UNC recently announced that the official campus learning management system will become Sakai by fall of 2014. This change to Sakai it has the potential of being one of the largest technological shifts that the University has experienced in the last 10-12 years. Sakai is an open-source based learning management system that was developed...
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This presentation was part of the PowerPoint Brownbag series organized by Dale Roenigk. On September 16th, Will Cross and Emily King presented on best practices for using images in teaching. The information provided were best practices and not legal advice, but more suggestions. Will Cross shared five best practices for teaching with images: Assume...
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I am the newest member of the TLS team and my focus will be on instructional technology. I have a great interest in finding solutions that extend the learning space and allow for authentic learning environments where both faculty and clients are able to engage in an interactive environment. I previously managed the UNC-CH...
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We need your voice—men, women and a variety of accents! SOG (TLS) is searching for voices to narrate some of our e-learning modules and/or to simply read short lines as part of some mini-scenarios that we’re developing. If you’ve wanted to be recorded, think you’ve got a great voice, or if know someone else...
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Perhaps you’re tired of the clip art you use in your presentations, or better yet, you feel energized about reducing the bullets, text and content on your slides and want to revamp your presentations and make them more focused and effective. Perhaps you just want to spruce up your blog posts. You need some...
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As a school, we were busy this year providing online training and instruction. We put on 19 webinars this fiscal year, not including additional webinars offered by EFC. Our unofficial webinar participant count was 4,379. If we add in those that signed up for our on-demand webinars and courses (elearning modules), the numbers...
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Yesterday we conducted our second Local Government Legislative Review/Update. It was successful on many accounts, but first, the details… Duration: 2 hours Registered: 84 In attendance (online): 413 Presenters: 12 (Wall, Wunsche, Markham, Bluestein, Crowell, Ducker, Welty, Fairbanks, Whisnant, Hughes, Youens, McLaughlin) Avg. presentation length: 7.5 minutes Faculty Lead: Aimee Wall Program Manager: Carolyn...
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Just a couple weeks ago, the U.S. Library of Congress released the policy paper outlining the much awaited expansion of exemptions to the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Bottom line, we can now legally* “rip” short clips from legally acquired, copyrighted DVDs for use in our classes, courses, presentations and digital publications. Needless...
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We make a lot of presentations in our building. Most are used as part of our face-to-face classes, but increasingly, many of these end up online as well as the basis of online courses. Dale Roenigk, fearless discussion leader of our first event, has created a schedule for these sessions for the third Thursday...
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I’ve received a number of requests about how to add YouTube videos to PowerPoint presentations. TLS is happy to help you with this individually, but I’m shairng this YouTube video for those adventurous types who want to give this a shot on their own first. It’s not terribly complicated, but there are a few...
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