SCCD Rich Media Summer Institute 2006

In April, 2007, Charles Mitchell gave a presentation about the summer institutes that are held here at Seattle Community College. With lots of help from Patricia Paquette, Peg McNair, and Grace Sales, I created a handout for his presentation. It gives a nice overview of the 2006 Summer Institute and I thought it deserved a broader audience. Enjoy!

2006 Rich Media Summer Institute (PDF format so Acrobat Reader is required)

If you'd like more information about the Rich Media Summer Institute, view this 6 minute long RMSI overview. It also provides a tour of the RMSI blog.

Geoff made this short video for the final day using all the free software programs we taught during the RMSI. It will give you a sense of the hard work, intensity, and fun we had during the Institute. Enjoy!

Final Day Video

Graham just had his five year anniversary as a part time instructor at North Seattle teaching real estate appraisal courses. He has had a variety of positions in the appraisal department at Washington Mutual and just had his twenty year anniversary there in May of this year. In addition to teaching and appraising he has been involved in digital video production since completing a certificate program at the UW in documentary video production in 1999. He recently retired after many years as a drummer (rock and roll).

For RMSI Graham has worked on a short video to explain some of the requirements to become a real estate appraiser and also demonstrate some of the activities of a residential real estate appraiser.

Project Link.

After teaching and traveling all over the world, I settled in Seattle. I've been working at South Seattle for twenty years. I helped develop the Applied Academics courses tailored to the needs of students in the technical programs. I have students write about their technical subjects because it motivates them to write about real-world subjects.

For my project I developed some audio and some video writing prompts: students listen or watch and then describe what they heard or saw. I think this will be an interesting way to get students to do short in-class writing. Because my students tell me that they are auditory learners, I made some podcasts to explain some of the assignments. I have these audio and video files stored on a blog.

Project link.

My name is Cyndi Brown and I am a full-time instructor in the Interpreter Training Program at Seattle Central Community College. I am starting my sixth year at Seattle Central after having taught American Sign Language for three years and now ITP for the past two years.

My work as an interpreter for many years and my own experience as a life-long-learner of American Sign Language helps me seek to find practical ways to help my students grow and develop in their journey in becoming sign language interpreters.

This is my second time attending the Summer Institute, and each time I have come away with a plethora of new ideas, tools and technologies to help students... and myself!

Project link.

M. Faucette teaches Humanities at Seattle Central. The project is a short film to help students understand assignment requirements for an oral presentation.

Project link.

I teach Anatomy and Physiology (ANP), and Microbiology, at SSCC. Because the vocabulary is particularly difficult in ANP, I developed a website years ago so that the students could download all my notes. That way they could have the notes and actually be able to listen in class. However, the problem remained that many of the students, particularly the ESL students, had great difficulty actually pronouncing the words. Because it's easier to memorize vocabulary when one knows what the words sound like, I decided to include pronunciations on the website for the difficult words.To achieve this turned out to be more difficult than anticipated, but with Bill Newman's help, it got done.

Sample project file.

South Seattle Campus - Culinary Arts
Human Resources Management and Dining Room Instructor (p/t)

I have been instructing for 2 quarters after 20 years in the hotel industry. I am thoroughly enjoying my new work assisting students to be the best they can be.

My project is for Dining Room Instruction. We offer Afternoon (High) Tea in spring and summer quarters. The video I made will help me instruct students about tea during fall and winter plus aid with instruction prior to afternoon teas by showing them what to expect and some "how to's".

Besides the video, I am so excited by the Blog and Podcasting opportunities. I'm a neophyte to this side of technology and see so many uses. I built my first blog, added a link for students to learn about Tea, and added my video. This will be the beginning of a wonderful resource.

I'm hooked!

Project link.

Hi, I'm Melissa Grinley. I teach Psychology courses at NSCC, including General Psychology, Social Psychology, and Research Methods.

My project was an effort to streamline the information I usually distribute to my students, including lecture notes, websites to link to, the syllabus, and handouts, as well as to enhance material I can distribute, such as podcasts, current news stories, and my musings on psychological topics.

I have created two blogs during this institute. One is a blog for my General Psychology course. It can be found at:
http://grinley110.blogspot.com
It contains lecture notes, links, and feeds from the American Psychological Association's news site.

My other blog is a bit more opinionated, varied, includes a podcast interview, and may be mined for material for future classes. It can be found at:

http://fabpsych.blogspot.com
I have uploaded my first podcast, an interview with psychologist George Sayre, to that blog.

