ITC eLearning Conference in St. Petersburg, FL on February 16-19
This is an outline of keynote address and the sessions I attended on the second day of the conference
Keynote:
Learning From Our Worst Practices
Brief notes that I need to expand upon:
He started by citing the book: Innovations Dilemma —Clayton Christiansen
Disruptive innovations e.g., Café Scribe allow us to learn by failing first
Action precedes interaction
Start, learn, and try again / learning then planning / we must fail faster
Open source coming in under the higher ed business model
Sessions:
Accessible Multimedia in an Online Class--Sun 9:45
This session dealt with an easy and inexpensive way of putting captions on instructional videos. The presenter used Windows Media Encoder, notepad, and Magpie as solutions. There was a cd giveaway with all the programs and instructions. After you get a transcript of your video then captioning it is a relatively easy process. There was mention about using dictating software like Dragon Naturally Speaking or Vista Voice to produce the transcript.
Also, the presenter repeatedly said that he could not get Flash to work with the programs that were created in this process. I wonder whether Jing or Camtasia could do the job because they take video screen captures. If they could take a screen capture with voice then the captioning would be included. You could then make a flash file out of the result and embed it into your website, blog, etc.
Technology, Trends and Collaborative Tools for the Online Classroom--Sun 11:15
The presenters began with the Elluminate Live software and Learning Objects which are not free. They could have left them for last. The interesting stuff was the free programs they talked about which I list the most interesting below.
The free software they talked about were . . .
Kaltura: a storytelling, blog video, collaborative app that is based in Flickr.
WizIQ: collaboration tool for those working on projects together.
Elluminate vRoom: free for 3 people--good for office hours. Does not record the session but you could use Camtasia to do it.
Google Talk and MeBeam: IM software that combines audio and video.
Skype: VOIP--make free calls to anywhere.
Wink: screen capture.
RUReady: for math.
Feed library: a place where you can store all your websites and comment on them.
Bring Advanced Gaming Technology to E-Learning Environments--Sun 2:00
Way way out there. Sophisticated gaming environment that showed training sessions established for the Navy in a simulated environment. Spectacular and expensive. Not ready for prime time. (got her card)
Teaching Writing with Web 2.0 Apps--3:30
My session
(see link above)
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