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Confessions of an IT Poser Tools, Tricks, and Tips to Help Achieve Your Distance Education Goals Jessie Daniels Distance MBA Productions Manager Tennessee Tech University
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Poser: (n)
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How on earth did I end up here???
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Confession #1 Dear Diary, If one train leaves Chicago at 11am traveling at a speed of 75 mph, and another train leaves New York at noon traveling at a speed of 60 mph, how on earth do I figure out how to get accounting lectures to be just as effective if their students are on one of those trains rather than in the classroom?
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Content Delivery Challenges and Tips ● Challenge: AACSB Accreditation! ● Modular Delivery is key ● Don’t be swayed by every wind that blows ● Lowest common denominator? KISS
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Modes of Delivery ● Video (Studio vs. Screen Capture) ● Audio Only (audiocasts) ● Audio narrated PPT ● Docs ● Size matters (File size, that is)
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Methods of Delivery ● iLearn (D2L) ● iTunes U ● RSS feeds (requires updating of websites or equivalent) ● The key is to find out what works for your students! (Note: Expect FREQUENT changes and requests)
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Tools to Help ● Audacity (open source audio recording and editing) ● Camtasia ($$ Screen capturing software: Editable) ● Jing Project (Screen captures; image and video) ● Zamzar (File converter) ● Impatica ($$ PPT compressor/converter) ● iSpring (PPT converter)
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Confession #2 Dear Diary, Today, I explained the same thing to 14 different students and 3 professors. The task takes five minutes to accomplish and I spent 189 minutes explaining it over the phone, IM, email, and in person. I am no math wiz, but that seems like a waste of time. There has got to be something I can do to keep from doing that again.
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Tutorials, Troubleshooting, and Resource Management ● JIT Tutorials vs. Common Troubleshooting ● “I know I have that...where did I put it?” ● Communication: How to get what you have out there
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Some tools to help ● del.icio.us (My Favorites or Bookmarks wherever you go!) ● drop.io (Like a blog/wiki but more focus on file sharing) ● Zamzar (file converter) ● Jing Project (screen capture, image and video) ● An Organizational PLAN!
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Confession #3 Dear Diary, So a student doing an international exchange, a finance professor, and an HR manager from a multi- national corporation walk into a bar... if it were just that easy....
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Online Collaboration and Presentations ● People, places, and purpose ● Absolutely essential for our program ● You can’t do it all! Mention many, support one or two
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Some Communication Tools ● Elluminate (V-Room and V-Class) ● Google Chat (Video, audio, and chat) ● Skype (Video chat) ● Oovoo (Video chat, conference options) ● Dimdim (Online meetings; phone option) ● Scriblink (Whiteboard, chat, file sharing) ● Zoho (Many options like Google)
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Google: One Stop Shop ● Google Docs: Collaboration and Editing Documentation o Presentations, Documents, Spreadsheets, Forms, Surveys ● Google Chat ● Gmail (over 7GB of space!) ● Google Calendar ● Google Reader ● Google Scholar (Academic Search Engine) ● Partnerships with Blogger, YouTube, and Others (Picasa)
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Confession #4 Dear Diary, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr... so where does my professional life end and my personal life begin? Wait. What personal life?
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Social Networking ● Purposeful Utility: Think first ● What works for one, may not fit for another ● Beware of mixing business with pleasure
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Some Tools ●Facebook (Groups are especially helpful) ●Twitter (Useful for networkers, JIT problem solving) ●Linked In (Groups are useful for academic and professional discussions; jobs) ●MySpace (Personal web page and interaction) ●Flickr (Photosharing, apps available with most other social networking sites)
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Confession #5 Dear Diary, Maybe, just maybe, I am getting the hang of this. As long as nothing changes, I think I’m good.
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Keeping Up ● Blogs! (Just Google Educational Technology or Instructional Technology Blogs) ● Online groups and forums through social networking ● Conferences and Personal Networking
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Questions? Confessions of your own?
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Resources ● Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ ● Camtasia, Snagit, Jing and More: http://www.techsmith.com/ ● Zamzar: http://www.zamzar.com/ ● Impatica: http://www.impatica.com/ ● iSpring: http://www.ispringsolutions.com/
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More Resources ● Delicious: http://delicious.com/ ● Drop.io: http://drop.io/ ● Elluminate: http://www.elluminate.com/ ● Skype: http://skype.com/ ● Oovoo: http://www.oovoo.com/ ● Dimdim: http://www.dimdim.com/ ● Scriblink: http://www.scriblink.com/ ● Zoho: http://www.zoho.com/
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Still More Resources ● Google: http://www.google.com ● Facebook: http://www.facebook.com ● MySpace: http://www.myspace.com ● Twitter: http://twitter.com ● Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com ● Flickr: http://www.flickr.com ● Some good blogs: http://barrydahl.com/ http://www.teachbesttech.org/index.php/itu/ http://www.techlearning.com/
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Contact Info Jessie Daniels Distance MBA Productions Managerjdaniels@tntech.edu or daniels.jessie@gmail.com931.372.6466 On Facebook and Linkedinhttp://twitter.com/jessiedaniels
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