03
May
2016
May
2016
gen z coming to campus
Survey: What Gen Z Thinks About Ed Tech in College
A report on digital natives sheds light on their learning preferences.
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more on Gen Z in this blog:
Searching for "capture"
15
Apr
2016
Apr
2016
D2L Brightspace conference Normandale
categories: conferences and other events
Our discussion:
Faculty migration from text-based to media-rich content: crowdsourcing the meaningful application of LMS (D2L) quizzes from Plamen Miltenoff
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Main speaker: Ken Chapman
mapping what students are looking at the screen
intelligent agent: dancing hamster
immediate gratification – certification, this is practically badges
immediate gratification – certification, this is practically badges
story builder – D2L tool
D2L dropbox – look previous assignments and submissions within dropbox
time savers: 1. miss an assignment deadline – use agent. My note: how does it roll over? how much time and effort to condition it after it is rolled over?
text expanders: create codes in the browsers to evoke repetitions (;runon)
“Daylight Experience” is the D2L new look and feel put on D2L. nice clean modern looking.
assignment grader for Android has Daylight Experience. https://youtu.be/9B2EgPW_J38
PIE (Product Ideas Exchange) – https://community.brightspace.com/sharedresources/glossary/library/product_ideas_exchange_pie
Mobile First, API Access, Assessments, Advanced CBE (competency-based education programs), Predictive Analytics (recommendation system to pick right course, red flags, Dashboards,
Content:
interactive publisher material. Dates and Feeds on Mobile, Curriculum Planning
interactive publisher material. Dates and Feeds on Mobile, Curriculum Planning
Capture: my note – how does it fit with MediaSpace
ePortfolio my note – how does it fit TK-20
Repository – open content, publishers, how to bring easier into a course
Adaptive learning
D2L purchased a module. publisher packets, adaptive textbooks. D2L looks at it as an engine where faculty feeds the idea and the engine is making the links and structuring the ideas into content. It also the engine checks what learners already know and based on results finds knowledge gaps.
need well defined learning objective, good content and ways to assess the material.
Start with creating support course delivery, test preparation.
need well defined learning objective, good content and ways to assess the material.
Start with creating support course delivery, test preparation.
13
Apr
2016
Apr
2016
download from MediaSpace
How to download videocapture from MediaSpace (AKA Kaltura)
- Login into MediaSpace: https://mediaspace.mnscu.edu/
- Record your lecture
screen recording
- Open the file you want to download in the player, by clicking on the file
- Click on the scroll down menu “Actions” and and choose “Edit”
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- Click on the scroll down menu “Actions” and and choose “Edit”
- Click “Downloads”
downloads
- 1. Select HiDef MP4 file, 2. Click “download” and 3. click on “Download Media”
save
- save your file to a location of your choice
12
Apr
2016
Apr
2016
Free Tech Instruction (About Us)
categories:
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12
Apr
2016
Apr
2016
rethinking intelligence
Rethinking Intelligence: How Does Imagination Measure Up?
http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/04/11/rethinking-intelligence-how-does-imagination-measure-up
Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman When he was young, Kaufman had central auditory processing disorder, which made it hard for him to process verbal information in real time. He was asked to repeat third grade because he was considered a “slow” learner.
Kaufman thinks the traditional IQ test does a good job of measuring general cognitive ability, but says it misses all the ways that ability interacts with engagement. An individual’s goals within the learning classroom and excitement about a topic affect how he or she pursues learning, none of which is captured on IQ tests. Worse, those tests are often used to filter people in or out of special programs.
FOUR PRACTICES TO CULTIVATE CHILDREN’S CREATIVITY
- allowing more solitary reflective time in kids’ schedules. Whether it’s the constant demands on attention at school or in after-school activities, there often isn’t enough time in a child’s day when she can switch off the executive functioning network and tap into the imagination network.
- “We support obsessive passion, but not harmonious passion,” Kaufman said. He defines harmonious passion as a core part of people’s identity that makes them feel good about themselves. Harmonious passion is characterized by flexible engagement, where a child can abandon the pursuit if it isn’t paying dividends.
- give young kids a diverse set of experiences in order to increase the chances of inspiration. “Lots of things add meaning to our lives,” he said.
