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Classroom and Teaching Technology Update

This guide looks at some of the teaching technology available for you to use.

Kaltura & Kaltura Capture

Kaltura is UC's enterprise video content creation, streaming and video repository tool. Students, faculty and staff have the ability to upload existing videos to Kaltura’s repository. Alternatively, videos can be recorded via Kaltura Capture and uploaded into Canvas. The College of Law also has a public-facing Kaltura Media Space (KMS) page and the Robert S. Marx Law Library has a Kaltura Media Space Channel. 

Kaltura Capture is a video tool that allows both instructors and students to create, upload, and publish videos for use in their classes. This may include a webcam video, an audio recording, a screen recording, a PowerPoint presentation or a combination.

Best Practices for Videos (from the Online Tutorials: Tools and Best Practices Guide)

Plan

  • Create a script/storyboard.

Prepare

  • Make sure your examples make sense, test them on others.
  • Do several dry runs to test the script and timing.

Create

  • Keep tutorials short; modularize.
  • Open the tutorial with an introduction and close it with a summary.
  • Insure accessibility of your tutorials.

Present

  • Add title page, table of contents, contact information, and credits if applicable.

Test

  • Create an early demo of the video and send it out for feedback from teammates or other stakeholders
  • Test the tutorial in various browsers.

Distribute and advertise

  • Add links to your products.
  • Embed them into LibGuides and/or Blackboard courses.
  • Feature them on library pages and/or media.

Share

  • Watch the tutorial from start to finish before you share it.
  • Link video tutorials at the point of need and use language that students are looking for and understand.
  • Consider sharing your creations in tutorial clearinghouses, such as ANTS, LION, PRIMO , etc.

Modified from Why Screencasting? The Benefits of Interactive Online Tutorials

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