Discusses standards of video creation, expectations of instructional support staff, etc.
SBCapture
Did you know?
SBCapture not only does room based capture, but also has “Personal Capture” which can record the screen, webcam and audio from any computer, and “Video Ingest” which can take any supplemental video and load into Blackboard?
Meetup in the City! SLN SOLsummit 2014
I’ll be presenting along with Meg Schedel at the SLN SOLsummit as an invited speaker. We’ll be talking about the MOOC “Introduction to Computational Arts”, which was the first official SUNY MOOC.
February 26-28, 2014 . SUNY Global Center . NY, NY .
The SLN SOLSummit, sponsored by the SUNY Learning Network (SLN), is an annual SUNY-wide conference specifically for online instructional designers, directors of online learning, and those interested in online learning environment support, services, and best practices.
The first Summit was held in 1998 as an annual face to face meeting of the SLN faculty developmentand instructional design team and the online campus-based SUNY instructional designers (also known at that time as MIDs) whose campuses participated in the SLN program.
Today, the SLN SOLSummit is open to anyone regardless of their CMS, SUNY, or SLN affiliation.
Click on the general info link on the left for Summit posts. Check http://twitter.com/slnsolsummitfor Summit news, status, and updates.
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The SLN SOLsummit has a 3-day agenda.
Day 1 (2.26.14)
Open to all regardless of affiliation with SLN or SUNY.
Day 2 (2.27.14)
Open to all regardless of affiliation with SLN or SUNY.
Day 3 (2.28.14) Special Event: Networking with NUTN
Open to all regardless of SUNY or SLN/CPD affiliation. Enthusiastic participation from SLN, CPD, and DOODLE members is invited.
Snow Days – Personal Capture time!
Are you over the snow? It’s been a white winter, that’s for sure!
More importantly are you teaching a course where you really need all of those pesky lecture hours? Do you know what online courses do when it snows really bad? They keep going. We have the technology so that you can keep going to! I’m going to share a trick with you that will let you “flip” those snow days. (Flipping is when you listen to the lecture at home, and do active learning/group work/homework in the classroom.)
Do you have a SBCapture account? Yes? Go here: https://echoserver.sinc.stonybrook.edu
Now go to the Downloads tab, and grab personal capture for the OS that you prefer. (Your choices are Win and OSX – don’t go getting all RaspPi on me!)
This software allows you to capture the video from your screen, audio from your mic and optionally, the video from a webcam. This way you can sit in front of your computer and give your lecture. There are simple edit capabilities, you can pause the recording in the middle and directly load the finished product straight into Blackboard.
Unless you are already using SBCapture for room based capture this semester, you will need to drop me a line so that I can make the appropriate hooks on the backend between SBCapture and Blackboard, but that is simple enough. Same goes for if you don’t already have an SBCapture account – just let me know, and I’ll set everything up.
FORM to request Personal Capture
Here is an example of what an end result looks like using Personal Capture:
(In this case the webcam was setup to the side… yours might be a tight shot of your face.)
I hope that you find this, and find it helpful!
On MOOCs
or MOOCOWs as I like to call them (Massive Online Open Courses or Whatever)… part of what I have been doing is getting last semester’s Intro to Computational Arts ready for a Spring redeploy. Meg Schedel decided to break it into three separate sessions for the benefit of the broader audience, which I think will make it even more popular and have better retention rates. Not that 10% was shabby to begin with! I’ve also started on a MOOC course shell for a Human Evolution class.
But – for something completely different, I’ve decided to enroll in a MOOC myself. “Gamification” taught by Kevin Werbach from University of Pennsylvania. I also enrolled in the Signature Verification Track. Mostly to see how it works. It is hosted in the same platform that we in SUNY use for MOOCs, Coursera.
Slow the lesson down… design it that way
Blogging
#Funny – Don’t Tell Anyone Your Password
Winter Break is Coming
Tomorrow is the last day of Finals. Some people think that it gets very quiet around the office. In some ways, it can be.
This winter break though, I’m hoping that my neck of the woods will be working on:
- some captioning/transcription projects
- a couple of etextbooks that are in development and revision
- going back over the Fall MOOC that was run in Computational Arts and getting it cleaned up to be redeployed
- scheduling the spring SBCaptures
- doing trainings on clickers
- ramping up new MOOC offerings
- updating website documentation
If you want to take a look at our initial etextbook offering that we completed using Inkling’s Habitat platform, you can download it for free here.
One view of the future
