Author: Margaret Murphy

Lecture Capture

What Is Lecture Capture?

(Well, it’s not this I can tell you).

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What is Lecture Capture?

Lecture capture is an umbrella term describing any technology that allows instructors to record what happens in their classrooms and make it available digitally.

How Can It Benefit Me?

Lecture capture systems offer three important benefits:

  • an alternative when students miss class
  • an opportunity for content review; and
  • content for online course development

Lecture capture enhances and extends existing instructional activities, whether in face-to-face, fully online, or blended learning environments.

How Do I Record?

There are several tools available to you for recording:

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Mediasite is OSU’s free, supported lecture capture solution. There are three flavors of Mediasite:

  • the Desktop Recorder is free software you can download to use from your computer,
  • the Hardware Recorder, installed in large classrooms around campus, will automatically record your lecture by request.  You can record in any of the rooms in Cunz Hall, and
  • the Digital Union spaces in both Prior Hall and Denny Hall, where the Mediasite Desktop Recorder is already installed.

articulate presenterArticulate Presenter or Storyline is a tool you can use to add narration and sound to your slides by importing audio, or simply record it right in Presenter, then sync with slides and animations. And with the built-in editor, you can easily edit audio files—just click and drag on a visual of the track. (Or just put in a request and I will do this for you!) There are many ways to record, using Articulate.

  • This program is installed on the computer in the Recording Room in 355 Cunz
  • If you already have this program installed on your computer you can record from anywhere
  • I will also gladly lend you my laptop (which has Articulate installed on it) so that you can record right in your office!

Want To See Some Great Examples?

  • Check out this awesome example of Dr. Wendy Xu’s narrated presentation (using Articulate Presenter) for SP16 PUBHHMP 7624 – Health Econ Exp (3734).
  • Take a look/listen to Dr. Darryl Hood engaging his students using Mediasite lecture capture to talk about Environmental Chemical Agents in PUBHEHS 6310/6305.
  • Want to see Mediasite used with video? Click here to see this video from University of Connecticut.
  • What about this great example of OSU’s Innovate Faculty Showcase?

To Script Or Not To Script?

There is no correct answer to this question; each person has their own process flow and must choose what works best for them. Many people feel that they can just “wing it” when narrating slides.  For some, this might actually work, but chances are that, even with a script, you may have to do multiple “takes.” If working with a script truly does not appeal to you consider using an outline or some general talking points that will help you stay on track.

Considerations When Creating PowerPoints for Lessons

 said it best:

Giving your students PowerPoint slides with only text or graphics is a problem because slides, even with text and graphics on them, really do not stand alone. It’s hard to add enough context without adding tons of text to explain what’s on the slide.

The purpose for using PowerPoint in a presentation is to support you and your message. In an online presentation, you are still the presenter and you should be there. Narration lets you connect with students and set the context for the presentation.

And, well, PowerPoint isn’t really the right media for tons of text. If you want students to do a lot of reading, you really should provide students with printed or downloadable print materials. 

OK, I Am Ready To Do This Thing! (Or “I Have More Questions.”)

Sweet. Just stop on by my office or send a request (attention to Margaret) and we can get started.

 

 

* Making Online PowerPoint Content Engaging: Writing a Narration Script By:

Magical time of the year…

 

 

No, nono holidayt the holiday season.

I’m talking about the “other” magical time of the year.

 

 

National Distance Learning Week at Ohio State!!!!

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OSU’s Office of Distance Education Learning and Teaching Academy (DELTA) is offering a week full of special events and training designed to both assist and inspire you in your online course creation.

Here is the list of events:

I will be attending all of them so COME JOIN ME!  (* This event is a webinar that I will be watching in my office. Bring your lunch and come watch with me!)

To learn more about DELTA’s National Distance Learning Week events, check out this article.

Pictures, pretty please….

 

“Unicorn Bicyle” (https://goo.gl/gcZdVE) by Ariel Grimm (https://www.flickr.com/photos/in2thewoodz9/) is licensed under CC BY 4.0

You know you want one.

This image may surprise, annoy, confuse, entertain, anger (?), or delight you, but no matter how you feel about it, it does make you think or feel something and it certainly has your attention. That’s why images are so powerful.

And that’s why you add them to your course content. And that’s wonderful , but only if you:

1) Use appropriate sources and 2) Attribute properly.

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Here is how you can find and attribute content appropriately for your materials:

Searching Creative Commons

  • Go to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
  • Select Licenses from the top menu and then
  • Choose “Find licensed content”
  • Creative commons url
  • You will be taken to a search page where you can enter text describing what you are looking for and how you want to use it ( for commercial purposes and/or to modify, adapt or build upon.)
  • You can also select your source location. I find awesome images on Flick(er?) (and sometimes Google Images).
  •  CC search
  • Once you find what you are looking for you must attribute (or credit) it if you are going to use it.