- educators, parents, and policymakers need to reset their mindsets around student ability. “Kids who think differently are not appreciated in our school system at all
it’s even worth measuring imagination, but Kaufman believes that measurement is important so researchers can see how changing behavior affects creative achievement. But he hopes the measurements are never used as another sorting mechanism.
My note: Kaufman makes a new call for an old trend. The futility of testing is raging across the United States K12 system. Higher education is turned into the last several decades (similarly to the United States health care system) into a cash cow. When the goal is profit, then good education goes down the drain. Cultivating children’s creativity cannot happen, when the foremost goals to make more money, which inevitably entails spending less cash (not only on teacher’s salaries).
05
Apr
2016
Apr
2016
Digital Evidence of and for Learning
categories: announcement
Midwest Regional Conference at Notre Dame
http://www.aaeebl.org/?page=notre_dame_2016
The Conference at Notre Dame May 12-13 is intriguing as you can see from some of the session titles below. It’s time to register and book lodging.
How do we know they are learning? Digital Evidence of and for Learning
Peruse the titles below to get an idea of the dynamism of this eportfolio conference:
- Balancing Summative, Formative, and Transformative ePortfolio Functions within Participatory Learning and Assessment
- Competency Based Badging and ePortfolios for the Youth and Adult Workforce in Philadelphia
- Show your SPuRS: Bridging Academics and Co-Curricular Professional Readiness
- Buckeye Badges: A Pilot Project at Ohio State University
- Developing an Integrative Toolkit for Engagement at Michigan (iTeam)
- Ethics, ePortfolios, and Badges: Envisaging Privacy and Digital Persistence in Student-Level Learning Evidence
- Balancing Summative, Formative, and Transformative ePortfolio Functions within Participatory Learning and Assessment
Plus 15 other sessions.
The keynote address will be given by Daniel T. Hickey on Open Digital Badges + ePortfolios: Searching for and Supporting Synergy. an internationally-known speaker and leader on the changes in higher education around digital technologies.
Here is a description of another session:
By sharing challenges, practices, and examples of maker portfolios, we highlight the importance of makerspaces and community development in the design of portfolios that capture rich learning.
These are the institutions represented in the program:
- Grand Valley State University
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
- Indiana University
- Notre Dame
- University of Michigan
- IUPUI
- Ohio State University
- Kendall College; Laureate Universities
- Boston University
- Western Michigan University
- Drexel University
- University of Charleston
The full program will be posted by late Thursday of this week. This is a must-attend event to know about the latest developments in the eportfolio field.
Registration rates (note that AAEEBL members receive a $100 discount on registration; a student rate is available as well):
Registration Fees:
Non-Member Registration
$250 before April 25
$290 after April 25
Member Registration
$150 before Aprial 25
$190 after April 25
Student Registration
$75 before Aprial 25
$115 after April 25
Includes 2 breakfasts, one lunch and one reception. One and a half days of sessions.
Register now. Book lodging. Notre Dame is just outside of Chicago in Northern Indiana. Midway Airport is probably the closest major airport to the Notre Dame campus. Conference facilities at Notre Dame are excellent — lodging and conference space are adjacent.
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More on badges in this IMS blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=badges&submit=Search
More on eportfolio in this IMS blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=eportfolio&submit=Search
29
Jan
2016
Jan
2016
video tools for social media
14 Video Tools for Social Media
use to create screencasts, montages and slideshows.
Mari Smith December 7, 2015
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/14-video-tools-for-social-media-marketers
Facebook gives priority to native videos (as opposed to video links to external sources) to encourage this type of content. Videos that are directly uploaded to Facebook perform better and provide a better experience. They receive 30% more video views than videos posted from other websites, and have images up to 11 times larger in the news feed.
Screencasts / Lecture Capture
- Camtasia Studio
- ScreenFlow (Apple/Mac)
- Snagit
- TechSmith Fuse works with Camtasia Studio and Snagit. Capture the images and videos on your mobile device and send them to your desktop to use in your videos.
- Reflector by Squirrels allows you to do wireless mirroring, so you can display your smartphone screen (Android or iOS) on your desktop.
Slideshows
- iMovie for Mac or Windows Movie Maker.
- Facebook Slideshow tool recently rolled out to Ads Manager and Power Editor.
