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Monday, January 16, 2017
Respondus to Canvas Quiz Export Import
If you've got exams in the ePearson system and want to bring them into Canvas.... THIS is the video for you!
Server Settings for Canvas in Respondus
A GREAT Tutorial for setting up Respondus to "shake hands" with Canvas!
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Tech Talk- Thinking Outside the Box- Introduction to Open Educational Resources
Thinking Outside the Box- Intro to Open Educational Resources (OER)
How do you currently find your curricular resources? Are you a searcher or a browser? Do you read the index of a catalog or do you look at the cover and open to page 1 and start leafing through it? Do you get suggestions from a colleague or a professional group?
The intent of this Tech Talk was to introduce the attendees to what OER are available: how to find them; and considerations for using OER.
This Tech Talk was originally presented March 3, 2016.
It provided a macro view of the topic of OER.
In future Tech Talks we plan to target particular resources and drill deeper into those resources.
Today's Topics:
- What are OER?
- Why should we care about OER?
- A Sample of OER
- What are the challenges for OER in higher ed
- How to find what you are lookin g for?
- How to share OER content?
- Success Stories
- Getting Started
What are OER?
"high-quality, openly licensed, online educational materials that offer an extraordinary opportunity for people everywhere to share, use, and reuse knowledge"
Why should we care about OER?
**7 Things to Know About OER
Samples of OER
OER include open textbooks, classroom materials such as handouts, audio/video recordings, images, and other media.
The following are samples of all these types of OER.
**OER- Educause
This page lists 10 sources of OER.
A good introduction to OER resources.
A good introduction to OER resources.
iTunes U
iTunes U can be accessed from Mac or Windows. Resources on iTunes such as lectures, videos, and books can be downloaded. Over 1000 higher ed institutions share resources via iTunes U.
**How to use iTunesU
https://www.apple.com/support/itunes-u/using/
iTunes U is free service where educational institutions share resources such as lectures, classroom materials
iTunes U is free service where educational institutions share resources such as lectures, classroom materials
iTunes U on Windows:
Open Textbooks
from Community College Consortium for Open Education:
**Find Open Textbooks:
**Connexions
Open Stax
Online Textbooks
http://spot.colorado.edu/~dubin/bookmarks/b/1240.htmlA list of online textbook from University of Colorado.
Images
Online Video
TED-ED: http://ed.ted.com/
TED: http://www.ted.com/
What are the challenges of OER in higher ed?
- quality
- accessibility
- how current
How to find what you are looking for?
**Find OER
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
Finding and Remixing Openly Licensed Resources
Success Stories
What institutions have used OER and what benefits have been realized by students and teachers?
Community College Shares OER Pathway
U of Georgia- Saves Students nearly $2M Using OER
Blue Mountain CC- OER Saves Student $100k
Getting Started with OER
- start small
- determine area of interest
- find one resource in that area
- use resource
- evaluate and adjust
Tech Talk Zoom- Web Conferencing Solution that Enhances Teaching, Learning, Productivity
What on Earth is Zoom good for…..
- How about inviting an outside expert to share with your class?
- Maybe keep a student engaged while she recovers from an illness at home.
- Participate in a field trip without leaving your classroom?
- Teach your class while at a remote site?
- Your students presenting to a conference without having to absorb the costs of travel?
- Recording the conversation to share with others?
We will cover the basics of:
- what is Zoom
- how to get an account
- what is needed for a meeting
- getting started with Zoom
- features of Zoom
- best practices for participating in a meeting
- Resources
What is Zoom?
- webconferencing app
- works via Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, telephone
- up to 50 connections in a meeting
- free or Pro
How do I get an account?
- contact me for Pro account
- might have to share with others in dept
- http://zoom.us
- free personal account- 40 minutes time limit
What is needed for a meeting?
- computer, iOS device, Android device, phone
- high speed internet connection
- microphone
- speaker
- webcam
- Zoom app installed
Getting Started with Zoom
- Schedule a meeting
- Join a meeting
- Administer a meeting
- start
- stop
- invite more
- share desktop
- record session
- leave or end meeting
Features of Zoom
- sharing
- annotating
- recording
- chat
- remote control
Best Practices
- KISS
- practice, practice, and then some more
- test on exact equipment
- it’s under control- Zoom settings
- It’s all about the sound (and physics)
- meet in quiet place
- use mute button when necessary
- sit close to mic, speaker
- if more people are in the room, might need more mics, better speakers
Resources
- Getting Started with Zoom Conferencing:
- Video Conference Etiquette:
- Zoom Leadership Guide:
- Tips for Educators in Remote in Remote Learning Environments:
- USF- Guide- Getting Started with Zoom:
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Thanks to all who attended yesterday’s tech talk on Zoom.
We had a great group with inquiring and receptive minds.
I venture to say the 30-45 minutes you invested yesterday, will have a payback of at least 2-4 times that or more (savings in travel time alone)
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Takeaways:
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- Zoom is useful in teaching, learning, productivity efficiencies
- help get us started
- we need practice- check out the resources below and contact me when you are ready for practice sessions
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Getting Started
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This resource covers the process:
- Getting Started with Zoom Conferencing: https://goo.gl/9nTjI5
- contact me at bhuddleson@scciowa.edu for a Pro account
Pro accounts allow unlimited length meetings.
Free account offers 40 minute meetings.
