Reaching Distant Students

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Reaching Distant Students

• School of Public Affairs
• and Administration

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Blackboard

• Stay Connected - Anytime, Anywhere
• Updated Class Rosters
• Content Posting
• Communication (Synchronous, Asynchronous)
• Assignment Organization and Submission
• Assessment
• Gradebook
• Final Grade Submission

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Bb Content Types

• Text
• Formatting Options
• Copy and Paste
• Attach Files
• Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access
• PDF Documents
• Incorporate Multimedia
• Graphics, Audio, Video, Flash
• Link to Interactive Activities

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Adaptive Release

• Custom Learning Paths
• Content, Discussions, Assessments, Assignments,
  or other Activities
• Released to Students Based on Criteria
• Date and Time
• Specific Users
• Group Membership
• Grades or Attempts Review Status

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Bb Communication Tools

• Announcements
• Email
• Discussion Board
• Anonymous Rating Option
• Grading Subscribe Feature
• Moderated
• Virtual Classroom
• Chat Whiteboard
• Question/Answer Web Site

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Discussion Board Uses

• Case Studies
• Peer Review
• Group Work
• Student Moderators
• Debates
• Anonymous Posting Area
• Technical Questions
• General QA
• Student Lounge

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Discussion Board Suggestions

• Make it Count
• Make it Clear - Organization and Expectations
• Make it Easy - Course Link
• Make it Nice - Netiquette Guidelines
• Make it Friendly - Introductions
• Make it Make Sense - Wrap Up
• Make it Useful - Attachments, Links, Modeling

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Assignments

• Discussion Board
• Peer Review
• Discussion
• Digital DropBox
• Multiple Submissions
• Assignment Manager
• Easy Download and Removal of Files
• Automatic Renaming of File
• Direct Link to the Gradebook
• Easy Submission

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Assessments

• Calculated Formula
• Calculated Numeric
• Either / Or
• Essay
• File Response
• Fill-in-the-Blank
• Hot Spot
• Jumbled Sentence
• Matching

• Multiple Answer
• Multiple Choice
• Opinion Scale (Likert)
• Ordering
• Quiz Bowl
• Short Response
• True / False
• Multiple Fill-in-the-Blank

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Gradebook

• Comments Added to Any Item
• Visibility Controlled
• All Attempts of Quizzes/Tests Posted
• Instructor Selects Grading
• Last/First Attempt
• Highest/Lowest Score
• Average Of Scores
• Self-Assessments can be Invisible

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Early Warning System

• Generate warnings (or kudos) based on
• grades
• due dates
• last access

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Content System

• Share Content
• Across Multiple Courses, Organizations and
  Modules
• Shared with Specific Individuals, Groups of Users
• Even Users Outside of Blackboard
• Collaborate
• You Control Access (Read or Write)
• Versioning
• Workflow
• Portfolios
• Web Folders
• Drag and drop multiple files/folders into
  Blackboard at one time

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Getting Fancy - Technical Concerns

• Firewalls
• Installation of Players, Java
• Platform
• Camera
• Testing
• Bandwidth
• Time of Day

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Other Factors

• Number of Participants
• Archive Format
• Post Editing
• CMS Integration
• Blackboard
• eCollege
• Sakai

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Camtasia

• Audio Enhanced PowerPoint
• Output Formats Including Streaming
• Editing Capability
• Ease of Use and Price
• College of Nursing
• Theory Research I (Lev Week 1)
• Theories and Research Health Promotions (Beckmann
  Unit 2)
• Evolution of Nursing Knowledge (Flynn Module 4)
• Advanced Features

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Echo360 (formerly Apreso)

• Lecture Capture Tool
• from audio-only podcasts
• to full capture with audio and video
• Automated scheduling, CMS Integration
• Rutgers Business School
• International Business (Feinberg)
• Alternate (Gaulladet)

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Synchronous Solutions

• Blackboard Virtual Classroom
• Videoconferencing
• Marratech
• Wimba
• Elluminate

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Blackboard Virtual Classroom
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McNair High School

• Jersey City
• 3 Courses
• History of Western Civilization
• Principles of Psychology
• Intro to Micro Economics
• Schedule Conflict Academic/Block
• Outdated Equipment
• Bb Sites and Combined Organization

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Bridging the Distance

• Health Management Fall 2007
• Collaboration
• SPAA
• UMDNJ
• CoN
• TA to assist with technology
• Students we love Marratech

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Marratech

• Brady Bunch Video
• Easy to Use
• Google
• Private Audio
• Access through NJEDge

• Access through NJEDge
• Installation Required
• Archive Proprietary
• Stored Local

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Wimba

• CMS Integration
• Accessibility
• Breakout Rooms
• Training Included, Customer Service
• Branding
• Archives Proprietary

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Quantitative Methods in Research

• Bb Integration
• Jumping Into the Deep Endwith Dr. Jones
• Paper Reviews
• Office Hours
• Student Presentations
• Individual
• Group

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Elluminate

• CMS Integration
• Quiz Manager
• Accessibility
• Language Support
• Event Hosting Service

• Save Chat
• Breakout Rooms
• Graphing Calculator
• Synchronized Notes

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Elluminate

• Indexed Recordings
• Elluminate Publish for Podcasting
• Automatic Index
• Proprietary Format (5-15MB/hour) can Convert/Edit
  with Camtasia
• Archive can be Accessed by URL
• 1/ Speaker at a Time

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Joy McDonaldjoymcd_at_newark.rutgers.edu973-353-59
53Blumenthal Hall 105