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Video Options for Engaging Students Visually

Ann Steckel — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:39:05 +0000

Virtually everyone has heard of YouTube by now and millions of viewers who go there daily attest to that fact. And although there are oodles of quality video there, finding the good stuff becomes a bit of a task. I have listed below a few alternates to YouTube that educators and students might find more valuable. If you give one a try and form an opinion, please let us know by leaving a comment.

Snag Films
What is great about this site:
All of the movies on Snag Films can be embedded into a blog or into a learning management system.
Dozens of NOVA and National geographic films are there and for free.
It is committed to providing the world‘s most compelling documentaries.

Teacher Tube
What is great about this site:
It is an educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners.
TeacherTube community members are a major part of the evolution of the site.
The service is free for everyone.

School Tube
What is great about this site:
SchoolTube provides students and educators a safe and FREE media sharing website.
It contains only moderated and teacher approved videos.

DotSub
What is great about this site:
It is a browser based tool enabling subtitling of videos on the web into and from any language.
Anyone has the ability to translate video content into multiple languages via subtitles rendered over the bottom of the video.
There is nothing to buy and nothing to download.

Woopid Video Tutorials
What is great about this site:
It has thousands of FREE video tutorials for PCs, Macs, and tons of different applications.
You can have tutorials created for you by Woopid.
You can create bundles, which are collections or groups of related videos.

If you’d like a starting point for searching for free technology solutions for teachers and students, a good place to start is with Richard Byrne’s Free Technology for Teachers at freetech4teachers.com.

Webcast – Creating Better Organization in Vista with the ROI

Ann Steckel — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:18:48 +0000

Bill Maligie

During this presentation, Bill Maligie, a recipient of one of CSU, Chico’s 2009 Exemplary Online Instruction awards, details practical ways to apply the Rubric for Online Instruction to create better organization in Vista classes. Throughout the presentation Bill shows how he reorganized his file system, created learning modules, and recorded Camtasia videos to create an online environment that has won rave reviews from his students.

Watch the presentation here. At the login window use the Participant Login and please enter your name. No password is required.

Watch the Camtasia video created by Bill Maligie for his Vista class.

This presentation was previously given by Bill Maligie at the 2009 CELT Conference.
List of all Exemplary Online Instruction winners

National Survey on Student Engagement

Laura Sederberg — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:07:12 +0000

The National Survey on Student Engagement is available for your review. It is lengthy to print out, but as a PDF document, you may find it very revealing about higher education today. CSU Chico was a contributor to this survey, along with many other institutions. “Assessment for Improvement: Tracking Student Engagement Over Time,” see the annual results for 2009.
http://nsse.iub.edu/NSSE_2009_Results/pdf/NSSE_AR_2009.pdf

Laura Sederberg

National Educational Technology Plan (NETP)

Ann Steckel — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:46:07 +0000

When: Thursday, November 5, 2009 6pm Second Life Time
Where: Second Life at ISTE Island Events
Event support is coming from ISTE, Metanomics and the University of Michigan.

The federal government of the United States of America has assembled an 18 person team to update and revise the National Education Technology Plan. Their report deadline is November 11, 2009. There will be a community meeting in Second Life for educational technology stakeholders to provide input into the planning process. Currently, we expect that a representative of the national team will be present as an observer at the SL event.

The event coordinator is Perplexity Peccable (RL: Patricia F. Anderson, patriciafanderson@gmail.com). Perplexity is the University of Michigan Emerging Technologies Librarian for the Health Sciences, and the community manager for Wolverine Island in SL. Contact Perplexity for more information or to volunteer support or services for this event.

Information on prior versions of the plan is available here:
National Educational Technology Plan: http ://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/os/technology/plan/index.html

Information on the current planning process is available here:
National Educational Technology Plan: https ://edtechfuture.org/

The team is seeking input from the public. You can join the conversation on their website here.
Opportunities for Input: https ://edtechfuture.org/?page_id=888

“If you had five minutes to talk with President Obama about educational technology, what would you say?”

The key topic discussion points are these.

* Learning: Providing unprecedented access to high-quality learning experiences.
* Assessment: Measuring what really matters and providing the information that enables continuous improvement at all levels of the education system.
* Teaching: New ways to support those who support learning.
* Productivity: Redesigning systems and processes to free up education system resources to support learning.

4 Sims allocated for this meeting, all at the ISTE site:

1. http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/92/83/30

2. http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island%202/128/128/2

3. http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island%203/2/190/30

4. http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island%204/208/215/25

If any CSU Chico faculty or staff would like to attend this virtual conference, please contact Ann Steckel in the Technology & Learning Program at X6780.

TILT: Assessment Strategies for Vista

Ann Steckel — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:45:35 +0000

Learn how Rovane Younger of the CSU, Chico Construction Management Department has used Blackboard Vista to assess student learning.

This presentation was given on Wednesday, October 28
Presenter: Rovane Younger
In this TILT session, Rovane Younger details the process his department has gone through to assess student learning using Blackboard Vista. His presentation includes examples of test questions, testing scenarios, setting changes and recommendations, as well as what his department hopes to accomplish in the future.

View the Archive of the Presentation