*** Note: SCC has Pro licenses that can be shared within departments
A Zoom account is needed to host/schedule meetings.
To join a meeting, no account is needed.
- download and install Zoom software starting at this link: https://zoom.us/support/download
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Practice
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The more comfortable and confident we feel in using a tool, the more likely we are to use it.
Accordingly, we talked about doing some ad-hoc practice sessions.
After you have your Zoom account and Zoom installed on your computer, contact me, and we will practice (yes- Allen Iverson- PRACTICE).
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Next Tech Talk
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The Tech Talk series:
- cover topics for enhancing teaching, learning, and productivity
- last about 30 minutes
- are archived at http://instructionaltechscc.blogspot.com
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Final Tech Talk of the Semester.... Growing with Diigo and Twitter
Ending the semester with a flourish, the Tech Talk on April 23 focused on an introduction to Diigo and Twitter.
Here's a link to the session through Zoom cloud: Tech Talk on Diigo and Twitter
As promised.... some helpful info and links =)
“If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong
room.”
• WDUK about Diigo, Twitter
·
WDUW2K
about Diigo, Twitter ••
·
What's
in it for us?
• Getting Started
• Resources
Agenda
Diigo
https://www.diigo.com/user/bhuddles
Aka: Social bookmarking tool
• Bookmarks available anywhere (almost)
• Share bookmarks
• Research tools
What in it for us?
https://www.diigo.com/index
• Create an account
• Install Chrome extension
• Save bookmarks
• Search bookmarks
Getting Started
https://groups.diigo.com/group/tlt--‐repository
Diigo Groups
https://www.diigo.com/outliner
Diigo Outliner
http://goo.gl/X4SURY
iOS (free)
Diigo Annotator for Safari
• More Tools
https://www.diigo.com/outliner
Diigo Outliner
http://goo.gl/X4SURY
iOS (free)
Diigo Annotator for Safari
Twitter
@bhudd
@easnipes_sci
Build network w/ others--‐ shared interests
• PLN
·
Interact
with smart people
• Personal, professional fulfillment
• Current events
• Notifications
• Professional activity/resources
What is it good for?
https://twitter.com/?lang=en
*** consider professional, personal accounts
Choose a name
• Create an account
·
Getting
Started
Twitteriffic
Tweetdeck
Hootsuite
(ex. Earth day, #tltgFRLV)
No Twitter account needed
○ Search Twitter
○ Twitter App
○ Flipboard
View world through another's eyes
○ Periscope
• Twitter tools
○ Consider sharing what would
share on 6pm News
• Best Practices
Organizations, people, places and who they follow
○ Who should I follow
• Driving Questions
○ Consider sharing what would
share on 6pm News
• Best Practices
Organizations, people, places and who they follow
○ Who should I follow
• Driving Questions
What have we learned today?
Resources:
Getting Started with Diigo
http://help.diigo.com/home
Diigo Tools:
https://www.diigo.com/tools
For Mac ($), iOS (free)
• Twitteriffic: http://twitterrific.com/ios
Browser based
○ https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/
• Tweetdeck
○ https://hootsuite.com/plans/free
○ Free plan
○ Hootlet extension--‐Chrome
• Hootsuite
○ http://search.twitter.com
• Search Twitter
○ iOS, Android (free)
• Twitter app
○ https://flipboard.com/
○ iOS, Android (free)
○ Browser based
• Flipboard
○ https://www.periscope.tv/
○ iOS (free)
• Periscope
Twitter Tools:
Twitter Support for Parents and Educators
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/twitter--‐support--‐for--‐educators--‐parents--‐joe--‐mazza
Twitter Directory for Higher Ed
○ https://www.periscope.tv/
○ iOS (free)
Twitter Support for Parents and Educators
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/twitter--‐support--‐for--‐educators--‐parents--‐joe--‐mazza
Twitter Directory for Higher Ed
http://www.insidehighered.com/twitter_directory
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Some Tips and Tricks for the iPad ~ Tech Talk April 9
Here's a link to today's Tech Talk: Tips and Tricks for the iPad directly through Zoom's cloud. :-)
Realizing we didn't get to ALL of these things, here are some related miscellaneous notes and resources for this session:
Realizing we didn't get to ALL of these things, here are some related miscellaneous notes and resources for this session:
Using
iPad 101:
- jestures
- arrange icons
- deleting apps
- folders
- adding apps
- editing text
- copy/paste
- sharing
- open in
- iPad User Guide
- as Safari bookmark
- pdf: http://goo.gl/66oQES
Other
browsers:
- Puffin
- Chrome
Bookmarks
- Add to Home Screen
- Diigo, Diigolet
Leveraging
Built-in Apps:
- iBooks- for pdf
What
apps are available via SCC VPP?
5
Ways to Use iPads that You Probably Are Not
How
to Move Files to/ from iPad
- AirDrop (between iPads)
- Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive
- Email
- http://www.wikihow.com/Transfer-Files-to-iPad-from-a-Computer
- Apps- Flick
***
How to keep local copy in case no internet connection
- Dropbox
Sharing
files
How
to Send Large Files
How
to Access Files Offline
- Dropbox
Google
Drive Tips
Camera
- Adjust Camera Exposure
- http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/ios-8-manually-adjust-iphone-camera-exposur
- Editing Photos
- Finding Deleted Photos
Podcasts
- How to find one of interest
- How to play
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