Build a New Model

Ok, we have built a new model of effective and efficient face-to-face, online, and hybrid education. What's our next step toward greater adoption, Mr. Fuller?

Apps & Extensions #1

eLearning Apps & Extensions

Best Study Apps, Tools, Tips, & Techniques

From OpenColleges (you will like the interactivity on that page)

"Although productivity apps can certainly be useful in many cases, keep in mind that it is possible to have too much of a good thing. Choose your apps carefully and make sure that each one will actually help you rather than serve as yet another distraction."

How to be Effective when Studying – Best Study Apps, Tools, Tips & Techniques by Open Colleges

The Educational Technology Pedagogy Wheel

These thoughts really jumped out at me in this article, so much so that I just had to pass it along:
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Many of the failures in #edtech are failures in #edtech integration… Seeing the pieces–tablets, apps, learning goals, cognitive actions, etc.–and how they work together is everything. Without that vision, any bit of #edtech is limp and lifeless.

An example?

Google Drive in and of itself is neither good nor bad.

Google Drive in service of a task previously unattainable without it, attended to by an engaged student, where said student is using a spreadsheet to classify mammal behavior with a student in another school as part of a presentation to a local wildlife preserve as the culminating task in a project-based learning unit on animal ecology?

That’s something else altogether.

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Let's fight the urge to reflexively assume that educational technology is usually or mostly just about getting to tinker with cool apps and gizmos. Maybe an occasional tool could take the learning and retention in your course to a whole new level, if you just give it a chance. Be the lifelong learner you encourage your students to be by setting the example and exploring new ways to implement technology toward their learning, retention, and overall success… like those who taught you did.

Using the Kaltura Video Resource in Moodle

We have come a long way since the days of uploading video files onto our LMS (Blackboard, and now Moodle) and the DSS server for student view. Our LBCC Media YouTube Channel has served us well, and we will continue to use it for specific needs, but we are really excited to be able to offer instructors and students the ability to share video directly through Moodle without having to deal with large video files. Well, you still have to upload your video file, but the people on the other end don't - all they will need to do is click a link, and they will be able to watch your video as it streams (not downloading) on their device, whether a computer, tablet, phone, etc. Yes, we really are there!

There are currently two basic ways to use Kaltura, new video tool in LBCC Moodle: instructor-generated video resources, and video assignments, where students can upload video content to share with their instructor (and fellow students, if needed).

Let's start with the Kaltura Video Resource:

1. Turn editing on in your Moodle course.

2. Click the "Add an activity or resource" link in the content block in which you want the item to appear.

3. Select "Kaltura Video Resource"

4. Input in the Name and Description fields, and select the "Upload media or record from webcam" option.

5. Browse for your video.

6. Click the "Upload" button.

7. Give your video a title, tags, and a description, and click the "Next" button.

8. You can click the "Preview" button to preview your video. 

If you see this announcement: "Your video is still converting. Please check the status of your video at a later time," you will need to… well, do what it says.

9. If you click "Save and display," you will be taken to the resource you just built.

10. Here is the finished product, ready for student access!

Yours may not look quite this scary, but we can't all be so lucky!

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