SCCD Faculty Development Podcasts

Geoff Mathay Podcast Interview from June 2006

jkent@sccd.ctc.edu (Jean kent) — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:29:00 -0800

The Seattle Community College District is mourning the death of Geoff Mathay, Deaf Studies Instructor at Seattle Central Community College. Many people have shared stories, videos, and photos of Geoff and I decided to share again, this podcast interview I conducted with him in June, 2006. I asked questions about his formal college degrees, his innovative assessment techniques, his use of the web for instruction, and his summer plans. I've found comfort in hearing his voice and I've created a transcript for those who aren't part of the hearing community.

Here is the interview (18:30 minutes long).
Here is the transcript in PDF format.

Please feel free to leave comments.

Faculty Development Podcast #31 - My Last FD Podcast

jkent@sccd.ctc.edu (Jean kent) — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:10:00 -0800

This is my last podcast as the SCCD Faculty Development Coordinator and I decided to get some help from my friends in the Office of Education / Planning/ & Distance Learning. Each of them recorded a short podcast - in less than an hour - last week and I've used excerpts from them in this final podcast.

This group has been so supportive of me and the Faculty Development Office and I feel so fortunate that I've gotten to work with and learn from them. Carin Weiss and Gracelyn Sales are shown hard at work recording during our podcasting training session. Joe Hauth and David Stephens are enjoying listening to their first podcast efforts in the photo on the right.

In addition to mentioning and thanking lots of people, this podcast also lists three more Web 2.0 resources that I've recently learned about. Links to them are provided below.

Listen to the Faculty Development Podcast #31 (15:52 minutes)
Or, read the transcript. (PDF format)

Web 2.0 Resources
SightSpeed at http://www.sightspeed.com - a FREE video telephone service that requires a web cam and broadband. I can think of many educational uses for this but here's an example for those of us who are far away from friends and family - http://www.sightspeed.com/videos/users/baby

StumbleUpon at http://www.stumbleupon.com - a FREE application that helps you find other web sites that have been discovered and rated by like-minded people.

Bubbleshare at http://www.bubbleshare.com - a FREE service that lets you to upload images and add up to 30 seconds of audio narration to them. You can add written captions, too. And, you can make them public or allow only your students to see them.

Finally, I've loved my 30 plus years here at Seattle Community College. Best wishes to all of you who do such amazing work with students.

Faculty Development Vodcast #1

jkent@sccd.ctc.edu (Jean kent) — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:54:00 -0800

This is the first Faculty Development Vodcast (like a podcast but with video instead of just audio)! It was created in Camtasia Studio Version 4 and I think it shows that vodcasts can be used for educational purposes.

I'll be showing faculty at SSCC and NSCC how to create similar demonstrations for their students at the Creating Rich Media Materials using Camtasia Studio 4 - Part 2 Workshop. The session at South will be held on Friday, Dec 1 from 2 - 4 in the TLC. The North campus session will be on Wednesday, Dec 6 from 2 - 4 in the TLC. I hope this will inspire several of you to attend.

By the way, if you have a video iPod, you can watch the video on it. But, you don't have to own a video iPod to view it - just the QuickTime Player (free) or iTunes (free) on your computer.

Finding Your Grades - Central Campus Version

Faculty Development Podcast #30

jkent@sccd.ctc.edu (Jean kent) — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:36:00 -0800

This week's Faculty Development Podcast features a web seminar titled "Facing Facebook," a practical use of Gizmo Project - Voice over IP, and my new favorite cheap fare search engine.

Listen to the Faculty Development Podcast #30 (5:52 minutes)

Read the transcript if you prefer.

Facing Facebook and other Social Networking Technologies - PowerPoint Slides
Facing Facebook and other Social Networking Technologies - Audio in MP3 format (58:04 minutes)
Kayak for cheap fares!

Feel free to leave your comments!

Faculty Development Podcast #29

jkent@sccd.ctc.edu (Jean kent) — Tue, 7 Nov 2006 22:20:00 -0800

This week's podcast includes announcements and a description of new features found in Camtasia Studio 4. One of the most important features is the ability to easily add closed captions to Camtasia Studio movies - thus qualifying them as "Universal Design." What is "Universal Design?" Listen to the podcast and find out!

Listen to the Faculty Development Podcast #29 (6:35 minutes)

Read the transcript, too.

What's new in Camtasia Studio 4?
What is "Universal Design?"
Script example using PowerPoint speaker's notes and Word.

Faculty Development Podcast #28

jkent@sccd.ctc.edu (Jean kent) — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:12:00 -0800

This week's FD podcast has a few announcements about workshops and some thought provoking ideas from a PowerPoint presentation entitled "Did You Know..." compiled by Karl Fisch. I encourage you to view the entire presentation which is linked below.

