Creating Media
Using media in a class is an effective complement to other forms of presentation. Audio podcasts, infographics, and digital timelines are all examples. These can create memorable teaching resources, to which students can return for reference. Media can be much more engaging and add some fun to a traditional class. Students with different learning styles benefit from various points of entry into class concepts.
These same tools can inspire interactive assignments. Students can exercise their creativity by thinking critically with various forms of media to reimagine and process key concepts.
Narrated Powerpoint
PowerPoint includes features that will allow you to build a lecture based on a slide deck, along with an audio recording. Viewers can then view your slides, with your narration and timed slide advances.
| Links to More Information | Narrated PowerPoint Help |
|---|---|
| Faculty Uses | Class Lecture / Presentations |
| Student Uses | Presentations |
| For more help, contact | Your Instructional Technologies or Angie Wolf |
PowerPoint includes features that will allow you to build a lecture based on a slide deck, along with an audio recording. Viewers can then view your slides, with your narration and timed slide advances.
Recording Audio
| Links to More Information | Recording with Audacity Recording from Your Smart Phone Stories with Sound |
|---|---|
| Faculty Uses | Audio Only Lectures / Presentations |
| Student Uses | Presentations / Storytelling |
| For more help, contact | Your Instructional Technologist Mary Mahoney Angie Wolf |
Voice recordings can be used in several ways, including simply providing an audio-only lecture or storytelling session for your students. Students can make use of audio-recording to complete assignments for presentations, podcasts or storytelling.
Video
| Links to More Information | Content Tips Technical Tips Kaltura Capture Kaltura: Ordering captions |
|---|---|
| Faculty Uses | Lectures / Presentations |
| Student Uses | Presentations / Visual Storytelling |
| For more help, contact | Your Instructional Technologist, or Angie Wolf |
Recording yourself on video is a useful way to provide asynchronous lectures to students, especially if you plan to incorporate visual information like writing on a board or sharing models or other props. We suggest using Kaltura Capture to record and upload faculty lecture videos, as it is very easy to incorporate this media Into your Moodle course and generate a transcript.
Infographics
| Links to More Information | Infographics in PowerPoint Designing in Canva |
|---|---|
| Faculty Uses | Visualizations |
| Student Uses | Visualizations |
| For more help, contact | Your Instructional Technologist, or Rob Walsh |
An infographic presents information or concepts in a simple visual format, leading to quick and clear understanding. They generally have only enough text to identify key-concepts, an rely on common icons, placement and color to convey information. Uses include illustrating a complex process, displaying data, and comparing options.
Data Visualization
| Links to More Information | Start with Tableau |
|---|---|
| Faculty Uses | Data Visualizations and Analysis |
| Student Uses | Data Visualizations and Analysis |
| For more help, contact | Your Instructional Technologist, or Rob Walsh |
Data Visualizations are used to provide a graphic representation of data, and can help students identify and understand relationships and connections. They are particularly useful for identifying trends and patterns in data.
Story Map
| Links to More Information | Make a StoryMap KnightLab StoryMap JS |
|---|---|
| Faculty Uses | Lectures / Presentations |
| Student Uses | Presentations / Visual Storytelling |
| For more help, contact | Your Instructional Technologist, or Mary Mahoney |
StoryMap JS is a free tool from Knight Labs for geographically mapping data. A variety of media files can be added to the map, letting users build out location-based stories.
Visual Time Line
| Links to More Information | Make a Timeline Knight Lab Timeline JS |
|---|---|
| Faculty Uses | Lectures / Presentations |
| Student Uses | Presentations / Storytelling |
| For more help, contact | Your Instructional Technologist, or Mary Mahoney |
Building a visually compelling interactive timeline is easy with Knight Lab Timeline JS. This tool provides a simple interface for incorporating a variety of media. New users can begin with a simple spreadsheet, and add from there.