Engage Students in Online Learning-3 Strategies

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Dayna Amboy

• Engage students in online learning - know them by name
• Engage students in online learning - key videos
• Instructor "Welcome" video
• Course navigation video
• Short video lessons
• Add quizzes
• Record on-the-go
• Engage students in online learning - track performance with analytics
• Which students are watching videos
• How much of each video they've watched
• When they're watching (when assigned, or on the day of exam)
• Quiz results - individually and as a class

Find the original post here. This post is based on a webinar with Odessa College titled “Using Video to Drive Student Success.” Read more about how Odessa chose and implemented the flexible video creating and hosting platform TechSmith Relay in order to support their online student engagement initiatives. Download the full case study.

11 Types of Videos You Can Make Right Now

Getting started may be difficult, so here's a How-To 

by Lauren North from TechSmith Blog

It includes an Ultimate Guide to Easily Make Instruction Videos 

which would be useful for transitioning to Online Teaching 

Link to the overall How-To

Link to the Ultimate Guide to Easily Make Instruction Videos PDF

How To: Essentials of a Good Tutorial Video

by Guy Larcom on February 26, 2019

7 ESSENTIALS:

1. CLARITY

Key Question: Is the instruction clear, easy to follow, and to-the-point?

2. Flow

Key question: Do the ideas flow smoothly from one to the next?

3. Pace

Key question: Is the instruction delivered at a comfortable and appropriate pace?

4. Cognitive Load

Key question: Does the cognitive load seem appropriate for the audience?

5. Appeal

Key question: Does the content speak to a broad audience?

6. Tone

Key question: Does the content have a neutral, friendly and inviting tone?

7. Presentation

Key question: Does the final piece have quality audio, video, and sufficient polish?

View the full Article:

The 7 Essentials of a Good Tutorial Video

Kapwing: No Registration-No Installation-Free Online Video Editor!

Introducing Kapwing: The Video Editor for Classrooms

by

Julia Enthoven

In her post on EmergingEdTech, Julia  introduces Kapwing features, plus 7 reasons why Kapwing is great for schools. 

Check it out here: https://www.emergingedtech.com/2018/03/kapwing-video-editing-editor-for-classrooms-schools/

It's FREE! 

Cheating Detection: Google Apps Edition

Brought to you by Eric Curts (www.ericcurts.com), 

this video will look at Google tools to help teachers and tech staff prevent 

and detect plagiarism and other issues, including revision history.

Video Calls in the Classroom: You Can Do This!

Video Calls in the Classroom: You Can Do This!

by Matt Miller at Ditch That Textbook

For step-by-step details, click HERE

#mysteryskype 

Flipgrid One - It's free!

Flipgrid One, is a free, single-grid version of Flipgrid that allows any teacher to engage her or his class in the Flipgrid experience and empower student voice. Flipgrid One teachers can have as many topics and student responses in their grid as they like. All the affordances necessary to safely and fully engage students are thoughtfully integrated within Flipgrid One: password-protection, moderation, transcripts, free iOS and Android apps, and more.

What is Flipgrid? 

Flipgrid is a video response platform where educators can have online video discussions with students or other educators. Teachers can provide feedback to students AND better yet students can provide feedback to one another.

Flipgrid gives all students a voice with video!

With Flipgrid One (Free) you get one grid with unlimited topics. So if you have multiple classes or subject areas you can just create a different topic for each and share that topic code.

15+ Ways to use Flipgrid in Your Class 
[by Karly Moura, posted on ditchthattexbook.com 8/14/17]

Free Online Video Editors & Animation Tools

YouTube Editor

Renderforest

Stupeflix

Rocketium

Biteable

Moovly

Copyright: What Teachers and Students Should Know!

From "Ditch that Textbook" featuring Kristina Peters from the Nebraska Department of Education 




Kristina Peters from the Nebraska Department of Education joins Ditch That Textbook to talk about copyright and how it applies to the classroom. Use video, audio, images or other media you didn't create? You might be using it legally and ethically ... but you might not. Hear Kristina's valuable information about licensing.
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Also includes uploading videos to YouTube and how Google scans and flags inappropriate content and other violations; what may happen to your account and the possible outcome of an appeal; showing a movie in your classroom; Creative Commons searching; Google search within Google Docs; Google search filtering images by license; example of an image attribution page.

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search.creativecommons.org
Foter
pixabay free images
Wikimedia Commons

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http://ditchthattextbook.com/2016/04/04/14-copyright-essentials-teachers-and-students-must-know/

Google Slides Supports Chromecast & Airplay

Plus, it was announced today, you can share your slideshow over a Hangouts video call!

With an Android phone or tablet, tapping the play button along the top bar of the app will let you present to a new video call or one that’s already ongoing.

http://9to5google.com/2015/08/05/google-slides-presentations-can-now-be-shared-over-hangouts-video-call/ 

"Show up, don’t set up—Google Slides supports Chromecast and AirPlay"

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2015/06/show-up-dont-set-upgoogle-slides.html