Whether you’re using a smart phone, a laptop, or anything else, it’s easier than ever to record video. But that means it’s also easier than ever to make mistakes. So, this page is here to help you avoid the most common errors and learn 5 easy-to-follow best practices that will make your next video better.
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You need help. So, what now?
You need help. But, who do you call?
Especially now that we’re all working remotely, when you need help, it’s not always clear whom to contact. So, here are some guidelines that might help.
Online Teaching Resources
Given the circumstances of what’s been happening around the world within the last few weeks, it’s safe to assume that what follows on this page is subject to change. That said, this is one of the resources available to you as you begin preparing to teach your classes completely on line beginning March 30th.
Evaluate and Revise Your Syllabus
Update any instructions around participation, assignments/deadlines, and other topics.
Submit a Course Plan for Instructional Continuity for each class you teach. The university must have this document for accreditation and other compliance purposes.
Virtual Teaching and Campus Disruptions
By now, we are all aware of the public health issues affecting our campus, our city, and beyond. As this crisis continues to evolve, we will continue working to support Nursing faculty and students alike. So, as you plan your own strategies for continuing instruction, please consider the following options and recommendations:
Develop a Plan
The School of Nursing, working with partners from all over campus, is working to provide you with all the information necessary to develop a plan specific to your courses and your needs to allow you to continue teaching in the event of campus closure or other disruptions: https://ctl.utexas.edu/keep-teaching. Or, contact me any time if you’d like some assistance developing your “virtual teaching strategy”.
Camtasia and You
Are you teaching in a “flipped classroom”?
Do you want to easily add a voice over to your PowerPoint slideshow?
Do you have VHS or DVD videos that you wish you could upload into Canvas for future use?
News & Events for February
There are always lots of cool, new, innovative things happening around campus and here in the School of Nursing. Here are just a few that I wanted to share with you and highlight. If you know of anything you’d like to add to future emails, please let me know!
Mid-semester is upon us (or will be soon!) and here’s a great, simple resource that can help you get feedback from your students to help make changes or improvements to your courses now, rather than at the end.
Faculty Development Workshops
Do you ever wish you have more opportunities to learn about new teaching methods or classroom technologies and how to put them to use?
Well, now you do!
Fall 2017 Faculty Training Workshops
Do you ever wish you have more opportunities to learn about new teaching methods or classroom technologies and how to put them to use?
Well, now you do!
Technology
File Sharing & Cloud Storage
Conferencing & Live Streaming (Zoom)
Online Testing
Online Discussions & Community
Classroom Response Systems
Video & Screencasting
Interactive Video
Slideshow Presentations
File Sharing & Cloud Storage
UT Box
UTBox is a campus-wide service that allows faculty, staff, and students at the University of Texas at Austin to use Box cloud-based file sharing for business and academic purposes. UTBox can be accessed from the UT Box home page.
Click here to learn more about UT Box.
Google Apps
Google Apps is another free file sharing app that allows faculty and staff to share and collaborate on file much like UT Box. In addition to storing and sharing any type of file, Google also allows you to create documents, slideshows, spreadsheets, forms, and more.
Click here to learn more about Google Apps.
Conferencing & Live Streaming
Zoom
Zoom is the most user-friendly of the web conferencing tools currently available at UT. One of the best things about Zoom is that ANYONE can use it, faculty, students, staff, guest speakers, you name it. If you don’t already have a Zoom account, click here to get started: https://zoom.its.utexas.edu/
Click here to learn more about Zoom.
Or, take a deeper dive into Zoom here.
Big Blue Button
Built right in to Canvas (under the Conferences tab), BigBlueButton is a virtual conferencing platform that allows you to schedule, and conduct virtual presentations, lectures, and conferences. It even has the ability to record sessions and save the recording for up to 2 weeks. Since it’s built in to your Canvas course, attendees of your virtual sessions must be enrolled in your course.
Click here to learn more about BigBlueButton.
Or, take a deeper dive into BigBlueButton here.
Adobe connect
Adobe Connect is the web conferencing tool supported and paid for by UT. Though it is a very powerful tool, it does have a substantial learning curve and can take some getting used to for many users. Only faculty and staff at UT can create meetings in Adobe Connect. Students do not have the ability to initiate virtual meetings with this tool.
Online Testing
Remote Proctoring
Online Discussions & Community
More info coming soon…
Classroom Response Systems
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Free:
- UTInstapoll
- this FREE polling tool was made right here are UT and is now the recommended online polling tool for you and your classes.
- Sli.do
- Poll Everywhere
- Kahoot!
- UTInstapoll
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Paid:
Note: now that UT has invested time and resources in UTInstapoll, please consider NOT using any of these paid options.
Video & Screencasting
YouTube
Click here to learn how to get started with Youtube.
Screencasts, which are videos of your computer screen and often used in tutorials, are a great way to illustrate a point or program.
Screencast-o-matic
Screencast-O-Matic is a free screen and webcam recorder to capture video from your computer screen and share it online or in class.
Get started with Screencasting here.
Camtasia
Camtasia is a video-based screen capturing software. Camtasia can also be customized to capture the entire screen, a specific window, or user-defined region. Screen capture videos can be recorded with or without voice narration. In addition to recording video and audio, Camtasia has powerful editing capabilities that allow you to just about anything you can think of, including adding interactive quiz questions to your videos.
Click here to get started with Camtasia.
Screenflow
ScreenFlow is a very polished screencasting application for MAC users, which records just about anything and gives you a huge amount of editing options afterwards.
Click here to get started with Screenflow.
Interactive Video
Slideshow Presentations
Want to take your PowerPoint slideshows to the next level? Learn how here.