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It’s the start of the semester, and I’ve given up on using CMap<\/a>‘s collaborative concept-mapping in my online class this semester. Ah, well. I’ve at least figured out a package of cool tools to use instead. USF uses Blackboard, which would be a very clunky tool indeed except for a few other side apps. One is Respondus<\/a>‘s offline quiz-creation program, which USF has a site-license for. My reaction several years ago to that: whew<\/em>! <\/p>\n

Last year I used a variety of tools, largely Microsoft’s MovieMaker, to turn Powerpoint presentations into very bulky files. Bad Sherman, by this year’s standards. Huge WMV files are so<\/em> 2005, along with Social Security destruction<\/strike> reform, Katrina, and heckuva job<\/em>. This year, smaller footprint<\/em> is the watchword (or watchphrase), and for that I can thank the eLearning XHTML Editor<\/a> that creates SCORM<\/a>-compliant packages that I can upload to Blackboard; SWiSH Presenter<\/a>, which is like Camtasia and Articulate Presenter in converting PowerPoints to Flash except that the educational license is US$50 instead of much<\/em> more; and Audacity<\/a>, which allows me to create narrations that are noise-filtered, normalized, and have all the breath intakes and um<\/em>s deleted. That deletion of my mistakes takes just a little more effort than the filtering and normalization, but that’s because I breathe a lot; my academic-year resolution is to breathe less<\/em> and thus save time in audio editing. <\/p>\n

I’ve recorded the narration for the first-unit lecture for the online course and am about halfway through the editing. I should finish sometime late tomorrow morning, and then there’s the first live chat tomorrow evening. I just hope our tech gurus on campus have discovered the security certification for the chat facility by then!  Oh, yes, and finish filling in holes of chapter 1 of Accountability Frankenstein<\/em>, because I have brilliantly decided to give my students chapter drafts. That means, um, er, that I have to finish them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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