CALMET Online 2012
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Facilitator: Various
Date:6-7 September 2012From 3-7 September EUMETSAT organises the EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference 2012 in Sopot, Poland. With CALMet we are invited to join the session on Training on 6 and 7 September, which will be broadcast live and recorded.
The sessions are now complete.
If you missed any of the talks, you may now access the recordings. Note that the recordings have different formats, depending if the presentation was delivered on-site or remotely.
Remote
- Playback – link to the recording (the Internet connection needed)
- Download – offline version in .exe format (note that the file size is rather large, usually over 30 MB)
On-site
- MP4 – embedded .mp4
- FLV – embedded flash format
The links to the recordings are placed inside the event program.
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Are simulations a good idea for teaching forecasters? If they are, how?Facilitators: Mark Higgins (EUMETSAT) and Heleen ter Pelkwijk (KNMI)
Date: 6 September - 31 October 2012Text and media areas: 4 Questionnaire: 1 Forum: 1 File: 1 -
Facilitators: Kathy-Ann Caesar (CIMH) and Liz Page (COMET)
Date: 17-21 SeptemberThis session will include a description of the topics and structure of the Aero CPD distance learning course provided by the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology to support WMO competency requirements for aeronautical forecasters. After a successful initial offering of the course, much was learned about which teaching methods and activities proved most effective in conducting this course with forecasters, who had to fit the coursework into their operational forecasting schedules. This course will be used as a model for the development of similar instruction for Central American and African nations, with goals to extend to Indonesia in the near future.
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Facilitator: Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov (COMET)
Date: 1-19 October 2012Live Session: Crafting Effective Multiple-choice Questions
Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Time: 14:00 UTC (8:00AM MDT)This session has been conducted. A recording is available below.
Our objectives, content, activities, and assessments form an instructional system. We develop content and activities that are supposed to help our learners achieve a set of goals, and our quizzes are intended to tell us whether the learners achieved the goals. This workshop will discuss how learning objectives drive quiz question creation and offer suggestions on how to write multiple-choice questions that measure whether our learners achieved the intended instructional goals. In addition, we will go over techniques to discourage academic dishonesty in online assessments and analyzing whether our questions are working as intended.
This 3-week workshop will begin with an interactive presentation using Moodle’s Choices tool where participants will engage in evaluating the effectiveness of questions. This will be followed by a series of discussion forums to apply ideas from the presentation.Files: 3 Forum: 1 Text and media areas: 3 URL: 1 Choices: 12 -
Making your Online Sessions Effective
Facilitators: Vesa Nietosvaara and Maja Kuna (EUMETSAT)
Date: 8 - 26 October 2012Text and media areas: 9 Choices: 2 Forums: 4 URLs: 4 Files: 5 -
Facilitator: Natalie Werbitski (MSC)
Date: 22 October - 2 NovemberWelcome to this session on “The Competency Assessment Process”. What does it mean to conduct a competency-based assessment and why is it even important? How do we conduct any sort of assessment in an effective manner? Maybe you are new to competency-based assessment and find yourself asking some of these questions. Or maybe you have already had much experience yourself in conducting such assessments. Either way, this session is designed for learners from all ends of the spectrum.
If you are new to competency assessment, it is my hope that you come away from this session with a general understanding of what this process is and how it can be useful to you. And if you are already well-experienced in the process of competency assessment, we welcome your contributions to the discussions, as we can all benefit and learn from your shared thoughts and experiences.
We’ll spend the next two weeks looking at various aspects of the competency assessment process such as: the value of conducting a competency assessment in the first place; tools and techniques for an effective assessment process; and the selection and training of competency assessors.
A live presentation is scheduled for October 23rd at 14:00Z. Please click the link below to join the presentation.
Live Session: The Competency Assessment Process
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Time: 14:30 UTC (8:30AM MDT)This session has been conducted. A recording is available below.
We will also make use of the discussion forum throughout the new two weeks to discuss some of these various aspects of competency assessment. Please feel free to share your ideas on the subject and any experiences of you might have with conducting assessments. And of course, if you have any questions, I welcome those as well!
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Facilitator: Ian Bell (BOMTC)
Date: 1-26 NovemberThere are many tools, techniques and checklists that help trainers to analyse, plan and implement their training. Ian will share a range of these that he has found useful and invites you to add any of your own. This session will be conducted through a series of asynchronous sessions.
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Facilitator: David Russi (COMET)
Date: 8-15 November 2012
Interested in a wider reach for your training materials? Translation may be something to consider. This presentation will outline some basic concepts on translation, best (and worst) practices, tools, and the process used to localize COMET training modules for a Spanish-speaking audience. Though David Russi, COMET's on-staff translator, mostly works with Spanish translation, his insights on the process apply to any translation effort. This 1-week session will kick-off with a live presentation followed by a series of discussion forums to share best practices and tools.
Live Session: The Ins and Outs of Translation at COMET
Date: Thursday, November 8, 2012
Time: 15:00 UTC (9:00AM CDT)Register for the live session here:
This session has been conducted. A recording is available below.
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Facilitator: Patrick Parrish (WMO)
Date: 12 November - early DecemberThis session will try to make sense of the many learning theories one finds, and to put them into pragmatic perspective. We will look at brief explanations of some of the more common theories you might have heard about (or not), and then try to identify examples of their use or potential use in meteorological education and training.
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Faciliator: Eduard Podgaiskii (RSHU)
Date: 19-28 NovemberThis session will explore social networking for building communities of learners.
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The challenge of sharing and re-purposing learning materials.
Facilitators: Luciane Veeck (WMO-VLab), Maja Kuna (EUMETSAT) and Pat Parrish (WMO)
Date: 26 November - 12 December 2012The aim of this workshop is:
1) To experience re-purposing an existing OER
2) To increase the awareness of designing practices that can be adopted when preparing new OER, in order to facilitate their future re-usabilityForum: 1 URL: 1 External tool: 1 Text and media area: 1