Monday, February 20, 2012

ITC Open education resources -OER

Sharing resources

Teaching learning resources in public domain which have been released which permits use or re-purposing

Dates back to David Wiley open content 1998

Wikipedia

MIT project

Blackboard developing one - Giving the information away for free but commercializing service around it

Massively online open courses
Edumook
Stanford 1200 students (on artificial intelligence)?

Creative commons
License

Choose a license
Use logo
Publish
Citation statement

Finding an OER and some other sites
Flickr
merlot
MIT Open courseware
Open course library
Wikipedia









ITC Online web tools

Stephanie easteps1@nku.edu

Free resources to enhance classes

Audacity, wimba, vocaroo,
Dipity
Eye jot
Jing

Try to do an audio or video introduction, better to do the video
Gives you a establish a report with the students early on

Make students create own audito or video introduction
Might be some issues with vocaroo like need an account but might be good to have another option

Audioboo had embedding options easy way to encore orate audio.

She uses Jing for screen capture five minute limit for free accounts.

Jing now has screen captioning

Screen O cast 12 dollars for pro account

Audio discussion board that is free which engages students in a different way threaded "Voicethread"

4 presentations under free account with Voicethread. Use with what type of learner style came up as highest for you. You can webcam, type, audio, or phone call in your answer. Each type or by small group


Interactive timeline created with Dipity

Time toast also is a timeline program

Dipity allows you to embedd a video, time toast does not right now.

Could do from a collaborative project. Multiple ways to view the same material or content.

IssU ??? Flash book?

StudyMate reforms information into educational games flash cards, pick a letter, crosswords, etc.
"challenge" Is like jeopardy.
StudyMate is a commercial product

Study stack is free, students can choose by game type

Have students create a wiki

Pb works or google docs for collaboration

Slide rocket for another audio over PowerPoint


Excel for immediate feedback choice exercises (boy scout/girl scout gender bias)

Survey did you enjoy it and did you learn from it, to what degree did you feel this made you more connected




Sunday, February 19, 2012

ITC universal design

Association on higher education and disabilities

CAST

Engagement, expression, representation

Use the accessibility checks that are available

Sometimefs changing to an either or is a simple way to go more towards UDL

Google plus free and up to 8 people?

dragon software

Voice thread is working on closed captioning and is improving ADA


Prezi and google docs not as accessible as they could be

Search for VPAT voluntary product accessibility template (shows that they are taking action towards accessibility

Search for captioned YouTube videos "[search term], cc"

Do it yourself closed captioning screencast O-matic
You can outsource but it is expensive

There is only so much one person can do

Beta YouTube closed captioning



St Petersburg open source product (didnt work for presenter)

Transcript uploaded better than some closed captioning programs

Aim-am I going use it for 3 years?

$12 a year pro tools

Open, script, still have to type it out

Colorado state has great resources check it out