This session offered at Blackboard Collaborate Connections Summit 2012 will share Northern Illinois University’s journey offering live online faculty development workshops using Blackboard Collaborate as well as making online workshop archives available for on-demand viewing either online, in iTunes, or on a mobile device. Emphasis will be placed on NIU’s step-by-step workflow for using Publish! in conjunction with Blackboard Collaborate to create MP4 versions of archives suitable for viewing online as well as on mobile devices to deliver archived online faculty development programs in podcast form. The presentation will include considerations for hosting archives outside Blackboard Collaborate as well as the steps necessary to create a podcast RSS feed, submit to the iTunes store, and update the necessary files when a new MP4 archive from Blackboard Collaborate is generated.
Podcasting Online Faculty Development Programs Using Blackboard Collaborate MP4 Archives
1. Podcasting Online
j.mp/fdpod
Faculty Development
Programs Using
Blackboard
Collaborate
MP4 Archives
JASON RHODE
Asst. Director, Faculty Development
Northern Illinois University
2. Presenter
Jason Rhode, Ph.D.
Assistant Director
Faculty Development and
Instructional Design Center
Northern Illinois University
niu.edu/jrhode
jrhode@niu.edu
twitter.com/jrhode
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4. Session Description
This session at Blackboard Collaborate Connections Summit shared
Northern Illinois University's journey offering live online faculty
development workshops using Blackboard Collaborate as well as making
online workshop archives available for on-demand viewing either
online, in iTunes, or on a mobile device. Emphasis was placed on NIU's
step-by-step workflow for using Publish! in conjunction with Blackboard
Collaborate to create MP4 versions of archives suitable for viewing online
as well as on mobile devices to deliver archived online faculty
development programs in podcast form. The presentation includes
considerations for hosting archives outside Blackboard Collaborate as
well as the steps necessary to create a podcast RSS feed, submit to the
iTunes store, and update the necessary files when a new MP4 archive
from Blackboard Collaborate is generated.
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5. Session Focus
• Details of NIU’s workflow for podcasting MP4 archives
of online faculty development workshop archives
• Glimpse at mobile experience of downloading and
viewing MP4 archives on iPhone / iPod Touch
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