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| Wednesday, 20 July 2005: 2:30 PM-3:15 PM | |||
| Yerba Buena Salon 05 (San Francisco Marriott) | |||
| D-7: Integrating Activity-Based Learning Sets within WebCT | |||
| Detailed Description: | Course templates provide a container in which instructional materials may be organized and serve as tools of mediated communication to facilitate community interaction. As a result, the form of the template follows its function in most cases; nonetheless, teachers often discover limitations that have to be addressed through external linking. This presentation will demonstrate how to embed interactive videos into activity-based learning modules through the creation of split-screened pages within the structure of the template. | ||
| Presentation Format: | Showcase | ||
| Topic: | Enabling learning: Effective instructional practices and flexible design models | ||
| Target Audience: | Academic Technology Directors, Course Designers, E-learning Managers, Faculty and Other Instructors, Institutional Research and Assessment Staff, K-12 Educational Staff, Senior Administrators, System Administrators | ||
| Appropriate Audience Level: | Beginning or new users of WebCT, Experienced WebCT users | ||
| Abstract Text: | Embedding interactive videos into activity-based learning modules is a concept that has facilitated both assessment and sustainability initiatives in the courses that I teach. The idea generated from my wanting to strengthen the diversity of my methods of engagement with adult learners who entered the teaching and learning environment with differences among them in learning styles and motivations for learning. I began to develop supplemental audio files that would talk students through difficult tasks and quickly realized that I would need to pair them with some kind of visual presentation that would illustrate my points. It was not enough for the students to view a lecture, however, and I realized that if I could synch methods of teaching and learning, then I could also synch methods of collaboration. To that end, I began contextualizing these videos into activity sets to give the students the ability to turn every lecture into a lab experience. My work over the past several semesters, then, has led me to the point where my course template provides a meaningful resource for both content management and student interaction with the content, with one another, and with me. This past year, I've explored methods to strengthen the integration between my content modules and the course template I use, and I first began embedded my materials into WebCT's image database. That method, though, didn't allow me to put the activities first, requiring the student to view the entire video and click a link at the end of it that would open an activity set created on a page external to WebCT. By developing the activity sets within WebCT and embedding the Macromedia file into the template itself, I've achieved a better integration of the technologies and solved the problem I had with the order of the activity sets. | ||
| Session Leader: | Ralph Olliges Webster University | ||
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