From DSC:
I put together a short listing of some solid tools for working with multimedia on the Mac. There are many more out there, but these should do the job(s) for you…especially Telestream’s ScreenFlow.
On 06/19/2021,
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On 06/17/2021,
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by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
You might be interested in reviewing one or more of the items out at Faculty Focus Live Podcasts.
Some example podcasts:
- Episode 11: Assessing Online Student Learning: How You Can Gauge Activities and Writing Through Online Assessment
- Episode 9: Live with Wendy Trevor: Overcoming Student Distaste for Collaborative Group Work Online
- Episode 8: Establishing and Revisiting Our Teaching Philosophies and Teaching Personas
- Episode 7: Finding the Missing Piece: How to Help Your Students Who Are Struggling with Online Learning
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On 06/11/2021,
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by Daniel Christian
Why Professors Should Ask Students For Feedback Long Before the Semester Is Over — from edsurge.com by Rebecca Koenig
This article is part of the guide Better, Faster, Stronger: How Learning Engineering Aims to Transform Education.
Excerpt:
About a month into each semester, Gayle Golden sets aside a little time to ask her students about their learning.
The journalism instructor at the University of Minnesota keeps the process simple, with brief questions similar to these:
- What should keep happening in this class?
- What should we start doing in this class?
- What should we stop doing in this class?
Golden collects the results, which students give anonymously, then studies the feedback and makes a list of all the information she’s received. During the next class period, she discusses the findings with her students. She tells them which suggestions she plans to put into practice, which recommendations she can’t act on, and why.
From DSC:
Speaking of feedback…
I think it would be good to have our students journal about their learning — integrating their notes, readings, experiments, lectures, etc. Students could check in on these 3 questions for example.
And in the (potentially) digital process, they could also submit a form to their faculty member to answer the question:
- What do I want my professor to know about my learning experience today?
Such a question could be electronically delivered to the professor on any given day. This type of feedback loop would provide real-time, formative feedback to the professor as well as help the students develop their metacognitive skills.
I would think that such a process could also be used within the K-12 realm, including homeschoolers.
Also from edsurge.com, see:
- How to Use Podcasts in Teaching — by Bonni Stachowiak
- To Support Black Male Teachers, A Nonprofit is Paying Off Student Loans — by Jeffrey R. Young
- Millions of Students Are Still Without WiFi and Tech—Why Haven’t Policymakers Stepped Up? — by Mary Jo Madda
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On 05/11/2021,
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by Daniel Christian
Elevating Your Streaming Production Quality — from avnetwork.com by Cindy Davis
Excerpt:
The instructional studios started with a mobile standing desk, which serves as the command center for instruction. The desk has a room controller, document camera, and an interactive display with an adapter for laptop content sharing. Behind the desk is a whiteboard with a whiteboard camera. In front of the desk, we designed an AV cart that includes a shotgun mic pair, LED light panels, two large displays, one off-lens teleprompter, and PTZ camera.
The studios put the instructor in control of the meeting using a Zoom Rooms controller— allowing them to easily switch between and share multiple types of content simultaneously: main camera, document camera, laptop content, digital annotations, and whiteboard writing.
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On 03/09/2021,
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by Daniel Christian
Below are two excerpts from the Lecture Breakers Weekly — by Dr. Barbi Honeycutt — re: teaching asynchronous online courses + podcast choice boards
Above choice board created by Greg Jung
In this example, the teachers in a professional development workshop could choose which of the podcasts they wanted to listen to and discuss. I love this strategy combined with the use of podcasts! It could easily be adapted to any course as a creative way to increase student engagement and motivation.
Episode 75: How to Create More Engaging Asynchronous Online Courses with Dr. Monica Burns — by Barbi Honeycutt, Ph.D.
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On 03/05/2021,
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by Daniel Christian
Podcasting for Educators — from techlearning.com by Erik Ofgang
Most educators have skills sets that translate well to the podcasting world. Here’s how to get started with your podcast.
