to form a coherent learning activity, for example you could embed video content, Moodle quizzes, H5P activities and questions. I would recommend that you use a Moodle Book to organise your asynchronous content for each week. Here are some videos about introduction and advanced Moodle functionality.

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A great way to get students to interact in online live sessions is to make 'break out rooms' where a small groups of students can meet separate to the big group. The way this might work in a live session, is for example if you are using WebEx to host a discussion session, you can then pre arrange google meet sessions, make a list of topics for each 'room' or you could split the students alphabetically (e.g. A-C go to this google meet). The students can then go into the google meet and chat about a discussion topic for a pre-defined length of time. Have a meet back time for everyone to rejoin the main meeting. Zoom has a good function for doing this all within the same meeting (and we *might* be getting a University Zoom licence).

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Panopto is the main platform that the university is recommending for recording all video content.  Panopto is great for recording lectures and short video content and linking video and powerpoints.
The videos are stored on the cloud and can be easily embedded into Moodle and other platforms, this means no need to store and upload big files (yey!). Help videos can be found here. There are lots of other interactive tools you can use on Panopto as demonstrated in this video (and many others online).
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I have found that the editing capabilities of Panopto are quite poor, it is not proper video editing software, it is much better for recording. If you need to edit video content recorded on a phone, camera or go-pro (for instance for a virtual field trip) it would be better to use Camtasia (see below) to edit the content.

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Camtasia is far superior to Panopto for video editing. You can easily edit, trim, cut, stitch sound, annotate, add images, animations and music with Camtasia.
Not clear if the UoP is going to continue supporting this. I also find it challenging to use off-site on my laptop
Camtasia videos are able to be imported into Panopto

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You can upload your own videos to Youtube. I have my own account that I use to upload videos from my phone, I then either put these as public videos or unlisted. If they are unlisted then the viewer can only access them from a link (and they are not searchable). This is a great way to store videos to be embedded into Moodle, virtual fieldtrips etc., E.g. this is my youtube channel

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OBS Studio, Streamyard and other free software for recording and streaming

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Record function in Moodle (basic, but easy- especially for weekly introduction videos but only allows you one take and you have to re-record any mistakes)

Record function Powerpoint (very very basic does not allow you to edit, only one take!)

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Similar to Nearpod this allows you to create slick-looking interactive content. See information in this help video about virtual fieldtrips.

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These tools are great for active learning during live online or face to face sessions, but they can also be used for asynchronous activities (although H5P or Moodle tools probably better for that- column 1)

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Vevox is an application that can be used to embed quizzes and audience participation and chat
in both live face to face, online and asynchronous sessions. For more info see this video.
The UoP is going to have a site licence for Vevox (coming soon), in the meantime you can make your own account.

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I have been doing some research into how to make virtual field trips and Google Earth Web version seems the easiest option. It is fairly intuitive to add locations, video content and text which can be presented to students as a coherent activity. For more info on HOW see resources below or email me. Example Blue Ridge Mountains and an induction field trip I have made below. For both click 'Present' to start.

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This is useful for polling audience opinion during live presentations and making simple quizzes.

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I use this a lot in live face to face sessions for doing interactive quizzes during lectures. You make the questions, set the quiz and then students can answer on their devices using a code. This is similar to Vevox, but has much more of a school-focus so is a bit more child-centred.

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Make a facebook page for your course and then you can make groups for each year group to chat. See example for geology course here.

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A useful way to make students feel like they are part of something, they like seeing pictures of themselves! See below example of the Geosciences Instagram page that I manage.

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These are self-enroll Moodle training pages and videos
Videos from TEL learning festival
TEL learning pages
Preparing for online teaching
Principles for online design
Active Blending Learning
Online Assessment and Feedback
Online Communities
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See the excellent resources from NAGT below.

Ben van der Pluijm has this excellent Blog.

See TEL online teaching video about virtual fieldtrips.

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This website provides an overview of the work of more than 300 (!!) geoscience educators in response to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic to share expertise and existing resources and to develop new resources to support remote or virtual capstone summer field experiences for undergraduate geoscience majors.

This NSF-sponsored project ( Award #2029920) is a collaborative effort of NAGT and the IAGD, and involves over 300 field camp directors, instructors, and resources developers around the world.

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Teaching Resources

Master spreadsheet of modules in development: the goal of this document is to help field directors/activity implementers to plan for what will be available and when. If you are a developer, please add your project where appropriate and feel free to add more rows if needed. These modules will eventually live on the SERC Teach the Earth site (below). The goal of this document is to help field directors plan for what will be available and when.

New resource collection at Teach the Earth: a new digital clearinghouse for teaching modules and resources is in development at Teaching with Online Field Experiences. This collection also contains some virtual field trips

Looking for space in an online camp: a list of 2020 online field camps with space available for displaced students: Summer 2020 virtual field camps.

