D Southwest: The Blackboard Insider Teaching T&D The Emedia Workshop

Office of Instructional Technology & Design | eMedia Center Volume 01 | Issue 01 | June 2008
IT&D Southwest A Newsletter of the Office of Instructional Technology & Design

and the eMedia Center on the Evansville Campus
of Ivy Tech Community College
The Blackboard Insider Teaching T&D The eMedia Workshop

Web-Enhanced Courses, Blackboard Blowout Options Avoiding Foul Use: Copyright Issues in the Classroom Scanning: Basics and PDF’s, Audacity 101: Part 1
IT&D Southwest Office of Instructional Technology & Design | eMedia Center | Ivy Tech Southwest
IT&D Southwest is a newsletter of the Office of Instructional Technology & Design and the
eMedia Center on the Evansville campus of Ivy Tech Community College. Its purpose is to provide a front-line
information and training tool to aid instructors by developing their ability to provide an engaging educational
experience to their students through online technology, electronic media and instructional design.
in this issue...
Volume 01 | Issue 01 | June 12, 2008
Designed, edited & produced by the eMedia Center.

Articles and tutorials written by Mark Brendel.
Office of Instructional Technology & Design The Blackboard Insider

Ivy Tech Community College Southwest 3 Web-Enhanced Courses: Reasons to Use Blackboard for
3501 First Avenue Traditional Courses
Evansville, IN 47710 QUOTABLE QUOTES
Dennis L. Dell, Ph.D. 4 Blackboard Blowout Options: How to Conduct Class
Director, Instructional Technology & Design When Your Online Class is Down
Office: 812.492.0537 _______________________________ “Thank God every day when you get
Email: ddell3@ivytech.edu
up that you have something to do that
Mark Brendel Teaching T&D (Technology & Design) day which must be done whether you
eMedia Producer 5 Avoiding Foul Use: Copyright Issues in the Classroom like it or not. Being forced to work and
Office: 812.492.0521 _______________________________ forced to do your best will breed in you
Email: mbrendel1@ivytech.edu
temperance and self-control, diligence
The eMedia Workshop and strength of will, cheerfulness and
6 Scanning Basics and Scanning to PDF content, and a hundred virtues which
the idle will never know. “
8 Audacity 101: Part 1
-Basil Carpenter
Installing and Setting Up Audacity for Audio Lectures
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10 Instructional Technology & Design

Training Schedule
10 Feedback, Comments & Contribution Inquiries

Cover Photo: Koch Gallery Stairwell
Photographer: Mark Brendel
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The Blackboard Insider

Web-Enhanced Courses: Reasons to Use Blackboard for Traditional Courses
We all know that Blackboard is invaluable gaining 15 more minutes of sleep time what their grade is during the semester.
for teaching an online course or hybrid before the morning alarm). Another Another wonderful benefit at the end of
course, but beyond those two applica- benefit is being able to eliminate the “dog your semester is being able to print out a
tions, blackboard has limited use. Or ate my handout” excuse from students. By sheet of each student’s grades to hand in
does it? I was resistant to using Black- having the handout posted electronically to your program chair. You should keep
board when teaching as an adjunct online, it becomes available 24/7 via an a hard copy of the grades offline, but you
instructor teaching traditional courses internet connection from anywhere. save much more time than you lose!
in the classroom, but later I realized that Lost handouts will be a thing of the past.
it had some built-in features that could Every Instructor’s Dream:
make the orchestration and organization “Sorry, I Was An Art Major”: Tests and Quizzes That Grade
of my courses much easier. Let’s explore Letting The Gradebook Feature Do The Themselves
some of those features. Math For You
Now, if you’re doing essays or short
The Trees Will Hug YOU: OK, my math isn’t that bad, but doing answers on your examinations, you still
Running a Paperless Classroom a little setup before the semester in the have a bit of work to do, but fill in the
Gradebook feature makes keeping track blank, True/False and multiple choice
Whether you cuddle with oak trees or of grades much easier. It tallies up the questions in the Blackboard Test Manager
not, the benefits of a paperless classroom final grade automatically, keeping you can be set to grade itself by entering in the
reach beyond the recycle bin. By post- from your calculator at the end of the correct answer when creating the test
ing assignments and handouts online, I semester. It also has the added benefit of question. Time to retire that ol’ red pen,
was able to eliminate the need to come showing the student their grades in real cause making a test that can grade itself
in early and run copies for that days class, time. If you’ve graded it, they can see it. is a dream come true!
saving a significant amount of time (and No more grumbling about not knowing
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The Blackboard Insider

