Example of our rapid authoring - voice over presentation for our teaching

Thought I'd share an example or a rapidly authored voice-over presentaiton from Ano Lobb - one of the instructors in ECS 153/ECS154.  We worked with Ano, Sharon and the team in the Venture Fund - getting them screencasting tools including Camtasia, Screenflow, and Jing.

This presentation is made with Camtasia....and published to YouTube.  What I like about this is not only the content and the style....but the fact that the presentation will have a life on its own outside of the classroom (and be part of a larger conversation).    Ano also reports that "I'm getting to like Jing a whole lot as well. Its so quick and easy, and the five minute limit can be an attribute in that it forces you to be brief. We'll be using it a lot more in the Fall."

Enjoy the presentation (it is worth watching for both content and style).....of course the next step is to figure out a tool we can get into students hands for rapid authoring.

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[Ano Lobb]

Based in part on our research that has shown (no surprise here) that public health his woefully inadequate in its use of computing technology, we are endeavoring to give students hands-on experience with tools like Jing. The reality of most academic, research, and definately public health work these days is that you will work with partners all over the country and the globe, so the ability to rapidly send a multimedia presentation long distance is valuable. Briefly, our assignment will be for students to choose a topic, reading, or concept, and prepare a Jing (or other technology based presentation) that teaches the material back to their peers. We are dangling Jing in front of them, but also giving them the choice of other technologies, as long as it can be sent and received/viewed by computer. This will hopefully address three overall objectives: Hands-on experience with rapid authoring as professional training, letting them really engage and learn the material by creatively teaching it to others, and gathering student-created teaching material for future use.