Multi-Media Tools That Make Sharing Info with Students a Slam Dunk PRESENTERS: KALYN RYLL, KALYN.RYLL@SIMMONS.EDU CINDY FIRESTEIN, CINDY.FIRESTEIN@SIMMONS.EDU
Goals for Our Presentation ➢ Best Practices for Sharing Information with Traditional On-Campus and Non-Traditional Online Students ➢ Informing Colleagues about Types of Tools Available to Support Students ➢ Promoting the Use of Technology in Advising, as Recommended by NACADA
Agenda Our Student Demographics Why Talk About Technology and Advising? Why are We Sharing Info with Students? Multi-Media Support Tools Accommodations Final Thoughts/Questions
Our Student Demographics Northeastern University Simmons College (Boston, MA) The College of Professional Studies (CPS) • Overall Undergraduate Population (FY 16-17): 1,825 • Online Learners (Spring 2017): 2,905 • Overall Graduate Population (FY 16-17): 6,230 • On Ground (Spring 2017): 915 • Blended (Spring 2017): 877 • Regional Campuses: ◦ Seattle, WA ◦ Charlotte, NC ◦ Online ◦ Toronto, Canada ◦ Silicon Valley, CA
Why Talk About Technology and Advising? ➢ Technology Enabled Advising is identified by NACADA as one of the 9 Elements of Excellence in Advising ➢ Excellent academic advising incorporates appropriate technology to complement, support, and enhance advising practice
Why are We Sharing Info with Students? Engagement ◦ Build communities with students and others at institution Learning ◦ Using synchronous and asynchronous communication and assessment to help students learn content/develop a skill Live vs. Technology?: It is more important to focus on how the message is designed rather than how it is developed. The message developed to transform a person will either succeed or fail based on how well it has been designed.
Multi-Media Support Tools ➢ Slides/Presentations – Prezi, Powerpoint ➢ Recording Presentations – Panopto, Kaltura ➢ Animation Presentations – Powtoon, Rawshorts ➢ Support Tools for Recording or Animation Presentations – Audacity, Voice Bunny, Fiverr ➢ Texting/Emailing – Persistence Plus, Admin Hub, Signal Vine, Smore, Constant Contact ➢ Virtual Meetings/Classrooms – Bb Collaborate, BlueJeans, GotoMeeting, Zoom, Open Voice ➢ Social Media Management Tools - Hootsuite, Buffer, Sprout Social, HubSpot DISCLAIMER: Please note that we are not endorsing any of these multi-media tools. We have had experience using these tools in our work with online and traditional undergraduate and graduate students, and are sharing this list as a suggestion of tools that may be helpful to you.
Slides/Presentations
Power Point What is Power Point: • Power Point is a function from Microsoft. It allows the user to create professional presentations with graphics and text. Props of Power Point Challenges of Power Point • Free with Microsoft Office • Video and sound is not accessible when • Easy to use printed • Videos and sound can be embedded into • Must buy Microsoft Power Point presentations • Pictures are easy to add • Charts can be added to presentations • Animation can be added to presentations • Presentations can be resaved as a pdf and emailed to students
Prezi Pros of Prezi: Challenges of Prezi: • It breaks the mold – don’t have to do linear, slide -by-slide • Too much movement presentations • Learning curve • It’s web - based (especially helpful for those who don’t have Office suite) and can be mobile optimized • Web-based • Interactivity – link text and images to movement that becomes part of the presentation • Free version limits what you have access to • Designed for all ages Example of Prezi Presentation
Recording Presentations
Pros of Panopto: Pros of Kaltura: • Record lectures and presentation discussions which can be • Easy to use and start recording played back later • Captures screen well (you select what to actually • Live stream lectures/workshops be recording) • Videos can be broken down into segments and watched out • Can add video of you speaking with screen capture of order • Embeds easily into Blackboard • Helps implement a flipped classroom (can be used to watch videos before appointments) Challenges of Kaltura: • If using slides, will automatically index video segments • Video clarity can be a bit off, especially only capturing part of the screen Challenges of Panopto: • Editing tools are not very user friendly • Learning a new tool • Slow upload speed • Variation in campus technology • Storing videos • Recreating videos if not timeless • Changing student culture to use this resource Example of Panopto Recording
Animation Presentations