Blackboard Blowout Options: How to Conduct Class When Your Online Class is Down
As we have all discovered at one time or organized in your class. Start with a folder your class work stored offline for you
another, Blackboard is sometimes up, and with your class name, placing sub-folders to access. Keep it on CD, your home
sometimes down. If your class is partially inside with names for each of the content computer, or a USB flash drive.
or fully online, how do you go about con- areas you have in your class; announce-
ducting class when it is down? There are ments, syllabus, assignments, etc. Any Strategy 2:
some strategies you can put into play, but description text on folders or other items Online File Storage
they involve some preparation on your should be saved in a text document. The
part. It’s like getting ready for a tornado key here is to have the entire contents of You’ll hear me promote Google Docs
that may or may not come, but if you’re quite a bit. With Google Docs you can
prepared, you’re better off for your efforts. create, edit and store Word files, Excel
spread sheets, Powerpoint presentations,
Strategy 1: Content
Area Related Documents and you can now store and view PDF
Backup, Backup, Backup! documents as well. Each document has
a unique URL that can be placed in a
Content Related Documents
Hopefully you have some sort of backup Area course or email for downloading. Here at
of class materials somewhere, but if not, the Evansville campus, we have a media
you should assemble one as soon as pos- Class Content
server that streams Quicktime MP4 files
Area Related Documents
sible! Every bit of text, every document, for both audio and video. Each media
attachment, picture, audio clip and video file also has a unique URL that can be
should be placed somewhere for safe Content Related Documents
embedded in a course or sent via email.
Area
keeping. To keep your backup archive Email isn’t the most efficient way to con-
organized, follow an organizational duct a course, but as a temporary option,
model that resembles how material is Content Related Documents a class can still go on.
Area
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Teaching T&D
Avoiding Foul Use: Copyright Issues in the Classroom
Copyright law has a tendency to be some- umbrella of public exhibition, which is The eMedia Center
what vague, especially when it comes to different than private viewing, which is Copyright & Graphic Usage Policy
using such material in a classroom setting. what most VHS, DVD and other video
sources specify under their copyright http://faculty.ivytech.edu/~mbrendel1/cgi-
bin/oit-wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Emedi-
Material such as book excerpts, newspa- guidelines.
aservices
per and magazine articles, online
content, audio and video, Copyright infringement, in- Online Resources from the Library
photographs and other tentional or not, is subject at Ivy Tech in Evansville
graphics all present to fines and lawsuits, if
unique issues when be- discovered by the party http://www.ivytech.edu/library/evansville/
ing used in an educa- holding the copyright libraryinfo/copyright.html
tional setting. to the material. For
this reason, instructors The Copyright Management Center
The general rule of must make themselves at Indiana University & Purdue
thumb every instruc- familiar with what they University, Indianapolis
tor must use is, unless can and can’t use in the
http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/
the material was created classroom. The Liberary
by you, you must assume has a series of resources to Any questions about copyright in the
that it is protected by copyright help you understand your limits classroom or questions if an item can
law! Your use of the material is extremely and freedoms under the “fair use’ of copy- be used can be directed to our Evans-
limited outside of the context of the ma- righted material. Check out the following ville Campus Librarian, Gayle Long,
terial’s intended use. For instance, using links for more information on copyright at glong@ivytech.edu.
a video in a classroom may fall under the and the classroom.
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The eMedia Workshop

