The Boy Scout Motto . . .Be Prepared!

Before anyone gets sick

Students are encouraged to have a “study buddy.”  These people can be a go-between for sick students and their respective faculty members.  Likewise, faculty should have a “teaching buddy.”  The buddy should have a copy of the syllabus and access to the Blackboard course and the Mediasite presentations, if appropriate.  Faculty uncomfortable with this should at least give the Office of Educational Technology (OET) access to the Blackboard courses (we already have access to the Mediasite presentations) so we can give the “buddy” appropriate access if necessary due to illness.

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Mediasite not just a YouTube Video!

Many of you have been using Mediasite recordings as a way to deliver your online courses, but some of you may not realize its full potential beyond distance learning.

“Turn classroom lectures into instant online courses. Mediasite records your instruction and webcasts it live, automatically. Learners can watch it in real-time, later on-demand or listen on-the-go with podcasting.

With Mediasite:

  • Watch online lectures anytime, anywhere.
  • Present as usual – no new technology to learn.
  • Increase enrollment without new classrooms or facilities.
  • Create instant knowledge catalogs for blended learning and distance education.
  • Integrate with your existing course management system.
  • Skip post-production; audio and video are automatically synchronized”

We will be sending a video link shortly that  OET made using Mediasite along with the newest features available with our recent upgrade!

Who’s watching what?

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You have been making recordings of your lecture using Mediasite.  But are they watching, listening?  If they are how long?  Mediasite 5 now can generate reports which will generate that information and more.  Whether it be a specific presentation or a specific user we can quickly and easily compile a report for you with your specifications.

To view a report please stop by the office of OET and we will be glad to show you what kind of information we can extract.

RSS Feeds

rssFrom Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS “RSS (most commonly translated as “Really Simple Syndication” but sometimes “Rich Site Summary”) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.”

You can subscribe to this blog’s RSS by clicking the link on the bottom right.  You can either select to have it delivered to your Outlook email or if you subscribe to multiple feeds you might want to set up an account with Google Reader, Bloglines or other sites which will list all your feeds in one place.  You can also create a live bookmark link to the feeds.

ECU’s homepage also allows you to subscribe to various feeds related to the university.  The link is in the lower left or click on this link to subscribe  http://www.ecu.edu/rss/

Team Viewer

Need to share information such as a PowerPoint Presentation, Excel Worksheet or perhaps a Test Review?   But you do not want the recipient to actually have access to the file?  This tool let’s you connect remotely with another computer and you can present your desktop for the recipient to view but not download. Works on both Mac’s and PC’s. For more information go to http://www.teamviewer.com/download/index.aspx

Both users need to download the product but there is a “..simple and sm all customer module, runs immediately without installation and does not require administrative rights – optimized for instant support”

The OET will be happy to give you a real time demonstration, just call us!

Wikipedia’s definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeamViewer


Delicious!

Not just a word to describe chocolate cake but a handy tool for bookmarking.

From the Delicious Help Page http://delicious.com/help/about

What is Delicious?

Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet.

Things you can do with Delicious

Bookmark any site on the Internet, and get to it from anywhere

Instead of having different bookmarks on every computer, Delicious makes it easy to have a single set of bookmarks kept in sync between all of your computers. Even if you’re not on a computer you own, you can still get to your bookmarks on the Delicious website. Read more

Camtasia

Camtasia is screen recording software that records your on screen activity, audio, and web cam video. Camtasia also provides a PowerPoint Add-In so you can easily narrate a PowerPoint file and share it with your students. Camtasia Training.  In addition to recording class lectures, you can use Camtasia to provide learning resources to students, take your students on a guided tour of your online course environment, provide a “how to” demonstration, and much, much more.

Camtasia is now available for faculty from ITCS, just contact the Help Desk and request the software.  Academic Outreach is providing training sessions July 14 & 16.

If those dates don’t work for you the OET will be glad to provide a demo and/or help you get started with this software.  Just contact our office!

Tutorials – http://www.techsmith.com/learn/camtasia/default.asp

Embed Utube Videos in PowerPoint 2007

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Play YouTube Flash Video Online in PowerPoint with Internet Access

  1. In PowerPoint 2007, go to PowerPoint Options -> Popular -> click “Show Developer tab in the Ribbon”.
  2. In the Control Toolbox, click the last icon “More Controls” which is displayed as hammer plus wrench. In the set of controls available on your computer, select “Shockwave Flash Object”. Then use your mouse to draw and resize an area in the slide as you like to place your YouTube video.
  3. Go to the YouTube video page you’d like to add, and check the URL in the address bar of your Web browser. You’ll get an address like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hChq5drjQl4 Change the phrase watch?v= to v/, and now the address become http://www.youtube.com/v/hChq5drjQl4
  4. Right click the area you drew which is displayed as a big cross, select Properties and go to Properties tab. Copy and paste the YouTube video address in the field as value of attribute Movie; set the value of attribute Playing and Loop to False. Close the Properties tab when everything is done.

from http://jennylu.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/youtube-into-powerpoint-wikihow-has-advice/

YouTube Demonstration – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hChq5drjQl4&feature=related

Contact OET for additional help.