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Video

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The use of video in education has traditionally been used to reproduce traditional methods of teaching, such as a vodcast or lecture capture. However, video can be used not only to convey “knowledge”, but also to provide feedback, record multimedia “stories”, and evaluate skills among others.

Be aware that video may not be accessible by individuals with visual or hearing impairments and thus should ideally be accompanied by a transcript and close captioning.

Learning Management System Tools

Canvas Media Tool*

Canvas, Geisel’s Learning Management System, affords all users with the opportunity to record audio using the media comment tool available from within the Rich Text Editor. This tool can be used to add audio to course pages, discussions, assignment feedback and even quizzes.

Software Applications (Free)

Panopto*

Panopto is a video hosting and streaming platform which provides faculty with the ability to:

  • Pre-record course content
  • Manage video content (search, share/permissions, and edit)
  • Embed videos in Canvas
  • Add automated machine captions
  • Add interactive quizzes within the video

Software Applications (Fee)

Camtasia*

Camtasia (Mac) and Camtasia Studio (PC) allow users to create, edit, and produce video from a variety of sources including screencast, PowerPoint, and built from scratch with images, movie clips, etc. The product is easy to use and provides a variety of advanced editing options at an affordable price. Videos created in Camtasia can be uploaded into Panopto for streaming and embedding in Canvas.

Check with the Dartmouth Computer Store for educational pricing.

References

The following are a list of references about the use of video in teaching and learning.

*Tools that appear with an asterisk on the pages are commonly used at the Geisel School of Medicine. Contact the Geisel Information Technology office if you would like more information about any of the tools within this guide.

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Feedback

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Feedback is the process of providing an individual (or team) with specific information about that person’s (teams) current behavior, skill or performance to encourage further development or modification of the behavior, skill, or performance. Feedback provides a basis for maintaining or improving performance as well as a assessing needs and planning additional experiences/practice. Feedback can be provided by an expert or a peer both of which have benefits and require practice. Feedback is often most useful when it highlights both positive performance as well as areas of improvement.

Answer Garden

AnswerGarden is a minimalistic feedback tool. Use it in the classroom as an educational tool or at work as a creative brainstorming tool. (Per AnswerGarden website)

AnswerGarden is free. Simply pose a question in AnswerGarden and have the class post 20 to 40 character responses. User responses display as a word/tag cloud.

Device Agnostic

Canvas Media Tool*

Canvas, Geisel’s Learning Management System, affords all users with the opportunity to record audio using the media comment tool available from within the Rich Text Editor. This tool can be used to add audio to course pages, discussions, assignment feedback and even quizzes.

Canvas Peer Review Assignments*

Canvas, Geisel’s Learning Management System, allows instructors to create Peer Review Assignments enabling students to comment and provide feedback on specific assignments. This feedback can be viewed by the instructor who can also provide additional feedback and comments on the submission.

Canvas Quiz/Survey Tool*

Canvas, Geisel’s Learning Management System, affords instructors with the opportunity to solicit feedback from students in the form of both Graded and Ungraded Surveys. By design, survey’s are anonymous and as such it is usually not possible to align the feedback given to the student who provided it.

Qualtrics*

Qualtrics is an online survey tool that allows users to design and deliver surveys for delivery both online and via SMS text messaging. The free version is relatively robust allowing up to 20 surveys with unlimited questions and up to 350 responses.

Survey Monkey

SurveyMonkey is an online survey design and delivery tool. The free version is limited but does allow 10 questions per survey with a maximum of 100 responses per survey.

References

The following are a list of references about the use of feedback in teaching and learning.

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Audio

by adminTechnology for Teaching

The use of audio in education has traditionally been used to reproduce traditional methods of teaching, such as a podcast. However, audio can be used not only to convey “knowledge”, but also to provide feedback, record “stories”, evaluate communications among others.

Be aware that  audio may not accessible by individuals with hearing impairments and thus should ideally be accompanied by a transcript.

Canvas Media Options*

Canvas, Geisel’s Learning Management System, affords all users with the opportunity to record audio using the media comment tool available from within the Rich Text Editor. This tool can be used to add audio to course pages, discussions, assignment feedback and even quizzes.

Panopto*

Panopto is an easy to use screen capture tool available to Geisel faculty. This tool allows users to capture a screen recording as well as the audio for that recording. This recording can be edited once it publishes to the server. The audo and the video can be provided to the users as separate files for download.

Voice Memos

Voice Memos is a an iPad app that allows users to record voice memos of unlimited length. These voice memos can be saved as .m4a files and shared through a variety of mechanisms including Panopto.

Audacity

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder that works on both the Windows and Mac operating systems.

Audacity files can be exported as MP3 files with the optional LAME encoder library.

References

The following are a list of references about the use of audio in teaching and learning.

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*Commonly used tool at the Geisel School of Medicine

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