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

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

STEVE JOBS

STEVE JOBS
Quotes from his 2005 commencement address
at Stanford University.

“Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later. Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something; your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever, because believing the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path, and that will make all the difference.” -- Steve Jobs, 2005 commencement address, Stanford University.

On starting over…”The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”

“Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick, don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking, don’t settle.”

“I’ve looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I’m about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

On “Getting your affairs in order”.

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it and that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”

“Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

“Stay hungry, stay foolish…I’ve always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin a new I wish that for you…stay hungry, stay foolish.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc&feature=featured

FUSION 11 Accessibility

Pam Martin
Pam.marin@desire2learn.com

Resources will be available
In this course
In the Fusion LOR
Via her ePortfolio presentation

Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web and Web content.

Students should not have to identify themselves in your course.

Assistive Technology - Assisstive technology

Usinga learning evnironment with a screen reader

A common misconception of readers is that is that you have to listen to the whole page. Student: "I don't have time to listen to the whole page, I skim just like others might."

Fields need to be labeled properly.

It's important that everyone knows about accessibility.


Screen readers
JAWS is the most people screen reader
NVDA free open source (For simulation)

Input devices-many visually disabled don't use mouse

House Contrast stylesheets to increase the overall contrast of the content on a screen

Magnification Sotware--many available through third party

Auditory Disability

Webaim -Great website

insdedeafculture.com
nad.com
webaim.com
deafculture.com

Language and communication -- word choice, becareful of bias. Choose accurate, neutral language that best represents the groups to which refers can ehp to indicate respect.

http://www.sigaccess.org/community/writing_guidelines/

Browser Accessibility Features:
Internet Explorer Accessibility Features
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/ie7/
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/ie8/
Firefox Accessibility Features
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Accessibility
Google Chrome Accessibility Features
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/accessibility
Safari Accessibility Features
http://www.apple.com/safari/features.html
Opera Accessibility Features
http://www.opera.com/support/access/

Web Accessibility Standards
Technical specifications, guidelines, and standards for Web practice are constantly being developed. The primary group developing Web standards is W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). W3C is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C's mission is to lead the Web to its full potential.
http://www.w3.org/

UNIVERSAL DESIGN (key words accessibility and inclusiveness)

Accessibility Checklists
Once you have an understanding of common accessibility issues, you may find it useful to create or use an Accessibility Checklist. These checklist documents are useful in ensuring that common barriers are avoided, and for creating an inventory of possible issues and their resolutions.
Accessibility Evaluation Tools
Web accessibility evaluation tools can give quick feedback based on your page markup and styling that allows you to quickly identify potential accessibility issues. One such tool is WAVE, a Web accessibility evaluation tool provided by WebAIM.
WCAG Guidelines
The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative has developed a set of standards known as WCAG 2.0 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines). Detailed information on the WCAG guidelines and some resources for how to test for, and meet the guidelines, is available on the W3C’s WCAG site.

www.nvda-project.org (free screen reader program)

There should only be one heading and you should use descriptive titles in the headings.

USE MOZILLA FIREFROX so you can use right click, View Fangs

Juicy Studio
Quality Assurance, Luminosity Contrast ratio

RECOMMENDED FONT is SANS-SERIFF

Select text you want to have as a heading, then use the dropbox by the paragraph (next to font on advanced tab) to select the heading assignment (ie Heading 1)or you can use html code (add h1 or h2 code)

Start, programs, accessories, NOTEPAD (to get rid of layered garbage underneath text that makes moving to html funky. So cutcopy from text into notepad and then copy from there to go back to html form.

W3Schools for html code cheat sheets

Unordered lists for bullets!

Don't use "click here" only need description otherwise it is too vague in the link list.

TIP instead of having to go into html view, you can from within the html editor type within the link text to add additional info.

When possible, avoid tables, or at least make sure it is labeled properly.

TABLES: (Within html editor)
right click in cell, table cell, table cell properties, (then change headers/columns)because then you can save in notepad and then copy and change text for future similiar tables (ie assignment schedules)

Can change color code (html) in the style sheet and it will automatically change in all .css

When dealing with the .css changes delete above h1

Elevate Your Course by Going Digital

Pam Martin
Pam.martin@desire2learn.com

Look up Karen Mcalla (sp?) good resource for ADA

Color Schemes (free schemes out on the web) Colorschemer.com

Consistent look and feel (color and font)

Style sheet allows, contemporary design (D2L has 5 preformed packages in the LOR in the community site) for a fresh contemporary design

Style sheet that shared files images (check with IT)

Embedding Videos
YouTube usually defaults to iFrame (so you can click on "old embed code") iframes won't work in news item

YouTube is an http site so that's why internet explorer flags and sends much (double negative message to say "no" and allow) or you can save yourself this by either typing in the "s" to the link code http://youtube/.....) or by clciking the "use HTTPS button

Can unclick:"Show suggested videos when the video finishes"


Apply in navigation page/template
Apply on homepage

HTML
Use the HTML editor
THis is the most effective way to communicate within an online course. Unlike word, powerpoint or pdf no additional program is needd to veiw this content.

