This Web page: http://tlt.gs/Extermissions
An "Extermission" is a planned interlude of 1-5 minutes when participants share something useful during a class, presentation, or workshop. They are invited, especially, to reach out to colleagues who are not participating in that session and recommend some useful resource or idea that has just been identified. In online events, an Extermission may also be used to invite others to login for the remainder of the session.
Useful Models (also see Samples below):
Samples: Tweets Postings Printouts
Default Options for TLTG Online Events
Postings/Messages for Facebook, Other Social Networks, Email
Print Options - for Hand-Outs
Note: "Originally intended with breaks for the actors or speakers in mind, intermissions have become an opportunity for the audience to socialise, purchase and consume refreshments, or use the restrooms."*
"Extermission" is a planned interlude of 1-5 minutes when participants share something useful during a class, presentation, or workshop. They are invited, especially, to reach out to colleagues who are not participating in that session and recommend some useful resource or idea that has just been identified. In online events, an Extermission may also be used to invite others to login for the remainder of the session.
During the TLT Group's 2nd Annual Online Symposium on Faculty Development and Faculty Support, we identified a growing need for informal but intentional activities designed to take advantage of new technologies (esp. Web 2.0) to multiply the effectiveness of faculty development and similar educational efforts. The idea of the "Extermission" - as a more focused, productive version of an "intermission" - emerged from those online events and another online session about the educational possibilities of Twitter earlier in the summer of 2009.
*"Intermission -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 24 June 2009. Web. 16 Sept. 2009.
In each Extermission, do one or more of the following:
1. Exchange additional info with other participants in this live online session.
2. Share info with other colleagues and friends who are not yet participating
a. Invite them to login RIGHT NOW!
b. Recommend some resource or idea you've just learned about
c. Refer them to the home base Web page for this session so they can benefit from the info provided there (which will soon include a link to a full digital recording of this session)
3. Find additional resources
a. Ask a friend/colleague
b. Search
Based on a few experiments, we have found (as of December, 2009) these guidelines:
- At the very beginning of the event, explain the purpose and timing of the Extermissions you plan to use; emphasize that participants will be encouraged and supported but not required to take the suggested action during each Extermission.
- 1 or 2 minutes may be adequate and often more effective than a longer Extermission.
- Provide participants with very specific suggestions for a very few outreach options just before an Extermission begins
- Each suggested outreach option should be very easy to understand and to do
- Don't hesitate to suggest specific wording (or even samples of complete messages) for participants to use in their outgoing tweets, emails, social network postings, etc. - provide anything that will make compliance easier and more effective
- Provide shortened URLs or similar brief info suitable for cutting, pasting, and promulgating
- Include URL and any other essential info to permit recipients of messages to register and join this session RIGHT NOW!
- Be certain that most participants recognize and appreciate at least one "nugget" offered in the session prior to an Extermission
- Take advantage of tech options within online activities, platforms
- Collect feedback from participants about what they did and how to make Extermissions more engaging and effective!
- More...?
Useful Models
(also see samples in next section below)
- Bookmarks - Example, Model & Metaphor
Provide a direct 1-click link to a Web page that contains a VERY brief description, explanation, summary, or reminder about the "nugget" along with 1-4 simple links or form openings (e.g., insert name and email address of colleague to receive info about this resource; subscribe to an online newsletter or RSS feed; insert a request or suggestion;
print a 1-page handout or Just In Time Bookmark; ... )
EXAMPLE ABOUT "SHARING FURTHER" - WEB PAGE WITH ACTIVE LINKS!
- Ask participants to think for a moment about what has already happened in this session and to identify at least one thing they have already learned that is useful to them and at least one thing that they hope will be addressed later. Ask them to send email messages about the useful item to a few colleagues who would also benefit from it.
- Provide an online form that permits many participants to simultaneously submit info about different resources - without causing confusion by overlapping entries - with the results immediately accessible to all. EXAMPLE
Samples: Tweets Postings Printouts
(Current Samples: Developed to invite people to participate in the Faculty Development Symposium 2009)
We encourage you to use or adapt one of the samples below (or make your own version) during the few minutes usually offered as an Extermission.
Tweets for Twitter
- Tweet - If you haven't already started using Twitter, you probably don't have time now - go to <URL> and try it next time
- Short enuf tweet samples so that they can be re-tweeted without being truncated
- Join me and @TLTGroup for an online session NOW (it’s free) login at: http://bit.ly/8XFzV #FDS or go to: http://tinyurl.com/TLTG-FacDev2009
- Join me &TLTGroup for free online FacDev't Symposium 8/4,11&18 #FDS login: http://bit.ly/8XFzV or goto:http://tinyurl.com/TLTG-FacDev2009
- Include "@tltgroup" within every sample Tweet so that we will be able to count the mentions and more people will get linked to us.
- Find useful ideas & free OL FacDev't #FDS Symposium from @TLTGroup goto:http://tinyurl.com/TLTG-FacDev2009 or login 8/11:http://bit.ly/8XFzV
- Learning Games for Higher Ed. You can join me and @TLTGroup for an online session right NOW (it’s free) via: http://bit.ly/2eNPEJ #FRLV
- I’m in a free online session about Learning Games for Higher Ed. You can login for the 2nd half via: http://bit.ly/2eNPEJ #FRLV
- Here’s some useful info from @TLTGroup about Learning Games for Higher Education: http://bit.ly/2eNPEJ #FRLV
Sample Tweet [or email or...] From TLT Group Online Workshop October, 2010
Here's a sample tweet that you can send to your colleagues from your own twitter account (or even via email, facebook, etc.):
Edit as you please or copy and paste as is - 139 characters between the quotation marks.
