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"Know your users: Faculty are not trained in usability and design. They don't 'see' the benefits of simple design. #necanvas13"

Guiding Faculty Through (Inevitable) Technological Change Fred Zinn - OIT Academic Computing, University of Massachusetts Amherst

2012 Learning Management System (LMS) Evaluation

Canvas how-to for faculty

 An 87-page animated PowerPoint isn't going to render well on an iPhone even if converted to a PDF. However a 5 minute YouTube video would be great. But most faculty do not want to re-make their course materials into something new and modern. and they certainly don't want to publish their stuff on YouTube. So students are left having to access traditional formatted course materials with their modern devices. It is clunky. And they don't like it. But that it not an LMS issue at all.

Did a quick pass of this MediaSite presentation and it appears to bring up some valid points about the benefits of lecture capture. Worthy of a Diigo tag, I think.

List of Bb tutorials from Ohio University. Content also lies in their Knowledge Base

Samuel Merrit U Canvas courses

blog for Granite State's media & fac resources

Nice article that outlines migration from a high level - admin needs, faculty needs, etc.

The developing themes have influenced the design and strategy of media production at SCE, including: Strategizing videos to tie directly to course assignments and/or assessment Advising faculty members to use conversational language in production; also encouraging them to use humor and draw on past experiences Adding audio/visual elements to the video that supplement the content; the videos should not convey information that students could just read as text Producing high-quality videos (despite mixed findings related to production values, elements such as professional sound, lighting, and graphics are considered important when creating high-quality media) Keeping the four-minute view time as a design consideration, especially when producing longer-form content lectures that can be broken up into shorter segments

good resource to point our faculty to. Irene McGarrity (SP14)

The tutorials were created as interactive adaptations of the three Tutorial References listed on this page.

# Develops higher level thinking skills # Promotes student-faculty interaction and familiarity # Increases student retention # Builds self esteem in students # Enhances student satisfaction with the learning experience # Promotes a positive attitude toward the subject matter # Develops oral communication skills # Develops social interaction skills # Promotes positive race relations # Creates an environment of active, involved, exploratory learning # Uses a team approach to problem solving while maintaining individual accountability # Encourages diversity understanding

both faculty and student videos for 9.1 good place to start for us to learn, if nothing else

Emory released a suite of mobile applications last Monday that allows students, faculty, staff and visitors on the Oxford and Atlanta campuses to access information about the University via smartphones. The application was made available for the iPhone immediately, with models for Blackberry devices and browser-based mobile websites set to follow on its heels. Contains history of Bb mobile

purchasing a captioning solution such as DOC Soft (www.docsoft.com). This is a piece of hardware that enables you run all you video files through and the technology spits out caption files (the caption files are not always 100% accurate, so you need to do some quality assurance). It also allows for setting up profiles where you can train the technology to improve the accuracy rate, which is especially useful for videos recorded in-house by repeat faculty.

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