I have been teaching at SSCC for over 25 years. I have taught classes in pottery, drawing, painting and -for the last ten years - computer art. My students learn to use Photoshop, Illustrator, Image Ready, Painter and other software applications. My courses are a blending of visual art and technology.

I have found that my students frequently get so bogged down by technology that they forget to consider the artistic aspects of our class. The projects that I post to our Blackboard website have many images and screen captures. My students can see what they are supposed to do - if they are willing to read through the material.

My goal with this Rich Media Summer Institute was to produce a video or two covering a few of the artistic aspects of our curriculum. I am hoping that, with a switch from written word to video, my students will be more willing to consider the artistic side of their projects.

I have been able to produce two videos. They still need work, but I have a great start with all that I have learned during this summer institute.

Video 1
Video 2

I teach developmental math classes at North Seattle Community College. The classes I teach are mostly traditional lecture classes, but I also teach computer based instruction and distance learning classes.

My project is to produce mini-tutorials which will be available on my website and the computer based math instruction website for students who miss class or would like to see a few more examples on a particular topic. I choose fractions and exponents for the first group of tutorials because students frequently need a little extra explanation of these concepts.

Tutorial 1 (Exponents Division)
Tutorial 2 (Exponents Multiplication)
Tutorial 3 (Exponents Raising to a Power)
Tutorial 4 (Fractions Adding and Subtracting)

Dan Loos is an ESL instructor at Seattle Central Community College. He will be teaching in an I-BEST (Integrated Basic Education Skills Training) program for ESL students. Students in ESL levels 5 and 6 (students not yet matriculated into the college) will be permitted to take one college-level course per quarter (a MIC course) along with ESL support courses. The MIC and ESL courses will be team taught: Dan Loos (ESL) and Michael Taylor (Information Technology). The ESL students will also be taking their MIC courses with other Native English speaking students.

For Dan's Summer Institute 2006 project, he has created the first in a series of listening and vocabulary exercises tailored to the textbook that students will be using in their MIC course: Microsoft Office 2003 Premium Edition.

Dan created a:

1. Word document of the written exercises for students to complete
2. Blog from which students can download the written exercises and access the podcast that is needed to complete the written exercises
3. Podcast for the audio portion of the listening exercises
4. Transcript of the audio portion for students to access after the assignment has been submitted and scored.

Project link.

After 3 years in Kansas the subject was moved to eastern Washington where he spent the next 17 years. A 4 year stint at the University of Washington was followed by 2 years of advanced education at Sacramento State College where the subject secured his Master’s Degree. A return to Seattle failed to secure immediate employment in the teaching field. So after a brief part time tenure at Highline Community College, the subject found employment in the real world as the manager of a beverage importer and broker. This time in the real world was to last 12 years during which time the subject moved from the beverage importer to Starbucks to independent consulting.

After guiding Starbucks from a small local outfit to a national force in coffee service, the subject was investigated by the IRS and found to be lacking in certain explanations. In exchange for vital information on insiders, the subject was entered into the Program as an instructor at Seattle Central Community College. Despite the requirement o keep a low profile, the subject has instead become the recipient of numerous technological awards. The high profile attendant to such programs as Summer Institute has forced the Program to “out” the subject.

The Program now disavows any knowledge of the subject or his where-abouts and others are advised to follow a similar course of action should they encounter him, though he is not considered dangerous.

Project Link.

Hello! My name is Julie Masura. I have been teaching Earth Science courses at North Seattle Community College (and many others) since 2000. This is my third summer institute. I created a web site during my first institute, a Camtasia presentation during my second, and have produced a short movie/video during this institute.

PowerPoint Presentation.

Video.

My name is Rachael Mendonsa. I've been teaching ESL part-time at North Seattle Community College since 2001 and am also an academic advisor there. I enjoy working with our immigrant and refugee population and want to encourage them to get the most out of their college experience here.

I created a virtual tour for our ESL students, especially night students, to expose them to campus services available to them. Also, these students are being introduced to services they'll need to use when they are ready to move beyond ESL.

Virtual Tour.

Sue Miller is an instructor at SSCC and BCC and is currently teaching Human Nutrition and Marine Biology. She has taught within the district for 11 years. New to most of these technologies and sometimes skeptical of their efficacy, she is currently teaching online classes and works hard to improve her courses every quarter with new techniques and resources.

Project Link.

Owned and operated a Commercial Photography business for 25 years in Seattle. Specialized in outdoor clothing and equipment. Clients included:
Nordstrom, Eddie Bauer, Land's End, JC Penney, LLBean. Wanted to teach. Started 5 years ago at SCCC.

I wanted to add Podcasts to my web site, which I built this summer.
We include many industry photographers, art directors and advertising
agencies in our classes and I want to tape them and interview them for
all students and for archiving.

