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Dear TLT
Dear TLT

Dear TLT: What’s the Best Way to Access VoiceThread?

Chris Meshanko

Dear TLT,

I just discovered VoiceThread, and I love it!  What is the best way to access VoiceThread and share my presentations (with my students)?

Sincerely,

Professor S. Snape
Chemistry 

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Dear Professor Snape,

We love VoiceThread too!  With our site license, you no longer have to log on to VoiceThread.com.  Instead, you can go through the Multimedia Resources widget on your “course” homepage (in OAKS).

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This will take you directly to your MyVoice page.  It will also create a course folder under College of Charleston (on the left).  Please encourage your students to access VoiceThread in the same manner.

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To share a VoiceThread with your students, simply left-click (and hold) on it and drag it over to the appropriate course folder.  The folder will turn yellow when selected.

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A message will appear once the VoiceThread has been successfully copied to the folder.

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Don’t forget to let your students know when you post a new VoiceThread to the course folder via an OAKS News Item or email.

Please contact your instructional technologist, if you have any questions or concerns, and check out our upcoming VoiceThread training sessions at http://tlt.eventbrite.com.

Best regards,

TLT

 

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VoiceThread, Kaltura, NBC Learn
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More OAKS Integrations Please

Mendi Benigni

OAKS has had some exciting new integrations added in the past six months that you may not know about.

Kaltura

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What is it?

Kaltura is like a private, CofC YouTube.  It allows faculty and students to upload video to share in multiple OAKS tools.  Users can select videos they have already uploaded, upload a new video, or record and upload screencasts (available now in Firefox only) all while in OAKS.  In the future users will be able to record and up webcam videos.

How does one access it?

Kaltura can be access in any OAKS tool that has the HTML editor (Discussion, Dropbox, Content > New File (faculty only), and News).  In the text box area click on the Insert Stuff icon and choose My Media.   From here you can upload, record, or select existing videos.  Again, Kaltura is available to faculty and students.

VoiceThread

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What is it?

VoiceThread enables users to add images, documents, and videos, to create a presentation and to which other users can add voice, text, audio file, or video comments.  It’s great for faculty or students to record lectures, present material, and conduct discussions.  It’s much more interactive than posting a static PowerPoint presentation.

How does one access it?

From your OAKS Course Home locate the Multimedia Resources widget and click on Access VoiceThread for this Course.  This will create a space for your class on the left.  This will allow faculty and students to create VoiceThreads (VT) and share them with the class by simply dragging the VT onto the class name.

NBC Learn

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What is it?

NBC Learn is a digital media library created by NBC to which the College now subscribes.  “NBC Learn has already digitized more than 12,000 stories from the NBC News archives — one of the largest news archives in the world, dating back to the 1920s.  In addition, collections are updated with current events every day, Monday through Friday, with stories from such celebrated programs as NBC Nightly News, the TODAY show, Meet the Press, Dateline NBC, as well as the networks of MSNBC, CNBC, and Telemundo.”

How does one access it?

From your OAKS Course Home locate the Multimedia Resources widget and click on the appropriate Access NBC Learn link.  Once in NBC Learn search for the video you want then grab the embed code to embed it into OAKS.

We encourage you to check out these integrations to see how they can work for you.  If you have any questions please contact your TLT Instructional Technologist.

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New Way To Use Stream with OAKS

Mendi Benigni

 

Multimedia service

STREAM, the College’s streaming media server, is a great way to stream large videos to your students via OAKS. The upcoming OAKS 10.3 upgrade requires us to make a minor change to how you embed these STREAM videos in OAKS. You will still upload your media to STREAM as you always have. The change comes in generating an embed code. When you go to the embed generators at http://it.cofc.edu/vvw/multimedia/stream/index.php you will now see a new OAKS option. If you wish to embed a Stream video to OAKS you MUST use this new OAKS Streaming Script Generator.

TLT provides tutorials on how to upload media to STREAM and how to use the embed codes in OAKS.

How to add media to the Stream Server (for our current OAKS version, 10.0)

How to add media to the Stream Server (for our new OAKS version, 10.3 coming May 9th, 2014)

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Important Information Regarding OAKS and Google Chrome

Mendi Benigni

There is a known compatibility issue with OAKS and Google Chrome versions 32 and 33 (beta).  With Google Chrome versions 32 and 33 (beta), pop-up windows are not working properly within OAKS.  These pop-up windows are used frequently throughout the system.  The common behavior is that a window will display “Loading….”, but then times out to a blank window.  If you experience these issues, we recommend that you try another web browser such as Firefox, Safari or Internet Explorer.  Desire2Learn is looking into the issue, however, they do not currently have a time frame for a resolution.