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October 13, 2015
COTE Community Call
Agenda
1. General Updates & Reminders
a. Open SUNY COTE Summit
b. OLC Innovate Conference
c. COTE Fellow Chats
d. COTE/UCF Collaborative Call for Effective Practices
e. COTE Training Offerings
f. Campus Blackboard contributions
g. NUTN Authenticating Students’ Identity event recap – Doug Cohen
2.
Presentation: VoiceThread Demonstration & Discussion – Jeffrey
Riman, FIT
3.
Open Forum/Discussion
COTE Summit
Open SUNY COTE Summit
February 24-26, 2016
SUNY Global Center, NYC
Reservations can be made at the DoubleTree Metropolitan
http://bit.ly/1cq1hV4
Speakers, registration, website in development.
OLC Innovate
OLC Innovate Conference
April 20-22, 2016
New Orleans, LA
Call for Presentations
Open now through Nov. 9
http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-innovate/
Registration: http://www.cvent.com/d/drqt5m
COTE Fellow Chats
September: Reporting on Assessment: A Presentation On The Development
and Implementation of an Enterprise Assessment Service; UB’s Online Annual
Academic Program Assessment
Presenter: Thomas Slomka - University at Buffalo
October: Canceled
November: Collaboration in a Virtual Learning Environment for Nursing
Simulation
Presenter: Tara Zacharzuk-Marciano - Ulster County Community College
December: Designing an Optimal Online Learning Experience Meeting the
Needs of All Students
Presenter: Russell Khan - SUNY Poly
Proposals: http://commons.suny.edu/cotehub/engage/fellow-chats/
UCF Collaboration
Collaborative Call for Proposals for
Effective Practices
http://conta.cc/1OvcryV
Entries will be reviewed and added to TOPR!
https://topr.online.ucf.edu/index.php/Main_Page
COTE Offerings
Currently, COTE is offering the following:
N2OL: New to Online (hybrid) – opened October 5 (Module 1)
http://bit.ly/1R9eA0G
Introduction to OERs (online, facilitated) – opens October 19
http://www.cvent.com/d/qrq6f4
OS COTE Blended Learning (self-paced) – opens October 19
http://bit.ly/1NaX8sb
Volunteers Wanted
Share your Blackboard!
Homepage and Tab configurations
Faculty Resources
Student Resources
Library
Default Course Menu
Please notify Dan Feinberg or Erin Maney if interested in
volunteering your Blackboard for our gallery!
NUTN Event Recap
NUTN Authenticating Students’ Identity
October 6th
Monroe Community College
Recap – Doug Cohen
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxF8irm3LCk
Exploring VoiceThread:
Expanding Your Instructional Toolbox
VoiceThread at FIT
Welcome!
Speaker: Jeffrey Riman FIT Coordinator of the
Center for Excellence in Teaching
Speaker and Special Guest:
Sadie Anderson VoiceThread
Welcome!
Today’s Goals:
● Review “basics” about VoiceThread as a learning tool.
● Highlight teaching/learning opportunities.
● Introduce options available through campus-wide
adoption/licensing.
● New features soon to be available
● Discuss implementation questions.
● Share Resources/Samples
What is VoiceThread?
• Cloud-based, platform-agnostic tool.
• Upload, share and discuss documents, presentations,
images, audio files and videos.
• Add comments using webcam, audio, text, and
annotation, with both mobile and desktop tools.
• Asynchronous
VT @ FIT Spans Various Disciplines
FIT Knitting Lab
http://tinyurl.com/prxw4uw
All Modalities
Online, Blended, and In-Class Use
● Asynchronous discussions
● Lecture capture with and without interaction
● Analysis of images for art and science
● Group work assigned by the instructor
● Students (with site license) can create, collaborate and share threads with their
class or classmates
All Modalities
Adding Comments
Video
Microphone
Phone
Text
Commenting: Click Choose and Comment
Upload
Knitwear Analysis
FIT VoiceThread Screenshot : Prof. Ann Denton
Art History
FIT VoiceThread Screenshot : Prof. Jeffrey Riman
FIT VoiceThread Screenshot : Prof. Jeffrey Riman
Lecture Capture with or without slides
Fashion Institute of Technology
FIT has a site license that integrates VT into Blackboard
using LTI v 1.1. Integration into almost any LTI compliant
LMS is possible, including Canvas, Moodle, and D2L.
