Jazzing up Your Bb Course

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Jazzing up Your Bb Course

• Adding Media and Interaction to your Blackboard
  Course

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Using Simple Media

• You can use audio, video and animations
• to enhance course materials

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Internet Based Activities

• Hotlists are essentially organized collections of
  sources relevant to your topic area. Hotlists
  help students focus in on the information and
  save searching time.
• Treasure Hunts combine a list of questions and
• pre-planned Internet resources. Students must
  search
• for the answers within the sources
• Web Quests are inquiry-oriented activities in
  which most or all of the information used by
  learners is drawn from the Web. They involve role
  playing, team work and higher level thinking
  skills.
• .

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Project Samples (Complex)

• America Dreamsthrough the Decades
• http//memory.loc.gov
• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/activity/lady/
  index.html
• Bob Winslow's Criminology Site
• http//www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/its/winslow

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Guidelines for Asynchronous Elements

• Interactivity - active participation
• Wide range of sources
• Adaptable to students level
• Collaboration encouraged
• Use real life examples
• Interesting and unique to YOU

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Getting Started

• Look for topic areas that can be expanded
• Create whole activities or enhance with media
• Research support materials
• Create an outline
• Develop content
• Incorporate media where appropriate
• Test it out

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Questions to Consider

• What is the task or learning objective?
• What are the deliverables?
• What are the communication protocols?
• Does the activity work
• (technically and academically)?
• Can students find appropriate resources?
• Can students develop multiple answers?
• Does it fit in course curriculum?
• Is it interesting and relevant?

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Media Policy (Draft)

• Audio video files for instructional use will be
  stored on Rohan
• Faculty may request additional space on their
  Rohan accounts to store media
• Normal allocation will be 1 GB
• Audio max of 32 hrs at low quality 9 hrs at
  high quality
• Video max of 14 hrs at low quality 7 hrs at
  high quality
• Video Quality Example

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Media Policy (Draft)

• Requests for additional space will be granted
  unless disk space is limited
• If request is unusually large, discussions will
  be held before request denial
• Materials for efficient techniques will be
  developed
• File usage reports at semester end
• Archival requests after 2 years

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OK - Now what?

• Policy finalized
• New equipment purchased (hard drives)
• Procedures set up for accessing Rohan
• Demo and training for Instructors