Project Link.

My name is Keijiro Miyata but everyone calls me KG.
I teach at Central, Culinary Arts Department. I am responsible for taking care of 2nd quarter students who cook for the Chef's Express line.

I made a chicken fabrication (cutting & deboning) video for this workshop. I would like to make a lot more videos of different kinds of fabrication but time is too short for this time. I'll work on that later. By making this video available online a student can view it when ever he or she needs to.

Project video.

My name is Eileen Murphy. I am an adjunct instructor at North Seattle Community College and Shoreline Community College. For nine years, I have been teaching pre-college mathematics which includes Basic Math through Intermediate Algebra.


My project is a video production of a discussion I had with my math students concerning their thoughts on what they had to do to succeed at the study of beginning and intermediate algebra.

This video will be used in my upcoming algebra classes to generate discussion about what has been said in the video.

Project Link

I've taught on-line courses in nutrition and health for about five years. Before this year, I thought "rich media" was having my picture posted on the course site. With all the video and audio technology, creating an on-line course as dynamic and interactive as a classroom is so much more possible. Pardon me. . . got to get back to work.


PROJECT
Uncover Your Diet: Keeping a Food Record
The first project of the nutrition course involved keeping a five-day food record. It sounds simple but recording everything you eat and the amounts you eat is no simple task. In this short video, some simple skills like how to estimate portion size, find and use information on food labels, and dissect the ingredients of a mixed dish are demonstrated.

Project Link

A native of Seattle, Washington, Diane Schmidt earned her Bachelors of Music from the University of Puget Sound and her Masters of Music from the University of Washington. She has taught at South Seattle Community College in West Seattle for ten years. Her teaching load includes the following: Music in the Western World, World Music, World Beat: Global Studies through Music, Rock Music: History and Perspectives, Fundamentals of Music, Music Theory, Lab Piano Classes, World Music Performance Ensemble, Experience Rhythm, and Song Writing. The Blues and Its Influence is her first online course.

Class website blog for delivery of a sample lesson in an mp3 podcast format (12 minutes in length) describing some aspects of rhythm in blues and rock music.


Blog Link: http://music-117.blogspot.com/

Name: Carey Schroyer
PT instructor at SSCC and Everett Community College
Subjects Taught: ANP and Microbiology (mostly online at South, on campus at Everett)

I am also a PT practicing Chiropractor with a small office by University Village where I see patients 2 days a week.

I enjoy teaching and treating patients and I love being able to combine my practical training (DC) with teaching in order to help students learn ANP and micro. I also really enjoy teaching the online classes because they allow us to serve a different population of students who are (usually) very appreciate of the online option.

Here is a link to my blog: http://anatomy--physiology.blogspot.com/

Day two and many are starting to feel overwhelmed and a bit brain dead - me included! But, projects or at least project pieces are being completed and many people got a blog created today and have linked a podcast to their blog. Wow!

Andy McCone mentioned another video podcast on podcasting today and I'm including a link so we have something fun to watch tomorrow morning.

Comments - we want comments!

I'm ready to call Day 1 of the RMSI a success. Lots of you learned the essentials of Windows MovieMaker and can now start working on your projects. Geoff said there were a few technical problems and only one or two of them were a bit scary (like the camera that smelled like something inside it was burning). He praised his group so all of you should feel very proud of yourselves today.

The audio/podcasting group also did quite well and even had some lab time to start working on their projects. We also had a few technical problems - like not being able to connect the headset with the microphone to the presenter's computer. The solution? Connect the podcasting kit up. With a little help from my friends, I was able to actually show my students how to record, edit and add music. Thanks to Bill and Geoff.

Tomorrow we'll start off with coffee, tea, juice, bagels, and networking. The session on blogging will start at 9 in Room 104. The next session will explain how to make your blog and/or podcast subscribable. You won't want to miss it!

After lunch, I'll repeat my podcasting session. Just in case you want to watch a humorous explanation of podcasting, click on this link for a short movie.

I (Jean) will also show you how to get "legal" music for your movies and podcasts. It can be time consuming but music adds a lot, I think, to the final project.

Please feel free to add your comments. They could be questions or just observations. If you don't know how to create a comment, Jay (our blogging guru) will show you how to tomorrow.

On behalf of Geoff Mathay, Sara Newman, and myself, I want to welcome you to the Rich Media Summer Institute for 2006.

We are looking forward to working with all of you starting Tuesday, August 22. Here is a copy of the schedule for workshops and labs. And here is a list of all the participants and mentors as of 8/21/2006.