Including audio Powerpoint in online courses

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Can You Hear Your Instructor Now?

• Including audio Powerpoint in online courses
• By
• Boris Tudeth

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How It Works

• An Overview

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What You Will Need
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Creates file format that is optimized for
streaming over the Internet. Converts the
PowerPoint file into a compressed file.

• What is
• Impatica?

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What is Impatica Continued
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Why Faculty Are using Audio PP

• More interactive for students
• Impart specific, detailed info otherwise
  challenging to deliver in an online course
• Gives the online instructor more of a presence in
  the course
• Protects intellectual property

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What Students Say about A.PP

• I think the Powerpoint lectures made a big
  difference for me in tying everything I read in a
  chapter together.
• I thought the voice lectures were most helpful.
  
• I felt the instructor's personal tutorials (PP
  Audio) to be key in determining the focus of the
  material, without the tutorial it would have been
  too difficult to narrow in on what the key points
  were.

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Step-By-Step Recording
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Impaticize!
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Upload into Course Management Software

• For Desire2Learn
• Important Create individual folder for each
  PowerPoint lecture
• Upload zipped folder in to Course File area
• Unzip
• Create content link to HTML file
• Finished!

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Known Issues

• If Red X appears instead of PowerPoint-JAVA
  Script downloaded AND enabled
• www.java.com/getjava/
• Pause talking between slide transitions when
  recording
• If you move the file after linking in content it
  may stop working and you may need to delete
  unzipped files and unzip again

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Web 2.0

• New generation Web applications which may provide
  an infrastructure for more dynamic user
  participation, social interaction and
  collaboration.
• Sketchcast.com
• Mango

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Conclusion

• Audio PowerPoints can be esp. helpful for 1st
  year student or 1st time an online course.
• Impatica creates a small, manageable file
• Faculty and students enjoy the results
• Being used at CLC in Art History, Biology,
  Chemistry, Spanish, English, Communication, Child
  Development courses
• Watch for more, new, free Web Apps

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Now You Try It

• Questions?

• Thank You

• Michael Amick
• Director of Online Learning
• Central Lakes College Brainerd, MN
• mamick_at_clcmn.edu