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7376m Design of Online Educational Resources II - summer 2008 |
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Class 6 July 10 Podcasts |
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Discussion of Online Class Sessions
We will discuss how during our two week break from
face-to-face classes, we used the web conferencing system, Adobe ConnectNow to
"meet" online. In addition, we will discuss the use of a collaborative online
word processor, Adobe Buzzword.
The programs we used were:
Click on the following thumbnails below to view the full-size image.
The entire |
 A close-up of the webcam image |
 The system's options menu |
 The system's whiteboard panel |
 The system's file upload panel |
 The system's chat window |
 The system's shared notes panel |
 A screen shot of Adobe Buzzword, a collaborative word processor we used in our online class |
Review of Previous Web 2.0 Assignments
Best of the Best Web 2.0 Web Sites
http://www.realsoftwaredevelopment.com/2006/10/best_of_the_bes.html
Software and Online Tools for
Education
http://couros.wikispaces.com/tools
When you have completed this assignment, please go to the CUIN 7376m blog at: http://cuin7376m.blogspot.com/ and post a comment in which you describe the Web 2.0 resource you selected and discuss how it might be used.
Mango
http://www.mangolanguages.com/main
I thought what a remarkable website for our faculty, staff and students to use
at the Dental Branch because we deal with such a diverse group of patients and
are not alway able to communicate with them. I thought this website might be of
assistance to them when preparing to see a patient of a different cultural
background. I loved the introduction to this website, and how one is able to
participate and learn at the same time-I felt like I was in Spanish 101 in
college all over again. Kudos to the makers of this website!! -Margo
Tiromed
http://www.tiromed.com/
I feel that health professionals educators should know how to make use of these
resources and incorporate their use into the teaching process. An excellent way
of doing it would be similar to what we are doing in this course. I’m starting
to share what we have learned so far with my colleagues back home and I hope we
can make use of these resources with our residents and medical students. I think
we can use many sites for different classes and tasks. One of the sites that I
liked is tiromed.com, but it’s a very general kind of site and it is more of a
social network I guess. I don’t think I would use any of these as a reference;
but I will surely use a similar idea in my practice.
For example one of the requirements for residents in our family medicine program
is to prepare a learning session every week. This session will be coordinated
between 7 residents (average) and 2 trainers and they should present it to the
whole group (average 22 residents). We have problems coordinating the work
because of time and space restrain. I believe web 2.0 resources will be very
useful in this regard. For example the trainers can refer residents to a social
bookmarking site where he/she has posted useful sites that they can use and
residents can do the same. They can have a blog for this course because it’s
like a continuous course (every year new residents are added and some graduate),
comments about the activities can be posted there. A wiki can be used for the
material they present and can be used as a reference for them at the end of the
year, or if they missed the activity. It will be interesting to see how
residents and trainers respond to this. -Muneera
ClassMarker
www.classmarker.com
I looked at the ClassMarker website. The URL address for that website is
www.classmarker.com. This is a free
website. Educators can create quizzes online and save it to their account. It is
very user friendly and is easy to use. Students are invited to take the quizzes
by providing their email address. I created a quiz and tested it. I invited
myself to take the quiz using a different email address. This is another
mechanism to deliver a test. I'm a bit concerned with accountability for online
test. I think I still prefer the traditional administration of monitored tests.
This may OK for pre-test purposes. -Jen
SnapGenie
http://snapgenie.com
I reviewed SnapGenie at: http://snapgenie.com.
This is a cool site that Dr. Robin very briefly talked about last year. You
upload your own photos, and use your own voice to narrate a story. This is a
free website and all you need is a computer, web, and a telephone line to record
your voice. You can then share your slideshow with anyone by giving them the
link after you have made the slideshow. The great thing about this is that you
can use this for personal reasons to share pictures of vacation or family
outings with others.
