Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award Honorable Mention, 2010

I have received an Honorable Mention award as part of the international Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA) for my work using Sakai and other online tools to extend classroom conversations between class sessions and to leverage these tools to help students think critically, reflectively, and in personally meaningful ways about course content (see the course description here).

Extending the Conversation

As part of this honor, I was asked to present my course design and motivations at the Annual Sakai Conference on June 16, 2010, in Denver Colorado. You can see the actual presentation on ustream or the slides from this talk on slideshare.
You can also see an extended version of this talk that was presented at Indiana University on 5/27/2010 on the CITL website.

• Slide presentation with voice-over
• Talk as a pdf

Finally, here is a short interview of me discussing my design decisions at Sakai 2010.

QuickTime (Pro)

Most people who use video for analysis think of QuickTime only as an option for playing back their video.  However, QuickTime also has a host of built in features that can be quite helpful and avoid the need to use a high-end video editing tool, particularly if you have QuickTime Pro.  I still use other tools, but for quick edits and the like, it is far easier to take care of them right inside of QuickTime.  Specifically, QuickTime let’s you trim a movie or combine movies (sequentially or on different layers), export the entire movie or just the audio track, save the movie or audio in a number of different formats, watch only a selected section (this is particularly useful when you are reviewing a small section in the middle of the video), jump directly to a specific point, add bookmarks, and more.  If you want to edit subtitles by hand, that is also an option, though I find Inqscribe to be much easier for that.
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InqScribe

A big part of my research involves video data which means that I spend a lot of time transcribing video for analysis and to use as examples in presentations.  To help with transcription I use InqScribe which let’s you transcribe while viewing the video.  Two features I particularly like: 1) it can embed a timecode which you can then use to jump back to that point in the video; and 2) It will automagically export subtitled quicktime files for you (A MUST for presenting video).