Another great eLCC conference! My biggest take-away was the concept of the One-Button Video Studio. Ling posted the video overview from CU Denver. I hope we can collaborate with ITS and get our very own one-button studio set up. We can have much guidance from CU Denver and the software that runs it is open sourced. The budget seems reasonable. I know there are several faculty from across colleges that have indicated that they would like to learn how to create videos for their courses.
I presented this year on the topic of "Mindful Living and Learning in a Digital World." Feel free to contact me if you'd like a copy of the PowerPoint, it is chock full of ideas, articles, and resources.
I attended two excellent hands-on sessions. One was about leveraging social media and utilizing special sites for Social Activism by Sherry Jones. I found a couple of the tools personally helpful to know. One in particular, is countable.us (both a website and an app). The tagline for countable is "Your government, made simple. Get clear, concise summaries of bills going through Congress, see what others think, then take action. Telling your reps how you feel is easier than ever with email and now video messages. Make your democracy more responsive!"
And the other tool I really thought would be helpful for all who want to examine both sides of the debate on an issue. http://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/ It is "a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, Intelligence Squared U.S. was founded in 2006 to restore civility, reasoned analysis, and constructive public discourse to today's often biased media landscape." After looking at this website and sampling a debate that was posted I found it to be a safe and reliable source for understanding the main perspectives on important issues.
Another hand-on "active" session was modeled after the Escape room concept. Kae Novak, Krystan Grant, and Marcus Fowler had us dive right into solving a fun problem and applying our digital literacy skills for gathering clues and finding answers from a variety of sources in the room. It was a lot of fun (and we did eventually escape!) I can really see how setting something like this up for a classroom would be incredibly engaging and memorable. Kae and her colleagues have a few outlines and tip sheets for building your own escape room activity. Let me know if you would like to see these resources or if you would like some help.
Nicole
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