SnapGenie is also great for teaching students or in my case, teaching patients
about oral health. For students in hygiene school, this would be great to have
pictures of different oral lesions with a voice description of them. You can
also use this to teach different seating positions, head and neck examination,
instrumentation, and other lecture classes would also be able to use this
somehow. Within the next few weeks, I would like to use this tool to present to
the dental hygiene students an orientation of our office, how to take
radiographs on children and the procedure on breaking down and resetting a room
for the next patient. I can then show the slideshow at the school and give the
students the link so that they can revisit the slideshow prior to their dental
hygiene rotation. -Tatiana
Moodle
http://moodle.org/
I thought that this was a great resource to any educator. Looks like it is
taking the place of Blackboard at some universities. One reason that this may be
is because it is free. It truly has some wonderful features including:
Assignments - students can view homework and turn in homework in electronically
Chatroom - teaching tool for groups of students working with or without the
teacher to discuss an issue or question. The teacher can than review what
students have to say.
Choice module - students can be polled (ie students can comment on what they
would like to learn)
Questionairre module- allows you to use a variety of question types to conduct
full surveys. Personally I think this is a great research tool ... kind of like
survey monkey.
Database module- good for building searchable repositories.
Forum module- enables students to have virtual seminars.
Glossary- is like the database, except you can allow users to rate each other’s
contributions.
Lesson module- allows the educator to write a series of lesson pages with
assignments. I
Journal module - allows student to keep track of class notes.
Quiz module - instructor created quizzes and tests.
Webquests - allows for a group of students to create a webpage, set up the links
and provide chat and forum spaces where the groups can discuss their projects.
Wiki- allows for collaborative writing (just like pbwiki).
Overall, Moodle has the best of many singular Web 2.0 programs. It is one stop
shopping for the instructor/educator and most importantly the student. I just
see how a student can benefit from this program. Imagine how an elementary
student, a medical student or an older distance learner can focus on a program
like this and learn it well. For those that are not "native" speakers it give an
opportunity to assimilate. -Andrea
Edublogs
www.edublogs.org
First, Edublogs (www.edublogs.org) is a site designed for educators to use in creating blogs for their classes/students. It allows you to create a class blog, use it for scheduling, do podcasts, create content, make newsletters, etc. There are excellent video tutorials for getting started. It seems very friendly and non-threatening to the non-tech-savvy. -Cara
Second Life - more about this coming up in Class
8.
OttoBib
http://ottobib.com/
I found several cool sites which allow people to take and share notes, which I
think could also be useful for having students share leaning issues for PBL, or
collaborate together on a project. These included mynoteIT and NoteCentric. But
by far the coolest thing I found is OttoBib. I always think one of the WORST
parts of scholarly work is the references. OttoBib has you enter the ISBN
numbers of the books you used, and then it generates 1) a bibliography in the
style of your choosing (MLA, APA, etc.) and 2) a webpage with pictures of the
book and links to Amazon.com. This saves a HUGE amount of work and gives you an
end product which is more useful to others who might want to actually read the
books you're referencing. It's free, although there's a link for donations, and
it looks easy. The only think I can think of to improve it would be if they
could figure out a way to have it work for journal and/or web citations as
well...now that would be truly awesome! -Deidre
Best of the Best Web 2.0 Web Sites -
Real World Software Development
http://www.realsoftwaredevelopment.com/2006/10/best_of_the_bes.html
I have been looking at Real World Software Development. This is a blog site
aimed at software developers, and appears to be run by one particular person,
but I couldn’t discover who it is. He (or she) writes articles of interest to
developers, primarily focused on Web 2.0. The content is very technical and on
the whole not relevant to me as either an educator or clinician. The look is
very clean and I like the colors. The original article is old – October 2006,
but there have been updated links for “Best of Web 2.0 Guides 2007”.
The above link is a fairly comprehensive listing of the different types of 2.0
sites that exist. The author has listed functional categories of sites (i.e.
Social Bookmarking, Content Filtering, Aggregators) then listed links to sites
that fall into each category. At the top of each list is the logo to one of the
sites on the list, and this logo is also a link to its site. I think the
implication is that the logo site is the chosen “best” for its category, but the
article does not explicitly say so. There is no discussion of the positive
attributes of each site,” nor is there a description of what criteria have been
used to designate any site as a “best” site. There is simply a link to go
directly to each site, and then you’re on your own. The 2007 updates do a better
job of actually describing each "best" site and what it does. -Jan
Community Walk
http://www.communitywalk.com/
This was neat. You can create maps so I thought that it could be used to
create maps to TCH or to the medical center or to send to people who are
teaching/training in other countries. The graphics looked almost like satellite
pictures and put mapquest to shame. Very impressive! My favorite. -Geeta
Other resources from The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education — 2007:
Bookr
http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/
Daft Doggy
http://www.daftdoggy.com/
One true media
http://www.onetruemedia.com/otm_site/register?