Scanning Basics and Scanning to PDF
Scanners Step 1: scanner is on the right hand side of the
have a multi- For the benefit of all levels of technical unit.
tude of uses, proficiency, I’ll add the steps of turning
from scan- on the computer, logging in, and turning Step 2:
ning photos on the scanner. The “on” switch for the Look for the “Epson Scan” application,
to digitizing either as a shortcut on the desktop (PC),
documents, or in the doc at the bottom of the screen
all of which (Mac) and open the program. The icon
have value to of the software will look like the graphic
the instruc- on the far left corner of this page. When
tor placing opened, the window on the left will open.
these items in Blackboard for student
access. The eMedia Center now has two
scanners available for faculty and staff
Step 3:
Now we have some decisions to make.
use. Lest you should be deterred by fear
We’ll start from the top and work our way
from using these powerful tools, we will
down. First, make sure the “Mode” pull-
take you through a step by step tutorial
down says “Home Mode.” If not, click on
on how to create a scan. Since many of
the pull-down and change to this setting.
you have expressed interest in scanning
Second, select the document type. These
to PDF, the tutorial will include how to
options are logically labeled, so simply
save your scan as a PDF document. Let’s
select the option that relates to what
begin!
you want to scan. Next, choose the im-
age type. If you don’t need color, change
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the selection to greyscale (if it involves marque around the item or area you want “Other” and click the “Choose” button.
photographic elements) or black & white scanned. You don’t need a tool to do this, To make our scan easy to find, we will
(if it is just text). This will make your file just click and drag. “Marching Ants” will choose the desktop as our location for
size smaller in the end. Now, choose what appear round the area you have selected. saving the file. We will leave the “File
the destination of the scan is going to You can fine tune your selection by plac- Name” area alone for now because we can
be. If it is going to be posted on the web ing the cursor of your mouse on the edge change the name later. Now we get to the
only, select “Screen/Web”. If you want of the selection, and click-n-drag the big question... what image format to save
to keep your scan high quality for print- selection in or out. Now we’re ready for in! If you are saving a photo, JPEG will
ing purposes, select printer. By selecting the final scan. be the best option, but for the sake of the
one of these options, you can bypass the objectives for this tutorial, we will choose
“Resolution” area, so don’t worry about Step 5: PDF. If there are specific options you
it right now. The “Target Size” is asking After finalizing your selection, click the want to explore for your PDF document,
how large you want your finished scan to scan button. The “File Saving Settings” click on the “Options” button next to the
be, and lists some options for you in the window will appear. Again, we’ll start at image type pull-down. You can select a
pull-down. In most cases, you will want to the top. For “Location” we will choose particular paper size and either portrait
keep it on “Original”, which is the default. or landscape orientation. If you select
We will bypass the “Image Adjustments” options in this window, click “OK” to
area for now, since we are dealing with the apply those options. After all of your set-
basics in this tutorial. tings are set in the “File Saving Settings”
window, click “OK” and the scanner will
Step 4: make its scan. When the whirring is done,
After opening the scanner lid and placing you can either elect to scan another page
your item on the glass, close the lid and to the PDF document, or save the cur-
click on the button that says “Preview” rent file and end the scanning process.
in the Epson Scan application window You either have the benefit of scanning
and the scanner will come to life. When multiple pages into one PDF, or keeping
the sounds stop, a large preview window it one page per document. When you are
will appear on screen. Click and drag a finished, quit the program out! Presto!
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The eMedia Workshop

Audacity 101: Part 1, Installing and Setting Up Audacity for Audio Lectures
Step 1: Downloading based, Power PC based, or if you are still
All of the pieces we need can be found running OS9. Whatever the case, click
from the Audacity home site, but we’ll on the appropriate link. The installer link
include the links here to make it easier for will have numbers and dots in it (Audaci-
you. First things first, we’ll download the ty 1.2.6 for example). Save the file to your
software itself. They have links for both desktop to make it easy to find.
Audacity has been listed as one of PC The second piece we need to install is
PC and Mac platforms, so choose your
World’s Best Products of 2008, and we called the LAME MP3 encoder. To navi-
platform link below...
have found it to be the software of choice gate to the download page for this item,
for recording and editing audio lectures follow the link below...
Mac Users
for placement on online classes. It’s fairly
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/down-
easy to use, has plenty of features to make http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/
load/mac
itself useful, it’s free, and it has the ca-
pability to save the audio file as an mp3 You will have the same options here in
PC Users
audio file via a third party encoder plug- choosing Windows, Mac Intel or Mac
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/down-
in. If you’re not familiar with Audacity, PPC. Both Mac downloads are for the
load/windows
feel free to visit their website at http:// OSX operating system only. Click on the
audacity.sourceforge.net. appropriate link for your machine and
You will see a link on these pages called
“Audacity Installer”. PC users, you will download to the desktop. The encoder
In the first installment of the Audacity plug-in may be compressed in a ZIP or
only have one choice to choose from, so
101 series, we will discuss how to down- SIT file, so double click on the file to
that makes it easy. Mac users, you will
load, install, and adjust settings to ready uncompress. Now we’re ready for the
have to choose the link that corresponds
the software for recording an audio lec- next step.
with your machine, whether it is Intel-
ture for posting in Blackboard.
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Step 2: Installing the Find Library button at the bottom. sound for an online audio lecture! In
For Mac users, you will have a DMG There will be a window that comes up fact, you don’t need stereo sound at all.
file. Double click to open. Create a new that asks you if you want to locate the Under the Audio I/O tab, select Logitech
folder in the Applications folder on your LAME encoder file. Click “Yes”. Now, USB Headset for Device Playback. For
computer, and name it Audacity. After navigate the location you put the encoder Recording, select Logitech USB Headset,
the folder is created, click and drag the folder. You are looking for a file that says and change the Channels from 2(Stereo)
contents of the open DMG file into the “lame_enc.dll” for PC and “libmp3lame. to 1(Mono). Next, click on the File For-
new folder. That’s it! For PC users, double dylib” for Mac. Click Open, and the MP3 mats tab. Under the MP3 Export Setup
click on the EXE file, read and click Library Version should have “LAME area, there is a pull-down for Bit Rate. I
through the prompts to install. 3.97” beside it. Plug-in installed! would have this set no higher than 64,
but it goes as low as 16. Here are a few
Now, a quick bit of house keeping. Place Step 3: Optimizing Settings links to a 17 second audio clip with dif-
the LAME MP3 folder in a safe place Before we roll, be sure to keep your re- ferent bit rates...
where it won’t be deleted or disturbed in cording device handy. Mac’s have a mi-
the future, like My Documents or some crophone built into the machine, but the Test 1: 64 Bit, 136 kb file size
such place. If you are savvy enough, place device of preference for both Mac and PC Test 2: 32 Bit, 68 kb file size
it in the plug-ins folder of the Audacity is the Logitech Premium USB Headset Test 3: 16 Bit, 36 kb file size
folder on your computer, under Programs 350, which is a USB powered headset
or Applications, depending on your with built in mic. The eMedia Center has After choosing your acceptable quality
machine. If this file disappears, you’ll have
several of these available for checkout. We level by adjusting the bit rate, you are set
issues with saving to MP3. will refer to this headset in the rest of the to record! The longer the recording, the
tutorials on Audacity. Plug the headset lower the bit rate you should consider to
Open the Audacity program and go to into your computer and proceed back to save on file size.
preferences, where we are going to link up the preferences window.
the MP3 encoder plug-in. If you’re on a Begin experimenting with Audacity!
Mac, it is under Audacity > preferences. Optimizing the settings for audio lec- There is much to play with, and we will
On a PC, it is under edit > preferences. tures is all about file size. Understand, discuss the basics of recording in Part 2 of
Click on the File Formats tab and locate you don’t need theater-quality surround our Audacity 101 tutorial series.
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be required to create a small learning module within
Blackboard. This is the last time this particular course Mark Brendel
will be offered as a means for obtaining a certificate to eMedia Producer
teach online. In the future, you will need to take the mbrendel1@ivytech.edu
statewide course to be certified to teach online.
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Office of Instructional Technology & Design | eMedia Center Volume 01 | Issue 01 | June 2008

IT&D Southwest A Newsletter of the Office of Instructional Technology & Design

The Blackboard Insider Teaching T&D The eMedia Workshop

Designed, edited & produced by the eMedia Center.

Office of Instructional Technology & Design The Blackboard Insider

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10 Feedback, Comments & Contribution Inquiries

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