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flipped classroom

Lecture recording and podcasting – hands-on

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Facilitator: Dylan Cromhout, Marketing

Date and venues:

  • 2nd of June 2016, 13.30-15.30, lab 302, IT center, Bellville campus
  • 9th of June 2016, 13.30-15.30, eLearning Center, Cape Town campus

Workshop description: 

As the availability of tablets both for lecturers and students increases and institutions of higher learning increasingly support a BYOD (bring your own device) strategy,  the use of tablets and other mobile devices for teaching and learning becomes an exciting opportunity for lecturers.

Recording one’s lectures has a range of benefits, namely, making lectures available for students who miss class, and for those who would like to recap on the work covered. Mobile tablet devices offer lecturers the capability of recording their actual PowerPoint slides, their voice, as well as the notes they would draw on a whiteboard. Additionally, new wireless dongles allow the lecturer to show the class exactly what’s on the tablet, all while walking around the class.

Such new technologies offer lecturers a new form of flexibility inside and outside of the classroom; and by combining tablets with Blackboard, they provide effective ways of empowering  students with the resources they need to become self-motivated learners. Recording one’s lectures can also be used for flipping the classroom and other innovative pedagogic practices.

In the session we will cover:

  • Recording lectures with a tablet and laptop using apps such as Explain Everything for your ipad, REC screen Recorder No-Root for Android tablets and Electa live for your laptop (if Electa Live doesnt record audio on laptop you need to install Codec)
  • Editing videos to suit different needs using video editing software such as MovieMaker
  • Converting video recordings to podcast format and editing podcasts using Audacity (you will also need Lame mp3 encoder to convert our Audacity files into mp3)

To book your place please use our online booking system!

Some flippin’ options

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Facilitators: Jonathan Aspeling, Retail Management and Eunice Ivala, Centre for e-Learning/ETU
Date and time: 14th of April, 13.30-15.30
Location: Centre for e-Learning

Seminar description:

The Flipped Classroom (Inverted Classroom Method) is a student centered teaching method in which lectures are replaced/partially replaced with digital learning material. It ‘flips’ traditional teaching methods, by delivering some of teaching/lecturing online outside class and moving ‘homework’ into the classroom. The activities in the classroom are designed to engage students on a high cognitive level and to facilitate deep learning.

In this seminar we will introduce the concept of a flipped classroom and then demonstrate four practical ways that have used  in teaching finance and retailing to pre and postgraduate students at CPUT.

To book your place please use our online booking system

BYOD: Teaching with Tablets

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Facilitators: Dylan Cromhout, Marketing and Linda Manashe, ETU, Fundani

Day and time: 6th of August 2015, 14.00-16.00

Location: Faculty of Informatics and Design, Roeland street, Cape Town campus

 

Seminar description

As the availability of tablets both for lecturers and students increases and institutions of higher learning increasingly support a BYOD (bring your own device) strategy,  the use of tablets and other mobile devices for teaching and learning becomes an exciting opportunity for lecturers. Dylan Cromhout and Linda Manashe will introduce two examples on how to use your and your students’ mobile devices for teaching and learning.

Dylan will focus on the use of tablets to record lectures:

Recording one’s lectures has a range of benefits, namely, making lectures available for students who miss class, and for those who would like to recap on the work covered. Mobile tablet devices offer lecturers the capability of recording their actual PowerPoint slides, their voice, as well as the notes they would draw on a whiteboard. Additionally, new wireless dongles allow the lecturer to show the class exactly what’s on the tablet, all while walking around the class.

Such new technologies offer lecturers a new form of flexibility inside and outside of the classroom; and by combining tablets with Blackboard, they provide effective ways of empowering  students with the resources they need to become self-motivated learners. Recording one’s lectures can also be used for flipping the classroom and other innovative pedagogic practices.

Linda will introduce another app that you can use to introduce online collaboration into your teaching. Padlet is a web 2.0 tool allows you to collate ideas and collaborate online with your learners in class.

Padlet can be used to:

  • Brainstorm ideas from a class
  • Organise research on a topic
  • Gauge understanding on a topic
  • Test student knowledge
  • Curate website links
  • Share information to an audience

Padlet is a device-agnostic tool, available on the web but also available for free as both an Android and iOS app. Use it from any device or move between several devices and still access your work. App and web versions vary slightly.

