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Becoming a model teacher:
Using multiliteracies and 21st century skills and tools in your own professonal development
Image capture, screencasting, media organization/editing tools, portal creation
Unit 2
Some multimedia tools used in blended learning
In this hour we will acquire tools that I use to make flipped and blended learning sites like this one.
First you need to get the tools, then we'll explore how to use them to improve the documents you've already created.
By the end of this hour I want you to have created PORTAL for your own project and shared it with the group via the workshop tag.
This is a free tool from the makers of the more expensive tools Camtasia and Snaggit
Jing allows you to take capture frames/snippits from your computer and either store them as files on your computer or save them to a cloud space. You can annotate these files before saving, and insert them into materials you are preparing for reports or teaching materials.
Jing is particularly useful when you want to create tutorials to explain things that you are doing on your computer.
However, the Jing tool has now been replaced by TechSmith Capture, a freemium product
The installation instructions below still work, but the direct link to download Capture (formerly Jing) is here
https://www.techsmith.com/jing-tool.html
Get it from:
https://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.html
Scroll way down to the bottom and find a tiny link to Jing (it's still there in May, 2021)
or just click on the direct link here
https://www.techsmith.com/jing-tool.html
The following information about Jing has not been updated since the workshops were delivered in Jan, 2020
But installation of Capture is similar and the tool works on the same principle as indicated below
If you want to install it on a Mac, see these instructions
https://support.techsmith.com/hc/en-us/articles/208715577-Jing-Mac-Installation-Instructions-
When the Jing SUNSHINE blob appears, check your email and confirm your address
If you see this page, you can skip it https://www.screencast.com/t/LdGh0h5XzVgY
Jing is ready to use
LightshotWorks similarly to Jing, allows saving to disk or to a URL
Windows accessories: Snipping Tool
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This is a great tool for making tutorial videos of what is happening on your screen and sound card.
You can speak using a mic, and include your own image popout via your webcam.
It's quick and easy, and has an intuitive interface.
How to launch it (you'll need to run an exe file it downloads to your computer)
Visit https://screencast-o-matic.com/screen-recorder and
AND ... it launches. You're ready to REC
You might need to configure your mic, etc, but this is pretty easy!
You can save your recording on your computer and upload it to YouTube or Vimeo and use / embed it in your teaching materials
... like this :-) To record the video below,
I queued webpages in different tabs in my browser and switched from one tab to the next as I narrated the Web tour:
http://workshops2020.pbworks.com/
This is a free tool which I have used for years. It's reliable and benign.
Irfanview allows you to see thumbnails on your computer organized by folders. You can scroll through the photos, open them, crop them, resize them, apply filters, and do many basic editing functions in one flexible interface.
This program is only for Windows. If you have another device, you'll have to use something comparable.
Here is the main download page: https://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm
One of the options for downloading the program is Fosshub: https://www.fosshub.com/IrfanView.html
Choose the installer for your operating system. When you run the installer you will see the screen below
You can accept the recommended settings or use mine:
https://www.screencast.com/t/xbuh1OalCcNM
Click NEXT through the next screens
https://www.screencast.com/t/6mOH6HJtM
https://www.screencast.com/t/vNv9pbQDmTvy
and when you reach the last step, you're done
https://www.screencast.com/t/yKMzmvvH
Explore the images on our device using this tool or one that comes with your device.
Report in your shared document what your capabilities are with your image browsing / editing tool.
PBworks is a wiki website creation site that allows you to create one free workspace under the basic academic plan.
You can use this workspace to create a portal for your students to use to explore your lessons and tutorias, and link to other places they should go to online to submit their work or find links to more information.
GET STARTED here: http://www.pbworks.com/
https://www.screencast.com/t/g5EK7WsN4Od
Select the free plan
https://www.screencast.com/t/2HmvQfydOj0q
In this next step you have to choose a unique name for your workspace, one that no one else in the world is using.
This name becomes part of the URL for your workspace. For example, I chose workshops2020 and the URL for my workspace became
http://workshops2020.pbworks.com/
So choose wisely, give a name and email address, and a password that you can remember
https://www.screencast.com/t/cfYgWVpYFY
If you get this message, check your email and reply to confirm
https://www.screencast.com/t/pPjJ5qupL
In the next step you decide if you want a public or private space (visible to anyone with the URL, or only to people you select)
accept the terms of service, and go to your workspace
https://www.screencast.com/t/P4Lxxd6VxjE
You workspace comes filled with text that's not yours
To make it YOUR workspace, click on edit, delete the text, put something else there if you wish, and SAVE your work.
https://www.screencast.com/t/GF4qsnIQnt
Here is a link to a workshop, created in PBworks, about how to use PBworks in depth
http://kbzpd.pbworks.com/w/page/126519407/Working_with_Wikis
are great places to start a blended learning portal
is a Moodle-like space, but hosted, and more intuitive (because it's more limited than Moodle).
One of Vance's collaborative Schoology projects: https://app.schoology.com/course/2264046012/materials
Use at least one of the tools mentioned so far to add content to your Google Doc or Etherpad or free portal space
When you have
In Unit 3 we'll explore how others create blended models of how to teach online that you can learn from and model for your students
Here's a sneak peek at Unit 3 - Continuing professional development through engaging in networks of other learners / teachers and communities of practice
These materials were created by Vance Stevens, https://learning2gether.net
for presentation at ELSpecialist workshops and ThaiTESOL in Thailand in January, 2020
You are free to share-alike and with attribution under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
The date of this update is May 17, 2021