SnagIt assignment

I grew up in the Finger Lakes region of Central New York State. This area is known for many wineries. Several of the wineries combine to make a wine trail. They run special events that include wine tasting, food pairings, recipes using wine, and more wine tasting.

This clip is a SnagIt from the Keuka Lake Wine Trail website. You can see a little bit of the beautiful lake.

If you'd like to see the rest of the site, Click here.

Enjoy!

Impaticized PowerPoint

I took a short PowerPoint that I use in the first day of my Computer Literacy course, narrated it and then Impaticized it. I really don't like to narrate this way, I sound flat and bored. I know I'm much more animated in my class!

The process is easy enough and Impatica was easy to use, but I had to do it twice to get it in the right place to be able to access it from the web.

Here's the link to the Imapticized file: Welcome to CS101

Survey Problems

Well, the survey results are coming in - however; I have a glitch in one of the questions. I set one up as a Rating Scale and it should have been a Matrix of Choices. Because of this mistake they could only rate one item with each of the ratings scale choices.(So only one could be Extremely Satisfied, one Satisfied, one Dissatisified, etc...). Although the results have been positive so far, this problem may have skewed the results a little.

Survey Monkey is an easy program to use. I think I will be using it again for other surveys.

Survey Posted

Background: I was fortunate enough to have grant money to take 20 of my Online Faculty to the Conference on Instructional Technology sponsored by SUNY (the State University of New York system). We had to travel to Plattsburgh, NY which is 8 hours away from where we are located. There is no easy way to get from here to there except by car - to make things easy we chartered a small bus. We all stayed in the dorms at SUNY Plattsburgh and ate in the dining hall. I also gave each participant a "goodie-bag" with a polo shirt, thumb drive and assorted other college logo items.

Having never organized a trip like this, I was worried that something wouldn't get done in time or that we'd forget something important. So I created a short survey to poll the faculty that attended and see how they felt the planning went. I am also interested in what they thought about the conference itself to decide whether to try to do this again in the future.

Time to get back to it!

Whew!
It has been a whirlwind of a month here! I have just returned from back-to-back conferences. I'm feeling exhausted but energized at the same time! So many things that I want to get started on our campus...now I have to find the right people to work with!

I have to say Thank you to all the instructors/guides for our Advanced Technologies class. At the last conference, I sat in the back of a workshop on Podcasting - the presenter had some great Tips but when he said "all you need to create podcasts is a Mac computer..." I watched the faces of the faculty I brought fall to the floor - we are mostly a PC school. After the session, I stopped them and told them that we can do podcasts without a Mac. On our 8 hour bus ride home I started to develop the workshop I will do with them based on what we've learned in this course. So, thanks for showing us how!

Now that I'm back and almost caught up with the piles of things on my desk, I need to get caught up with this class. I hate to be behind in my work so I'll probably have to pull some all-nighters to do it! (We stayed in the dorms at SUNY Plattsburgh for the last conference - I had forgotten how much fun dorm-life was! Now I sort of feel like an undergrad again - except with more aches and pains!)