Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Video Projects to Try With Your Students
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/08/5-video-projects-to-try-with-your.html?m=1
VideoNotes (http://www.videonot.es/) is a free web tool that allows students to take notes on a video they are watching. The notes are synchronized with the video being watched. The good thing about VideoNotes is that it is integrated into Google Drive which means that students will be able to save their notes directly to their Drive account and access, edit, and work on them anytime they want. All the notes are time-stamped.
https://www.edx.org/blog/optimal-video-length-student/1239
The take-home message for instructors is that, to maximize student engagement, they should work with instructional designers and video producers to break up their lectures into small, bite-sized pieces.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/11/excellent-videos-explaining-byod-for.html
Bring Your Own Device/Technology is an initiative meant to increase students learning opportunities through technology.
| Qustion: Can I embed video into D2L discussion posts (ie. a youtube video)? |  |
Answer:
When trying to embed video into a D2L discussion, it breaks with a 500 error.
upon examination of the embed code, the protocol is missing from the source.
example:
<iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/xtNhf0eA120?rel=0″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> Note the src=”//www…..
SOLUTION: In order to successfully embed a video you’ll need to alter that bit of code to be http://www….. or https://www….
Reported this to the MnSCU D2L team, as the embed preview works.
Free training videos. See http://mnscuims.mnscu.edu/training.html for links to the videos.
From Desire2Learn Community Site:
Content Overview
User Progress Overview
From Atomic Learning (free):
32 short videos–Content, User Progress, Discussions
From MnSCU:
Content Tool Changes in D2L Version 10.1
User Progress and Discussion Tool Changes in D2L Version 10.1
Benchmarking Software – Show how many Frames Per Second (FPS) you are getting in a corner of your screen. Perform custom benchmarks and measure the frame rate between any two points. Save the statistics out to disk and use them for your own reviews and applications.
Screen Capture Software – Take a screenshot with the press of a key! There’s no need to paste into a paint program every time you want a new shot. Your screen captures are automatically named and timestamped.
Realtime Video Capture Software – Have you ever wanted to record video while playing your favourite game? Come join the Machinima revolution! Throw away the VCR, forget about using a DV cam, game recording has never been this easy! Fraps can capture audio and video up to 7680×4800 with custom frame rates from 1 to 120 frames per second!
How to blur a face in the crowd.
I just got a request from a student from School of Education SOE). She has an issue, which pops up rather frequently with pre-service teachers from SOE. When she videotapes in the classroom, she is supposed to obtain permission for the video recording. In her case, one of the student wanted to be blurred out.
Here is a short YouTube video, which guides you through the iMovie process. The same is for Final Cut Pro:
also helpful hints here: https://sites.google.com/site/karstenschluter/imovie09tricks
Within these methods you’ll find close to 40 tools and tricks for finding out what your students know while they’re still learning.
edutopia.org/article/7-smart-fast-ways-do-formative-assessment
Entry and exit slips
Exit slips can take lots of forms beyond the old-school pencil and scrap paper. Whether you’re assessing at the bottom of Bloom’s taxonomy or the top, you can use tools like Padlet or Poll Everywhere, or measure progress toward attainment or retention of essential content or standards with tools like Google Classroom’s Question tool, Google Forms with Flubaroo, and Edulastic,
Low-stakes quizzes and polls: If you want to find out whether your students really know as much as you think they know, polls and quizzes created with Socrative or Quizlet or in-class games and tools like Quizalize, Kahoot, FlipQuiz, Gimkit, Plickers, and Flippity
Dipsticks: So-called alternative formative assessments are meant to be as easy and quick as checking the oil in your car, so they’re sometimes referred to as dipsticks. These can be things like asking students to:
Interview assessments: If you want to dig a little deeper into students’ understanding of content, try discussion-based assessment methods. Casual chats with students in the classroom can help them feel at ease even as you get a sense of what they know, and you may find that five-minute interview assessments
Flipgrid, Explain Everything, or Seesaw
Methods that incorporate art: Consider using visual art or photography or videography as an assessment tool. Whether students draw, create a collage, or sculpt, you may find that the assessment helps them synthesize their learning.
Misconceptions and errors: Sometimes it’s helpful to see if students understand why something is incorrect or why a concept is hard. Ask students to explain the “muddiest point” in the lesson—the place where things got confusing or particularly difficult or where they still lack clarity. Or do a misconception check:
Self-assessment: Don’t forget to consult the experts—the kids. Often you can give your rubric to your student
Police continue to use social media in questionable ways to monitor and track down protestors in photos and videos, according to a new report.
Manufactured social media profiles, not linked to any real person, are theoretically a violation of Facebook’s authenticity policy.