The VoiceThread mobile app is a great tool to keep up with your classes’ work on VoiceThread, but it lacks the ability to make changes to settings and to grade the work in Blackboard. Still — many instructors will tell you that keeping up with discussions is the hardest part, so don’t dismiss it out of hand! Plan to use… Read more →
With the new upgrade and Content Editor, we have a new tool that makes it easy to add multimedia from the web into your courses: Mashups. For most of us, YouTube video embedding is the best part of this new mashup tool, though there are other options including Flickr and Slideshare. Let’s take a look at how to embed a… Read more →
The “Talking Head” Makes a Comeback! Video of a stationary person speaking – news anchor style – has been looked down upon by some educators and technologists for a number of years. It is often seen as pointless to record yourself looking into a camera talking, when you can save bandwidth, buffering, and beauty supplies by recording audio only or just… Read more →
For many, understanding how and why to trim and convert video clips can be a real challenge. Students might go through an entire degree program never having done this. Then, when they’re only a few ‘baby steps’ away from completing their final semester, they are hit with the task of recording, trimming, converting, and uploading multiple video clips to Chalk &… Read more →
During the Fall 2014 term, Information Technology Services will begin implementing a new plan to remove old course data from the live Blackboard system. There are two main reasons that old course content can no longer be stored on the live system indefinitely: Ever-increasing database sizes negatively impact overall system performance. In a fast-paced world, faculty and students demand immediate and responsive… Read more →
