Office of Academic Technology :: Spring Arbor University » • Blackboard Learn http://sites.arbor.edu/oat Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:45:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Managing & Searching for Educational Media http://sites.arbor.edu/oat/2012/03/05/managing-searching-for-educational-media/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=managing-searching-for-educational-media http://sites.arbor.edu/oat/2012/03/05/managing-searching-for-educational-media/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:55:54 +0000 Nate Evans http://sites.arbor.edu/oat/?p=2413 It seems like life gets busier and busier, making it difficult to spend time enhancing courses for our students.  In their “Multimedia Principle” Clark and Mayer (2011) talk about the importance of including words and graphics in your course in to encourage active learning.  One easy way to facilitate this is by adding media to your course.  In this tutorial, we discuss three free alternatives for educational media including YouTube Eduction, iTunes U, and Khan Academy, and give you step by step instructions on finding this media and adding it to your course.

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How to use google voice for extremely easy on-the-fly podcasting:
  1. Make sure you have a google voice account if you don’t already have one and sign into your inbox area.
  2. Call your google voice number and leave yourself a message.
  3. When the message populates in your inbox, select the “more” option and then select “Embed”:

4. Add a caption for your podcast (this is optional).

5. Copy the embed code into your computer’s clipboard (control + “c” on the P.C. & Command + “c” on the Mac)

6. Go to your course in Blackboard and select to create a new announcement.

7. Give the announcement a title and then select the “Toggle HTML Source Code” button in the rich text editor toolbar and paste in the embed code that is in your clipboard (control + “v” on the P.C. & Command + “v” on the Mac)

8. Hit the “Toggle HTML Source Code” button in the rich text editor toolbar.

9. Hit the “Toggle HTML Source Code” button in the rich text editor toolbar one more time.

10. Make sure that the “width: 100px” is changed to “width: 500px” in the embed code and then hit submit!

*This same process can be followed for a recorded phone call from google voice which can be done by using these instructions.

The end result will have a flash player embedded media player from Google Voice that the learner will see in the announcements page so that they can listen to your nifty podcast:

 

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