Share your online activity: if you have an online field activity to share, please contribute to the collection.

How to contribute: watch a brief, ~5 minute overview of the Teaching with Online Field Experiences site and the contribution process:

Learning Outcomes

Ideally, virtual or remote field experiences could be designed to meet the same learning outcomes as in-person experiences. A subset of this group worked to develop a set of learning outcomes that were flexible enough to accommodate multiple delivery methods while still addressing the expectations of a capstone. These community-developed learning outcomes are listed below.

By the end of a capstone field experience, students should be able to:

1. Design a field strategy to collect or select data in order to answer a geologic question.

2. Collect accurate and sufficient data on field relationships and record these using disciplinary conventions (field notes, map symbols, etc.).

3. Synthesize geologic data and integrate with core concepts and skills into a cohesive spatial and temporal scientific interpretation.

4. Interpret earth systems and past/current/future processes using multiple lines of spatially distributed evidence.

5. Develop an argument that is consistent with available evidence and uncertainty.

6. Communicate clearly using written, verbal, and/or visual media (e.g., maps, cross-sections, reports) with discipline-specific terminology appropriate to your audience.

7. Work effectively independently and collaboratively (e.g., commitment, reliability, leadership, open for advice, channels of communication, supportive, inclusive).

8. Reflect on personal strengths and challenges (e.g. in study design, safety, time management, independent and collaborative work).

9. Demonstrate behaviors expected of professional geoscientists (e.g., time management, work preparation, collegiality, health and safety, ethics).

Recorded Webinars

We have offered a set of informal webinars to facilitate sharing of existing resources and expertise. Note: We are in the process of adding captions to the videos - please stay tuned.

Saturday Webinar for Instructors of Online Camps (July 11, 2020)

12:00 - Kurt Burmeister & Chris Atchison - News & announcements

12:10 - Virginia Toy - One-day module on structural/tectonic analysis of outcrops in Eifel Slate Belt, Germany (tentative)

12:20 - Basil Tikoff - Sage Hen Flat project

12:30 - Discussion on challenges & best practices w/ online instruction

Links to resources discussed in webinar:

Saturday Webinar for Instructors of Online Camps (June 27, 2020)

12:00 - Kurt Burmeister & Chris Atchison - News & announcements

12:10 - Alison Duval - Landslide mapping & analysis module

12:20 - Shannon Dulin - Combined stratigraphy/mapping exercise

12:30 - John Geissman - Geology of White Mesa area, Ojito Wilderness, San Ysidro, north-central NM; A splendid introductory field geology mapping exercise

12:40 - John Geissman & Bob Krantz - 20 min discussion on challenges & best practices w/ online instruction

Links to resources discussed in webinar:

Links to activities

Links to related digital teaching tools

Tool: Tour Builder - Put your story on the map!

Tool: Slack - Communication tools for connecting remote teams no matter where you're working from

Tool: Solocator - APP for iPhone & Android. GPS Camera takes photos with GPS coordinates, compass direction, altitude & timestamp overlay

Tool: ThingLink - Seamlessly make your images, videos, and 360 content interactive with text, links, images, videos to create memorable experiences

Tool: EazyZoom - Share huge gigapixel high resolution images

Tool: Kuula - 360° virtual tours made easy. Create, edit, share

Links to related articles & "Job Talks" that Shannon Dulin uses to communicate career options to students in her online course offerings

Saturday Webinar for Instructors of Online Camps (June 13, 2020)

12:00 - Kurt Burmeister & Chris Atchison - News & announcements

12:10 - Charly Bank - SIGkit Toolbox

12:20 - Rachel Bosch - Karst Hydrogeology: a virtual field introduction using Google Earth & GIS

12:30 - Rachel Bosch - Karst Hydrogeology & Geomorphology: a virtual field experience using Google Earth, GIS, & TAK

12:40 - Sinan Akciz - Frying Pan Gulch module

12:50 - Sinan Akciz - Block Mountain module

Links to resources discussed in webinar:

Saturday Webinar for Instructors of Online Camps (May 30, 2020)

12:00 - Kurt Burmeister & Basil Tikoff - News & announcements

12:10 - Robert Krantz - Reflections on delivery of virtual field camp module with Fort Lewis field camp

12:20 - Joe Meert - Mapping exercise at Ghost Ranch, NM, with GoogleEarth Pro

12:30 - Charly Bank - Magnetometry at Home

12:40 - Ben van der Pluijm - Google Earth Web-based Maryland Appalachians Geology field trip

Discussion - initial reflections on online instruction

Links to resources discussed in webinar:

Saturday Webinar for Instructors of Online Camps (May 16, 2020)

12:00 - Kurt Burmeister & Chris Atchison - Project overview, what's available, feedback channels