Excerpt:
Tech & Learning talked with Young as well Dr. Kecia Ray and Dr. Frances Gipson, hosts of Tech & Learning’s Honor Role podcast, for some best practices and tips. We also collaborated with the six hosts of the AV SuperFriends podcast, asking questions for this story but recording the entire conversation for a future episode of their podcast. Watch for the release of that episode here.
From DSC:
I’d love to see even more teachers, trainers, and professors share their expertise out there. Podcasting is a great way to do that. And so is blogging. It would be nice to see the expertise of those folks reach a far greater audience — society — than just the (behind-the-paywall) journals.
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On 01/21/2021,
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by Daniel Christian
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On 01/12/2021,
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by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
Videoconferencing vendors out there:
- Have you done any focus group tests — especially within education — with audio-based or digital video-based versions of emoticons?
. - So instead of clicking on an emoticon as feedback, one could also have some sound effects or movie clips to choose from as well!
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I’m thinking here of things like DJ’s might have at their disposal. For example, someone tells a bad joke and you hear the drummer in the background:
Or a team loses the spelling-bee word, and hears:
Or a professor wants to get the classes attention as they start their 6pm class:
I realize this could backfire big time…so it would have to be an optional feature that a teacher, professor, trainer, pastor, or a presenter could turn on and off. (Could be fun for podcasters too!)
It seems to me that this could take
engagement to a whole new level!
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On 01/02/2021,
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by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
As we move into 2021, the blistering pace of emerging technologies will likely continue. Technologies such as:
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) — including technologies related to voice recognition
- Blockchain
- Augment Reality (AR)/Mixed Reality (MR)/Virtual Reality (VR) and/or other forms of Extended Reality (XR)
- Robotics
- Machine-to-Machine Communications (M2M) / The Internet of Things (IoT)
- Drones
- …and other things will likely make their way into how we do many things (for better or for worse).
Along the positive lines of this topic, I’ve been reflecting upon how we might be able to use AI in our learning experiences.
For example, when teaching in face-to-face-based classrooms — and when a lecture recording app like Panopto is being used — could teachers/professors/trainers audibly “insert” main points along the way? Similar to something like we do with Siri, Alexa, and other personal assistants (“Heh Siri, _____ or “Alexa, _____).
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Pretend a lecture, lesson, or a training session is moving right along. Then the professor, teacher, or trainer says:
- “Heh Smart Classroom, Begin Main Point.”
- Then speaks one of the main points.
- Then says, “Heh Smart Classroom, End Main Point.”
Like a verbal version of an HTML tag.
After the recording is done, the AI could locate and call out those “main points” — and create a table of contents for that lecture, lesson, training session, or presentation.
(Alternatively, one could insert a chime/bell/some other sound that the AI scans through later to build the table of contents.)
In the digital realm — say when recording something via Zoom, Cisco Webex, Teams, or another application — the same thing could apply.
Wouldn’t this be great for quickly scanning podcasts for the main points? Or for quickly scanning presentations and webinars for the main points?
Anyway, interesting times lie ahead!
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On 12/12/2020,
in education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, ideas, instructional design, K-12 related, learning, learning ecosystem, pedagogy, podcasting, reading, student teaching/teacher education, student-related, teachers, teaching & learning, United States, writing,
by Daniel Christian
Raising Lifelong Learners #98: Enjoying literature with Kendra Fletcher — from raisinglifelonglearners.com by Colleen Kessler
Excerpt:
Nearly every level of learning involves literature in some form, but the study of literature is really more than simply reciting plot lines or following themes. In this podcast, Colleen speaks with Kendra Fletcher, long-time homeschooler and teacher of all things literature, on how enjoying the study of literature helps our kids to see it’s importance for themselves and for humanity.
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On 12/05/2020,
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by Daniel Christian
Marni Baker Stein on What’s Next For Higher Education — — from gettingsmart.com by Getting Smart Staff
Excerpt:
On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, we’re talking with Marni Baker Stein, Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Western Governors University (WGU).
