Free Screencasting tools - 2010 review
"Five Minute Screencasts -- The Super Tool for Science and Engineering Librarians"
http://www.istl.org/10-winter/tips.html
http://www.istl.org/10-winter/tips.html
Barry:
http://barrydahl.com/2011/10/12/animated-gifs-with-screencast-o-matic/
Vendor site:
“Screencast-O-Matic is the original online screen recorder for one-click recording from your browser on Windows, Mac, or Linux with no install for FREE!”
“Dr. Karen Kelsky, my guest author today, not only left after getting tenure, she left after becoming the head of a department. And she’s even willing to admit that there’s some good in academia, but has no tolerance for delusion — which is why I asked her to post here.” (Kelskey’s blog is: http://theprofessorisin.com/)
http://worstprofessorever.com/2011/07/18/guest-post-death-of-a-soul-on-campus/
And how can you not like a blog named “Worst Professor Ever” ?
Actually, good advice for living:
2. You Are Telling, Not Showing.
All academics in the world, by virtue of being academics, require evidence to accept a proposition. Even the wooiest humanists have to be persuaded with some form of evidence that a claim is valid.
Your letter must include evidence. Empty claims like “I am passionate about teaching,” or “I care deeply about students,” or “I am an enthusiastic colleague” contain no evidence whatsoever. They can be made by anyone, and provide no means of proof. They are worthless verbiage.
Show, don’t tell: Instead of “I am passionate about teaching,” you must write, “I used new technologies to create innovative small group discussion opportunities in my large introductory classes, technologies that were later adopted by my colleagues in the department.” Or, “I worked one on one with students on individual research projects leading to published articles. Several students later nominated me for our campus’s “Best Undergraduate Teacher” award, which I won in 2011.”
Get it? Don’t waste our time with unsubstantiated and unsubstantiatable claims.
From: http://theprofessorisin.com/pearlsofwisdom/
Karen Kelsky, aka, The Professor, is a former tenured professor and Department Head with 15 years of experience teaching at the University of Oregon and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
“This recordable whiteboard is just the canvas you need to jot your ideas down and share them – with the world, or just a friend or two. Helpful to anyone, but developed with teachers and students in mind, ScreenChomp records your touchscreen interactions and audio…”
“Welcome to the latest installment of ‘Accessibility in a Digital Age,’ a roundup of links to information about making digital resources accessible to all people.”
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/accessibility-in-a-digital-age-1-4/36539
October 10, 2011, 8:00 am
By George Williams
From Karl Fisch’s blog:
“This is one of the reasons why I believe hybrid classes – where there’s an online component and a face-to-face component - are perhaps currently the best of both worlds when done well (although that may change as we get better at implementing online courses). But several things have to happen in order for classes like this to work.”
http://fischalgebra1011.blogspot.com/2010/11/we-see-this-as-future-of-higher.html
An excellent post on Maryna Badenhorst’s blog, with plenty of pros and cons and discussion, links, etc.:
“I have become interested in the idea of ‘flipping’ the classroom since I first read about it on Karl Fisch’s Fischalgebra blog (see resources at the end of this post). He describes how he makes eight to ten minute ‘mini-lessons/lectures’ for his students which they have to watch at home as ‘homework’. “
http://marynabadenhorst.global2.vic.edu.au/2010/04/01/to-flip-or-not-to-flip/
Found on Mark Bethelemy’s blog:
http://www.learningconversations.co.uk/main/index.php/2011/03/19/flipping-the-classroom?blog=5
“…Hope and enthusiasm are soaring here. But not test scores.”
NY Times Sept 3, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/technology/technology-in-schools-faces-questions-on-value.html