“@tltgroup recmnds Best Practices InfoLit Undergrad
http://bpil.wikispaces.com/
http://www.tltgroup.org/infolit.htm
http://bit.ly/TLTG-BPIL2010”
DEFAULT OPTIONS FOR TLTG ONLINE EVENTS
[What will happen routinely if no one volunteers or requests to do something even better suited to the event]
PowerPoint Slides - standard - Avery ==> David 2 sets
- Intro slides;
- Event Extermission Slides
Text that can be copied and pasted into a tweet, email, etc.
URL that can be clicked on
FLO2 - Standard closing feedback questions = link , slide
ALTERNATIVES TO DEFAULT OPTIONS
Non-Standard Slide(s) - Can be added by tltg staff and guest presenters/leaders IF THEY HAVE THE TIME AND INCLINATION
Postings/Messages for Facebook, Other Social Networks, Email
- Faculty Development Symposium 2009: Frugal Innovations. If you are interested, you can join me and The TLT Group for the 2nd half of an online session right NOW (it’s free): Login now - http://bit.ly/8XFzV or for more info: http://tinyurl.com/TLTG-FacDev2009
- I’m in a free online Faculty Development Symposium 2009: Frugal Innovations. You can login for the 2nd half here: http://bit.ly/8XFzV or for more info: http://tinyurl.com/TLTG-FacDev2009
- Here’s some useful info from The TLT Group about Frugal Innovations generated during the Faculty Development Symposium 2009. Login at: http://bit.ly/8XFzV (8/4, 11 & 18, 2:30 pm EDT) or for more info visit: http://tinyurl.com/TLTG-FacDev2009
- Learning Games for Higher Ed. If you are interested, you can join me and The TLT Group for the 2nd half of an online session right NOW (it’s free): http://bit.ly/2eNPEJ
- I’m in a free online session about Learning Games for Higher Ed. You can login for the 2nd half here: http://bit.ly/2eNPEJ
- Here’s some useful info from The TLT Group about Learning Games for Higher Education: http://bit.ly/2eNPEJ
- I’m in a free online session about Learning Games for Higher Ed. provided by the TLT Group. I've already learned about several valuable resources and ideas. <Example?> You can visit the home base Web page for this event http://bit.ly/2eNPEJ and find lots of related resources. YOU'LL FIND A LOGIN LINK THERE SO THAT YOU CAN JOIN THE LIVE SESSION RIGHT NOW! If you visit that page later, you'll also find a link to the full digital recording of this session. I hope you find it as useful as I already have!
Print Options - for Hand-Outs
Excerpt from "Just In Time Bookmarks" Susan Weaver, Univ. of the Cumberlands, 2006: "[printed] bookmark has information about the appropriate textbook website and instructions for accessing it. The back lists study skills with the acronym SMART. A hole in the top of the bookmark allows us to put a yarn tassel to enhance visibility." ... "'Just in Time' bookmarks to replace seminars as a means of conveying information"
Learn what each Extermission accomplishes, what participants liked/gained, what participants didn't like and should change
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- a) how many people tweeted/emailed out during the 'extermission' and
- b) how many people joined the session part way through
ABOUT EXTERMISSIONS FOR FUTURE ONLINE SESSIONS AND ONLINE SERIES
Introduce idea of Extermission at end of 1st session and suggest homework assignment - prepare to participate actively constructively in subsequent sessions
Ask participants HOW THEY PREFER TO SHARE INFO
- do that early in the series so that samples can be good fits for their preferences, comfort zones - and/or help them to step into some channels, methods new to them
PROVIDE SAMPLES more directly - in text chat? in PPT? as well as in home base web page - HOW TO MAKE IT EASIEST TO CUT & PASTE?
If you want to try Tweeting go here....
If you want to send an email go here...
If you want to hand something to someone later...
If you want to spend the time searching or selecting something you want to share then add something like this in the text chat ....
Suggest as an option: Get a drink of water
Priority 1: NOTEs or screen WITHIN Adobe - copy and pastable
Priority 2: if #1 not avail create www.tltgroup.org/extermission.htm
has only cut and pastable stuff at very top
Priority 3: A FORWARDable EMAIL to every one who has registered in advance for an Adobe session - via Wild Apricot - "Pls forward this email"
Use URL shorteners that are more helpful - provide analytics
***NEED SPECIAL ONLINE SESSION ABOUT URL SHORTENERS
http://tltgroup.roundtablelive.org/resources/Bookmark
TeachingWellOnlineforBeginners.pdf
http://skylight.wsu.edu/s/566d2872-c0a6-43a7-8c2e-9d4f4d34ab7d.srv
http://bit.ly/TLTG-FRLV-BHW-TWO
http://tltgroup.roundtablelive.org and other info about individual membership, etc.
You can watch this video again or share it with others -
streaming at https://sites.google.com/a/tltgroup.org/fise/resources/bhws
Downloadable: http://tltgroup.roundtablelive.org/resources/BHW about BHWs.flv
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