1. Increasing Engagement and Interaction in Your Classes with Audio/Video Tools

2. Backchannels

• View at http://mogulus.com/reta

• Twitter & Twittersearch @IENM, @desertjul, #ienm

• COMMENT at http://innovate-educate.pbworks.com/Increasing-Engagement-and-Interaction-in-your-Classes

3. Agenda

• Engagement, Interaction & Presence, and Identity

• Audio/Video Tool Descriptions

• Examples

4. Engagement 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e50YBu14j3U

5. Increase Teacher Presence 2) http://communitiesofinquiry.com/

6. Increase Interactions 3) http://cde.athabascau.ca/online_book/ch2.html

7. Identity Learner vs. Instructor

• Learners

• Learners often prefer anonymity but should develop some form of identity for community building. Use of avatars is a strategy. Voki (http://voki.com) appeals to almost everyone! (4 & 5)

• Instructors

• Whereas anonymity may help some students achieve a greater level of comfort, [instructors] must maintain an active identity with which students may interact. (4 & 5)

8. Develop Instructor Online Identity

9. Audio/Video Tool Descriptions

• Uploading Video

• Instant Capture Video and MicroVideo

• Live Streaming Instant Capture Video

• Mobile Live Streaming Instant Capture Video

10. Uploading Video, Cool Founded in 2005. Easily upload & share videos globally. Bought by Google. Launched March 6, 2007. Upload & share Educational/instructional video globally. At blip.tv we've got all the servers and bandwidth you could possibly need. And we're giving it to you for free because you're going to need it. We live on Skype and Twitter and have a virtual watercooler to keep up the team synergies. We also have a lot of fun. Launched end of 2006

11. Instant Capture, Too Cool Usual Suspects Flixn Voki in the Wild Screencapture + voice capture

12. Instant Capture: MicroVideo Literally 12 seconds of video, has been considered the video version Twitter Launched 2007. Recently spotted in the wild in ping.fm and tumblr blogs via disqus

13. Live Instant Capture & Mobility, OMG! Live Streaming Video

14. Mobile Live Stream Instant Capture

15. My Audio/Video Toolkit

• Voki http:// voki.com

• Viddler http://viddler.com , (sometimes I play with 12 seconds http://12seconds.tv & Seesmic http://seesmic.com )

• Screencast-o-matic http:// screencastomatic.com

• USTREAM (has iPhone app) http:// ustream.com & Mogulus http:// mogulus.com

16. Strategies & Examples

• Course Introductory Materials

• Course Announcements

• Unit Development

• Just In Time Tutorials

• Discussion responses and summaries

• Your strategies?

17. Video Users to Watch

• Gary Vaynerchuk - http://garyvaynerchuk.com/

• Robert Scoble - http://scobleizer.com/

• Howard Rheingold - http://vlog.rheingold.com/

18. Reference Links

• Kaplan Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e50YBu14j3U

• Communities of Inquiry site: http://communitiesofinquiry.com /

• Ch 2: Toward a Theory of Online Learning http://cde.athabascau.ca/online_book/ch2.html

• Online Identity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_identity

• Are You Representin? Instructor Identity in Online Courses http://journals.ucfv.ca/rr/RR11/article-PDFs/kirkland.harvey.pdf