In the past 2 weeks I have spent most of my waking hours (and some non-waking hours) on designing an online training course for our online faculty, or scrambling to keep up with the work load in my doctoral program.
The online faculty training program was actually written by an expert in online education, and good friend and colleague of mine, Dr. Robert Woods. He is a professor in our Communications department, and a heavy duty researcher and writer. He was kind enough to give me permission to use/modify/hack his faculty training course (for communications faculty) into a more generic version for all other SAU online faculty.
In an attempt to model the use of a variety of technologies, and engage faculty’s interest, I have created narrated presentations of some sections of the various workshops. As a result, I have learned about the quirks of Apple’s Keynote, Impatica (Mac & PC), Garage Band, and Powerpoint. The added benefit to all this practice and experience is I feel I can create a passable podcast without too much difficulty now. Here’s a link to one of the items I produced for the course.
Tools used for the presentation:
The opening slide of the presentation was re-purposed for this presentation. I created it originally for some flash based technology tutorials last year. The little music intro is one of the clips included in Serious Magic’s Visual Communicator Pro.
