Welcome – Week 3• Toolboxes• HTML• Sound• Podcasting• iTunesU• Copyright & Creative Commons

Sun shining from me

Sun shining from me

Game OverGame Over

Easy StreetEasy Street

Young & Gifted

Young & Gifted

Flogging a dead horse

Flogging a dead horse

Use the text tool to record your current state

Use the text tool to record your current state

Assessment Task 4 Meeting

http://www.doodle.com/b9uxg5bcsvrdwb3d

This weeks Resources

This weeks Resources

This week’s Activity

Content

Content

• Build your own (html)

• Use rapid eLearning Software

• Third Party• Mash up

Course Content Tools

• Toolboxes

Rapid eLearning Tools

http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/nasaNAS~20~20~120295~226994:Sputnik-1

Rapid eLearning Tools

Rapid eLearning Tools

Toolboxes

• high quality resources featuring scenarios, images and interactive activities that simulate real life.

• Can be customised and repackaged• http://toolboxes.flexiblelearning.net.

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Toolbox Characteristics

• Scenarios, • Interactive • Workplace context• Problem based• Reflect skills and knowledge

HTML

• Collection of related web pages, Maintained by specialists

• Each web page is a separate HTML file

• Other multi-media components are separate files also, e.g.. GIF, JPEG, Flash Animations etc

Writing Course Content• Use the Moodle html editor• Use a third party tool like ARED,

Wimba Create, Articulate, PowerPoint (and iSpring)

• Use Dreamweaver • Use Captivate (which exports its

content as a swf file capable of being played in a flash player)

Why is HTML important here?

• Embeds/can be linked to easily in LMS, Blogs, Wikis, Webpages

• Interactivity• Hyperlinks• Can be structured to other docs• Can be read by everyone

Web Site Assets• Html pages (Content & Structure)• Photographs & Graphics

(GIF & JPG)• CSS - Style Sheets (Structure & Design)• Flash (Animations/Demonstrations)• Video (WMV, Flash, QuickTime, AVI,

MPEG4)• Audio (MP3, RA, Flash, WAV)

Web Site Assets

Web Site Assets

Websites• Must be self contained• Browser friendly• Assets we use may require Plug

Ins• (PDF Reader, Flash Player,

QuickTime Player)

Webpage Issues• Formatting• Structure• Consistency between pages• Need a good structure for assets to

ensure they display• Workarounds

Web Editors

Web Editors

Web Editors• Write, paste text• Embed Multimedia• Insert Images• Add links• Tricky beasts, positioning is hard

About Sound• .wav - a format developed by

Windows and used extensively on Windows operating systems

• .mp3 - audio format that compressed sound with minimal loss of quality (i.e. audio file size is a lot smaller as an .mp3 compared to a .wav).

Streaming• Technique for transferring data such that it

can be processed as a steady and continuous stream.

• The client browser or plug-in (WMV, QuickTime, Flash) can start displaying the data before the entire file has been transmitted.

• Moodle automatically adds a “skin” or Moodle automatically adds a “skin” or music player to your uploaded sound filemusic player to your uploaded sound file

Podcasting and Feeds

• Audio Files can easily be recorded using sound recording software that enable mixing in of multiple voices, sound effects and music.

Using Podcasts in Training

Export

• Due to licensing rights Audacity exports in .wav format

• To export in .mp3 format need to download a LAME encoder

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and

recorder for a variety of operating systems

Saving and Exporting

• Project Files (.aud)

• WAV’s

• mp3

Lets make a podcast

• Script/Plan material/topic – have a clear purpose

• 5 minutes maximum(much shorter for vocals that accompany quizzes, decision making trees or scenarios

• Variety of voices

• Consider mixing up the audio presentation through the use of narrative, question and answer, interviews and guest speakers

Recording

• Desktop computers/Laptop sound cards

• Personal Digital Recorders

• Consider an external microphone. (Hold it Steady)

• For podcasts with spoken voice only, the quality does not need to be that high for effective podcasts.

Assemble files

• Audacity Demo

• Intro, Guest, Music, Fillers

• Exporting

• Publishing/Distributing

Assemble files

• Audacity Demo

• Intro, Guest, Music, Fillers

• Exporting

• Publishing/Distributing

MP3 Export – Bit Rate

Publishing/Distributing

• Save in MP3 Format

• Upload to web and link

iTunesU

• Service provided by Apple• You don’t need to have an iPod• Download from www.itunes.com

iTunesU

• More than 250,000 free podcast/lecture content

• Much more in closed content• 300 educational institutions – MIT,

Yale, Swinburne, Uni of Melbourne, Uni of NSW, Uni of WA

iTunesU Demo

Copyright

• Who owns what?• How much can you use?• What are your license options?• Double check what your

organisation’s policies are.

Creative Commons• Creative Commons is a nonprofit that offers

flexible copyright management tools for creative work.

• Offering your work under a Creative Commons license does not mean giving up your copyright. It means offering some of your rights to any taker, and only on certain conditions.

Creative Commons – Licence Types• Attribution - This applies to every Creative Commons

work. Whenever a work is copied or redistributed under a Creative Commons license, credit must always be given to the creator.

• Non commercial - Lets others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work — and derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial purposes only.

• No Derivative Works - Lets others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.

• Share Alike - Allows others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.

Some Websites• Flickr – www.flickr.com

– Robyn jay’s photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/learnscope/

• Open Source Music - http://www.opensourcemusic.com/ • Designing and implementing eLearning with Creative

Commons (Australian Flexible Learning Framework)http://designing.flexiblelearning.net.au/gallery/activities/

creative_commons.htm

• Creative Commons information– Australia – http://creativecommons.org.au – Creative Commons (Global) – http://creativecommons.org/

Thank you for playing