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The Academic Value of Web 2.0 Technologies

The Academic Value of Web 2.0 Technologies. Center for Instructional Design ~ Central Michigan University. Presenters. Pei-Ju Liu, instructional designer Dale Fowler, instructional designer Cindy Poag, instructional design specialist Mingsheng Dai, Director, Center for Instructional .

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The Academic Value of Web 2.0 Technologies

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  1. The Academic Value of Web 2.0 Technologies Center for Instructional Design ~ Central Michigan University

  2. Presenters • Pei-Ju Liu, instructional designer • Dale Fowler, instructional designer • Cindy Poag, instructional design specialist • Mingsheng Dai, Director, Center for Instructional

  3. Agenda • Creating Academic Value • Introduce tools: • Twitter – Pei-Ju Liu • Blogs – Ming Dai • Facebook – Cindy Poag • WIKIs – Dale Fowler • Demonstrate tools

  4. Stanford Study Stanford Study

  5. Twitter

  6. Blogs Descriptions of events on a particular subject/topic Entries of commentary

  7. Format of Blogs • Text • Image • Videos • Links to other blogs • Web pages • Interactive

  8. Blogs in Educational Usage http://bloggingresearch.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/benefits-of-blogs-in-education/

  9. Discussion Board vs. Blogs • Thread vs. entries • Hierarchy structure vs. plain entry • Responses vs. comments • Group vs. individual expression • Formal vs. informal

  10. Issues with Blogs • Opinion not factual • Privacy and security • Free expressions • Behavior

  11. Getting Started with Blogs • http://www.blogger.com • http://www.webs.com • http://www.wordpress.com • http://www.blogspot.com

  12. Facebook

  13. WIKIs http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_Theories

  14. WIKIs

  15. WIKIs

  16. Old Slides Follow

  17. Types/Formats of Lectures • Text-based lecture notes • PowerPoint lectures • PowerPoint lectures with narrations • Audios • Podcasts/iTunes U • Videos • Demonstrations/Simulations • And more …

  18. Types/Kinds of Activities • Discussion board • Assignments (case studies, essays, etc.) • Group projects • Quizzes and exams • Research paper • Article reviews • Blogs, Journals, Wikis • And more …

  19. Shawn – Captivate/Camtasia • Both are easy to use applications • Both are screen capturing programs • Each has its advance, depending on what your needs are • Basically, it’s updateability and ease of recording audio vs. full animation/capture and annotation

  20. Captivate • Advantage 1 – Captivate records on a slide by slide basis • Advantage 2 – Captivate is easily updateable, both powerpoint slides and audio data can changed at some future date, re-rendered and posted to server • Disadvantage 1 – Captivate does not capture powerpower animations or transitions

  21. Camtasia • Advantage 1 – Camtasia is the easiest of the two programs • Advantage 2 – Camtasia captures all the animations and transitions of your powerpoint slides • Advantage 3 – Camtasia allows you to annotation on your presentations • Disadvantage 1 – Camtasia is not updateable • Disadvantage 2 – Camtasia does not record on a slide by slide basis, one has to record the whole presentation from first slide to last slide

  22. Articulate E-Learning Studio • Articulate is a software that can quickly and easily help you create interactive content • There are four different Articulate tools that you can use: • Presenter – Creates Flash-based presentations from Power-Point • Quizmaker – Creates Flash-based quizzes, assessments and surveys

  23. Articulate E-Learning Studio • Video encoder – Converts your videos into the popular flash video format • Engage – Easily adds interactive content to your course Here are some examples: • http://141.209.15.193/CID/misc/art_examples/flip_book/engage.html • http://141.209.15.193/CID/misc/art_examples/interactive_heart/engage.html

  24. Articulate E-Learning Studio http://141.209.15.193/CID/misc/art_examples/glossary_heart/engage.html http://141.209.15.193/CID/misc/art_examples/slideshow/engage.html http://141.209.15.193/CID/misc/art_examples/circle_diagram/engage.html

  25. Articulate E-Learning Studio • You can do the following to produce Articulate E-Learning content: • stop in the Center for Instructional Design office produce your own interactive content with our assistance or • download a free 30-day trial account at http://www.articulate.com . If you are going to use the trial account, make sure you have your materials prepared and are ready to produce your E-Learning content.

  26. Jing • 5 minutes • On screen action capture • Video and audio recording • Webcasting • Jing Free & Jing Pro ($14.95 yr) • http://www.jingproject.com/

  27. Record Menu Capture an Image Capture a Video Turn on Webcam Redo Selection Cancel

  28. Recording Process During Recording Ending Recording

  29. Sample

  30. Free vs Pro

  31. Respondus Respondus is an important assessment tool that helps transfer, manage and publish tests and quizzes to Blackboard. • Benefits: • - Easily upload exams from Microsoft Word Documents • Fast • Accurate, little to • no errors

  32. Process ** The Microsoft word document needs to be formatted so that it can be transferred through Respondus with no errors.** • Import Questions as a Microsoft Word Doc. • Create New Document • Preview • Check for Warnings • Finish

  33. Process Preview and Publish • Preview – optional • Publish to Blackboard • a. Publish Wizard • Single Course • a. Server Blackboard • Find the Course • Create a Pool • Finish

  34. Download Respondus • Get Respondus at the FaCIT website: • http://www.facit.cmich.edu/instructional-technologies/respondus/default.html • PC only • Campus-wide license

  35. Ming – LockDown Browser • A browser that locks down the testing environment within Blackboard. • Unable to print, copy, go to another URL, or access other applications. • When an assessment is started, students are locked into it until they submit it for grading. • For both Mac and PC

  36. Instructor - Preparing a Test • Enable • Require

  37. Student – Taking the Test • Download • Install (only once) • Access

  38. Example of Conversion Learning Package Online Class Class that is delivered through a variety of networked technologies and computer mediated communication tools. • Correspondent class • Text-based

  39. Different Focus – Learning Package • One-way interaction • Minimum interaction • Self-paced learning

  40. Different Focus – Online • Two-way interaction • Multiple communication channels and opportunities • Both synchronous and asynchronous methods • Multiple assessment strategies • Collaborative learning

  41. Summary MGT357 Learning Package MGT357 Online by Michelle Somes-Booher Instructor video Lecture videos (PowerPoint with narrations) Lecture notes Video clips Discussions Case Studies Online exams Wimba Chats • Student Manual • Mail in a final project • Take three proctored exams

  42. Best Practices – Text-Based • Chunked to manageable segments • Enhanced by relevant graphics, images, charts, and diagrams • Organized by tables, bullets and lists, indentation, and paragraphs • Emphasized by text styles, such as bold, italic, and colors • Consistent formats

  43. Best Practices – PowerPoint • Length – no more than 20-25 slides per topic/lecture • Slide – no more than 5 bullets per slide • Narration (using Captivate/Camtasia) – • Approximately a minute per slide • No more than 15 -20 minutes per lecture

  44. Things Learned/Taken Away? • What would you like to enhance your course with tools we talked about/demonstrated today? • What is the one thing you could take away from this session? • If we are holding an hour session on one of the tools, which one would you like to attend?

  45. Q & A

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