Connect with your Students using Video Snippets in your Online Classroom -- FREE!

Connect with your Students using Video Snippets in your

Online Classroom – Free!

Andree C. Swanson, Ed.D.Assistant Professor of Business and Professional

Studies

Overview

Students want engaging, creative

instructional media. If these are

created by you, the faculty member,

you can increase e-connectivity in the

classroom.

Background

BackgroundE-Connectivity -- Social Connection in an Online

Classroom

Studies have identified the need for…

Achieving a social connection (e-connectivity)

with their students (Slagter van Tryon & Bishop,

2006)

Increasing interactivity that “will help the

students' with their understanding” (Swanson,

Hutkin, Babb, & Howell, 2010, p. 121).

BackgroundWarm, Friendly, Honest, and Caring

Participants 100% agreed that faculty should be:

warm,

available to answer questions;

hold students to a high standard,

remain flexible to adult learners;

honest in all of their interactions, and

demonstrate a caring nature in the online classroom”

(Swanson, Hutkin, Babb, & Howell, 2010, p. 119).

Personalize the Message

“Videos or podcasts can help students connect with and understand

content in a way that print (or slides) alone may not be able to achieve.

Videos, blogs, wikis, and discussion forums can also personalize the

discipline and allow students to get to know the teacher as an

individual who cares about student learning and success.

It is one thing for a student to read a syllabus (or any document) about

course requirements and expectations, but quite another for a teacher

on video to talk about opportunities for learning and his or her teaching

philosophy, just as Bain argues the best teachers do in the traditional

classroom.”

How does one achieve empathy and caring in the

online classroom??

By adding free video

Some free tools

Jing / Screencast

Jing

Jing / Screencast

Use Jing to… Take Screenshots:

Capture an image of what you see on your computer screen

Record Screencasts: Record up to 5 minutes of onscreen video

(Techsmith.com, 2012)

Go to:

http://www.techsmith.com/download/jing/default.a

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Downloading Jing

JingAdding e-connectivity through the use of Jing.

Provide qualitative

feedback directly on the

paper.

Explain content areas.

Explain formatting areas.

Demonstrate how to create

sections in an academic

essay.

Students can hear: Caring voice Empathetic tone Positive tone

All of this can be done from your home

computer!But, the student feels

like you are right there!

JingSharing the Screencast with the students.

The student will receive a Screencast url from you, the instructor.

Nothing for them to download.

Students merely copy and paste the URL into a browser, and view.

Jing / ScreencastExample Jing Screencast for you to review

Open your browser in another window

Copy and paste this URL

http://screencast.com/t/J5daWKXXUr

When the page comes up, click on the arrow

View the Jing Screencast

JingTutorials

Go to: http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-jing.html

Glogster

Freeor Inexpensive

Easy to have students create an account.

Narrated PowerPoint

Add narration to a presentation

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/add-narration-to-a-presentation-HA001230306.aspx

How to Record Narration for a PowerPoint Presentation For Dummies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZp3jumnWUg

Converting the PowerPoint to Video

Turn your presentation into a video

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/turn-your-presentation-into-a-video-HA010336763.aspx

How to Convert PowerPoint 2010 Presentations Into Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTda5Ypv9U0

Another instructional guide

How to convert PowerPoint into Video for YouTube or iPod

http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/convert-powerpoint-video-upload-youtube-ppt-dvd/2978/

PowerPoint to Video Converter Free

http://download.cnet.com/PowerPoint-to-Video-Converter-Free/3000-2075_4-10973588.html

VoiceThread

A Free account has no limits on viewing, listening or commenting via audio or text, and no one will ever need to pay anything to view and comment on a VoiceThread.

A Free account does have some limitations on VoiceThread creation and video (webcam) commenting

easily upgrade to a

VoiceThread Pro account

with unlimited creation

and advanced features

for less than $5 a month

Xtranormal

Xtranormal Movie Maker is a free online animation creating tool that allows the user to create a fully animated CG movie using the tools and options that it provides.

Xtranormal Moviemaker service works in combination with Google

The user has to  create a Google account for himself and log into that account to start using the service.

Voki

What is Voki? Voki is a FREE service

that lets you: Create customized

avatars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZwQTm_5s6Q

Add voice to your Voki avatars.

Post your Voki to any blog, website, or profile.

Take advantage of Voki's learning resources.

Web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using patent-pending technology and high-end motion design.

Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music.

http://download.cnet.com/Animoto/3000-18515_4-10820520.html

Animoto

Questions?

Join.me next

Join.Me

Join.Me

Join.meJing.me described

Use Jing to… Share your screen in real-time

The free version allows Internet calling, screen sharing, 250 viewers, share control and the ability to send files.

The paid for version ($149/year) adds window sharing, swapping of presenters, meeting scheduler and international option.

Join.meDownloading Join.me

Go to: https://join.me/

Join.meAdding synchronized e-connectivity with students.

Provide qualitative

feedback directly on the

paper.

Explain content areas.

Explain formatting areas.

Demonstrate how to

create sections in an

academic essay.

Students can hear: Caring voice Empathetic tone Positive tone

All done in real-time!

Join.meSharing the Join.me screen – what you will do

You connect through join.me

You will see a tool like the one below at the top of your screen.

The unique code that you will share with students will be here.

Join.meSharing the Join.me screen – what students will do

Go to https://join.me/

They will see this on the join.me webpage.

Then they will enter your unique code in this box.

Then, click on green arrow.

Join.meScreen sharing in real-time

Notes to remember

FAQs available

Desktop and Mobile Apps available

Join.meTo quote Join.me

“…ridiculously simple screen sharing tool”

Questions?

Evidence next

Evidence

Here’s the evidence

Anecdotal Evidence

Students say… I gain from this type of

feedback as I am a visual learner.

Hearing your voice helps me to understand the concept that you are explaining.

Instructor Specialists say… Providing this type of

feedback is as though you are sitting with the student and guiding him or her through the paper. Great job!

Anyone care to do a study

on this?

“If a video requires a large amount of

information, it is better for me as a student

to have the video or audio separated into

several separate videos or have one long

video that is easy to revert back to sections

of it, in order to review material.”

(Gladstein, 2008, p. 68

Break into Short Videos

“Developers should follow the lead of video

portals such as YouTube or Google Video and

limit their videos to a size that downloads or

plays quickly. Given that contemporary

learners move at “twitch speed,” shorter

length multimedia may be better.”

(Gladstein, 2008, p. 68)

Twitch Speed

Questions?

Dr Andree Swanson Andree.Swanson@ashford.edu