NEW TECHNOLOGY AT UNI

Capture your class or events live and make them available online when they are over!

Capture your class or events live and make them available online when they are over! A new technology is available on campus enabling faculty, staff, and students to capture their face-to-face courses or events into a digital format as they are occurring live. Once the scheduled class or event ends, the captured course or event is available on the web for immediate viewing!

The technologies that make this possible are a specialized capture station placed in a multimedia classroom working in tandem with the current ITS media distribution system.

The Accordent Capture system is started by clicking a start icon. Once started, the system captures video and audio of the presenter as well as any item that the presenter has on their computer. The video, audio, and screen captures are synchronized automatically and are available for viewing live during the class or event.

Once the class or event is complete, the presenter clicks the stop icon and their presentation is available almost immediately on-line with no editing needed. This solution is automatic, making classroom capture very easy to use.

This technology is available in StudioIT 1 (ITTC 134). This facility is available to UNI faculty at no charge to use for classroom instruction. For more information on reserving StudioIT 1, visit http://www.uni.edu/its/et/studioit.

For more information on this technology, please contact any of the Educational Technology Specialists-Phil Hibbard, Lori Seawel, and Jason Vetter-its-tnt@uni.edu.

Here are some links to classes already captured:

• Exercise Theory
• Digital Portfolios Made Easy
• What is Environmental Public Health

AUDIO/VIDEO PRODUCTION
FOR EDUCATION

How can you tap into the power of media in the classroom?

WIRED STUDENTS AT CAMPUSES

What do you know about today's students and technology?

Did you know that 97.8% of undergraduate students own a PC? Did you know that 38.3% of 18- and 19-year-old undergraduates start college with both a desktop and laptop computer? Did you know that 72.7% of college students have used a course management system? Did you know that 56.8% of students agreed or strongly agreed that faculty use information technology well in class? These are just a few facts gathered from respondents by the Educause Center for Applied Research. To read more about the students hitting our campuses, go to http://www.educause.edu/ecar

E-PORTFOLIO PILOT UNDERWAY

Several UNI faculty and their students are currently piloting Blackboard Portfolio and contemplating how e-portfolios might be used to support teaching and learning.

This semester we have begun a pilot with six faculty and their classes in the use of electronic portfolios. Electronic portfolios are digital archives or collections of artifacts (audio/video clips, text, graphics, and coursework) that represent the owner of the electronic portfolio, whether it is an individual, group, or institution. Personal reflection on one's work or philosophies is a key element in many electronic portfolios. Electronic portfolios can serve many purposes, such as assessment (standards-based and general assessment of learning), reflection, and career or employment purposes. The UNI faculty using them this semester are putting them to work in a variety of ways and for a variety of purposes. The e-portfolio product being utilized is WebCT's e-portfolio, now called Blackboard Portfolio, and integrates into the WebCT/Blackboard environment here on campus. The Pilot will continue into the fall semester so if you are interested in using this with your class or within your department for student outcomes assessment, just let us know.

BLACKBOARD GREENHOUSE
EXEMPLARY COURSE PROJECT

What a makes an online course environment more student-friendly? How can you build your course to better meet student needs?

The Blackboard Greenhouse Exemplary Course Project recognizes courses that model best practices in learning, course design, interaction and collaboration, assessment and evaluation, meaningful technology use, and learner support. ITS-Educational Technology staff and faculty from UNI have been a part of this process by reviewing Exemplary Course Project (ECP) nominees for the past four years. If you think that you have a course that you'd like to improve upon or you think that the course is "exemplary", we encourage you to use the Blackboard Greenhouse ECP rubric to review your course. Educational Technology Specialist staff members would also invite you to review the rubric with them once you have filled it out to discuss where improvements could be made and where the course is exemplary. After this process, we'll also encourage faculty to submit their course for next year's ECP program. To review winning courses from past years of the ECP program or for more information, please visit http://www2.blackboard.com/exemplary/viewpage?name=exemplary_home_page.

BEST KEPT SECRET!
ITS-ET PRODUCTION HOUSE
& DIGITAL DESIGN SERVICES

Did you know that ITS-Educational Technology hosts a production lab, staffed to assist you with your multimedia projects?

Among the many cost-effective services provided to the UNI community is website design, disk duplication, slide scanning and multimedia production. We will provide consultation, design, and creation services for University related web sites and multimedia projects. Additionally, we provide website maintenance services, including routine updates, posting of new content, and adding pages or links from material you provide. For further information call Keith Kennedy at 3-6192, Sandy Hendrickson at 3-6276 or visit http://www.uni.edu/its/et/productionhouse.