If you pay for ChatGPT, you now have access to Sora, their video creation AI application. This is my first attempt… It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s super goat!
Prompt: a herd of mountain goats can be seen charging up the side of a rocky hill. One of the ones in the front is carrying a ran banner. it is very dramatic and the camera zooms in as they get to the top of the hill.
Without even bothering to explore Adobe Express much, I just assumed it was a dumbed down version of Adobe Photoshop. It does satisfy that description, but it is also a dumbed down Premier, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, converter, AND text to graphic AI generator.
menu of quick actions
part two of quick action items in adobe express
QR Code maker:
Generative AI image style:
What is a seawolf?
Maybe make it look more like a university mascot?
or start with a real photo and just mess with that using AI
That one “Animate from Audio” I’ve blogged about before: https://you.stonybrook.edu/jadams/2024/06/12/adobe-education-institute-animate-from-audio-in-adobe-express/
Here is that Collage Tool:
New feature!
Echo360!
Change you ASR to be something other than English at the course section level!!
Log into echo360.org
Go to your desired Course, then to Settings and then Features.
and find ASR Language Settings
Then select the new language that you would like your section transcribed to.
Obviously this is fantastic news for language courses. Let me know in the comments what other courses you will be using this for!
There are two different ways of sharing echo360 content in Blackboard, and therefore two different ways to reuse the content as well.
Most instructors at SBU currently link to their echo360 videos via LTI links. This has been the only way in the past to get the analytics that you needed, give the students the active learning tools and also automatically post new scheduled recordings as they happen throughout the semester. Using the LTI link is the process where you are going to a content area where you want the videos to be placed, selecting “Build Content -> Echo Cloud”.
When reusing the LTI link in a course you have copied from a previous semester, you will want to go to where the link was made (it will still be there), click on that link and reconnect it.
The second way and previously feature sparse method (but this has been rapidly changing!), is to embed the echo360 content into any area of your site that gives you the ability to use the Bb text editor. You can embed content using the wysiwyg editor using the button : “Add Content -> Echo360 Video Library”. It looks like a plus sign in a circle and is the last button on the bottom right.
When you have embedded content and you run a course copy, the video will still work without further tweaking. It is for this reason, and because echo360 has been working hard to bring all the features to the embed model that already exist in the LTI links, that we will be suggesting using embed going forward (at least, as soon as playlists are up and running and that could even happen this week).
As more instructors are working to create video content for their courses, I thought I would offer this up for use.
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/
Available for Windows, Mac and Linix in both a free version and a Studio paid version.
This is already an industry standard, so go ahead and suggest it for student use as well.
SBU will be setting Echo360 to automatically produce Automatic Speech Recognition after a recording is finished. This will bring it into line with Zoom and VoiceThread which already do this.
If the instructor would like to turn this back off, they can follow this link:
It now allows for live streaming!
I’ve done some tests already. I’m seeing a 10 sec lag on what comes out of my mouth and what comes through the stream. The screen share seems about 3 seconds ahead of my camera’s live video. There is a 15 secondish lag between when you start streaming and the stream actually begins.
I was testing on a laptop that had a hard wire connection to my router at home… the receiving computer was on the wireless.
Here is their documentation which includes technical requirements:
https://learn.echo360.com/hc/en-us/articles/360041458112
I will be doing more tests… but this is awesome news for additional options for synchronous and asynchronous teaching and learning!
You don’t have to download a new version of the software. If you have never used it before, the software can be downloaded from echo360.org with your netid and password.
More to follow!
Blackboard has this cute mashup feature where you can go into your course, go to the content folder of your choice, select Build Content and select YouTube Video. You don’t even have to know the URL of what you are looking for… it lets you search by keywords and select the video right there.
but – the window is smallish and the ability to make it bigger seems non-existent.
So – if you need the video to be bigger…. here is what you can do:
Go to YouTube.com and search for the video you want there. When you find the video, click on Share…
then embed…
now Show More…
and finally, pick the video size you would like to display in Blackboard:
Copy the code provided… it is the one that starts with “<iFrame width” as seen above.
Now head back to Blackboard….
Go to your Documents folder (or whatever content folder you desire), Build Content -> Item:
Give it a Name, then click the chevrons in the upper right hand corner of the Text box.
Which reveals more wysiwyg tools:
click the HTML tool and paste in the code from your clipboard:
click update and click submit.
Now you will get this gorgeous and large video, right in your folder – just like this. (This is the same embed code as seen in WordPress.)
As we have moved to echo360 in the cloud… the new place to find your personal capture software is now also in the cloud.
From the main page that you first see when you login – go here:
or go directly to this link:
Don’t forget to still let us know that you are using the software by filling out this form.
Tools & Apps – ipads (Heather O’Brian presenting)
Planbook — https://planbook.com/
idoceo — http://www.idoceo.net/index.php/en/
notibility
Explain Everything – students use the app to create presentations and reflections for class. Of course instructors can use to to create as well.
https://explaineverything.com/
Showbie – assignment hand ins.
nearpod – lesson creation
symbalooEDU – link management and sharing (can be embedded into blackboard) http://www.symbalooedu.com/
blendspace – digital content collection tool – students use this to create their own collection that goes into their eportfolio. https://www.tes.com/lessons
Next – Sophia Georgiakaki from Tompkins-Cortland Community College
MyOpenMath — https://www.myopenmath.com/ looks like an LMS
Next – Paul Seeburger, Monroe Community College
online lecture components:
Lecture Videos – used camptasia with TOC
OER Textbook – problems and readings aligned to lecture videos http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/DE/DE.aspx
WeBWork online homework –
Graded Written Assignments and quizzes – submitted as a single pdf
| online2pdf.com |
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByDMkg2LPAvJVzJueHotYjlCREE/view?usp=sharing
online visualization tool .. direction fields and calcplot3d
graded online discussions
student video presentations (typically between 3-8 minutes) – they are posted to a course wiki – the videos help build community, and serve as a tool for review. they are required to watch and respond to each others videos. Sometimes he uses student videos in future teaching.
includes time estimates for each component within Blackboard
