Anastasia Trekles, Ph.D.

Aren’t students “sick” of lecturing?

Maybe not – many say that lectures help them learn

Many also say that they like connecting with an instructor, and lecture capture helps us do that, especially in online and hybrid courses

It saves you time!

Do it once and edit as needed

It makes things clearer!

Students often need further clarification – posting what you say online, with notes, helps them regardless of the type of course

A style of teaching that has students reviewing lectures and “up-front” information in advance of coming to class

During class time, students participate in projects, group work, and other activities

Lectures aren’t necessarily for everyone, all the time – see http://ericmazur.com/videos.php

Flipped strategies can meet resistance unless all students understand their level of accountability

Assign questions, connected projects, discussions, tests to go along with posted lectures to encourage participation, active learning, and accountability

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)

Be yourself and keep things light

Use voice to reinforce any onscreen text

Provide notes, captions, or transcripts for different learning styles

Keep it short and meaningful (<12 minutes per segment)

Use still pictures and video as much as possible and where appropriate

Tie activities to the video if it’s important that they watch –otherwise, it might get skipped

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

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/

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