Listen to the Faculty Development Podcast #28 (5:57 minutes)

Read the transcript, too.

Did You Know... PowerPoint presentation (8 minutes)
Sources for the facts included in the presentation
Washington Assessment Group eNewsletter - for October, 2006
The Fischbowl - Karl's staff development blog

As always, your comments are welcome!

Translation of Dutch Blog

jkent@sccd.ctc.edu (Jean kent) — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:41:00 -0700

Shaunie Decker, a part-time instructor from North campus translated the Dutch blog for me and I've copied her translation below. She notes that this is a direct translation so some of the grammar is a bit awkward. Thank you so much, Shaunie and thanks to others who offered to help with the translation.

Here is another link to the original blog posting (in Dutch).

Charlotte 2006: Can you hear me now?

While it may seem stale (but not for me), but I am again at a podcasting workshop given by Jean Kent from Seattle Community College. The presentation is on a website, so I don’t need to type the whole story. The presenter promised to make the whole thing available in Camtasia. Follow the link for more information.

Don’t think that after tomorrow this weblog will disappear because it will be regularly updated over the next few weeks!

The photos at the bottom of the presentation are from teachers who have taken a podcasting course. It is funny that we saw a podcast that I just discovered this morning, namely material from Apple. Also, now the importance is stressed to use RSS. What struck me is that the lifespan of most presentations is around over 40-50 years. Therefore, it is no longer geeks and freaks that see these gadgets, but professionals who have chosen to catch up with the times in which we live. Jean showed us the apparatuses required to make podcasts, varying from Low Tech (the Panasonic voice recorder) to very advanced High Tech mixers and microphones. The most popular podcasts that Jean produces (weekly) are the ones in which other people are interviewed. Also she puts the lesson online. A fun example of a podcast: listen to the noise of a motor that is running well and one that is not working well. Another important advantage of podcasts is that you can make your content accessible to visually handicapped and dyslexic participants. Lessons given as podcasts free up time for active learning! Also use a web blog to make your pod casts available, is another word of advice. Strange enough, I have never seen a workshop about starting a web blog. Here people know apparently what that is and how you can nicely put it into your teaching! How far along are we with that in the Netherlands?

Another fun one: “dance math cast” immediate delivered algebra (search via iTunes).

And so Jean let us hear many more examples. If it works out, they will be available via her presentation (I can’t put it here). “Grammar Girl: quick and dirty tips for good writing”. Here we did not receive things that you could do, but that have been done! Honestly, I got more and more restless from it. How am I going to present this to my colleagues when I return home? Next to self made podcasts are there also many professional materials available through links. For example: the Tedtalks. The advertisement in the side bar is accepted.

Now DEMO TIME! Jean does a podcast. Thus Audacity is begun. She worked off a script but it sounded very natural, not read. She cut the hesitations and “uhs” out. She put (podsafe) music at the beginning and end and used fade-in and fade-out. The volume was set and this all happened faster than I can type. Save and export to MP3 and Jean is finished! Within 10 minutes she has made a podcast. Naturally, she neatly put in the ID3 tags (yes: meta data!). Naturally, her College provides a podcast server where she can place material and an RSS feed is added.

She spent 10 minutes on VOIP, then came Skype, Gizmo Project and even Google Talk! Jean uses VOIP to communicate with her students. She wants conversations with her students that she can use as lesson material. “I am so sick of typing” thus using VOIP more to send messages than e-mail. Has email seen its day? With Google Talk it is very much possible! As a bonus, Jean lets us hear how she coaches a student through a problem via VOIP. During the hour this lady had the entire hall in amazement. I didn’t see anyone walk out. Simply stated: WONDERFUL!

Faculty Development Podcast #27

jkent@sccd.ctc.edu (Jean kent) — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:56:00 -0700

This podcast was created during the Podcasting and Voice Over IP session I gave at the Conference on Information Technology at the League for Innovation in Charlotte. It's a little shorter than usual but it includes some ideas from Ellen Wagner, the keynote speaker on Monday, October 23. I really enjoyed her remarks.

Listen to the Faculty Development Podcast #27. (2:24 minutes)

You can also read the transcript.

Here's a link to a blog entry that was created by Willem Karssenberg, one of the people attending my session. It's in Dutch so I can't actually read it but I was so impressed that he had it posted within an hour of my presentation.

Faculty Development Podcast #26

jkent@sccd.ctc.edu (Jean kent) — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:35:00 -0700

This is a picture of Jay Keeton, who has been giving the blogging workshops at each campus. He teaches Sociology and uses a blog for each of his classes.

This podcast has more free and easy to use technology for your classes.

Listen to the Faculty Development Podcast #26 (6:21 minutes)
You can also read the transcript.

