Training starts for 2013
Following my rounds of staff meetings
before the end of summer term last, I have this week started to get the
training for elearning underway. I have managed to get a good number if staff
from just all curriculum area’s to sign up for a session, the first of which
ran this week. If you have been following this blog then you will know that the
strategy focuses upon three principle ingredients of delivery framework,
content and assessment. This first round of training focuses upon content and
introduces the idea of assessment. The idea that you are going to require staff
to carryout major changes to their
existing materials is always likely to induce an expected and to be frank
understandable level of reticence, however by using Wimba Create, which will
convert materials produced in MS Word into Scorm compliant packages, can pretty
much neutralise that.
After each training session I am going to provide coaching for everybody on a one-2-one basis, which I think is going to prove valuable for us all including myself, so I will be blogging on just that as we move through the Winter Term, so please stay in touch
Activities in the session cover the
following exercises
- Word document to learning package conversion
- Using Metadata
- Managing Course Settings
- Basic Styling
- Embedding Web and stored Media
- Embedding websites
- Questions and Feedback
- Publishing a Wimba SCORM Document
- Publishing to DSpace
General speaking providing we have no
technical glitches the 1.5 – 2 hour has proven to be realistic.
You will notice from the list of items, I
include publishing to DSpace. Because Dspace is a preservation repository, and
given the fact that we are harvested regularly, this activity seemed to make
sense.
Having mentioned technical glitches we did
experience one. When embedding a YouTube video into a package I have always
made use of the 'Share/ Embed and Use old embed code' option. On this occasion
though I hit a problem. First off the
‘Use old embed code’ simply was not there, so OK find another example
and use that. When I did, the generated package would not play the content, we
only had a white screen, ouch; have you experienced similar? I found a way
around this though. If you go to this site
and copy the video url and hit the generate but, a number of
embed code outputs appear. I found that taking the first one at the top ‘Standard definition embed’, actually worked just fine, phew.
After each training session I am going to provide coaching for everybody on a one-2-one basis, which I think is going to prove valuable for us all including myself, so I will be blogging on just that as we move through the Winter Term, so please stay in touch
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