Apple iPad in higher education: a 1-day perspective

I'm trying to write this post using an 1-day old iPad. At this point, except for the blog title and labels, writing a post from within the Google blogger interface (i.e., bringing up the beautiful big iPad touch keyboard) is only possible using the Edit HTML function, not the simple Compose WYSIWYG. Slow and tedious.... I'll have to finish this later on a real computer....

Scripps : YouTube : Pedagogy : > Social Media

It is hard to visit Scripps College's home page without noticing the college's engagement with online social media: a feature on the DCC's YouTube channel and Follow us online! links to Scripps on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr.

YouTube /Online video

Founded 5 years ago on Valentine's Day to "create a place where anyone with a video camera and an Internet connection could share a story with the world," YouTube justifiably calls itself "the most popular online video community." The site allows people to share originally-created videos across the Internet through websites, email, blogs, and mobile devices. Hundreds of millions of videos are viewed each day on YouTube and hundreds of thousands of videos are added each day to YouTube - at the rate of 20 hours of video per minute.

Scripps College on YouTube

The Scripps home page features the DCC Leadership for Real Change Video Project, video responses by Scripps students, faculty and staff to a 2/3/10 speech on campus by former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich on the topic "Effective Leadership for Real Change." The videos are stored on YouTube and can be shared easily:

• on YouTube > scrippsvoice's YouTube channel
• on a website > Scripps website info
  
• on a blog > this blog, for example
• via email by sending any of the above links in a message

Scripps  YouTube Channel

Features 5 commencement videos (2007-2009), 5 videos about the CORE curriculum, an MTV news segment on the Clinton Global Initiative, and an 8-minute History of Scripps College

Other Scripps videos

• Professors Boucquey and Haskell's French Theater Class
  
• Mindfulness in the Brain (from USC with Professor Michael Spezio)
  
• Intermediate video production assignments- by dormz and Gossip Girl
• Videos for a psychology class
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0kZ7D9XpB4
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4YADc7whmw
• Mozart: Piano Trio in G, K.564; Adante
  
• Choreography/dance filmed at Scripps
  A walk through Leaves of Grass 
• IT-FITS - Intro to Podcasting
  

Search for "Scripps College" on YouTube to find videos on the Scripps Academy, live concerts @ Motley Coffeehouse, college traditions: Scripps College, the 2007 Ceramics exhibit, a music ensemble, an unofficial campus tour by a Scripps student, and more.

How to use video to facilitate teaching & learning

• Student assignments ~ Video offers a variety of digital story-telling possibilities. In addition to filming their own videos, students can use the free movies and music in the Internet Archives and other online resources to produce original video assignments. For example, this copyright-free Internet Archives footage is the basis for the Eleanor Roosevelt YouTube video below
• Share relevant online videos in class and/or as Resource links in Sakai course sites. Search YouTube for videos like this 1933 footage of Eleanor Roosevelt speaking in Chicago 
• A much smaller set of resources than the main YouTube site, YouTube EDU offers videos from higher ed that can be integrated into the curriculum. These videos range from lectures to sports updates. Participating universities include Stanford, Cambridge, Harvard, UCLA, MIT, Tulane, and others. Videos are organized by discipline

Further reading

• "More Video Wanted -- If They Can Get It" (Wired Campus, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 12, 2009)
• Video Use and Higher Education: Options for the Future

Further help
Scripps faculty who need instructional technology assistance should contact IT-FITS. For more information, please watch our YouTube video.

Parody of "The Office" - challenges of teaching with technology

Online on YouTube - 1/28/10 with these  tags:

• Final MassComm Video
• the class the office
• technology classroom professor students
• floppy disk powerpoint skype clicker projector
• DU university of denver

Add (senior) auditors to Sakai course sites

This is essentially the same procedure for adding non-Claremont Colleges guests with external email addresses.

1. In your site, click Site Info from the menubar on the left
2. Click Add Participants
3. For senior auditors (without official Sakai usernames), under Non-Claremont College guest(s) [the second box], enter the auditor(s)' email address, one address per line
4. Under Participant Roles, choose to give your newly added senior auditor(s) the same role, then click Continue
5. Use the buttons to select the Auditor role for senior auditors, then click Continue
6. On the next page, select the Send Now button to automatically email the senior auditor about the site's availability and their temporary password, then click Continue.
7. Confirm that the information for the participant(s) that you are adding is correct, and then click Finish.
   

Information to share with senior auditors re:
how to access your Sakai course site

• Go to Sakai:
  https://sakai.claremont.edu:8443/portal
  (There is a link on the Scripps website, the last one under the Academics menu)
• Senior auditors should use their full email address as their login username.
• Sakai sends senior auditors a temporary password in an email message.
• When logging into Sakai, senior auditors should not select a college from the dropdown menu.
• Once logged in, senior auditors should change their password by going to My Workspace and clicking the Account tool. Then click the Modify Details button and enter a new password.
• Senior Auditors can also add their first and last names when modifying account details.
• Click the Update Details button to save the changes.
  

Remove Facebook application messages from your News Feed

Some people love Facebook apps. Nearly a million Facebook users*   cannot stand reading news updates about their friends app activity.

Here's how to hide streams from Friends, Pages, and/or Applications on your Facebook News Feed.

On your Facebook Home page, there is a Hide button next to each item on the New Feed.

1. Move your mouse along the top right column of a post to make the [Hide] button visible and click it.
2. Click [Hide ApplicationName] to stop updates about your Facebook friend's activities on Facebook applications like YoVille, What Ancient Goddess Are You?, Mafia Wars, Farmville, Fishville, iHeart, etc., etc., etc.
3. Click [Hide FacebookFriend] if you do not want to see anything a particular Facebook friend posts.
4. For Fan Pages, you can click [Hide Page] to stop update streams from Pages.
5. To see hidden posts again, click the Edit Options link at the bottom right of your Home page News Feed - and add hidden posts back.

It took me a couple of days to cover the major apps.... At this point, 36 Application update streams are hidden on from my News Feed. I love being able to keep up with my Facebook friends without following their Application adventures. No offense intended.

As of this post, there are 950,006 fans on Facebook's "I dont care about your farm, or your fish, or your park, or your mafia!!! Fan page. I hope these directions help them and you have a more enjoyable social networking experience on Facebook.