Whether you are teaching a face-to-face or an online course, you will want to create a sense of community for your students. Typically, the first day of a face-to-face class is spent reviewing the course goals and syllabus as well as doing introductory icebreaker activities. You can use one of two online tools – Voicethread or Glogster – to create this interactive icebreaker activity.
With the right tools, online courses can be as effective as traditional face-to-face courses. I designed an online course that would teach instructors how to integrate multimedia into their own – virtual or traditional – courses.
We learn both by seeing and doing and a great way to cater to this is to create screen capture videos for your demonstrations or training. These capture videos are easy to create, can serve multiple audiences at once, and allow users to watch, pause, and stop the video as needed. The creation of the video is in real time so the time constraints are minimal.
New technology is continuously released, resulting in increasingly more infinite and innovative ways to incorporate it into curricula. However, many instructors are prone to adding unnecessary technology into the classroom. Before adding technology to a course, instructors should carefully consider their options by using the concept of Backwards design.
With a large number of instructors and even larger population of students, it was vital that creating videos be as easy as possible. If instructors were able to create videos with minimal effort, they would be more receptive to using a streaming video solution. As part of this video project, the Department of Romance Languages [...]
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