Here are some resources I have put together to help you in your online teaching for the rest of the semester.
- Blackboard
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- Goals and Issues
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- Simplify delivery of course materials to students
- Positives
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- Students already know BlackBoard
- Classes are pre-populated with student names and info
- Negatives
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- Closed Platform
- No cross institution use for adjuncts
- Basic outline
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- Content areas functions as menu
- Workspace- here is where your content lives
- Course management controls- go over a few like customization
- Cleaning up the interface
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- Removing content menu items and modules
- Adding Content
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- Add content areas, decide how to structure course- assignment based or time based- with week by week divisions
- After adding a content area, add things inside that heading or folder
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- Adding content- new Item and page allow for most flexibility
- Syllabus
- Assignments
- Embedding calendars or video from YouTube or Vimeo
- Resources
- Dropbox and OneDrive
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- OneDrive- included with GMU office suite
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- Sharing link for upload
- Annotation of files
- Problems-
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- upload links don’t work well on phones
- Files need to be renamed
- Annotation interface not very good
- Dropbox-requires your own account
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- Free account may not be enough space
- Students don’t need account to upload files
- Screencasting
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- Mac
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- Quicktime
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- Free
- Build it
- Limited features
- ScreenFLow
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- Cost
- Lots of features
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- Built in editor
- Windows ?
- Wiki
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- Shared Resource
- Editable by everyone
- Can use for student work
- Interest?
- Assignment Ideas
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- Conceptual
- Simple Materials