Create Narrated PowerPoint Videos for your Students with Adobe Captivate

As hard as you try, during your class period sometimes there just isn’t enough time to cover everything you wanted or spend as much time as you would have liked lecturing on a specific topic. If that’s the case, then Adobe Captivate may help fill that need. Record voice-overs for your PowerPoint slideshows and easily convert them to Flash movie files using Adobe Captivate. Next, upload these Captivate videos right into your Blackboard course sites. Students can review your multimedia lectures (or segments of them) over and over again as needed for reinforcement of course topics

Use Word’s Track Changes Feature to Provide Better Feedback while “Going Green”

Discover how you can use Microsoft Word’s Track Changes feature to provide your students with embedded feedback, whether grammatical, spelling-related, or simply comments – right from within the body of the Word document. “Go Green” by eliminating the need to print out every student document for grading and feedback purposes

To Blog or Not to Blog – Could Blogging be Right for Your Student Writing Projects?

To blog or not to blog, that is the question – and one that you should consider if you are teaching courses which require engaged student learning and introspective writing projects. Students are already using online mediums ubiquitously for posting their thoughts and communicating with friends, family, fellow students, and their instructors. Weblogs provide your students with personal journal space for your course writing projects in a format that they’re already using in MySpace and Facebook. Learn how to get students started on blogging right away with free tools such as Blogger and Tumblr in this hands-on workshop

Prezi: Engage Your Students with this Next Generation of Presentation Tools!

In a world where PowerPoint reigns supreme among presentation tools, Prezi is a unique offering that can allow you to create more dynamic presentations and better engage students. Create presentations that move and transform with text, documents, images, and movies using Prezi’s intuitive design features. After a brief crash course in how Prezi works, you’ll be able to create your own presentation show and test out your Prezi-nting skills

Emergent Technology Smorgasbord

New technologies for communication and collaboration are emerging, and some established technologies are just starting to make their way into the higher education consciousness. Join us on a whirlwind tour through all of the possibilities imaginable for teaching and learning as we look at Google Wave, mobile learning, wordle, Google Docs, embedded RSS news in your LMS, YouTube for student video projects, Twitter, netbooks, virtual world gaming, and more. Related Links: 2010 Horizon Report Preview 2009 Horizon Report Project Natal video Embedding Audio, Video and News in Blackboar

Introduction of Lazy Luna an automatic software-driven multilevel comparison of ventricular function quantification in cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging is the gold standard for cardiac function assessment. Quantification of clinical results (CR) requires precise segmentation. Clinicians statistically compare CRs to ensure reproducibility. Convolutional Neural Network developers compare their results via metrics. Aim: Introducing software capable of automatic multilevel comparison. A multilevel analysis covering segmentations and CRs builds on a generic software backend. Metrics and CRs are calculated with geometric accuracy. Segmentations and CRs are connected to track errors and their effects. An interactive GUI makes the software accessible to different users. The software's multilevel comparison was tested on a use case based on cardiac function assessment. The software shows good reader agreement in CRs and segmentation metrics (Dice > 90%). Decomposing differences by cardiac position revealed excellent agreement in midventricular slices: > 90% but poorer segmentations in apical (> 71%) and basal slices (> 74%). Further decomposition by contour type locates the largest millilitre differences in the basal right cavity (> 3 ml). Visual inspection shows these differences being caused by different basal slice choices. The software illuminated reader differences on several levels. Producing spreadsheets and figures concerning metric values and CR differences was automated. A multilevel reader comparison is feasible and extendable to other cardiac structures in the future

Communicate and Collaborate in your Bunny Slippers with Adobe Connect

Discover how the latest version of Bridgewater State’s Adobe Connect web-conferencing solution will allow you to perform text, audio, and video communications with students and colleagues right from the comfort of your home or office computer. In this hands-on session, you’ll be immersed into the Adobe Connect environment and discover how Connect can be used for course lectures, student presentations, document sharing, presentation sharing, instant polling, breakout group work, and more

Create Your Own Podcasts

Create your very own podcast and walk away with a finished audio recording that your students can listen to at any time within your Blackboard course sites or personal or departmental web sites. Just bring your own headphones – we’ll supply the microphones. Related Link: How to Create an Audio Podcas

A Biblically Based Strategy for Disciple-Making in the Seventh-day Adventist Churches of Malawi

Problem The current rapid growth of the church in Malawi lacks an on-going strategy to foster the membership increase and its spirituality. The failure to systematically train the laity as disciple makers has resulted in their under utilization. By default, the church has become clergy-dependent and the majority of the members warm the pews as mere spectators. Meanwhile, their conversions seem to be equated with disciple-making. There is need for a paradigm shift which will produce active lay persons who can adequately rise to the challenge of the Gospel Commission, making disciples of all nations. Although this research has a global impact, its main focus is on Malawi, a country with deep-rooted cultural practices and traditional discipleship models. Method The approach of the study was dictated by the definition of a disciple which is not synonymous with a convert in that a disciple reproduces faith in others and seeks to make them disciple makers too. The Old and the New Testament scriptures provided the foundational bedrock for this proposed disciple-making strategy in Malawi. The primary sources included pertinent literature on discipleship, missiological and anthropological reflections, and personal experience. The strategy emphasizes the need for lay training and deep commitment by the church administrators. Conclusion There were models of disciple-making in the Bible times through which future kings, prophets, priests, and other national leaders served as interns before assuming their respective offices. The learners observed and worked closely with their mentors in public and in private settings. The system helped to prevent a leadership vacuum and ungodly influences from filtering into the nation. Discipling is mentoring at best. Mentors shape the lives of their trainees. Both the ancient and the modem worlds have used mentors. Jesus called and mentored twelve uneducated men who became a nucleus of His church to reach the world nations. This disciple-making strategy will multiply the number of productive lay persons, improve the quality of their spirituality, and greatly reduce the rate of membership backdoor losses. It will also increase the number of gift-oriented ministries. The local churches will be centers of spiritual renewal. Malawi will be a mission-minded church