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2008 Spring Tri-IT Meeting
Spring 2008 Tri-IT Meeting
Handouts
The purpose of the roundtable is to discuss best practices for streaming media strategies that have been employed at your university. Bring your resources or email them to Nik Hunnicut at nshunnic@uncg.edu and he will consoildate that information for our discussion.
Resources: Streaming Media Roundtable Notes
Favorite Tools, Favorite Information Resources
The purpose of the roundtable is to share your favorite instructional technology tools and information resources. Bring your resources or email them to Jane Harris at jdharri5@uncg.edu and she will consoildate that information for our discussion.
Resources: Favorite Tools Notes
One Flip Video camera by Pure Digital Technologies in the hands of one faculty member for one month at UNC Greensboro made a big impact. This low cost digital camera will connect teaching/learning/technology to shooting and sharing in infinite ways. Participants will try out various Flip models, take part in idea sharing activities designed to get creative solutions and applications flowing, and hear about one faculty member's Flip'in experiences at UNCG. Plus Amanda Schipman from UNC Greensboro's Teaching and Learning Center will be on hand to answer Flip format questions.
Resources: Flip for the Web (pdf) | Tri-It attendees first attemptt recording with Flip camera (video)
Delivering a service-oriented architecture within a Blackboard framework
The UNCG University Libraries in conjunction with the UNCG Blackboard Application Administrator are in the process of developing a robust SOA application for the on-the-fly delivering of personalized library resources via Blackboard to students based upon a number of factors.
Resources:
Using Google APIs to Improve Productivity
The developers at the UNCG Division of Continual Learning are using Google APIs to help plan and track online course development. The DCL team is designing computer programs and using available Web services (like Basecamp and PbWiki) that interact directly with Google services like Google Calendar and Google Docs.
Resources: Website
Brief Hybrid Workshops (BHWs) and Brief Hybrid Teaching/Learning Modules (BHTLMs) are combinations of five minute videos with online or face-to-face synchronous activities and other resources. Participants will be provided with examples, and resources for planning, producing, assessing and improving their own BHWs and BHTLMs. Brief Hybrid Workshops
Resources: Brief Hybrid Presentation (PPT)
Situating Blogs and Wikis: The Value Added Proposition of the Library as Service Provider
When the Z. Smith Reynolds Library began hosting Blogs and Wikis for the Wake Forest community, some users wondered why the Library was offering this service instead of Information Systems. Come to this session to learn how the Library became the center of blogs and wikis on campus and how the Library capitalized on this opportunity by offering instruction and support for faculty implementing blogs and wikis in the classroom.
Using Bitstrips as Learning Tools
User-created content is a big buzz phrase the Web 2.0 generation. Bitstrips is a unique comic creation site where users create their own "characters" using a Wii-style Mii menu and pose them and fill in dialog. Come find out how the UNCG Division of Continual Learning online development team and the professors they work with have used Bitstrips as part of course assignments and even for assessments.
Resources: Bitstrips Presentation (PPTX)
Imagining an Interdisciplinary Game Activity: A Collaborative Effort
Do you think games can be used as effective learning tools in higher education? Can you imagine how game activities might enable us to offer truly interdisciplinary education? In this session, *you* will work together to create a game activity (on paper) to engage college students.
Resources: Game Activity | Game Scenario
Progress Update: UNCG University Libraries "Library Resources" Tool
A followup of last year's Tri-IT presentation on the progress of the University Libraries' AJAX/Java/.NET based tool for delivering library resources into Blackboard at a course-specific level. We will deal with its reception, how it's changed, and a sneak peek at it's future.
Last summer, we started using a Wiki tool for undergraduate learning activities. Benefits to students include ease of communication and co-development, increased engagement and time on task, and development of multimedia literacy. Benefits for faculty include being able to track project development. Multiple examples across a variety of disciplines will be shown
Resources: Wiki World (ZIP)
Getting Connected with Google Apps
Using Google Apps. to get organized, stay in touch, and stay informed.
Resources: Getting Connected (pdf)
Sakai, OSCELOT: A conversation about Open Source Tools and Projects
The purpose of this presentation is to talk about various open source initiatives including the Sakai course management system, and the Blackboard open source project, OSCELOT
Discussion on the Campus Use of E-textbooks
E-textbook ventures of various "flavors" have been in the press quite a bit lately. To what extent are your Centers supporting faculty using e-textbooks? Are you investigating e-textbook publishers and their products such as VitalSource, CafeScribe or CourseSmart, or the free online sharing and collaboration sites like Connexions? Do you have faculty coming to you asking about using or creating e-textbooks? Are you working with your campus bookstores on their offerings? We are exploring this topic at Duke and would love to hear what others are doing in this area.