Book you place through our online booking system!

For more information please contact gachagod@cput.ac.za

 

WORKSHOP RESOURCES (Thanks Dylan!)

Recorded presentation from the seminar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da9zxlGqEr0

 

Video explaining how to use Screencasting software to record lectures with a laptop (this is probably the easiest and simplest way):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmSIdaEOc90

Video from the seminar which shows how to edit using Windows Movie Maker as well as a piece at the end which shows what drivers and video codecs are needed for recording and editing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u-CHk6qwMI

Links to all the software that is needed in order to start recording and editing using a laptop (these are covered in the videos as well):

 

Electa live free screenrecording (for laptops): http://www.screenrecordings.com/

Explain everything, free whiteboard and screen recording app for laptop and tablets: http://explaineverything.com/

MovieMaker (free video editing software): http://windows.microsoft.com/en-za/windows-live/movie-maker

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/k_lite_mega_codec_pack.html

 

June seminars: the flipped classroom and podcasting

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Seminar: Flipping the classroom, rethinking lectures

Facilitator: Eunice Ivala, Fundani
Date and time: 5th of June 2014, 14.00-16.00
Location: Room 2.24, Mowbray campus

Seminar description:

The Flipped Classroom (Inverted Classroom Method) is a student centered teaching method in which lectures are replaced/partially replaced with digital learning material. It ‘flips’ traditional teaching methods, by delivering some of teaching/lecturing online outside class and moving ‘homework’ into the classroom. The activities in the classroom are designed to engage students on a high cognitive level and to facilitate deep learning. In this seminar, this teaching method will be explored and advantages and concerns highlighted. Some of the research done on the flipped classroom methodology at CPUT will also be discussed.

Workshop: Creating podcasts to support ESL students (handson)

Facilitator: Sehaam Khan, Health and Wellness
Date and time: 19th of June 2014, 14.00-16.00
Location: Old Science Lab, 109, Bellville Campus

Seminar description:

It is widely acknowledged that exposing students to content materials in a once-off lecture is not enough to conceptualize and deeply understand course contents and more so for students for whom English is not their first language. Podcasting is defined as the recording and editing of audio files and subsequent distribution to students. It facilitates the extending of learning beyond the lecture time as students can listen to the recorded lecture as many times as possible, at their own pace, at a convenient time and in multiple places. This 2 hour hands-on session will introduce participants to Audacity, a freely available open source software package, which allows simple recording and editing of podcasts. We will also look at various opportunities to publish podcasts, such as on CPUT’s learning management system, or webservices such as soundcloud.

 

To book your workshop please complete our online booking form. For any questions please contact gachagod@cput.ac.za

Creating digital videos using screencasting software

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Date and time: 27th of February 2014, 14.00-16.00

Location: Center for eLearning, training lab, Cape Town campus

Facilitator: Suzaan LeRoux, Accounting, Business Faculty

Description: IMAG0987

Whether you would like to demonstrate the use of a software application, narrate a presentation, or record and share your computer or tablet screen for any other reason, a screencast might be the answer.

This hands-on workshop will be aimed at introducing and showing ways that you (the educator) and your students can create a digital recording of a computer or tablet screen along with audio narration. We will be using free web applications that have a low learning curve. We will learn how to create a screencast on a variety of platforms such as Windows, iOS and Android, and to then upload it to a designated site.

To book you place click here!

For more information email gachagod@cput.ac.za 

 

Resources for this workshop: 

screencasting

Link to presentation on slideshare

 

WINDOWS

iOS

  • ShowMe
  • Collaaj

ADDITIONAL/OPTIONAL

Tablets at CPUT: a lecturer’s experience

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Anton Thiart from Civil Engineering used tablets in class for the first time yesterday. As part of a research project on using the flipped classroom in an ECP course, students explored this new technology for the first time yesterday.

Intro into the flipped classroom methodology: link to video

See here a short video Anton took from his class: http://youtu.be/q0KeMb7yIjU

For his reflections on his experiences in the flipped classroom see his blog: https://sites.google.com/site/engedutech/anton-s-flipped-classroom

Examples of artifacts/videos he creates for his students can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/plzlendahand/