by Ameer | Oct 16, 2014 | instructional videos
Hi Everyone, I bought a drone quadcopter last week. The one I bought was an Ares Ethos FPC. It comes with a camera that shoots in HD mounted on the bottom of it. I am pleased with it so far. I’m really happy I got the economic quadcopter first before I bought...
by Dylan Ruediger | Oct 12, 2014 | instructional videos, pedagogy
Late last week, I observed a session, devoted to the topic of secession, of the hybrid U.S. history survey. It made me more than a little nostalgic for the classroom, in all its gritty and chaotic glory. And, it reminded me of the madness that is the one-semester U.S....
by Dylan Ruediger | Oct 6, 2014 | instructional videos, pedagogy, SIF Projects
Taking risks in education is, well, risky. As I have mentioned in several previous posts, one of my SIF assignments is to work on the hybrid U.S. history sections being offered at GSU this fall. The course is innovative in a number of ways: it takes full advantage of...
by Dylan Ruediger | Oct 2, 2014 | instructional videos, pedagogy
As I mentioned last week, one of my main tasks as a SIF fellow is to help generate video segments, essentially small documentaries, for GSU’s hybrid U.S. History survey course. Over the last week, I have been learning Adobe Premier Pro, so that I can transform...
by agable1@gsu.edu | Sep 25, 2014 | instructional videos, pedagogy
Whenever I need to figure out how to do something, I tend first to look up a short instruction video on YouTube—say, fixing a vacuum cleaner or learning how to use a particular feature of a software. In three or four minutes, I’m moved through a video instruction...
by Thomas Breideband | Sep 18, 2014 | instructional videos, SIF Projects
Over the last week I’ve been really busy with one of my projects in particular, which is to produce a series of short videos, featuring both faculty members as well as students, that are designed to shed light on so-called hybrid approaches to teaching and learning....