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>> Hi, my name is Jessica Sanchez.
I work for the University of Texas Pan American.
I'm an instructional developer and pretty much
as a SLIS faculty and putting their courses online.
One of my -- I'm going to share something about techniques
of saving times or anecdotes.
There's two extremes that was shared with me yesterday
about how faculty can work with online courses.
One is pretty much leaving it alone
and just putting whatever stuff needs to be online
and then just leaving it alone
like the students go on their own.
The other way is where the --
for faculty to feel like they have to be involved
in everything, posting to every discussion, posting and posting
to emailing, doing all these things.
And at first, once students --
when the faculty just leaves them alone,
the students feel pretty much alone.
There's no humanizing aspect for it.
Just like going for the faculty doing all these things,
announcements, emails and such, the faculty may feel overwhelmed
and not using time and get frustrated and don't want
to teach online anymore.
Well, one of the techniques that I share with my faculty is
for example if you have PowerPoint presentations,
you can utilize Articulate, which is an add-on feature
to PowerPoint to engage your students,
like you can add narration with the un-timed --
with the animations, but also create some engaging interactive
activities to help engage the student.
And research has shown like one of the students comments was,
it's like, is as if you were there.
I could actually here you lecturing
and I can actually feel --
I felt more involved and like I wasn't alone.
So, that's one of the techniques or one of software applications
that we use in our university.
>> Because you do that one time and you're able to reuse
that file and if you didn't
like the way it came off you could re-tape it
or speak over again.
>> Right! And here's the thing about it, Articulate and set
up like Captivate -- some people use Captivate
to import their PowerPoint with Articulate.
When you record narration and you and make changes to it
or make an addition to the slide, you can just go
to that one slide and record.
So, Captivate, you have to re --
import everything and then re-record everything,
which is a big problem.
So, Articulate really does save time.
Another feature that we use
in our university is Adobe Acrobat Professional
for audio feedbacks.
So, for assignments like some of you might provide feedback
or typing out the comments in their assignment
and letting them know, okay this is
where we need to work on and such.
And research has shown that some of the students are confused
as to what exactly are you trying to tell me.
Even though you write it down there's like,
you might like texting me, you short -- abbreviations and such,
but with Adobe Acrobat you can actually use audio feedback
and actually you can provide comments, be more explicit
and actually shows does it saves professors times, but not only
that it shows research has shown
that the students actually get what's going on
and it's actually putting their long term memory.
So they actually understand what concepts are being discussed
by the professor and that's it on that.