A good day is when I work with someone whose skills far outstrip my own (most days are good days for me).
Peter Vinton, an Instructor/Trainer in the Office of Sponsored Projects, has insured that today is wonderful.
Peter is working with us at Curricular Computing to run a pilot program to augment the face-to-face classroom training that OSP offers with asynchronous online training/certification run through Blackboard.
The use of Blackboard for non-curricular programs and training at the College is an innovation that we expect to grow, as more units are required to offer training/certification and as the benefits of anytime/anywhere Web-based training become clear.
This is set to take-off both due to the gentle learning curves for authoring in Blackboard, the ability to control and track access to content and assessment, as well an emerging set of Web 2.0 tools that people across the technical skill level can use to create content.
Another project we are working on is with the Office of Risk Management and Internal Control Services - a project that I hope to blog on soon.
The benefit to us (and the curriculum) is that we learn a great deal from the "long tail" of talent developing materials for teaching and learning. As our model in CC is to provide tools, training, advice, and experience in leveraging technologies for effective learning, the work we do with non-academic units scales well as the units create their own materials.
It so happens that Peter is extraordinarily skilled, and is authoring much of his content directly in Flash (anyone on campus needing a flash programmer - now you have a resource - sorry Peter).
One of the module that Peter did author in Jing - the cross-platform free client that we are working to diffuse and support in our courses for both faculty and students - is an amazing example of the power of the tool.
It is worth checking out for all the things that Peter gets right. His PowerPoint that he based the voice-over is simply gorgeous....with great use of visuals, pacing, and appropriate use of text.
This voice-over presentation could serve as a model for all of us - so I'm showing it as a model (with Peter's permission).
Here is the link to the Voice-Over-Presentation (3:29)
The screencasts will be integrated into a Blackboard Organization site....with chunked out formative and summative assessments, surveys, and other content.
I'll also include the embed code for the presentation - I'm still playing with how to get this to look okay in the small window that TypePad provides. If anyone has any advice that would be great. The generated embed code (from the UCSF people) seems to work great with Jing in Blackboard where we have some more real estate.
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