Using Blackboard for Audio/Visual Content from Lectures and LabsAlison DoubledayNancy A NormanUniversity of Illinois – Chicago College of Dentistry

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Use of Video for Learning Gross Anatomy

1. Instructional videos

2. Dissection videos 3. Footage captured

during lab for later review

4. Recorded lectures

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Tools

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Overview

Rationale: Demonstrate a procedure, get students thinking about material ahead of time, provide review material, putting together concepts

Method: Dissection footage (Flip), still images, Camtasia©, post in Blackboard

Challenges: Video quality, obtaining enough footage, long loading times, tracking & evaluation of learning outcomes

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Student Use

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Student Comments “What did you like best about the videos?”

• "They were an excellent guide to the locations and explanations of nerves, vessels and even clinical relevancy”

• "They help to clarify the ‘hard to identify’ structures; they help to reinforce what we have dissected in the lab”

• “They thoroughly explain structures, as well as giving additional information that correlates with the lecture material, while applying it to lab”

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Some Comments: Suggestions

• "Probably somehow making us watch the lab videos BEFORE we go to lab so that we know exactly what we are looking for … possibly post a short quiz before the day of lab?”

• "If they were more organized into folders with specific parts shown. Sometimes it was hard to find a video with the structure I was looking for"

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Capture by any means necessary

Audio is Critical

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IT’S NOT JUST CAPTURE

… It’s editing, and rendering, and uploading files …

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Linking AV Content to Blackboard

Blackboard Course

AV Resource

Assignment My Desktop

Streaming Server

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Using Explore to Copy Files from Desktop

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Streaming Server via Group WebDisks

Store .mp3 or .mp4 files

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Staff Concerns

AWARE OF FACULTY PREFERENCES• No Vodcasts• Not downloadable• Editing extraneous conversation• Last minute changes class (recording) schedule

RELEASES • Guest speakers

AUDIO• “Don’t need a microphone, I’m loud enough”

TECHNICAL COMPLEXITIES• Job aids/documentation to keep track of it all

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9 SEMESTERS LATER

14 weeks

x 25 captures/wk

x 9 semesters

= Lots of Digital Learning Resources

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Managing Digital Learning Resources

…. To be searchable by students

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