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Video Course Introductions with your host Kwame Rakes

The Wimba Voice Recorder with Dr. Bill Ventura

All March 2008 training opportunities have come-and-gone, but don't despair! CTL currently has some great classes on the schedule. Register for all training opportunities via the Regent Training System (RTS). Go there now

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Video course introductions enhance Regent's online classroom environment. By creating a video introduction for your online or on campus course you are enhancing the success of your course.

First of all, these videos put your voice and face together to reduce the psychological distancing between you and your students. For today's media-savvy students, a video introduction can actually add extra credibility to you and your course.

It is a friendly and informative way to introduce yourself with a welcome message, provide a general course introduction, or welcome students to a new unit of the course. Students will be put at ease as they are introduced to your personality and professionalism--you are no longer "that professor" floating out in cyber space.

To schedule your video course introduction, contact Diane Cooke at 757.226.4308.

The Wimba Voice Recorder can cut your grading time by more than half by following these steps:

1- Open your student’s paper in Word.

2- Create a Voice Recorder tool in your Blackboard course and record comments as you work through the student’s paper.

3- At the end of the paper, hit the stop button and save the file in the MP3 format.

4- Submit the recording and paper back to the student through the grade book item in Blackboard.

Your students will appreciate hearing your voice talk through various issues with their papers and understand your grading style after hearing your thoughts rather than just reading you comments.

To learn more about Wimba tools contact ctl@regent.edu to receive a detailed brochure.

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Blogging with Dean Charles Dunn

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According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a blog is "a website that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer."

Dean Charles Dunn of the School of Government loves to blog. "If you'd like to have fun, try blogging," he states. "Blogging will almost make a different person out of you."

If you read Dean Dunn's blog, you'll see that he's written on a variety of subjects in politics. They are ideas that are communicated to, or even inspired by, his colleagues and students.

Blogging will challenge you and require you to improve your writing skills. A good blog is written with active verbs and is succinct, with an objective tone. Well-balanced blogs can help you gain reputation as a scholar, and will sharpen your skills in communicating to a mass audience.