Fleck
http://fleck.com/
ESL Video
http://www.eslvideo.com/index.php
Circavie
http://www.circavie.com/
CLEAR
http://clear.msu.edu/clear/store/products.php?product_category=online
SMILE
http://clear.msu.edu/teaching/online/mimea/smile/v2/index.php
FOOTNOTE
http://www.footnote.com/index.php
Voicethread
http://voicethread.com/#home
Show Beyond
http://www.showbeyond.com/show/home
Sketchcast
http://sketchcast.com/
Vi.sualize.us
http://vi.sualize.us/
Discussion of Final Semester Projects
We will also spend some time in class this week discussing details related to final semester projects for this course.
This Week's Class Topic:
Podcasting
A podcast is a digital recording that is usually
distributed over the Internet. Pocasts can be audio only, audio with images or
slides (sometimes referred to as an enhanced podcast) or may include video
(which some people call "vodcasts"). The term "podcast" is derived from Apple's
portable digital music and video player, the iPod, however, you do not need to
use an iPod to listen to or watch a podcast, since they may be accessed using a
desktop or laptop computer, or downloaded to many different types of portable
digital media devices, including some PDAs, cell phones and MP3 players, such as those shown below.
 Sansa Digital Media Player from SanDisk |
 Several
Different iPod Models from Apple Computer |
 Zune Player from Microsoft |
 Blackberry Pearl Smart Phone |
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Palm Centro Smart Phone |
 Desktop PC |
 Macintosh Desktop Computer |
 Laptop PC |
embedded video: Podcasting in Plain
English
embedded slideshow:
All about Podcasting? - this version of the
website was created as a student project in CUIN 7330 in 2006
http://discovery.coe.uh.edu/cuin7330spr06/jlazzaro/PodcastingSite/index.html
All about Podcasting? - this version of the website has
been updated and is currently online
http://www.class.uh.edu/classidt/Tutorials_Help/profs/software/Podcasting/
About Microphones and Recording Audio
Additional Resources
Assignments For Next
Class
Reading Assignment:
7 Things you Should Know about...
Podcasting
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7003.pdf
The Efficacy of Podcasting Technology
in Instructional Delivery
http://www.sicet.org/ijttl/specialIssue/youmei.pdf
Wikis, Blogs and Podcasts: A New Generation of Web-based Tools
for Virtual Collaborative Clinical Practice and Education
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6920-6-41.pdf
Class Six Hands-On Assignment 1:
Conduct some research on the
web to see if you can find a podcast that does a good job of
presenting educationally useful material.
When you have completed this assignment, please go to the CUIN 7376m
blog at
http://cuin7376m.blogspot.com/ and post a comment under the Class 6
Assignment - 1, in which you describe the podcast you selected and
discuss the details such as what is about, who created it, who is
the intended audience, what you like about it and any additional
information you think we should know about this resource.
Class Six Hands-On Assignment 2:
First, try to select a topic that you will use for your final semester project. Based on our discussion in class this week, you should plan to complete one of the following:
record an audio-only podcast that
can be used in the wikibook chapter that your are creating or in one of
the other chapters that is being developed this semester;
create a project that uses a web
2.0 tool that includes audio you record; or
create a multimedia project that includes audio and more (such as a slideshow of images, video clips, or other material you choose)
The final project should include between 90 seconds and 5 minutes of audio or other multimedia content. However, if you think your project will last more than 5 minutes, we can discuss this in class next week.
For this week's assignment, you should
begin writing the script of the text you plan to record, or at least a
description of the multimedia project you plan to create. When you have
completed this assignment, please go to the CUIN 7376m blog at
http://cuin7376m.blogspot.com/
and post a comment under the Class 6 Assignment - 2, in which you describe
your plans for the final semester project and include any questions you have
at this point that we can discuss in our next class.
