Creating Serious Magic with Instructor Videos

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Thursday, July 13, 2006
This presentation is part of 3: Poster Sessions
Creating Serious Magic with Instructor Videos

Description: As part of an instructional development grant, a group of faculty across the college created their own video clips with Serious Magic's Visual Communicator Pro to use in their WebCT courses. The videos were designed to both improve student performance and provide a human face for the course. Explore the project sequence, learn about its success, and hear recommendations for future applications of the technology within WebCT.
Presentation Format: Poster
Topic: Incorporating innovative tools: breakthrough technologies and WebCT
Target Audience: Course Designers, Faculty and Other Instructors
Appropriate Audience Level: Beginning or new users of WebCT, Experienced WebCT users
WebCT Version: WebCT Campus Edition
Abstract Text: As part of a grant from the college's Instructional Development committee, a working group of faculty from each department along with the school's Instructional Technology Specialist worked together to explore the effectiveness and practicality of instructor-created videos inside a WebCT course. After covering basic media planning and preparing techniques, each faculty member used Serious Magic's Visual Communicator Pro to create 2-4 short video vignettes to add to their online courses. The goal was to humanize the course as well as provide another way to present material that was hard for students to understand in traditional text delivery. After the first semester, the students and faculty were surveyed about their experiences. This poster session will explain the project sequence, present the findings and make recommendations for future applications of the same technology inside WebCT.

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Description:	As part of an instructional development grant, a group of faculty across the college created their own video clips with Serious Magic's Visual Communicator Pro to use in their WebCT courses. The videos were designed to both improve student performance and provide a human face for the course. Explore the project sequence, learn about its success, and hear recommendations for future applications of the technology within WebCT.
Presentation Format:	Poster
Topic:	Incorporating innovative tools: breakthrough technologies and WebCT
Target Audience:	Course Designers, Faculty and Other Instructors
Appropriate Audience Level:	Beginning or new users of WebCT, Experienced WebCT users
WebCT Version:	WebCT Campus Edition
Abstract Text:	As part of a grant from the college's Instructional Development committee, a working group of faculty from each department along with the school's Instructional Technology Specialist worked together to explore the effectiveness and practicality of instructor-created videos inside a WebCT course. After covering basic media planning and preparing techniques, each faculty member used Serious Magic's Visual Communicator Pro to create 2-4 short video vignettes to add to their online courses. The goal was to humanize the course as well as provide another way to present material that was hard for students to understand in traditional text delivery. After the first semester, the students and faculty were surveyed about their experiences. This poster session will explain the project sequence, present the findings and make recommendations for future applications of the same technology inside WebCT.