 

Attributing Creative Commons Works

 It’s pretty straightforward. Attribution should include four things:

  1. Title
  2. Author – typically you add a hyperlink to the author’s page, if there is one
  3. Source – typically you add a hyperlink to the image page
  4. License

In the search above, I was looking for an image of a classroom. I found one I liked

Classroomso my attribution will look like this:

“Day 240: Classroom in Korea” by Cali4beach is licensed under CC BY 4.0

 

 

(what might this attribution look like on a powerpoint slide for example?)

I am certainly no lawyer or expert on licensing but OSU University Libraries Copyright Resource Center knows their stuff and so does Creative Commons.  I have also put some great links in the Web Resources section on the left.

Where do you get your images from? Share in the comments below!

 

“Unicorn Bicycle” by Ariel Grimm is licensed under CC BY 4.0

“Kittens!” by Nicolas Suzor is licensed (for modification) under CC BY 4.0

 

 

 

 

Seeking Canvas Pilot Participants or “Don’t make me cry”

GET INVOLVED

Seeking Canvas Pilot Participants

As you know from reading my blog that Canvas is the LMS being considered to replace D2L (the “Carmen” branding will remain the same).

The Office of Distance Education and eLearning (ODEE) is getting ready to do a second run of their pilot program for Canvas learning management system (LMS) this spring. Details can be found in this ODEE article.

In the first pilot were 15 courses chosen for the first pilot but there was NO representation from the College of Public Health.  

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Time to change that. 

 

This second pilot

  • is a great opportunity to learn more about Canvas
  • as well as gain first-hand experience teaching with Canvas
  • while being fully supported by both a cohort of peers as well as focused attention from ODEE and myself.

Instructors will receive COMPLETE Canvas training in December as well as ongoing support via ODEE’s monthly Canvas pilot workshop meetings. Along with that I will help you through EVERY STEP of the process. I will come to your office daily with coffee if need be.

Ohio State’s Distance Education Enrollment Plan projects a 450% increase in distance education students by the year 2020 and CPH is actively working to meet the needs of these students by increasing our online offerings.

Ready to be part of the party?

Complete this Canvas Pilot Application form by Wednesday, November 4.

Want to talk more about it? Send me an email and I will stop by.

Want a cat video? Watch this one.

 

 

 

“Amelia’s Sad Face” by Donnie Ray Jones via Flickr CC by 2.0

Innovate 365 Faculty Showcase

I know you all read the email that I sent out on September 15, 2015 about the Innovate 365 Faculty Showcase. I know probably none  most of you went (may or may not be confusing for others [but i get it :)]), but for those that were not able to make it, check out the recorded session here. (Or click here.)

(It takes a while to load the video, but it does work)

 

Why should you care?

  • Ever want to make a mini orientation, prep course or module for your students before they get into the “meat” of your course? Check out Karen Macbeth’s presentation. (Around minute 5 in the video).
  • Are you hesitant to even consider putting any of your content online? Ever consider throwing your laptop across the room experience “Techno Rage” when you try to do anything with technology? Check out how Darcy Hartmen overcame these challenges. (Around minute 12)
  • Want to see what the power of a community working together to create online courses can do? Watch Crystal DunLevy & Jill Clutter speak. (Around minute 20).
  • What, what about some SCIENCE? Learn how Wolfgang Sadee & Audrey Papp build a new online pharmacogenomics , from design to deliver. (Around minute 30.)

 

Awesome, right? That’s why you should go to the next Innovate Lunchtime Address event (check out the Events/Training link on the left) and you should DEFINITELY go to the Innovate 365 Conference May 11, 2016 with me.

What types of content have you been putting online for your students? What has worked? What has not been so successful? Chat me up in the comment section below.

Canvas pilot at OSU

Ohio State is evaluating the best solution for the university’s online course offering needs. While Carmen is the brand OSU uses to identify its online course site, the LMS (learning management system) behind canvasCarmen is called D2L. D2L was the optimal LMS choice when OSU began its foray into offering courses online but as user and faculty needs change, so must the LMS.

OSU created the LMS Evaluation Committee, charged with “evaluating the functionality of best-in-class learning management systems and providing a recommendation to Liv Gjestvang by June 15, 2015.” The committee was excited by what Canvas LMS had to offer and are currently piloting this tool. At this time, ODEE is only evaluating Canvas; no decision has been made regarding which LMS OSU will ultimately select.

 

Why should you care? (Or “What does this mean for the College of Public Health?”)

I will be keeping a close eye on the Canvas pilot program (and any other LMS evaluation programs) to determine how this tool can best meet our students’ needs. I will continue to share with you the features the new LMS will offer us and suggestions on how those features can be used. Stayed tuned for more and follow the tag= (what does this mean?) Canvas in this blog.

You can learn more about the OSU evaluation here.

Interested in a Canvas sandbox? (maybe insert a brief explanation of what this is) Learn how to request one here.

To stay connected to the OSU Canvas pilot eval, follow the “Canvas Eval” tag from ODEE (Office of Distance Education and eLearning).

