Minutes WebCT Users Group  March 27, 2006 
 
Attended Meeting: Annemarie Pajewski, Trinity Blackwell, Linda Cronquist, Katrien Kraft, Chuck Hall, Erica Morley, Kelly Hayes, Greg Reents, Patricia Price, Pam Lizardi, Brenda Newhouse, Melanie Kroening, Jeff Anderson, and Peggy Johnson.

 

 
Photographs To Use in Your Course
 

Melanie Kroening showed faculty two sites that provide copyright-friendly photographs for use on the web:

Flickr http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

Pics 4 Learning http://www.pics4learning.com

These web sites explain the conditions for you to legally use the resources posted. Many want you give credit to the author/photographer.

 

 Using Podcasts

Jeff Anderson demonstrated the wealth of podcasts available at ITunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/

Podcasts can deliver audio and video files in MP3 format (which is very compressed and thus downloads easily). If you create a podcast, you can upload it to the ITunes site for easy accessibility. Students can view it on their Ipods or on their computer.

MCLI also has a selection of podcasts for your use. You can see them at this URL: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/podcast/

To create audio files, you might want to use Audacity - free software that is very user friendly. Directions for downloading Audacity and using it can be found at http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/other/ctl/_ctl_SD/resources/helpdocs/how_to/audacity.swf

 

Jeff plans to create a hand-out with more details on podcasting. It will be sent to the faculty and staff who attended this WebCT Users Group meeting.

 

Peggy Johnson

johnson@mail.mc.maricopa.edu