12:10 - Katherine Ryker & Laura Rademacher - Overview of assessment strategies

12:20 - Anne Egger - Overview of Teach the Earth website & submission process

12:30 - Steve Whitmeyer - Virtual Geology Mapping Exercise at Lough Fee

12:40 - Dave Anastasio - Plate game web GIS simulation

12:50 - Nic Barth - Virtual Yosemite

Links to resources discussed in webinar:

Tech Thursday Webinar - Virtual Field Trips (May 7, 2020)

Presenters: Steve Semken, Ariel Anbar, Ben van der Plujim, Avery Shinneman

Links to resources discussed in webinar:

Tech Thursday Webinar - OpenTopography (April 30, 2020)

Presenters: Ramón Arrowsmith, Christopher Crosby, Chelsea Scott, Daniel Chupik

Links to resources discussed in webinar:

Tech Thursday Webinar - Google Earth Opportunities (April 23, 2020)

Presenters: John Bailey, Steve Whitmeyer, and Barb Tewksbury

Links to resources discussed in webinar:

Tech Thursday Webinar - Virtual Landscapes & Geologic Map Data Extractor (April 16, 2020)

Presenters: Jacqui Houghton and Rick Allmendinger

Links to resources discussed in webinar:

Digital Tools and Strategies Webinar (April 6, 2020)

Presenters: Doug Walker (StraboSpot), Callan Bentley (GigaPans, Google Earth), Paul Karabinos (SketchUp, Geologic Map Data Extractor)

Links to resources discussed in webinar:

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V3Geo- free virtual outcrops (for the next 6 months).
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See the outcrop in more detail here

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eRocK is a virtual geology project led by Adam Cawood and Clare Bond at The University of Aberdeen. This project aims to provide open-source geological data and visualizations for fellow researchers, educational institutions and the general public. Our models are currently embedded into our own site via the free online viewer Sketchfab.

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As many us work on developing online courses we have to ask ourselves how to implement lab activities. Listed below are some example lab activities that you might find useful as examples of others have used or even as lab activities to have your students do. Please make sure when using these activities to acknowledge the authors of the page. If you know of other sources of activities that you find useful for online courses, we encourage you to fill out an activity submission form or share them with the community.

There is also a growing collection of online lab activities identified within the Teach the Earth collections.

General

Exploring Earth Investigations by McDougal Littell Publishing - numerous online activities that use animations, interactive graphics, and imagery to help students gather information gleaned from lecture content

Geology Lab Videos by Tom Braziunas at North Seattle Community College - students can view short video demonstrations of some of the physical geology lab activities

Reynolds, et al. 2010. Exploring Geology, 2nd Edition. McGraw-Hill Publishing. ISBN: 978-0-07-337668-4. The instructor DVD comes equipped with some great Google Earth exercises that would work well for online labs. In addition, it also has investigations at the end of each chapter that could be used for online labs.

Virtual Field Trips

(E-library of field trip guides to sites in the US and Canada more info) - The University of Texas at Austin has compiled a substantial library on their Walter Geology Library website.

Plate Tectonics

Plate tectonics laboratory using plate motions (3 exercises) by Richard Harwood of Black Hawk College - interactive maps showing movement relative movement of plates, are multiple choice and self-checking.

Jules Verne Voyager- This is an interactive map developed by UNAVCO where students can add earthquakes, stress axes, volcanoes, or plate boundaries to the entire world or by country. For more information on the project as well as instructions on how to use the site: http://jules.unavco.org/VoyagerJrDocs/lib/help/Earth/helpoverview.html (there is no direct link to the interactive map from this site; however, it contains important instructions).

Minerals

Online rock and mineral identification kit by Jonathan Evenick of the University of Tennessee - provides photographs and descriptions of various rocks and minerals.

Mineral identification and properties using photographs by Richard Harwood of Black Hawk College - students can identify minerals photographs based on mineral property choices. (Note: This site has been taken down. Contact us if you know of a suitable replacement.)

Mineral 101 by Kerry Cupit - A browseable online mineral database (with photos) and interactive quizzes/tests.

Searchable mineral database by Amethyst Galleries, Inc.: Students can search for minerals by class or alphabetically. Descriptions of each mineral include physical properties, crystallography information, common uses, and chemical formulas as well as pictures.

Mineral identification by Dave Jessey and Don Tarman through Cal State Pomona - students can use this site as a step-by-step tutorial to identify mineral sample. (Note: This site has been taken down. Contact us if you know of a suitable replacement.)

Igneous Rocks

Igneous rock identification using photographs by Richard Harwood of Black Hawk College - students can identify igneous rock photographs based on rock property choices, self-checking.

Igneous rock identification by Dave Jessey and Don Tarman through Cal State Pomona - students can use this site as a step-by-step tutorial to identify igneous rock samples. (Note: This site has been taken down. Contact us if you know of a suitable replacement.)

