Friday, January 22, 2016

Panopto Lecture Capture & Video Content Management System (Module 1)

The hardware technologies available in the general purpose classrooms at my institution are a desk top computer running Windows, a document camera, a data projector/screen, amplifiers/speakers, a document camera, and a lecture capture and video content management system (Panopto). The internet and software technologies are MS Office, the internet, and the learning management system (D2L). I am comfortable with all of these except Panopto.

The roll-out for Panopto on my campus was last year, Fall 2015. As of yet, IT has not provided any face-to-face professional development opportunities. However, IT has posted detailed directions on the use of Panopto (20 pages!), which if I have trouble following, I can ask that department for assistance. In addition, IT has listed supplemental resources outside of the college. These resources are from Panopto (n.d.), which also has a YouTube channel (Panopto, n.d.) showing videos such as “An Overview of Panopto” and “How Faculty Use Panopto at SUNY-Lake Oswego .

Others have added videos about Panopto on YouTube, such as “How to View a Recording” (Panopto Tester, 2011) and “How to Record a Voiceover PowerPoint or Keynote using Panopto” (2013). In addition, Newton, Tucker, Dawson, and Currie’s (2014) article on using lecture capture in higher education explains how to get started using lecture capture and provides recommendations for possible problems.

Even more resources are available on Educause, such as “Effective Use of Lecture Capture: Lessons from a Large Lecture Hall Course Project” (Garwood & Linardopoulos, 2015). After reading about all the wonderful ways to use Panopto, I would like to see the college’s IT department provide face-to-face instructional sessions to more fully support classroom technology.

References

Garwood, S., & Linardopoulos. (2015). Effective use of lecture capture in a large lecture hall course.  Retrieved from http://www.educause.edu/sites/default/files/library/presentations/ELI15OL/OL04/ELI%2B2015_S%2BGarwood_N_Linard_Effec_Use_of_Lec_Capture.pdf

How to record a voiceover PowerPoint or Keynote using Panopto. (2013). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apsSoE4K9mY

Newton, G., Tucker, T., Dawson, J., & Currie, E. (2014). Use of lecture capture in higher education - lessons from the trenches. Techtrends: Linking Research & Practice To Improve Learning, 58(2), 32-45. doi:10.1007/s11528-014-0735-8

Panopto. (n.d.). Panopto video.  Retrieved from  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXkLmJVRtt3MwoOYMw_kWjg


Panopto Tester. (2011). How to View a Recording.  Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apsSoE4K9mY


Monday, January 18, 2016

Annotating Digital Text

Smekens Educational Solutions recently provided a list of tools for annotating digital text (see link below). Some are free, some cost, some are licenses for whole classes.
Apps:
  • Notabiltiy has tools to annotate, clip, record, sketch, and more ($)
  • Skitch allows annotations with arrows, icons, shapes, and text; marks and labels photographs (Free)
  • Subtext integrates 21st Century Skills and makes thinking visible. Teachers can embed discussion, polls, questions, videos, and weblinks. ($3/per student licensed)

Web 2.0 Tools:
  • Curriculet: A tool to promote close reading
  • Actively Learn: Annotate directly in its virtual margins
  • Clearly: Remove ads from webpage margins to make space for annotations. 
http://www.smekenseducation.com/top-tools--for-annotating-digital-text.html

Sunday, January 3, 2016

Welcome to Tech Savvy!

I'm Susan J. Konantz from western Colorado where I teach developmental reading and composition at a combined community college/university. 

I have started this blog as an assignment for EDUC 8306 a Walden University. Its purpose is to write about new and emerging technologies, analyzing and evaluating their potential for use in higher education. I am especially interested in their application for enhancing teaching and learning in face-to-face classrooms, in particular small classrooms with 10-24 students. To that end, I will include descriptions of my experiences in teaching with technology.  

By the end of this course, I hope to be able to  
1. Apply technology and instructional strategies to support and assess student learning and development of critical knowledge and skills
2. Apply communication and collaboration skills to online learning communities
3. Analyze implementation, integration, and sustainability strategies for technologies that support student learning 
4. Analyze opportunities for positive social change as they relate to technology
5. Evaluate technologies for supporting student learning