Blogger, Blog and Blogging

1. Blogging, YouTube & iTunes
for Instructional Purposes
For more in-depth information and resources go to the web blog link below
http://dlccc.wordpress.com/tech-grant-phase-ii/

2. These tools and techniques can be used as a
supplement to Blackboard / Moodle
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or any viable online
course management system

3. Blogging is a great way to supplement your online classes
and get students engaging each other on a variety of topics. I
incorporate student Blogs into my 2nd year Photography
Courses. Blogs can also be used to keep journals, document
activities and projects, post articles, stories and research for
you and other students to view and possibly respond to
based on the parameters you set for the course and the blog.

4. Benefits of Blogging
How can it enhance my teaching?
Blogging is a great interactive tool for getting students to write and share
their images outside the confines of the class. It’s easy to create a visually
sophisticated web portfolio with WordPress.com or Blogger. Uploading
photos is easy, as is incorporating services like Flickr or Photobucket into
your blog. You can also embed videos from YouTube, TeacherTube or
Google and/or your own YouTube Channel.

5. Instructional Design Process
Implementation
Start with a plan for incorporating rich media & blogs in your classes.

6. Decide just how you want to incorporate Blogs
into your online / hybrid class. Don’t incorporate
blogging into your course if it is NOT going to
contribute to student learning and/or
reinforce the course content that your students
are studying.

7. Once students have created their blogs and posted
a welcome message, pictures and a short
biography - give them an assignment and follow
through by posting a comment to their
respective blogs to start the ball rolling.

8. Web “Blog” Portfolios
All my 2nd Year Photography students create Portfolio Web
Blogs to compliment (supplement) their printed Portfolios.

9. I make blogging an integral part of my
photography / art courses
My students must post a link to their Portfolio Blogs to our class
Blackboard at the end of the final semester before graduation. We begin
setting up the student blogs during the 2nd year of our program.

10. Portfolio Blogs present a cross
section of the students best work.
Students essentially have a web portfolio when they leave our two year
Associates Degree Photography Program.

11. Photo Student Blog Example #1
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12. Student Blog Example #2
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13. Part II
You Tube is an amazing video content resource for instructors from all
disciplines. Like the internet, there’s a lot of mediocre or just plane bad
content out there, however there is also a wealth of excellent
instructional videos that you can embed into your online classes. As
online instructors we also must act as editors (facilitators) and search
for the very BEST video content on the web then incorporate it into
our teaching strategies.
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Excellent Online
Teaching Tool!

14. YouTube Instructional videos can be embedded
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directly into Blackboard

15. Create your own instructional videos and upload
to YouTube - You can create your own channel
and then embed your video’s into your classes.

16. Decide where you want to embed You Tube videos into your online course and how you want to
use it and possibly assess that students are learning something from it.2. Go to www.YouTube and
search for the subject matter that relates to your course content. For example I teach Art
Appreciation and each week I search for a video (video’s) that reinforces and illustrates the
chapter from my text such as Prehistoric Art, Egyptian Art, Greek Art, etc.3. It’s important to
preview these clips to make sure you find the very best (highest quality) videos that relates to
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and reinforces your course content.

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Once you have identified the video you
want to place in your course you will
notice the embedding code on the right
of the You Tube video and copy that
code. Then go to your Blackboard (or
Moodle) and paste it into either your
discussion board post, announcement,
assignment and/or course documents.
Once you do this you will see the YouTube video box
embedded directly into your discussion board post or
where ever you decided to place it. I sometimes embed it in
both the discussion board and announcement page to make
sure all the students see and view it.

18. You MUST make sure the HTML toggle is activated on the text
editor <> before you click paste into and submit. This will allow
the video to play directly in your online course.
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It’s important to preview
these clips to make sure you
find the very best (highest
quality) videos that relates to
and reinforces your course
content.
Adding rich media content to
your total online and hybrid
courses enables instructors to
reinforce techniques and
concepts demonstrated in
the studio or in the field.
Podcasts and video content
also tap into a variety of
learning styles.

20. Using Blackboard and/or Moodle Course Management Systems as
supplements to my Photography and Art courses, I can teach from
anywhere and deliver (and assess) course content even if it is hands-on
photographic techniques. Student review the posted podcasts, videos
and screen casts then post their own work based on the tutorials I post
for them that relates to the techniques we are learning as a class.
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21. iTunes has a built in RSS feed so whenever the instructor uploads
a new instructional podcast or video podcast it downloads directly
to all the students who have subscribed to that instructor’s iTunes
U folder.
You can either produce your own instructional media and
upload it into iTunes U for your students or if you are NOT an
iTunes U college there is a vast amount of viable instructional
content that you can download and incorporate (embed) into your
course blackboards.
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Part III

22. There are many benefits to being an iTunes U college, however the
process and set-up can take from 6 months to a year depending on your
IT staff. Having a college specific iTunes U site enables each department
and course to have their own folder on iTunes that can store podcasts and
enhanced podcasts that students can download to their MP3 players.
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23. Decide just how you want to incorporate iTunes into your online
class. Don’t incorporate podcasts and enhanced podcasts into your
course if this type of rich media is NOT going to contribute to
student learning and/or reinforce the course content that your
students are studying.
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Make sure you have iTunes loaded on your
computer and then go to iTunes and click
iTunes Store – then iTunes U. Once you have
located iTunes U you are ready to search for
the podcast or enhanced podcast / video that
you want to embed into your Blackboard or
Moodle Class. There are thousands of FREE
lectures and various educational resources in
iTunes – you just have to find the ones that
best relate and compliment the material you
are teaching your students. Free is Good!

25. Once it has completely downloaded to the iTunes on your computer
take your either drag it to your desktop OR right click and copy it to
your desktop. You will see and MP3 or MP4 file on your desktop. This
is the podcast that you will upload to your Blackboard or Moodle
class.
Now go to your Blackboard and open the text editor where you want
the students to access (listen to or watch) this podcast. Click on the 3rd
icon bottom left of the text editor (see below) and upload that MP3 or
MP4 if it is a video or enhanced podcast with pictures. This may take a
minute depending on how large the file is.
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26. You can set the width and height of the viewing box if it is an enhanced
podcast ( stay with the defaults) if it is an audio files. You can also click
autostart and loop if you want the podcast to start as soon as the
students open the folder or item. Be aware the longer the podcast the
more time it takes to upload it into your course.
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27. Now the iTunes Lecture is
Embedded into your Blackboard
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28. Instructional Video Example
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Click Here

29. •Instructional Podcast Examples
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Click Here

30. Student Portfolio Podcast Example
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Click Here

31. Click on the Links in Chat Box located
left of your screen to review
some examples from our college
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YouTube Channel/
http://www.youtube.com/user/dlcarteret
CCC Itunes University Link Below
http://www.carteret.edu/cgibin/CCCITunesu.php?caller=stud
Please take 3-4 minutes for this

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Resources for Blogging,
YouTube and iTunes U
• http://dlccc.wordpress.com// (My DL BloG)
• http://66.39.75.209// (NC Tech Resource Center)
• http://www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning/
• (Apple iTunes Information and Application to be iTunes U
• http://wordpress.com// (Get Started Blogging)

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Contact Information
for the Mad Blogger
• pjk@carteret.edu
• Skype ID: Patrick_Keough
• www.keoughp.wordpress.com