Tag: video

Ready, Set, Collaborate!

by May 26, 2016

Designing and assessing group projects that promote meaningful learning experiences in positive collaborative environments. While students may groan at the prospect of performing group work, positive group experiences have been shown to contribute to student learning, retention, and overall program success. By working in collaborative groups, students can exercise a host of professional skills that can they can apply in the real world and reinforce knowledge and skills that are relevant to your coursework and curriculum. For Faculty, one benefit is being able to assign more complex, authentic problems than you could to individuals. This may introduce more unpredictability in

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Help Your Students Make Better Virtual Presentations

by Apr 25, 2016

Common activities that occur in many professional and classroom settings, like giving a presentation, don’t always work in a distance learning environment in the ways we would expect. Differences in technology platforms can make the fairly simple process of talking and showing something to a group a difficult task. Fortunately, many students today frequently communicate through digital media and the amount of available options continues to grow. Humans are a species that uniquely use language to imagine and create narratives. Throughout our evolution we have developed ways to share these with each other that traverse time and place. This blog post will cover a

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Announcing the SPS DL Video Recording Studio

Feb 29, 2016

A new recording studio will soon open in Abbott Hall. The SPS DL Video Recording Studio provides a space for recording high quality video and audio for use in SPS programs. Request to visit the space using the SPS DL Video Recording Studio Request Form or go to the DL Studio Page to learn more. Highlights of the studio include: High quality HD video and audio production Assistance from SPS DL staff in planning, making, and sharing your video. Convenient Chicago location in Abbott Hall with additional meeting spaces for collaboration, preparation, and rehearsal (we have free coffee, too!) Modern aesthetics

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Choosing a Web Conferencing Solution

by Dec 21, 2015

Northwestern Information Technology recently introduced Blue Jeans, a web conferencing platform that integrates with Canvas. Blue Jeans is now available in all Canvas sites at Northwestern. Faculty in the School of Professional Studies can choose to either use BlueJeans or Adobe Connect for web conferencing, based on the needs of their course. The graphic below provides an overview of the differences between the two platforms: Adobe Connect does not have single sign-on automatic Canvas integration, but it does feature audio and video conferencing, computer and phone audio connection, a customizable layout, whiteboard and polling options, and file sharing. Conferences can be

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Video Strategy: December 2015 Online Learning Webinar

by Dec 03, 2015

The first session in a series of video-related Learning Webinars took place on December 2, 2015. It was hosted by Aaron Bannasch and William Guth and attended by many SPS faculty and learning designers. Aaron and William gave a tour of the Video How-To Guides page, which is a central resource for anyone using video in course sites, and showed how to make use of the guides to begin the collaborative process of planning a video. Also covered was Camtasia, one of the Distance Learning team’s recommended screencasting software applications. Different techniques for scripting and preparing for a video recording were

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