Links to the tools I mentioned in the podcast:
YouSendIt
EasyBib
Calcoolate.com
Wink

Thanks for listening and please feel free to leave me a comment.

Faculty Development Podcast #25

jkent@sccd.ctc.edu (Jean kent) — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:19:00 -0700

This podcast has a few announcements and an introduction to free and easy to use technology for your classes. I'll be giving a mini-workshop on this topic on Friday, October 13 at the New Faculty Orientation, but I'm so excited about these tools, I wanted to showcase them in a podcast, too.

The screen snapshot shows Groupvine, one of the amazing new web-based tools, I found recently. Groupvine is web-based project management software that would be ideal for students working on group projects. I've also mentioned Writely (web-based word processor), Mayomi (mindmapping software), EditGrid (web-based spreadsheet), and Wizlite (highlighter for web pages). I'll have a more comprehensive list for the workshop on Friday.

If you'd like to read the blog posting where I found these tools and many more, follow this link: http://www.solutionwatch.com/512/back-to-school-with-the-class-of-web-20-part-1/

Listen to the Faculty Development Podcast #25. (5:37 minutes).

Read the podcast transcript.

Feel free to leave me a comment!

Faculty Development Podcast #24

jkent@sccd.ctc.edu (Jean kent) — Mon, 2 Oct 2006 22:50:00 -0700

Welcome to the first Faculty Development Podcast for the 2006 - 2007 academic year. This podcast has a number of announcements and a short overview of the 2006 Rich Media Summer Institute that was held at South Campus last August. It also has information on two new amazing resources - thanks to Dennis Schaffer for getting me started down this path - that I hope everyone will check out.

Listen to the Faculty Development Podcast # 24 (5 minutes).

Read the transcript.

Visit the TED Conference Lecture page.

Check out GAPMINDER - the animation software that brings data to life.

As always, I appreciate your comments. Please feel free to leave them!

Faculty Development Podcast #23

jkent@sccd.ctc.edu (Jean kent) — Mon, 5 Jun 2006 20:43:00 -0700

This is the final Faculty Development podcast for the 2005 - 2006 academic year! It includes a couple reminders and an interview with Geoff Mathay, Deaf Studies instructor at Seattle Central who is pictured to the left. Geoff will be the next Faculty Development Coordinator but he won't start until Fall of 2007. Listen to the podcast to find out why.

Faculty Development Grant applications for professional development activities in June, July, August, and September, are due to the FD Office on Monday, June 12 by 5PM. For updated applications and the 2006 - 2007 Grant Guidelines, visit the FD web site at http://dept.seattlecolleges.com/fd/Grants/

Here's a link to the Faculty Development Podcast #23 Interview with Geoff Mathay (20:56 minutes).

Here's a link to the transcript.

As always, your comments are welcome! And, have a wonderful summer.

Faculty Development Podcast #22

jkent@sccd.ctc.edu (Jean kent) — Sun, 21 May 2006 20:57:00 -0700

This week's podcast contains an interview with Judy Bentley, faculty member at South Seattle Community College, shown on the right. Judy is the author of several non-fiction young adult books and interviewed Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor during her first year on the bench for a biography she wrote about O'Connor.

I hope you'll attend David Levy's lecture on Information and the Quality of Life on Wednesday, May 24 from 2:30 - 4:30 in the Library at Seattle Central. Then, on Wednesday, May 31, Mike Eisenberg will speak on the information literacy skills our students will need to survive in the 21st Century.

Interested in attending the Rich Media Summer Institute from August 22 - August 25th? Submit your application by June 12th in order to be considered.
Here's a link to the application: http://northonline.northseattle.edu/SI2006/forms/application.html.

Here's a link to Faculty Development Podcast #22. 15:15 minutes long.

Here's a link to the transcript.

Feel free to leave a comment.

Faculty Development Podcast #21

jkent@sccd.ctc.edu (Jean kent) — Mon, 15 May 2006 21:37:00 -0700

This is one of the flower combinations I'm going to try this summer thanks to PlantByNumber.com.

This podcast episode has a few announcements and updates - my workshops this week and the Chaplain James Yee lecture on Thursday, May 19th. I also wanted to remind you about the deadline next Monday for submitting grants to develop new online courses or revise existing ones. Go to the SCCD Intranet to find information and an application.

The application and lots more information about the District Rich Media Summer Institute is available from http://northonline.northseattle.edu/SI2006/forms/application.html. The Institute will be held Tuesday, August 22 till noon on August 25 at South Campus.

I also wanted to share a link to a text to speech tool that Mike Taylor, an instructor from Central sent me today. http://vhost.oddcast.com/vhost_minisite/demos/tts/tts_example.html. Do check it out. If you listen to the podcast, you'll hear a short phrase that I converted from text using this tool.

