Screencasting sessions by JISC Digital Media

JISC Digital Media Online Surgery has a series of sessions on screencasting coming up that look really interesting. All sessions take place on Wednesdays between 1.30-2.30pm and can be accessed via your computer using the Elluminate environment.
Details here: http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/surgery

• The major technical issues surrounding screencasting – 19 January 2011
• Considerations for screencasts as teaching and learning support resources – 26 January 2011
• Using a screencast as a lecture capture tool – 02 February 2011
• Using a screencast to provide feedback – 09 February 2011

Good Practice Guide for Elluminate Live

As a JISC online conference attendee I have been a participant in the Elluminate Live virtual environment. I have just noticed this really useful piece providing more information about Elluminate Live, including a recording made using the software.

• Elluminate Live Good Practice Guide by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

What is striking about Elluminate Live and other virtual meeting spaces or classroom software is the similarity of their Graphical User Interface (GUI). I have also had demos of, or used: gotomeeting.co.uk and Wimba Classroom.

Feedback on research grant

Recipients of the University for the Creative Arts Learning and Teaching Research Fund 2009/10 met for a research seminar at Farnham. We made links between each of our projects and were also able to share knowledge of other projects within the University.

I was reminded of Wimba, which I was aware of, but have not looked into properly, and therefore didn’t appreciate that it can link up with Blackboard, and that it can have multi-sensory features.

Elluminate was mentioned, and this is something I have experience of using as a member of the audience for the last two JISC e-Learning conferences (2008 and 2009).

Adobe Presenter also came up in conversation. This is something I tested last year and could see real benefits. Salesforce also use it to deliver some of their online training so I have experience of it from the learner perspective. I would like to look into its functionality in more depth.

Next steps: create links to all the software I am aware of, then to email Museums Computer Group jiscmail list, and ACADI email list to ask for suggestions.