modeling teaching techniques - the short online voice-over presentation

Lanny Arvan (beloved LTL faculty) posted a great voice-over presentation on effective teaching/presentation techniques for faculty using Slideshare and Audacity.

I like this presentation on two levels:

Level 1 - Modeling the Method:  The idea of using simple Web 2.0 authoring and publishing platform tools to produce and disseminate the materials provides a wonderful model for both faculty and student learners.  Any instructor or student could adopt these tools to produce and share materials. 

Level 2 - Content of the Presentation:  Lanny's 7 minute presentation is a great summary of core ideas for effective teaching presentations.  The content includes links to other materials that the viewer can go and look at if interest and time allows. At 7 minutes we can listen to the presentation in-between other tasks......it is short enough that we can actually make the time while dense enough that this time is well spent.

Where I'd push Lanny is to move his audience away from solely faculty, and to recognize that students authoring and sharing content will and should be the greatest producers of new knowledge.  SlideShare is one excellent publishing platform - I tend to favor YouTube as it has such a wide reach.  The other area I'd push Lanny is to recognize the value of free Web 2.0 authoring tools - but to also recognize that these tools have limitations.  For instance, I find needing to use Audacity with Slideshare to produce voice-over presentations to be cumbersome.  I don't think that this method passes the "wicked easy" test for faculty and students, and therefore is less likely to be adopted.

Can we offer our learning communities rapid authoring tools that can be disseminated out for all users?  We are looking at Techsmith's Camtasia Relay as a possible low-cost, cross-platform authoring tool.  The content can easily be published up to YouTube - taking care of the publishing platform (or shared as a link within the CMS).  What are you looking at?

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Comments

[Lanny Arvan]

Josh - thanks for the mention of my stuff. I agree on Slideshare. There are issues with it especially if you want to update the presentation, because it takes one audio file for the whole presentation, rather than one file per slide.

I've done a few things about student content creation elsewhere. Part of the reason for separating them, at present, is to distinguish online presentations as a substitute for face to face presentations, on the one hand, with online presentations that are a type of writing with multimedia. I'm more interested in the latter than the former.

Here's an example of what I have in mind.
http://www.business.uiuc.edu/larvan/StepByStepPresentationsdonebystiudents/StepByStepPresentationsdonebystiudents.html

And here is another one with the how to's for making this sort of thing.
http://lanny-on-learn-tech.blogspot.com/2008/04/student-projects-as-capture-movies.html

Here is still one more made recently (I was thinking about making the case with the requirement to be Spartan with the language) using captioning in YouTube,
http://lanny-on-learn-tech.blogspot.com/2009/06/should-we-have-students-make-these.html.

[Joshua Kim]

Lanny....went and watched all of these...as usual it looks like you are ahead of the game. These are great.

I very much think that pushing out rapid authoring and public publishing tools is our future.....