Took part in a JISC RSC Webinar yesterday, as part of the ongoing programme of dissemination of the project. There was a limited audience, but I managed to give a reasonably concise overview of the project. A considerable number of Moodle users amongst the audience.
A second piece of dissemination will take place next week at the Scottish Moodle Users Group (SMUG) meeting, which is happening on 4th October at Forth Valley College. Roughly the same presentation will be given.
Thursday, 27 September 2012
Monday, 17 September 2012
First Videos
Our Complementary Therapy staff at Cardonald College have been working at a great rate, and have produced 17 short video clips, roughly 1 minute each, covering two separate Indian Head Massage routines. We've done a first production of the learning materials from these sequences which are now posted in Moodle. We've produced full screen and mobile versions of the materials.
There was a technical problem with the full screen version using our chosen tool, Camtasia. When I added captions to the video they appeared in the editing version, but did not show up in the final web-based package. This same problem was not the case with the mobile versions, also produced in Camtasia. Therefore as a temporary expedient I used Captivate to produce the full screen versions and added a title slide, instead of a caption, which works just as well. However I will look at this issue. I am temporarily using Camtasia 7, rather than 8 the new version, so it may be an issue with this version.
We will let the students look at the full screen materials this week hopefully, but then run a proper trial with the mobile versions of the materials.
There was a technical problem with the full screen version using our chosen tool, Camtasia. When I added captions to the video they appeared in the editing version, but did not show up in the final web-based package. This same problem was not the case with the mobile versions, also produced in Camtasia. Therefore as a temporary expedient I used Captivate to produce the full screen versions and added a title slide, instead of a caption, which works just as well. However I will look at this issue. I am temporarily using Camtasia 7, rather than 8 the new version, so it may be an issue with this version.
We will let the students look at the full screen materials this week hopefully, but then run a proper trial with the mobile versions of the materials.
Monday, 3 September 2012
New Toys
We got the Google Nexus 7 Android tablets delivered towards the end of last week, one device per college, and we are now testing these. Took ours to the E-Assessment event in Dundee on Friday and it seemed very impressive. For speed and size it is hard to beat at that price. We anticipate a lot of students will have android phones and we want to test our materials on these devices.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)