Video Montages on Desktop and Mobile Apps
- Animoto
- Magisto is a free app that automatically turns your everyday videos and photos into movies
- Adobe Voice. The app is available only for iPad
Mobile video capture
- Flipagram. You can record voice narration, choose from Flipagram’s music or upload 15 seconds of music you already have on your mobile device.
- Diptic app is another video tool for making collages that has a newly added animation feature, which works with transitions
- Boomerang is a new app from Instagram that takes a burst of photographs and stitches them together into a 1-second video and loops it forward and backward. It’s not an animated GIF, but it’s designed to look like one.
More about lecture capture in this blog: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=capture&submit=Search
More about video in this blog: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=video&submit=Search
More about effective presentations and slideshows in this blog: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=presentations&submit=Search
28
Jan
2016
Jan
2016
captioning
Making Media Accessible by Adding Captions and Audio
To register for one or both of these Webinars, go to http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
EASI Webinar part 1: Making Media Accessible by Adding Captions and Audio
Presenter: Susanne Van Dorpe Mistric, Instructor/Coordinator Distance Learning – Individualized Learning Center Wade Technical Community College
Monday Feb. 1 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 PM Eastern
Susanne provides beginner-level training for WTCC staff on adding captions and audio description to Media. The goal is to take people with little technical skill in how to create descriptions of audio content and then synchronize it with the media. Students also need to be aware of how ane when to add audio descriptions as well
EASI Webinar part 2: Making Media Accessible by Adding Captions and Audio
Presenter: Susanne Van Dorpe Mistric, Instructor/Coordinator Distance Learning – Individualized Learning Center Wade Technical Community College
Monday Feb. 8 at 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 PM Eastern
Susanne provides more advanced-level training for WTCC staff who already have the basic awareness of accessibility and familiarity with the tools to provide this. This will enhance their awareness of how and when to add accessible features especially to meet the requirements of content in more advanced courses.
More on the subject in this IMS blog entry:
21
Jan
2016
Jan
2016
video editing for mobile devices
WeVideo
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/07/this-is-how-to-create-videos-in-google.html
mobile app available here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wevideo-video-editor-and/okgjbfikepgflmlelgfgecmgjnmnmnnb
Google is now elbowing with YouTube Capture (free) , Splice (free), iMovie (paid), Adobe Premiere Clip (free) – Android, iOS and several others for the basic video editing turf on mobile devices. Its big pitch – being directly connected to Google Drive.
Additional mobile apps for video editing: VidTrim (free) Pro ($1.99) – Android only; SloPro – iOS only; Magisto (available for both iOS and Android); Vee for Video ($1.99) – iOS; Lumify, (free), VideoGrade (5.99) – iOS; KineMaster (free) – Android; PowerDirector (free) – Android; Pinnacle Studio Pro ($14.99) – iOS; Movie Edit Touch (free) – Windows:
https://www.gazelle.com/thehorn/2013/11/25/best-video-editing-apps-for-ios-android/
http://www.stuff.tv/features/10-best-video-editing-apps-mobile
http://mashable.com/2012/07/25/video-editing-apps
http://mashable.com/2013/06/05/video-edit-apps/#4Y3PWgcp2ZqQ
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/ios-android-video-editing-apps/
10 Best Video Editing Apps for Phones and Tablets: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/pictures-story/511-Video-Editor-Android-iOS-Video-Filters.html
More on the topic in this blog:
5 Options for Creating Screen Capture Images and Videos – Including on Chromebooks
18
Jan
2016
Jan
2016
record Skype calls on Mac
Two Ways to Record Skype Calls on a Mac
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/01/two-ways-to-record-skype-calls-on-mac.html
Record video of a Skype call:
I use a rather simple method to capture video of a Skype call. I simply open Screencast-O-Matic on my Mac then frame the Skype the window. When I’m ready to start recording I simply press record on Screencast-O-Matic and capture the video. One flaw in this method is that I cannot use a headset during the call because it won’t capture audio from both parties. So make sure you’re in a quiet place and just rely on your Mac’s internal mic and speakers.
Record audio of a Skype call:
On a Mac you can record audio of a Skype call by using QuickTime. The screenshots below provide directions for recording a Skype audio call by using QuickTime. After recording your call you can take the audio file and use it Garage Band or another audio editing tool like Audacity to edit the audio.