Monthly Archives: November 2016

I didn’t realize the amount of time and effort it takes to create an online course. For my particular audience, I needed to relay content that was limited in the amount of text.  I spent an incredible amount of time looking for and creating video that relayed the intended content.  It I had more time, I would have added more practice exercises such as a matching page or visuals to print at home or put into the students’ portfolios.

I feel that the LMS was limiting in the fact that the students could not use rubrics to self-assess.  I love that one can create assignments, choice activities, quizzes, and rubrics, however, being able to self-assess with the rubric, would have been ideal for this particular course.

Attribution-ShareAlike

According to the above mentioned licence, it lets others copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.  The content of your work may be remixed, tweaked, and built upon even as long as they credit you, and their new creations are licensed under the same terms.  As well, the contributions must be covered under the same licence as the original material.

For the course that I am writing, I would use the above licensing.  As I am as much of a student as I am a teacher in designing an online course, I want to learn from others.  If someone has ideas in tweaking, or remixing my creations, I would want to see how they have made it their own, while recognizing myself as the original writer.  Teachers don’t like reinventing the wheel, but at the same time, feel that it is important to recognize others for their contributions.  Most of my resources for creating my course were collected online from Open Source licenses, and the course, I am hoping, would be free to students, without benefiting financially.  This course would be well suited for non-profit public institutions.

This week, our assignment was to create a digital presentation that is thematically related to the online courses that we are creating.  Finding a digital, specifically, a video tool to explain the content was exactly what I was looking for.  As the potential students enrolling into my course may have various reading abilities, the content needs to be explicable to a wide range of students with varying abilities.

I ended up using two tools and incorporated them together, and I am really happy with the results.  The first tool I used was Edpuzzle which is a video editing tool that embeds questions and comments into the video.  One can also clip the video to show only specific content.  The second tool that I used was Threadlink.  This tool allows the users to embeds video, pictures or content into a background video or picture.

I used the background picture of a bathroom (Threadlink) to embed four videos (Edpuzzle) which demonstrate various skills needed to learn personal hygiene.

Here is the final product: