From Joel.Feinstein at nottingham.ac.uk  Mon Jun 20 22:37:51 2011
From: Joel.Feinstein at nottingham.ac.uk (Dr J. Feinstein)
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:37:51 +0100
Subject: [Metal] Camtasia
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=SUsMdtZ2CrodMnoFOVebhwBtW7A@mail.gmail.com>

Hi everyone,
This is just a reminder that if you want to try Camtasia on Wednesday, and
you don?t have a licence yet, please bring a laptop with the 30 day trial
installed. You can download the trial version from:
http://www.techsmith.com/download/camtasia
Best wishes,
   Joel
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From Joel.Feinstein at nottingham.ac.uk  Tue Jun 21 11:59:47 2011
From: Joel.Feinstein at nottingham.ac.uk (Dr J. Feinstein)
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:59:47 +0100
Subject: [Metal] Making learning materials available to students, II
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Hi everyone,
See below for some suggestions which might feed into the group discussion
tomorrow afternoon.
Best wishes,
   Joel

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    <http://explainingmaths.wordpress.com/author/pmzjff/>  Making learning
materials available to students
II<http://explainingmaths.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/making-learning-materials-available-to-students-ii/>
*Joel <http://explainingmaths.wordpress.com/author/pmzjff/>* | June 21, 2011
at 10:55 am | Categories:
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http://wp.me/posHB-eK

See also the first edition of this post, Making learning materials available
to students<http://explainingmaths.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/making-learning-materials-available-to-students/>

At the  Second METAL
workshop<http://explainingmaths.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/programme-for-the-second-nottingham-media-enhanced-teaching-and-learning-workshop-june-22-2011/>(tomorrow!)
there will be a group discussion at the end. Here are some
suggestions for questions to think about which could feed into this
discussion. In these questions I am typically thinking of my own use of
videos (screencasts) of lectures along with the PDF files I produced during
classes by annotating my PDF slides. However the same questions apply to
some extent to almost any materials we make available (but possibly with
different answers!).

For several of these questions I am aware of pros and cons for each possible
answer.

   - What do we think are  some of the "best" ways to use supporting
   materials when teaching?
   - What are the best uses, if any, for previous years' materials?
   - Generally students claim to be happier when more materials are made
   available to them. But how can we measure how "successful" this provision of
   materials is?
   - Are we satisfied as long as at least some of the students appear to
   benefit from the materials we provide?
   - Which students do we hope will benefit from the provision of additional
   resources: All students? The best students? The weakest students? The
   mid-range students? The hard-working students? The not-so-hard-working
   students?
   - Does (or can) the provision of materials contribute directly to
   engagement with the module?
   - When a comprehensive set of module materials is available, some
   students may put off working until it is too late to catch up. How can we
   and should we address this issue?
   For example, if suitable, one could consider using frequent
   multiple-choice, machine-marked, class tests in order to keep people on
   their toes.
   - Should materials be made available immediately after classes, or is
   slow/delayed release better?
   - What do we care about most: good student evaluations, good exam
   results, or an improvement in the level of understanding some or most of our
   students attain? How closely linked are these things?
   - Are standard lectures necessary or desirable when a complete set of
   video lectures and notes for the module is already available? Or is it more
   efficient/effective to incorporate existing materials into some alternative
   teaching style/methodology?

Joel

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From joel.feinstein at gmail.com  Tue Jun 21 12:12:44 2011
From: joel.feinstein at gmail.com (Joel Feinstein)
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:12:44 +0100
Subject: [Metal] Fwd: [New post] METAL mailing list archive
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     <http://explainingmaths.wordpress.com/author/pmzjff/>  METAL mailing
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*Joel <http://explainingmaths.wordpress.com/author/pmzjff/>* | June 21, 2011
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Hi everyone,

I have now found the setting to ensure that (from now on) the METAL (Media
Enhanced Teaching And Learning" email mailing list messages will be
archived.

There isn't much there yet, but the archive is available at

http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/pipermail/metal/

Joel

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From Sally.Hanford at nottingham.ac.uk  Wed Jun 22 17:40:11 2011
From: Sally.Hanford at nottingham.ac.uk (Sally Hanford)
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:40:11 +0100
Subject: [Metal] Copyright and Legal Considerations for recording lectures
Message-ID: <A44245E8C549494D9561A9727B89EEC805A4D681B7@EXCHANGE1.ad.nottingham.ac.uk>

Thanks to everyone who participated in the second METAL workshop today, and thanks for all the feedback.

A simple step by step guide to copyright law for HE may be found here:
http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/LegalAreas/CopyrightIPR.aspx

The link to the JISC legal document about the legal considerations for recording lectures may be found here:
http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/ManageContent/ViewDetail/tabid/243/ID/1608/Recording-Lectures-Legal-Considerations-28072010.aspx

The Xpert Media Search and Attribution<http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/attribution/> tool allows you to find and correctly attribute material that is licensed under an open (eg Creative Commons) licence.
The link is: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/attribution/

Regards

Sally
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From Sally.Barton at nottingham.ac.uk  Wed Jun 22 18:58:47 2011
From: Sally.Barton at nottingham.ac.uk (Sally Barton)
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:58:47 +0100
Subject: [Metal] Re: Elluminate room
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Dear all,

for those of you who want to explore Elluminate further then https://www.elluminate.com/Support
is the place to start  as it will check that you have the required software and provide access to a "configuration room" where you can try using the whiteboard tools etc.
The website to get your own free room is
http://www.learncentral.org/user/vroomreg

and to answer a question asked today - you CAN save the whiteboards from this room even though you can't record the session.

Another question asked was whether you can get "just the room" I said yes, but in checking some of the links I realise that the merger with Blackboard and Wimba means it isn't quite so clear.  They say Elluminate Live! will be supported until December 2012 and if you ask for a "free trial" it is Elluminate Live!  you are offered not Blackboard Collaborate....  The room does seem to come with Plan (which I used to have but never really used) and Publish - which I do have and is what I use to create stand alone recordings and to create video output which can be edited.

There are many help documents and recorded sessions.  The Nottingham room is set up slightly differently to the standard room so I have made my own explanatory session, though please ignore mins 1 - 3: when I was making the recording I thought you would be able to see what I was doing but you can't... the rest should be useful:
https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2010-08-28.1831.D.D15E3FBA34FA91FF463F3E036D689F.vcr&sid=vclass

The website I refer to at the end with Elluminate training for specific tools is
https://www.elluminate.com/Services/Training/Elluminate_Live!/?id=418

I am happy for other departments to use the mathematics room - please just let me know if you want to organise any meetings in the room (you can "visit" the room any time).  I am not releasing the website for the recordings so you will have to let me know that you are planning to use the room if you want access to your recording!

I am also interested in encouraging students to use the room for informal learning groups or for project work so do feel free to offer it to your students - though as above I ask that they let me know when they plan to be in the room.  They cannot "damage the room" the only inconvenience comes if someone fails to leave the room as it is then not possible to have two separate recordings

Over the summer I am only using the Elluminate room with resit students so it should be free most of the time.

The link for our room  is https://sas.elluminate.com/d.jnlp?sid=vclass&password=AZK3J81P6514ZKV25OGA

If you record a meeting I will send the link fro the recording to whoever informed me about the session (it is usually available from approx 5 minutes after the last person leaves the meeting).  If you want to use the room to make a "podcast" then I can convert your recording to an .avi or .mp4 file (and some other formats that I would need to look up).
Do ask any questions
Sally



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From joel.feinstein at gmail.com  Thu Jun 23 22:15:16 2011
From: joel.feinstein at gmail.com (Joel Feinstein)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:15:16 +0100
Subject: [Metal] METAL Workshop II: Welcome and Using tablet PCs (Camtasia
	edition)
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     <http://explainingmaths.wordpress.com/author/pmzjff/>  METAL Workshop
II: Welcome and Using tablet PCs (Camtasia
edition)<http://explainingmaths.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/metal-workshop-ii-welcome-and-using-tablet-pcs-camtasia-edition/>
*Joel <http://explainingmaths.wordpress.com/author/pmzjff/>* | June 23, 2011
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Hi everyone,

Here are the Camtasia recordings of my sessions from the second METAL
workshop. This time I have included some webcam footage. In fact, the audio
is also recorded using the webcam, in an aim to see what the results are
with minimal additional equipment. (Usually I use some high quality
Sennheiser wireless microphones.)

There is some audio distortion: I think that the sensitivity in Camtasia was
too high.

The angle I chose for the webcam is quite good when I am leaning over the
tablet, and not so good when I am standing back. Perhaps further away would
also have helped with the audio.

My eight-minute welcome talk is available at
http://wirksworthii.nottingham.ac.uk/webcast/maths/Teaching/METAL-II-Welcome/

My 74-minute talk on tablet PCs and screencasts (unedited, including lots of
questions and a bonus fire alarm test!), is available at

http://wirksworthii.nottingham.ac.uk/webcast/maths/Teaching/METAL-II-Using-Tablet-PCs/

Joel

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From Simon.Barnett at nottingham.ac.uk  Tue Jun 28 15:05:34 2011
From: Simon.Barnett at nottingham.ac.uk (Simon Barnett)
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:05:34 +0100
Subject: [Metal] Video Production Courses
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Dear all,

At the 1st METAL Workshop, I promised to send out the details about the introductory Video Production courses run by the IS Video Production Group.

The final 2 dates for 2011 are below (the September course is already fully booked);


*         5th October

*         8th November

For more information about the day please visit the Group's workspace pages here<http://workspace.nottingham.ac.uk/display/ISTV/Home> and click on Video Production Training. Places are limited to 4 people per course, so if you would like to book a place on one of the dates please email is-video-production-group at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:is-video-production-group at nottingham.ac.uk> with 'Video Production Course' as the subject.
Regards,
Simon
Simon Barnett
Video Production Support Officer

Video Production Group
IS Learning Technologies Section
University of Nottingham
Kings Meadow Campus
Nottingham
NG7 2NR

0115 84 67841
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