Getting your students to respond or “throw those clickers away”

Top hatLooking for ways to increase classroom engagement? Want to poll your students during a lecture but can’t think of how to do it without chaos ensuing? Want to take attendance with one click? Considering throwing your current clicker across the room?

Time to meet Top Hat. (No, we are not playing dress-up. It’s a real thing.)

Top Hat is a “web-based student response system that allows instructors to create an interactive lecture experience for students. Use Top Hat to poll students, present discussion prompts, display lecture material, track attendance, and sync grades with Carmen.” Top Hat does not HAVE to be used with Carmen, but if you have some course content in Carmen already, integration is nice as it will automatically populate your Carmen classlist into Top Hat.

Here are some magical things Top Hat can do:

  • Present information (there are three ways to do this) and then have students respond to what they just learned, either IMMEDIATELY or at a LATER DATE AND TIME that you determine
  • Ask questions and get REAL TIME replies
  • Take ATTENDANCE with one easy quick click
  • Create ANONYMOUS discussions
  • Create Top Hat grades items in Carmen by SYNCING TOP HAT GRADEBOOK with Carmen Gradebook

Want to learn more about what it can do and how to use it? Check out the links below or just go to ODEE’s Top Hat Resource Page or the”How the Heck Do I Do That?” page of this blog for a complete list of tutorial videos. There are also some great resources for students as well.

MY JOB SPECIAL OFFERSpecial offer

If you are interested in using Top Hat in your class and

  1. Want some one-on one consultation and/or
  2. Would like me to come to one of your classes and help you use Top Hat (that’s right, I will COME TO THE CLASS OF YOUR CHOICE and RUN TOP HAT for you)
  3. Want another kitten video

Send me an email – murphy.1527 or stop by 380F. Feel free to bring chocolate.

Continue reading Getting your students to respond or “throw those clickers away” →

Building a New Online Course: Design to Delivery

Building a New Online Course: Design to Delivery

(Click HERE to learn more and register)

 

Tue, 10/20/2015 | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Online Meeting

Developing a new online course can be a challenge, and even more so for someone who has never taught online before. Join ODEE (Office of Distance Education and eLearning) for a guided discussion as Audrey Papp and Dr. Wolfgang Sadee, share their experience developing a new course in Pharmacogenomics from the ground up, from design to delivery. Hear about the changing scope of biomedical sciences, their challenges, and how they overcame them. 

I have already signed up for this course because I really want to check out their process. If you want to “take it” with me, let me know. It’s offered virtually but we can get together once a week or so to support each other as we go along. Comment below if you are interested or just email me directly.

 

You seem nice, but I have no idea what you do…

Welcome to the new CPH Technology Tips blog!

You have seen me around. Possibly admired my shoes, but have no idea who I am or what I do (or why I keep sending you surveys).

My name is Margaret Murphy and I am the instructional designer for the CPH.  (“Instructional what now?”)

In a nutshell, I am here to help you design and develop awesome online and in-class learning experiences.

I can help you:

  • Structure content and activities for student learning, both in the classroom and online
  • Create media to support learning (e.g., visual aids for face-to-face, various multimedia for e-learning and online)
  • Develop assessments (note that this does not only mean tests)
  • Adapt instructional materials created for one format to another format (usually this is adapting materials from face-to-face to e-learning)
  • Provide technical support for Carmen, OSU’s LMS (Learning Management System. For now.)
  • Explore ways to engage and connect students in both peer-to-peer and student-to-teacher interactions
  • Show you where the food trucks are

Blogs are annoying.  Why should I follow this one?

 

Two reasons:

REASON #1

Content in this blog will be created in direct response to your learning needs. From the survey responses, it was clear to me that you wanted:

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  Tools to engage your learners. You also want tools as part of  the “how-to” process for getting materials online. (See the link to the “How the Heck Do I Do That?” page at the top.)

 

  Support – in both creating online content laptop computer14and in real-time when you are using these tools.    (See the “Contact Me” page at the top.)

 

2442  Time. This was the big one. Many of you expressed a concern about the sheer amount of time it takes to create online content.

 

I am not going to lie, it does take a boat load of time. And while I cannot give you more hours in your day I can:

  1. Do A LOT OF THE WORK FOR YOUCaffine
  2. Teach you how to do what you need/want to do, faster and more efficiently (See “I Want To Get My Course Online” tab at the top.)
  3. Give you coffee to keep you energized. 

REASON #2

Remember the concern about time? OSU (and the internet) has tons of really fantastic resources and information related to online learning but since you don’t have time to search the interwebs regularly, reading through each and every web site, I will use this blog to centralize those resources and information, selecting content that best meets the needs of the faculty here at CPH.

SO…………use the free “subscribe by email” option to the left to get these blog posts sent to your inbox. I promise not to spam you with lots of ridiculous posts.

Looking forward to our adventure together. Let’s do this!

 

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