What is Powtoon? www.powtoon.com What is Raw Shorts? www.rawshorts.com Challenges of Powtoon & Raw Shorts: Pros of Powtoon & Raw Shorts: • • May take a few hours to complete your first Powtoon Two great tools that allow users to create short eye with audio and cartoons catching animated videos and presentations • • Basic animated videos under 5 minutes are FREE Raw Short export credits expire after 6 months • Fun way to get info to students • Animated charts are not part of the free packages • Large cartoon library to choose from and ability to • Cannot call the PowToon Support Team upload pictures • Kept receiving multiple unexpected errors on the website • Ready made templates to create a high quality quick videos my first time creating a PowToon and was told to reboot • Premium accounts available for a fixed monthly fee the webpage several times • Online tutorials and easy to edit available video templates • Some Raw Short templates have animation that is not part • Easily sharable on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, via email, etc. of the free package option Examples of PowToon: http://bit.ly/2nEY2ty
Support Tools for Recording and Animation
What is Audacity? www.audacity.com What is Voice Bunny? www.voicebunny.com What is Fiveer? www.fiveer.com VoiceBunny is a good tool to utilize if you Audacity is a free, open source, cross- Fiverr is a tool that allows you to hire a do not wish to use your voice for your platform audio software for multi-track professional voice actor to record the PowToon or Raw Short. You can hire a recording and editing. This tool can script you created for PowToon. It cost professional voice actor to record the script assist you with making your recording as as little as $5 to higher a professional for your PowToon or Raw Short. Voice professional as possible. To learn more voice actor. To learn more about Fiverr, about Audacity, visit their website. Bunny can also match you up with a visit their website. professional voice translator if you need to have your PowToon or Raw Short in a second language. Price quotes are available per project. To learn more about Voice Bunny, visit their website.
Texting/Emailing
Persistence Plus What is Persistence Plus? www.persistenceplusnetwork.com • Persistence Plus is an behavioral science texting tool that interacts with students to help increase college completion for students. Pros of Persistence Plus Challenges of Persistence Plus • Using behavioral science (nudging model) to increase • May cause issue with some schools college completion around their FERPA policy • Students receive personalized interactive text messages • Expensive: $25-$50 per student per • Demo available upon request academic year, September – June • Friendly, helpful and easy accessible staff • Students could op-out of receiving • 12% point greater persistence for first-generation text messages students • Multiple messages a week may • 6% point increase in year-to-year persistence across the prove costly for students on certain freshman class phone plans • Persistence Plus strives to be FERPA compliant
Persistence Plus We want to foster… Behavioral Sample nudge mechanism Implementation intention On what date & at what time will you prepare for your exam? Planning behavior Goal setting & college Pre-commitment Pick your goal of the week. know-how Network effects & social Students in your program Positive academic social norms accountability are working on their homework right now. Social belonging & growth Alum tip: It took a while in Resiliency mindset college before I felt like I belonged academically & socially. If you feel out of sort, give it some time. A sense of connect Personalization How are you doing today? and caring
What is AdmitHub? www.admithub.com What is Signal Vine? www.signalvine.com AdmitHub is intelligent mobile messaging for colleges. Signal Vine is a two-way text messaging platform. AdmitHub has observed incredible results by combining They office live demos upon request. It allows colleges behavioral economics – nudges and guided support – with to experience high student engagement across your entire institution with Signal Vine ’s intelligent enterprise natural language understanding to strengthen the connect between educators and students. With the benefit of text messaging platform for higher education. To learn AdmitHub – powered conversations, students receive on- more about Signal Vine, visit their website. demand support while educators are freed to focus on the situations and challenges that most need their expert attention. To learn more about AdmitHub, visit their website.
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