Anastasia Trekles, Ph.D.

Use the Quality Matters rubric and Standards 3, 4, 6, & 8 to help guide your course development

Create learning materials that are engaging and aligned to course objectives

Design and modify presentations that are aesthetically pleasing and appropriate for your audience

Use multimedia to enhance the learning experience for students

Use media that is accessible to all students

Standard 3 and 4 go hand in hand, speaking to alignment of course objectives to assessments and course materials

Standard 6 looks at the tools and technologies used

Standard 8 relates to the accessibility of those materials to all students

There are many people out there with rules and ideas about the “best” presentation style; see http://www.presentationzen.com

Billboard test: print it out and drop it on the floor – if you can still read it, you’re good!

No font smaller than 18 point Combine text with images for greater impact Include full link URLs in any slide you are

giving out as handouts – otherwise, use shorter links

High-contrast colors and graphics Create a presentation transcript or notes for

added accessibility

Multimedia effect: words and pictures are more powerful than words alone

Continuity: related words and pictures should be near each other onscreen

Personalization: students learn better from more informal, conversational styles

Coherence: Extraneous or “nice to know” information does not help student learning

Modality: Students learn better when their visual channel is not overloaded (words as speech rather than onscreen text)

Prezi – for the cool factor VoiceThread – for the interactive and

collaborative factor There are literally dozens of others! Vuvox,

Animoto, PreZentit, you name it! Check out

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Presentation+Tools for many choices

Sometimes, a video is needed to show crucial concepts and demonstrations

Luckily, the Internet is full of wonderful videos for all sorts of subject areas

Mashups

Embed Flickr Content (photos)

Embed a YouTube Video

Embed a Slide Share presentation

Embed xpLor content

Embed Kaltura content (your own videos)

ECHO360

Live Available for streaming on-

demand about 24 hours after the recording

Can be scheduled for your class time – no button pressing!

Share one link with students for the whole semester

Example of Echo360: http://163.245.1.110:8080/ess/portal/section/ed51c2d7-4906-4d27-9f84-ce599daedee4

CAMTASIA

Pre-recorded Captures everything on the

screen, plus voice and camera Excellent for presentations,

or showing students how to do a task on the computer

Can take video of any portion of the screen that you wish

Can be uploaded directly to YouTube or saved for uploading into Kaltura/BlackBoard

WEBEX

You can conduct classes online via WebEx at http://purdue.webex.com

Sessions can be recorded for later viewing

Links appear in “My Recorded Meetings” OR your Kaltura Mediaspace(through BlackBoard or http://mediaspace.itap.purdue.edu

SKYPE OR GOOGLE HANGOUTS

Cannot be easily recorded for later viewing but great for meeting with students online

Sessions can be recorded via screen capture software like Camtasia

Audio can be recorded with software like Audio Hijack (Mac) or Total Recorder (Windows)

Find out if Echo is in your classroom: http://www.pnc.edu/distance/echo-360/

Get your account set up: email echoadmin@pnc.edu or fill out a ticket request

Echo can be automatically scheduled to come on when you are teaching, and shut off when you’re done

Each session has a unique link but are all assembled at your EchoCenter, which has one link

Purdue has a university license for you to have Camtasia in your office and on your home machine (Mac and Windows)

Visit http://www.itap.purdue.edu/learning/tools/camtasia/ to download the license request form and wait approximately 24-48 hours for response

You will be able to download from a secure Filelocker the Camtasia version of your choice, along with SnagIt – a great tool for capturing and editing still, single-frame screen captures

YouTube (free – time limited)

Google Drive (free) Screencast.com (space

limited without paying) Save as MP4 and use

through Kaltura in BlackBoard (can be slow with large files)

Learn more: http://www.pnc.edu/distance/camtasia-and-jing/

Ideally, the videos you create should be captioned or a transcript made available for ADA accessibility

There are several tools and resources available to help you caption videos you produce

Camtasia has captioning built-in YouTube has online caption editing services The GEL office can caption videos for a small

fee to your department

Mayer’s multimedia theory: http://www.learning-theories.com/cognitive-theory-of-multimedia-learning-mayer.html

Common but questionable principles of multimedia learning: http://www.cogtech.usc.edu/publications/clark_five_common.pdf

10 Tools to Flip Your Class (tip: most are screen-capture related!): http://electriceducator.blogspot.com/2011/04/10-tools-to-help-you-flip-your.html

Flipped class best practices: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/flipped-classroom-best-practices-andrew-miller

Reach us at: pncolt@pnc.edu

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http://www.pnc.edu/distance for all workshop notes, links, and training needs