Technology & Instruction for UNEX

This past Friday, March 23rd, UCR Extension hosted an exhibition of student work from "All the World's a Stage: Introduction to Street Photography," a class taught by Eric Kim . Some of Eric's photos were also on display. Eric Kim and students from his class, "All the World's a Stage: Introduction to Street Photography" Student work on display Eric Kim and  Ibarionex Perello , host of The Candid Frame podcast *photos by Jacqueline Rodriguez Eric is teaching the class again during the Spring quarter . It is taught using a hybrid format, with some face-to-face meetings and some online work. Back in August, I was listening to The Candid Frame episode where Ibarionex Perello interviewed Eric Kim. Eric mentioned that he had recently been laid off from his job and was going to devote his time to street photography. I emailed Eric and told him about our free class for potential online instructors and asked if he might be interested in tea

Most of our online instructors use Powerpoint to create presentations, but it doesn't have a great solution for adding narration. You can record your voice on each slide, but there is no built-in way to export that as something that plays back by itself  online. You can upload the PPT file with audio to authorstream.com and it will produce an online presentation where students can click on each slide to hear the audio. That is an acceptable solution, although I think the ability to create a self-running video of the presentation with narration is nicer. SonicPics is a $2.99 iPhone/iPad app that allows you to add narration to images and export them as a slideshow. If you can export your Powerpoint or Keynote slides as .jpg files and get them onto your iPhone, this looks like an easy way to create a narrated presentation.  I haven't tried it, but it appears to be easier to use than some of the other options and much less expensive.

Nicely done video about Kristen Kipp, National Online Teacher of the year for 2011. Produced by Pearson.