LT podcast wk 2

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Today's program is hosted by Joe Pollard, Learning Technologist at SCC and features the Director of Learning Technology Jana Ulrich and fellow Learning Technologist Emily Nestor. Below are the show notes and links from the broadcast for you to use to experiment with the items related in today's podcast.

I apologize for the lateness of this posting. The process to broadcast this podcast as a video involved a couple of learning curves that took longer to clear than I had anticipated. All in all it has been an incredible learning experience and has reinforced my belief in project based learning as the best method of education. I also apologize for any latency in the video, while I have tried to edit this as much as possible, I have found that this is best fixed by imagining you are watching one of the old Kung-Fu movies where the words aren't supposed to match with the mouth movements.

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Show notes and links:
Tips for this week


Participate in a poll from polleverywhere.com [Link]

(Instructions below poll graph):

Replace your audience response systems with Poll Everywhere

Text the NUMBER that relates to your answer on the above chart to 99503. For example, if your answer is "Use, use, use Elluminate", then you would text 15288 to 99503.

If you would rather, you can Click Here to vote from the web. OR you can visit poll4.com with your Blackberry or other smartphone and type your vote in the textbox you will see there. This chart will update as the vote comes in.

The free educational account will allow 32 votes per poll.

Windows Media Encoder:

Windows Media Encoder is a free Microsoft download
that allows you to capture video straight from your monitor.
It is an excellent tool for recording voice and step-by-step
instructions that can be viewed by your students in WebCT.
Media Encoder is fun and very simple to use. We will be
happy to install the software on your computer for you.
Here is a link to an instructional video that shows you just
how easy it is to use. Create your own video in no time at all!

http://http://www.stanly.edu/learning/learnobj.html

Screen-Cast-O-Matic:

Screen-Cast-O-Matic is an online screen capture tool that can be embedded in a WebCT class. It is browser based and requires no download and is free. Students can record and post videos as well as students and have them uploaded to a class "channel". Remember you can subscribe to this feel by clicking on the orange feed icon. This will notify you when new videos have been uploaded to this channel.



Click on the icon above to record a screen capture and upload it to my channel. Then view your video by going to my channel at http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/channels/cQVv6iwv.


Examples of Slideshare posts
Slideshare is a website that will host your powerpoint presentations for free, converting them to "flash" which makes them viewable through your browser as opposed to having to download the presentation and the viewer. Below are two examples of publically viewable presentations in Slideshare. The first is a simple PowerPoint upload, the second is a narrated PowerPoint.



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No Bass-o-matics for us!

Click the linked title of this posting to hear the podcast.

The learning technologists at Stanly Community College in Albemarle, NC welcome you to this our first (of many??) weekly (??) podcasts produced as a result of our ongoing efforts to keep our faculty up-t0-date with available learning technologies.

Today's program is hosted by Jana Ulrich, director of learning technologies at SCC and features the learning technology team of Joe Pollard and Emily Nestor. Below are the show notes and links from the broadcast for you to use to experiment with the items related in today's podcast.

Music credit: Clip from Hapa Haole Hula Girl as performed by Alfred Apaka on his CD of Hawaiian Favorites.

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Show notes and links:

What we're up to ...

• Meet Emily, our newest edition to our learning technology team at SCC. She's located in the Snyder Building right now, phone extension is 383. She will be spending time in both Eddins and Kelley each week until we can find her a permanent home in one of those buildings.
• Emily is currently working on learning Respondus, and is also responsible for most of the video uploading that occurs. Of course, she has been learning and working with the WebCT server as well.
  
• Joe has been working on helping BLET record lectures so students can review them prior to certification exams. He recommends recorded audio to all faculty. Wireless mics are available from learning techs at both campuses.
  OR
  Joe points out that an Axim is a good recording device, too
  AND
  You don't need to record your whole lecture. Summaries, wrap-ups, and "as you think of them" ideas make perfect audio uploads.
• Jana has been working on trying to keep the WebCT server from overloading (HELP!), and with Ollie Lambert's help, has circulated the Fall course evaluations to the deans and associate deans. She also talked about some EDU video work she is doing.

Our weekly tips:

• Joe's tip is Screencast-o-matic [link] which he has used to create some learning objects related to:
• embedding Instant Messaging into your WebCT class


• How to restore a class in WebCT
  
  We also have these linked in our learning resources areas [link > Learning Objects and WebCT Instructor FAQ]
  

• Emily's tip is Slideshare [link] which you can use to store narrated PowerPoint lessons. Once they are on Slideshare, they can be embedded your WebCT classes. It's much easier for the students, as they do not have to download the big PowerPoint files nor do they need PowerPoint installed on their computers.
  
  Emily has created a step-by-step tutorial on using Slideshare, which is linked from our learning objects library [link]
  
  
• Jana's tip is student use of YouTube [link]. Instead of tests or other assessments, why not have your students create a video to show you what they have learned? They will love uploading it to YouTube and then they can send you the link for grading.
  
  Jana has created a step-by-step tutorial on uploading to YouTube which is linked from our learning object library [link]. Additionally,the YouTube help [link] has lots of information about uploading video.

Thanks for listening. Leave us a comment below to let us know how you liked our first effort and ideas you may have for future endeavors.