Online Tutoring Models:

Asynchronous - 24/7

Synchronous - same time

• Paradise Valley CC - Jeanne Franco
• SWCalifornia CC - Barbara Speidel
  

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• NetTutor
• Smarthinking
• AskOnline

• Breeze - Problem Solving
• Breeze Live - the next step
• Textbook Publishers provide the tutoring!

Sandra Miller, Atlantic Cape Community College

Recommendations of Online Tutors

Synchronous

from Penny Turrentine, Pima Community College,
NADE Digest. (Fall 2006)

• Transparency. Do not use the computer screen as a mask. Instead make it a window. - Micheal Coward, Tutor, Pima Community College
• Positive Regard.
• Keep it simple.
• Keep the light on.

• Needs assessment requires student input.
• Need to create a need and a community.
• For your college and open to the world?

5 Online Poison Pills

• Build it and they will come.
• Control it to death.
• Forget it.
• Make it too complicated.
• Take it too personally.

Consider making online audio visual tutorials for things such as graphic calculators. Here is one in Breeze, by Ken Anderson, Math teacher at Chemeketa CC. Title: Graphically Finding Vertex of a Parabola.

Or provide 1 minute tutorials at Atomic Learning

• Math Study Skills - free inventory
• LASSI
• SBI
• Diascriptive Reading
• How to study Math
• Study Skills Plus
• www.howtostudy.org
• Adaptive Technology
  

Kingdomality
http://www.kingdomality.com

http://www.boogle.com

• Want a fancy picture slide show for your web site?
• Don't want to have to code in Flash?
• Want an easy way to add pictures, clip art and mp3 music the easy way?
• See an example at the howtostudy site.

Try PhotoShow4 at http://www.simplestar.com

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