Sedimentary Rocks

Sedimentary rock identification using photographs by Richard Harwood of Black Hawk College - students can identify sedimentary rock photographs based on rock property choices, self-checking.

Metamorphic Rocks

Metamorphic rock identification using photographs by Richard Harwood of Black Hawk College - students can identify metamorphic rock photographs based on rock property choices, self-checking.

Metamorphic rock identification by Dave Jessey and Don Tarman through Cal State Pomona - students can use this site as a step-by-step tutorial to identify metamorphic rock samples. (Note: This site has been taken down. Contact us if you know of a suitable replacement.)

Earthquakes

World-Wide Earthquake Locator by the Edinburgh Earth Observatory: An interactive map where students can turn on and off features such as earthquakes, plate boundaries and names, faults, volcanoes, etc. to see relationships.

Volcanoes

Stromboli online - Volcanoes of the World by Jürg Alean, Roberto Carniel and Marco Fulle - this website can be used for virtual fieldtrips as well as a resource.

Volcanic materials identification using photographs by Richard Harwood of Black Hawk College - students can identify volcanic material photographs based on property choices, self-checking.

Volcanoes laboratory by Richard Harwood of Black Hawk College - a laboratory on volcanic processes, multiple choice and self-checking.

Deformation

How do rocks respond to stress? Exploring Earth by McDougal Littell Publishing: This is a 3 step investigation into deformation. In step 2, students can investigate the role of brittle vs ductile environments in relation to compressional, tensional, and shear stresses. Once the parameters are selected, an animation plays to show the impact on rock layers.

Learn Structural Geology by Rob Butler at the University of Leeds: Within the site you will find links so that students can learn about structural geology as well as go on virtual field trips. Question assignment could be designed to go along with field trips. In addition, there is a virtual mapping project.

Geologic Time

Interpreting geologic sections through Athro, Limited - students can test their knowledge of principles of geologic time through animations.

Radioactive dating game through PhET.Colorado.edu - students can learn about different types of radiometric dating, such as carbon dating. Understand how decay and half-life work to enable radiometric dating to work. Play a game that tests your ability to match the percentage of the dating element that remains to the age of the object.

Relative dating laboratory by Richard Harwood of Black Hawk College - a laboratory on relative dating, multiple choice and self-checking.

Radiometric dating laboratory by Richard Harwood of Black Hawk College - a laboratory on radiometric dating, multiple choice and self-checking.

Paleontology

Online rock and fossil identification kit by University of Tennessee - provides photographs and descriptions of various rocks and fossils.

Virtual museum of fossils by Valdosta State University.

Fossils 101 by Kerry Cupit - A browseable online fossil database (with photos) and interactive quizzes/tests.

Topographic Maps

Remote sensing laboratory by Richard Harwood of Black Hawk College - a laboratory on remote sensing, multiple choice and self-checking

Examples of landforms on topographic maps by Susan Slaymaker - website includes numerous example images that can be used to develop an online lab activity (link unavailable).

Topographic map examples which illustrate symbols commonly used on maps for cultural and natural features by Susan Slaymaker - website includes numerous example images that can be used to develop an online lab activity.

Examples of topographic maps'] selected to illustrate common geologic processes, cultural features and topographic map symbols by Susan Slaymaker - website includes numerous example images that can be used to develop an online lab activity.

Groundwater

Streams

Virtual River through Virtual Courseware. Students learn about river processes in these two activities: River Discharge and River Flooding.

Coasts

How do storms affect coastlines? an investigation through Exploring Earth by McDougal Littell Publishing - a step-by-step look at coastlines, includes questions.

See topographic maps above for links to landform maps.

Deserts

Glaciers

Glaciers simulation through PhET.Colorado.edu. Students can adjust mountain snowfall and temperature to see the glacier grow and shrink. Use scientific tools to measure thickness, velocity and glacial budget.

See topographic maps above for links to landform maps.

Natural Hazards Datasets for Google Earth

SDSU - Department of Geological Sciences - Google Earth Tour - Natural Disasters: San Diego State University offers Google Earth datasets for many different natural hazards and earth processes, including earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires, and more. Datasets are in KMZ form, so they must be downloaded to your computer and opened in Google Earth.

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AGOL is a platform for creating spatial online content. This ranges from data to maps and 3D scenes, as well as building web content platforms to use those maps in. AGOL is user-friendly, with web interfaces for creation tools, although data, maps and scenes can also be authored in ArcGIS Pro.  This platform allows creating resources that can be built on your own spatial data.
I cannot replicate the fantastic content of Catherine's GE example, but here are a few examples I created in an hour or so. Apart from the Dominica example all others are based on the same map.
The following examples require sign in to AGOL, although data can be made public. Access control is a strength of AGOL.

Storymaps Example 1

Web Application Example

Web Map Example

Experience Builder example

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