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Samuel Merrit U Canvas courses

"Let's say we're designing a course that will help widget sales people overcome buyers' objections. The objection we're focusing on right now is this one: "I've read that your widget creates a lot of heat." We have a specific way we'd like our sales people to respond to that objection. Some people in our audience are familiar with the concerns about heat, while new people might not know as much. How do you think most training designers would approach this? I think they'd do it like this."

Blackboard, UNCP's course management system, is available to instructors who are interested in online teaching and learning, either to enhance a campus-based course or to create a course entirely online. Blackboard offers a rich variety of tools for posting materials online and facilitating interaction with and among students. We believe you will be pleased with Blackboard 9.1. On-demand Learning Center - Interactive Videos  

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.

Record new video clips and voice-overs on the spot. Include existing photos, media clips,  special effects and text. No software or training required. Add videos to any YouTube channels, website or blog.

"Watch free technology training videos! "

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The criticisms came at a meeting this week of a trade group, the Software & Information Industry Association, where companies discussed in several sessions the implications of the grant program, which is designed to expand job training at community colleges.

Advice for those doing quick video interviews and webcam projects.  No-one ever warned me that I would be doing video interviews when I first became a teacher. No-one came up to me and offered me media presentation training like they do for politicians.

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Bucks County Community College

canvas course on Peer Review that Carrie Saarinen shared at Canvas Users Group April 2013

"All About Canvas or The Pencil Is All Growed Up"

Lots of good stuff from UMW Look under 'resources'

9 topics for students

Interesting group. Courses cost $450 and are cutting edge social media and technology topics

How to use canvas to submit assignments (only) though you can use this as part of a larger whole from U of Mary Washington