Adding Audio to Your Course Sites
Posted on November 27, 2007
Filed Under Collaboration, Communication, Content areas, Discussion board
In this podcast episode, we introduce new tools and suggest ways that you might use them in your courses. Voice Tools is a suite of tools that allows you to present content and communicate with your students using audio recordings within Blackboard. Using a simple interface, you and your students can record and listen to recordings without additional software.
The Wimba Voice Tools that facilitate presentation of content include:
- Voice Announcements,
- Voice Recorder,
- Voice Presentation.
Voice Tools that facilitate communication and collaboration include:
- Voice Email,
- Voice (discussion) Board,
- Voice Direct (chatroom),
- Wimba Podcaster.
Podcast
Download audio-only podcast episode (duration 7:29)
Download video podcast episode (duration 7:29)
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Wimba Building Blocks for Blackboard 6.3-7.2 User Guide
Step-by-step instructions for Wimba Voice Tools created by WimbaUsing Wimba Voice Tools in BlackBoard
Handout introducing Wimba Voice Tools at Hunter
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Wimba’s support website for instructors and students. Includes documentation, online workshops and quick start videos.
A Successful Unit in a Blended Learning Course-Interview with Liege Motta, part 2
Posted on November 20, 2007
Filed Under Blended learning, Discussion board
In this second part of Shiao-Chuan Kung’s interview with Prof. Liege Motta, Prof. Motta discusses how she chooses topics for online discussions and describes a successful blended learning unit in her Early Childhood Education class.
Podcast
Download audio-only podcast episode (duration 9:30)
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Definitions of Curriculum
Prof. Motta’s discussion board assignment
Discussion Boards in Blended Learning-Interview with Liege Motta, part 1
Posted on November 14, 2007
Filed Under Blended learning, Discussion board
This is the first part of our interview with Prof. Liege Motta of the Department of Curriculum and Teaching. Prof. Motta has used discussion boards in Blackboard as part of her blended learning courses. In this segment, Prof. Motta talks about why and how she uses discussion boards as well as how she responds to students’ discussions and what kind of guidance she gives to her students. She also shares insights gained from observing students interact in discussion boards and the benefits she perceives in this activity.
Podcast
Download audio-only podcast episode (duration 9:19)
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Discussion board assignments
Prof. Motta’s instructions for her students
Blended Learning-Tips from Roberta Kilkenny
Posted on November 6, 2007
Filed Under Blended learning, Discussion board
In this second episode of our series on blended learning, we have invited professor Roberta Kilkenny of the Department of Africana & Puerto Rican/Latino Studies. Prof. Kilkenny teaches courses in Caribbean History and has been teaching them as blended courses for several years. In this interview with Shiao-Chuan Kung, she talks about why she redesigned her courses and offers advice to colleagues thinking about creating blended courses. For example, she recommends focusing on making materials accessible to all students, managing students expectations and giving smaller assignments that help students become familiar with the technology before they need to use it in a large assignment.
Podcast
Download audio-only podcast episode (duration 12:48)
Additional Resources
Tips for faculty designing blended courses
Offered by the Learning Technology Center of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.Advantages & Challenges of blended learning
Publication by the Learning Technology Center of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Blended Learning-Interview with Tony Picciano
Posted on November 1, 2007
Filed Under Blended learning
This is the first of a series of podcast episodes that we are creating on blended learning. Many features of Blackboard can be used to teach blended learning courses. In this episode, Shiao-Chuan Kung talks to Professor Tony Picciano of the Department of Curriculum and Teaching. Prof. Picciano also teaches at the Graduate Center and is currently the Interim Executive Officer for the PhD Program in Urban Education. He has written about and been involved in blended learning for over 10 years. His last publication in this area is a book called Blended Learning: Research Perspectives.
Prof. Picciano addresses the questions:
- What is blended learning?
- What does research say about blended learning?
- Why does it make sense for Hunter faculty to try it?
- What is “blended with purpose”?
Podcast
Download audio-only podcast episode (duration 14:57)
Download video podcast episode (duration 14:57)
Related Documents
Additional Resources
Blended Learning
Dzuiban, C.D., Hartman, J.L., & Moskal, P.D. (2004). Blended Learning. Educause Center for Applied Research Research Bulletin, 2004 (7).Blended Learning: Implications for Growth and Access
Picciano, A.G. (2006). Blended Learning: Implications for growth and access. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 10 (3).
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