Nercomp Presentation
Here’s the presentation from the NERCOMP Annual Conference in Providence, RI, March 11, 2008:
March 11th, 2008
Presentation: How videopodcasting changed my teaching life: we’re getting there.
This presentation was given in slightly different forms as a featured presentation for both the New Media Consortium’s “Online Conference on the Convergence of Web Culture and Video” and the Capitol District’s Ed Tech Group (CDETG) Spring 07 meeting on podcasting. Below is the presentation, and further down are the videos that I played to go along with it.
February 6th, 2008
Recent Presentation: Top Web-Based Free Tools for Communication and Collaboration
From SUNY TLT Conference, November 15-16, 2007, Poughkeepsie, NY:
February 6th, 2008
Latest Cool Tools and Moodle fanatic
Here are some of the latest cool tools I’ve stumbled across - they could easily be used for cool uses in the classroom:
Turn your images and music into cool videos - cool for art history or any topic for which you have digital images and music/narration.
30 second videos are free, others are $3 per video or $30 for a year or something.
www.animoto.com
Add voice narration to images - you can imagine the possibilities for education.
www.voicethread.com
Add text subtitles to videos: - could potentially be used to assist with ADA compliance of your videos?
mojiti.com
Convert files online - doesn’t do DOCX or XLSX yet though…
zamzar.com
Add foreign language subtitles to videos - in multiple languages. Also cool for ADA/section 508 compliance?
dotsub.com
While I’m at it, I’ve become a total Moodle fanatic - after dealing with just about every enterprise LMS out there, it has been like a dream come true - finally I can get full access to code, community, and the ability to help shape the way I’d really like the LMS to work. I mean what other LMS gives you access to free downloads, documentation site, community forums, latest version test site, bug tracker and feature request site, and a fully functioning demonstration site??
So for the uninitiated, go ahead, open source is NOT that scary! And if it does scare you, there are serious hosted solutions such as Moodlerooms.com.
www.moodle.org
Keep on truckin!
September 29th, 2007
Children’s TV Reel and German Reel
A while back I posted my old commercial reel from my acting days in NYC. Now here are a couple other reminiscences:
Children’s TV
German TV Teaching
September 27th, 2007
Free Communication Tools
Here are a few of my favorite FREE communication tools. These should be handy for anyone who does technical user support, faculty development, online teaching, etc:
Open University's OpenLearn LabSpace - Flashmeeting
Set up a free account and you can host Flashmeetings which use Flash to videoconference, audioconference, shared whiteboard, chat, etc. Better than Elluminate's vLive!
http://labspace.open.ac.uk/
Skype (www.skype.com) - you just need broadband and a headset
Yugma (www.yugma.com) - free desktop sharing that works with Skype
Yugma will allow you to share your desktop with others, so that you can actually show them what you are talking about on your computer. Very handy for helpdesks and calls where you are working on bugs and issues and need to see each others' screens.
Put those 3 together and you've got some serious conference-ability.
Clark Shah-Nelson
http://clarkshahnelson.com
September 12th, 2007
Raving in Second Life
A story recollection from the first time I was at a New Media Consortium event in Second Life and could not stop dancing…
May 31st, 2007
Another blog left behind…
It’s true. I’ve been neglecting this blog… New job, new baby, move to the country. Whew. So I thought I’d post a little something about the current interesting things to me: Moodle, Second Life, Sloodle, vRoom, and of course, Rishi.
April 25th, 2007
Some links…
A couple links from NPR shows re: online learning:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5775616
http://www.wamu.org/audio/dr/06/11/r2061113-12297.asx
enjoy!
Add comment November 13th, 2006
Ubel Knubels Welt 5
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October 27th, 2006