…
For example, with regards to skills: WGU put together a skills architecture team alongside national competency networks. They then used EMSI, a common way to describe skills, to tag them to a competency and execute dynamic audits of performance.
“Learners desperately need education to organize itself around what they need it to become.”
Digital Credentials: A Better Way to Capture and Communicate Learning — from gettingsmart.com by Tom Vander Ark, Rebecca Midles and Rashawn Caruthers
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
There is an invention opportunity to better credential units of learning, to open up individual learning pathways, to better communicate capabilities, and to reduce friction in talent transactions.
The pandemic is accelerating this shift to verified credentials. Enrollment in short-term credential classes increased by 70% over last year while freshman college enrollment dropped by 16%.
There are six opportunities to better capture and communicate learning.
The Opportunity for Personalized and Local Guidance — from gettingsmart.com by Tom Vander Ark, Rebecca Midles and Rashawn Caruthers
Excerpt:
There is a big opportunity to create tools that complement advisor efforts to help learners better understand themselves, spot and try out possible futures, make informed decisions about what’s next, and persist through challenges.
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On 10/30/2020,
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by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
In our future learning experiences, I wonder what taking a break might look and sound like…? That is, we’re going along learning something from/with others (virtually/digitally) and then the teacher, professor, Subject Matter Expert (SME), trainer, or whoever says to take a break. What could happen then?
In the online/digital/virtual-based realm, that could mean that you have the option to set your “break” setting to bring up Spotify, or Vimeo, or YouTube, or Pandora, some VR-based app, other. The lights in your “learning space” could dim and the music could come on. Or you reach for a VR headset and watch a sunset or position yourself by a picturesque brook. Or your favorite podcast/vodcast picks up where you left off.
Hmmm…should be some interesting innovation and affordances along these lines.
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On 10/13/2020,
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by Daniel Christian
10 Ways You Can Use Podcasts in Your Course to Engage Students — from barbihoneycutt.com by Barbi Honeycutt, Ph.D.
Excerpts:
Have you used podcasts in your courses yet? If not, you might want to consider it! Podcasts can be an excellent tool to add to your lesson to enhance a message, present more in-depth perspectives, and offer a different medium for students to engage with the course content.
…
10 Ways You Can Use Podcasts in a Course or Lesson:
1) Compare and contrast two podcast episodes where the same topic is discussed by different guests.
2) Use an episode as a supplement or additional resource for a reading assignment.
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On 09/01/2020,
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by Daniel Christian
7 things you should know about podcasting — from library.educause.edu
Excerpt:
What is it?
In its most basic sense, a podcast is an audio file. When the term was introduced in 2004—derived from the Apple iPod, at the time still a novel portable music player—podcast referred to audio content that employed RSS technology to allow users to subscribe to serialized content that is automatically downloaded and synchronized whenever it is updated. Purists would insist that those requirements still apply—that a podcast must be serialized content available through an RSS feed. In common usage, however, the term has become much looser and is now often used to describe essentially any audio file, whether it is part of a program or a one-off, and even audio content available on a website but not syndicated. It can replace or augment written material, such as textbooks or similar resources. Other podcasts consist of poetry or fiction or are venues for entertainment. Podcasting is enjoying a resurgence, in part because of the penetration of smartphones. People can listen to podcasts during their commutes, while exercising or washing the dishes, or in countless other times and places.
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On 07/18/2020,
in Adobe, art, credentialing, design, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, education technology, graphics, ideas, journalism, platforms, podcasting, productivity / tips and tricks, professional development, social learning / networks, social media, student-related, teachers, teaching & learning, teaching online,
by Daniel Christian
Check out Adobe for Education on Youtube for some great resources to learn everything from podcasting to making impactful social media videos — from jeadigitalmedia.org by Aaron Manfull
Excerpt:
We’ve got a list of Adobe tutorials from the web we’ve been curating here and we’ve long advocated for using Lynda/Linkedin Learning for students and advisers to learn programs. Let’s add one more great resource into the mix and that’s Adobe’s “Adobe for Education” channel on Youtube.
One example:
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