Here's a link to the Faculty Development Podcast #21 5:48 minutes.

Here's a link to the transcript.

Feel free to leave a comment!

Faculty Development Podcast #20

jkent@sccd.ctc.edu (Jean kent) — Mon, 8 May 2006 22:35:00 -0700

From left to right, Geoff Cain, Tacoma Community College, Jean Kent, Seattle Community Colleges, and Andy Duckworth, Tacoma Community College. We co-presented a workshop on podcasting at the PNW Teaching and Learning Conference in Vancouver Washington. Here's a link to the session web site: http://faculty.seattlecolleges.com/jkent/workshops/teaching_learning/

Jay Keeton will be presenting Blogging 101: Weblogs as an Instructional Tool on Tuesday, May 9th from 2 - 4 in BE 3110. Here's a link to his excellent blog on sociological reasoning: http://gr-soc110-s.blogspot.com/

Please mark your calendars for Wednesday, May 24th for David Levy's presentation on Information and the Quality of Life. I gave the wrong date in last week's podcast and I want to make sure everyone has the new, correct date.

The 2006 - 2007 District Online Course Development Stipend application process was launched on May 2nd. If you would like to create a new online course or revise an existing one, go to the District Intranet and click on the Instruction button on the left to find the application, guidelines and instructions.

Check out Zillow at http://www.zillow.com - an amazing new real estate web site resource.

Here's a link to FD Podcast #20. 5:15 minutes

Here's a link to the transcript.

Feel free to leave a comment!

Faculty Development Podcast #19

jkent@sccd.ctc.edu (Jean kent) — Mon, 1 May 2006 20:58:00 -0700

This week's podcast is full of announcements. The final FD Grant application submission deadline is Monday, May 8th. Grant guidelines and applications are located at the Faculty Development Web Site.

This spring Faculty Development is sponsoring a spearkers series. The first speaker, David Levy (pictured to the right) will speak Wednesday, May 10th on Information and the quality of life. Save the date and time, 2:30 - 4:30 and place (Library Classroom at Seattle Central).

Faculty Development is one of several co-sponsors for a presentation by Chaplain James Yee who will speak Wednesday, May 18th from 1:30 - 2:30 in room BE 4106 at Seattle Central Community College.

The final speaker, Mike Eisenberg, from the Information School at the University of Washington will speak on information overload, personal information management, and the information and technology skills our students need to be successful in work and life. He'll speak on Wednesday, May 31 from 2:30 - 4:30 in the Library Classroom at Seattle Central.

The District Summer Institute is back with a focus on rich media instructional materials like digital video, podcasts, and blogs. The dates are August 22 to noon on August 25. We have room for 20 participants and an application will be available by May 12. More information to follow.

Here's a link to Podcast #19.

Here's a link to the transcript.

Please feel free to leave a comment.

Faculty Development Podcast #18

jkent@sccd.ctc.edu (Jean kent) — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:58:00 -0700

The photo above (taken with my cell phone camera so forgive the quality) shows Cathy Ruiz (SCCC), Stephanie Owings (NSCC), Julie Masura (NSCC), Maria Ales (SCCC), Judy Blair (SCCC), Sherry Tuinstra (NSCC), Lynn Kanne (SCCC), and Kelley McHenry (SCCC) at the Learning and Technology Conference in Seattle last weekend.

In addition to some comments about the conference, this podcast includes announcements about the Faculty Development workshops I'll be offering this week. I've also included some information about Writely, a web-based word procesor I've recently discovered. Look out Bill. MS Office may become obsolete! Finally, I've given a very short overview of an evaluation on podcasting at the University of Washington. I'll add a link to the complete evaluation below.

Here's a link to Podcast #18.

Here's a link to the transcript.

Podcasting at the UW: An Evaluation of Current Use.

Faculty Development Podcast #17

jkent@sccd.ctc.edu (Jean kent) — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:41:00 -0700

Welcome to the first Faculty Development Podcast for Spring Quarter. I'll be posting my podcasts from a blog this quarter. It's a great way to include play notes and images and it's so easy to do. In fact, I've become such a fan of posting podcasts this way that I've talked Pamela Wilkins into giving blogging workshops in conjunction with my podcasting workshops this quarter.

In this podcast I announce the workshops I'll be giving this quarter, share from an interesting new book I'm reading (Multimedia Learning by Richard Mayer), and update you on new podcasting resources at Seattle Community College.

Here's a link to Podcast #17. 7:01 minutes

And, here's a copy of the podcast transcript.

Here's a link to learn more about the book Multimedia Learning.

Finally, here's a link to the Online Professional Development Calendar - the best place to find up to date information on the workshops and other professional development activities during Spring Quarter.

Please feel free to leave me a comment!