Use paste from a word into

Cascading Sytle Sheets (CSS) in community center from learning repository. Download to desktop which comes zipped)

(To get to the community session for D2L you can individually enroll or have someone send an excel sheet with all that need to be enrolled)

SHORTCUTS
* SHIFT ENTER will get you the line right below and not like the start of a new paragraph with more space.
*In excel spreadsheet ALT ENTER will allow you to add a second line within the same cell
*F5 refresh


Formatting Content

LEARNING REPOSITORY from community center

Open up notepad, copy and paste (plain text)

Juicy Studio does a contrast study of your conten (?) color contrast analyzer. It even tells you the minimum size your font should be.

Cross Browser Checking (internet explorer and firefox) in order to instruct and guide students.
June 2011 23.2% of users use Internet Explorer and 42.2% use Firefox! (Much higher for firefox) Chrome 27.9 (Data comes from w3schools.com This is an excellent resource for web statistics)

Embedding is still not DOWNLOADING so you are not violating copyright.

Embed a google gadget into widegets (content, and in html code)

Tool, internet options, advanced tab (scroll to very bottom), warn about certification address mismatch* should be enabled

Get embed code go to widgets--may have problems

FLASH VIDEOS
video format recommended is flash--compression is good without a loss of quality (so you end up with small formats) Get a plugin if using an apple mobile devices (phone or ipad)

Best practice to embed and provide link to download
.flv simulates streaming vs. .swf which requires them to download
98% of people have a flash plugin
If you have a video that isn't flash (.avi or .mov) then you can upload them to youtube to convert them to flash.
Best practice is to also include an URL

Interactive (SPACE JUNK is an example)

Can convert powerpoint to flash
*add voice
*good design
*consistent graphics

simple search for a plugin

Adobe Captivate, Articulate and Camtasia are free converters on the market. Camtasia is gigantic file sizes--recommended (Adobe Captivate)

Audacity is free and can be used for audio

SoftChalk

Technology needs to be helpful. Use the best format for the content you are trying to communicate.

Create the course and then look at it from outside of the class (overall, big picture)

FUSION 11 ePortfolio From beginner to Expert in 3 hours

Terri-Lynn Brown

What is an ePortfolio

What they are:
1.carefully selected items that help a learner reflect upon and possibly demonstrate an understanding of his or her learning
2.a powerful means of personalization
3. a powerful means of supportung universal design for learning
an authentic means of assessment
a tool controlled by the student (teacher doesn't necessarily see everything)

User centric
Flexible organization
Variety of applications
tagging artifacts
Integration with the learning environment
Support for social learning

Shift in assessment practice
Learning and assessment are part of the same process
learner agency is engaged towards
*assessing their own talents and aspirations
*planning a pathway towards meaningful purposes

Social Learning (may need a "shift in Instructor Thinking")

Can link to nav bar

Artifacts an object to put into a ePortfolio

Able to STRUCTURE

Able to Tag

Linking vs uploading : LINK--why duplicate storage!

Can use multiple tags in single field with commas, "quotation marks" for duplicate word tags

Collections are groups of things. Can tag collections for mega-tagging

Add by groups (with a tag) it will pull everything in with that tag (and continue to add as new items are added with that tag.

"Add Tag to List" is automatically "And" so do tags separately as different searches so it is an "or"

NOT A DUMPING STATION--REFLECT AND CHOOSE

Presentation

Theme (colors etc.)
Banner (Title Descriptions)

Reflections can be "Associated" (connected) to selected artifacts

Exploring: what has been shared with me

Different controls about what you control and with whom

Can have ePortfolio public or not public
Individual users or groups of people (create a "sharing group")

Can add internal or exteneral (ie grandma via an email address)

You can invite someone to view portfolio. The invite is available for 3 days. You can set the view for that user too

To export presentation, go into the presentation and then click on export from there. Sends as a zip file.