TLT is providing informational sessions on the new OAKS Version 10 due on December 18th. We recommend coming to the live sessions so that you can ask any questions you may have. If you can’t attend you can watch this video of the What To Expect In Version 10 session. The video is in .mp4 [...]
Pecha Kucha is a simple presentation format devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham where you show 20 slides or images, each for only 20 second. The images or slides advance automatically to keep you on time and you can only talk about each slide or image while it’s being displayed. Designed to keep presentations [...]
Reversing (a.k.a. flipping) your classroom is a form of blended learning in which faculty move much of the traditional lecture and in-class information delivery to the web for the student to view outside of class. This in turn allows the professor to spend more time interacting with students in the classroom. That classroom time is used to [...]
Did you know that OAKS has notifications that allow you and your students to stay on top of what’s happening in your classes? Using the Notifications area on your OAKS Homepage you can set how and when you want to be alerted of new discussions, dropbox deadlines and new news items. You can be notified [...]
We are excited to announce the new version of OAKS that will be available December 18th! This new version contains user interface changes for a more intuitive experience for all users. The new user interface includes: A new top bar that provides easy access to courses, alerts and personal settings Redesigned homepage tool with more modern [...]
Last week Laura Plotts and I gave a FTI 2 Go session on using Student Created Mobile Video in your classes. In this session we gave tips for successful filming, editing, and sharing and provided many resources such as rubrics, release forms, and free audio and video resources that are copyright free. Since several people [...]
This fall we are launching the new learning object repository (LOR) for OAKS. The LOR will allow faculty to share course materials from OAKS with other faculty in their department and on campus. You can publish links and files from the Content tool, quizzes/tests from the Quizzes tool, and questions from the Question Library then [...]
Thanks to everyone who came by the TLT Faculty Social on Thursday. It was great to see everyone. During the social I did a short demonstration of Echo360 Personal Capture. Echo 360 is desktop/lecture capture software and it comes in two flavors. The first type is a full room installation with tracking cameras and a [...]
This summer Google issued a new version of their web browser, Chrome. This new version (v. 20, v. 21) has greater security features which is a good thing for most of us. However, these same security features also appear to be preventing some embedded flash videos from playing in OAKS. Currently we know that this [...]
Everyone wants at add online video to their classes but it’s not always easy to use them without infringing on copyright law. Well, the Library is offering more options by subscribing to two video streaming databases: Films on Demand and Academic Video Online. You can read more about these databases on the Library’s Media Collections [...]