LTI: http://www.imsglobal.org/toolsinteroperability2.cfm
More on site licensing later.
VT integration with LTI v.2
FIT VoiceThread Screenshot
FIT VT Integration in Bb
FIT Bb Site Screenshot
Grading with LTI v2.0
FIT VoiceThread Screenshot
New Features
Direct Reply
A direct reply allows you to insert a comment directly
after someone else’s comment. Instead of recording a
comment and having it appear at the end of
conversation.
New Features
Private Reply
Similar to a Direct Reply, a Private reply is made in-response-to
another person’s comment, but what makes it fundamentally
different, is that these private replies exist in a permanently private
branch off of the main conversation, visible and accessible by only
the two parties.
New Features
Threaded conversations
If this feature is enabled for a individual VoiceThread
(it’s off by default) commenters may create new
branches (Threads) of the primary conversation. A
branch can only be ‘one-level’ deep, there are no
branches-off-of-branches.
Licensing Option Profiles
Free individual account: Allows anyone ages 13 and up to create up to 5
VoiceThreads, comment by microphone and text, and share your VoiceThreads via
link. You cannot delete and replace VTs, to maximize use of the five limit, or upload
audio files as comments.
Individual (annual) faculty license: For an annual fee of $99, you get (a) 1 Pro
(manager) account; and (b) 50 Basic accounts. Pro has unlimited VT production
capacity; the Basic accounts can each publish 50 VTs.
Licensing Option Profiles
Campus-wide license: 500 users would be approximately $3,000.
Procurement discussions are underway at SUNY.
• From there:< 1000 accounts = $6.00 per user
• 1000 > 1400 accounts = $4.50 per user
• 1500 > 2400 accounts = $3.83 per user
• 2500> accounts = $3.20 per user
•
Note: For a full (unlimited) Site License: about $2 per user
Campus-Wide Benefits
● LTI integration is simple.
● Roster synchronization is seamless and supports roles
appropriate to the student and teacher.
● Students have their own VoiceThread Home page, to author and
collaborate with others.
● Authentication through the campus assures appropriate privacy
protection.
● Start up training webinars and ongoing support is included.
Keep in Mind…
• 3rd Party Cookies must be enabled
• Set-up of collaborative team functions requires a premium account.
• Recent upgrades do not match much of the homegrown support that
has been published by users.
• As with any app or tech-based assignment, VT requires a learning
curve.
Resources: VT Links
Instructions for Faculty
http://docs.VoiceThread.com/ vt-in-your-lms/instructors/ blackboard-2/
Student instructions:
http://docs.VoiceThread.com/ vt-in-your-lms/students/ blackboard-3/
Blog: http://blog.VoiceThread.com/2015/02/24/diversity-in-groups-aconnected-experience/
Mobile: http://VoiceThread.com/mobile/
Resource: VT in Blackboard
https://VoiceThread.wistia.com/medias/syz3llfn8x
Sample Threads
Working physics equations (uses the Doodler):
http://voicethread.com/share/880502/
Calculus in action:
http://voicethread.com/share/2152945/
Feedback on student paper:
https://voicethread.com/new/share/624535/
ESL Oral Exam: http://voicethread.com/share/1160972/
Art portfolio: https://voicethread.com/share/933467/
Thanks!
Please reach us as follows:
Jeffrey Riman: jeffrey_riman@fitnyc.edu
Sadie Anderson: Support@VoiceThread.com
Questions?
Open Forum
Next meeting:
November 10th
2015 call schedule available in
COTE Community Call Group
http://cotecommunity.open.suny.edu/