1. Connect with your Students using
Video Snippets in your Online
Classroom – Free!
Andree C. Swanson, Ed.D.
Assistant Professor of Business and Professional Studies

2. Overview
Students want engaging, creative instructional
media. If these are created by you, the faculty
member, you can increase e-connectivity in the
classroom.

4. Background
E-Connectivity -- Social Connection in an Online
Classroom
Studies have identified the need for…
Achieving a social connection (e-connectivity) with their
students (Slagter van Tryon & Bishop, 2006)
Increasing interactivity that “will help the students' with
their understanding” (Swanson, Hutkin, Babb, & Howell,
2010, p. 121).

5. Background
Warm, Friendly, Honest, and Caring
Participants 100% agreed that faculty should be:
warm,
available to answer questions;
hold students to a high standard,
remain flexible to adult learners;
honest in all of their interactions, and
demonstrate a caring nature in the online classroom”
(Swanson, Hutkin, Babb, & Howell, 2010, p. 119).

6. Personalize the Message
“Videos or podcasts can help students connect with and understand
content in a way that print (or slides) alone may not be able to achieve.
Videos, blogs, wikis, and discussion forums can also personalize the
discipline and allow students to get to know the teacher as an individual
who cares about student learning and success.
It is one thing for a student to read a syllabus (or any document) about
course requirements and expectations, but quite another for a teacher on
video to talk about opportunities for learning and his or her teaching
philosophy, just as Bain argues the best teachers do in the traditional
classroom.”

7. How does one achieve
empathy and caring in
the online classroom??

8. By adding free
video

9. Some free tools

10. Jing / Screencast

11. Jing / Screencast
Use Jing to…
Take Screenshots:
Capture an image of what you see on your computer screen
Record Screencasts:
Record up to 5 minutes of onscreen video (Techsmith.com, 2012)

12. Downloading Jing
Go to:
http://www.techsmith.com/download/jing/default.asp

13. Jing
Adding e-connectivity through the use of Jing.
Provide qualitative feedback
directly on the paper.
Explain content areas.
Students can hear:
Caring voice
Empathetic tone
Positive tone
Explain formatting areas.
Demonstrate how to create
sections in an academic essay.
All of this can be done from
your home computer!
But, the student feels like
you are right there!

14. Jing
Sharing the Screencast with the students.
The student will receive a Screencast url from you, the instructor.
Nothing for them to download.
Students merely copy and paste the URL into a browser, and view.

15. Jing / Screencast
Example Jing Screencast for you to review
Open your browser in another window
Copy and paste this URL
http://screencast.com/t/J5daWKXXUr
When the page comes up, click on the arrow
View the Jing Screencast

16. Jing
Tutorials
Go to: http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-jing.html

17. Glogster
Free
or
Inexpensive
Easy to have students
create an account.

20. Narrated PowerPoint
Add narration to a
presentation
http://office.microsoft.co
m/en-us/powerpointhelp/add-narration-to-apresentationHA001230306.aspx
How to Record Narration
for a PowerPoint
Presentation For
Dummies
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=QZp3jumnWUg

21. Converting the PowerPoint to Video
Turn your presentation
into a video
http://office.microsoft.co
m/en-us/powerpointhelp/turn-yourpresentation-into-a-videoHA010336763.aspx
How to Convert
PowerPoint 2010
Presentations Into Videos
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=fTda5Ypv9U0

22. Another instructional guide
How to convert
PowerPoint into Video
for YouTube or iPod
http://www.labnol.org/sof
tware/tutorials/convertpowerpoint-video-uploadyoutube-ppt-dvd/2978/
PowerPoint to Video
Converter Free
http://download.cnet.co
m/PowerPoint-to-VideoConverter-Free/30002075_4-10973588.html

23. VoiceThread
A Free account has no
limits on viewing, listening
or commenting via audio
or text, and no one will
ever need to pay anything
to view and comment on a
VoiceThread.
A Free account does have
some limitations on
VoiceThread creation and
video (webcam)
commenting
easily upgrade to a
VoiceThread Pro account
with unlimited creation and
advanced features for less
than $5 a month

24. Xtranormal
Xtranormal Movie Maker is
a free online animation
creating tool that allows
the user to create a fully
animated CG movie using
the tools and options that it
provides.
Xtranormal Moviemaker
service works in
combination with Google
The user has to create a
Google account for
himself and log into that
account to start using the
service.

25. Voki
What is Voki?
Voki is a FREE service that
lets you:
Create customized
avatars.
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=pZwQTm_5s6Q
Add voice to your Voki
avatars.
Post your Voki to any
blog, website, or profile.
Take advantage of Voki's
learning resources.

26. Animoto
Web application that automatically generates
professionally produced videos using patent-pending
technology and high-end motion design.
Each video is a fully customized orchestration of userselected images and music.
http://download.cnet.com/Animoto/3000-18515_410820520.html

27. Questions?
Join.me next

28. Join.Me

29. Join.me
Jing.me described
Use Jing to…
Share your screen in real-time
The free version allows Internet calling, screen sharing, 250
viewers, share control and the ability to send files.
The paid for version ($149/year) adds window
sharing, swapping of presenters, meeting scheduler and
international option.

30. Join.me
Downloading Join.me
Go to: https://join.me/

31. Join.me
Adding synchronized e-connectivity with
students.
Provide qualitative feedback
directly on the paper.
Explain content areas.
Students can hear:
Caring voice
Empathetic tone
Positive tone
Explain formatting areas.
Demonstrate how to create
sections in an academic
essay.
All done in realtime!

32. Join.me
Sharing the Join.me screen – what you will do
You connect through join.me
You will see a tool like the one below at the top of your screen.
The unique code that you will share with students will be here.

33. Join.me
Sharing the Join.me screen – what students will
do
Go to https://join.me/
They will see this on the join.me webpage.
Then they will enter your unique code in this box.
Then, click
on green
arrow.

34. Join.me
Screen sharing in real-time
Notes to remember
FAQs available
Desktop and Mobile Apps available

35. Join.me
To quote Join.me
“…ridiculously
simple screen
sharing tool”

36. Questions?
Evidence next

37. Evidence

38. Anecdotal Evidence
Students say…
I gain from this type of
feedback as I am a visual
learner.
Hearing your voice helps me
to understand the concept
that you are explaining.
Instructor Specialists say…
Providing this type of
feedback is as though you
are sitting with the student
and guiding him or her
through the paper. Great
job!
Anyone care
to do a study
on this?

39. Break into Short Videos
“If a video requires a large amount of information, it
is better for me as a student to have the video or
audio separated into several separate videos or have
one long video that is easy to revert back to sections
of it, in order to review material.” (Gladstein, 2008, p.
68

40. Twitch Speed
“Developers should follow the lead of video portals
such as YouTube or Google Video and limit their
videos to a size that downloads or plays quickly.
Given that contemporary learners move at “twitch
speed,” shorter length multimedia may be better.”
(Gladstein, 2008, p. 68)

41. Questions?
Dr Andree Swanson
Andree.Swanson@ashford.edu