DoIT Supports Video Captioning and Transcription A Screencast's Worth a Thousand Words As online and classroom content begins to include video and audio components, there is an increasing need to ensure these materials are accessible. Under the ADA, either transcription or captioning is necessary and required to make audio and audiovisual media accessible to individuals with disabilities. UMBC is committed to eliminating discriminatory obstacles that may disadvantage students based on disability and seeks to create a learning environment that allows for inclusion and full participation by all students. In turn, UMBC's Division of Information Technology is happy to announce it will now provide screencast transcription or closed captioning to help assure equal access to video resources faculty develop. To support screencasting best practices, maximum video playtime for transcription/captioning is 15 minutes. To submit a recording for transcription or closed captioning, please click on this link and complete the form. Details of the support for this process are available via this FAQ article. ]]> As online and classroom content begins to include video and audio components, there is an increasing need to ensure these materials are accessible. Under the ADA, either transcription or... https://wiki.umbc.edu/display/faq/Transcription+and+Closed+Captioning https://beta.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/61509/guest@my.umbc.edu/84deb150067aa5b5306559306a5fefc5/api/pixel Instructional Technology https://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/instructional-technology https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/xsmall.png?1446126703 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/original.png?1446126703 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/xxlarge.png?1446126703 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/xlarge.png?1446126703 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/large.png?1446126703 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/medium.png?1446126703 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/small.png?1446126703 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/xsmall.png?1446126703 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/xxsmall.png?1446126703 Instructional Technology https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/061/509/7cda64779b6149e2cb54113dd1b41251/xxlarge.jpg?1471284069 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/061/509/7cda64779b6149e2cb54113dd1b41251/xlarge.jpg?1471284069 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/061/509/7cda64779b6149e2cb54113dd1b41251/large.jpg?1471284069 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/061/509/7cda64779b6149e2cb54113dd1b41251/medium.jpg?1471284069 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/061/509/7cda64779b6149e2cb54113dd1b41251/small.jpg?1471284069 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/061/509/7cda64779b6149e2cb54113dd1b41251/xsmall.jpg?1471284069 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/061/509/7cda64779b6149e2cb54113dd1b41251/xxsmall.jpg?1471284069 7 0 true Wed, 24 Aug 2016 16:39:36 -0400 Fri, 12 May 2017 10:29:15 -0400 Faculty Led IT Workshops Featured for Fall 2016 Join us for faculty led workshops this fall! We are excited to announce that this fall's training schedule features four faculty led workshops!  Topics that will be covered include Blackboard, Blackboard Collaborate, Online and Hybrid Learning, and VoiceThread. UMBC faculty members will share their experiences and best practices with using specific technologies in their courses.

Our featured speakers are:
To reserve your seat at one or more of these workshops, please click on the session title below and then click on "I Can Attend." Lunch and/or light refreshments will be provided at the workshops. 

If you have questions, please email the Instructional Technology team at instructionaltechnology@umbc.edu. See you at the workshops!







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Quality Matters (QM) is a nationally recognized, faculty-centered, peer review process designed to improve online and blended course quality to benefit online learners. The Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR) workshop is QM's flagship workshop on the QM Rubric and the process of using the QM Rubric to review online and hybrid courses. It is intended for a broad audience, including but not limited to faculty, instructional designers, administrators, and adjunct instructors who wish to understand more about the QM Rubric and process of course review. The APPQMR is also the prerequisite for the Peer Reviewer Course, which is required to become a QM Peer Reviewer.

Face-to-face training opportunities are available to UMBC faculty from our sister USM institution, Towson University.

Three hands-on Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR) workshops are available:

  • Thursday, September 15, 2016
  • Wednesday, November 9, 2016
  • Thursday, March 16, 2017

All workshops are held in the Cook Library, Room 404B from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

The cost of the workshop will be $30 and will include a continental breakfast and lunch along with a Quality Matters booklet and other course materials. Payment can be made by transfer of funds. Please request that your department send the funds to Academic Innovation (15470) at Towson via the R*Stars system, the interagency transfer program. In the description field, enter a notation for the APPQMR training, and send it to the attention of Jessica Loetz in Accounts Payable (jloetz@towson.edu).

Parking is available on campus in the Towsontown Garage (across from the Liberal Arts Visitor parking spots are available so please when parking go to the visitors kiosk and follow the directions to obtain a ticket for displaying clearly on the dashboard of your vehicle.

Registration is limited so please RSVP as soon as possible. Look for USM-Applying Quality Matters Rubric Workshop and then choose the date for the session you wish to attend. Since there will be food available, please make sure you register at least a week before the session.

For more information about Quality Matters at UMBC, please consider the following options:

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Have questions about clickers? Please refer to our Clicker FAQ Page.
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Do you have a story you’d like to share about gamifying a course? Would you like to immerse others in some aspect of game playing? Have you tried gamifying a course and want to share what didn’t work and what would work better? Is there research on gamification – or learning – or design – that you’d like others to consider? 

New Designs for Learning: Games and Gamification symposium invites interested groups and individuals to propose sessions for its September 29th event at the College Park Marriott Hotel & Conference Center. 

Participants include instructional designers, faculty, and academic leaders from across the University System of Maryland who are interested in exploring how games and gamification can reinvigorate courses, boost student engagement, and enhance student learning.

Three types of sessions are being offered:
  • Hands-on workshops (75 minutes)
  • Course showcase (60 minutes)
  • 360 Talk (6-minutes, 4-5 talks per 45-minute session)
To learn more about each of these sessions, please download and review the document attached to this announcement.

Deadlines and Notifications

Proposals must be submitted by August 22, 2016. Applicants will be notified about acceptances approximately one week after the submission deadline. Selection will be based on how well the proposal connects to the Symposium themes, communicates its focus and intent, and contributes to building a well-rounded program.

For More Information

Questions may be directed to Nancy O’Neill, Associate Director of the Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation, at noneill@usmd.edu.

Registration for the event will begin in late August. Sign up to be notified.

New Designs for Learning: Games and Gamification symposium is cosponsored by the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) and the Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation, University System of Maryland, with generous support from the Ford Fund for the Future of Learning
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This year, Blackboard again sponsors BbWorld Live, a free virtual event with in-depth sessions and single-day tracks focused on key issues in higher education, K-12, and corporate & government training. Between every session, Blackboard will host interactive Q&A with speakers, facilitate live-chats in the discussion forum, take polls, and give away a few prizes.

Sample sessions for the higher education track include:
  • Rocket session: great teaching in a world of connected students
    • Love a TED talk? Rocket sessions are 7-minute power chats. Topics include engaging students via text message; integrating video into courses; social presence in online learning; and more.
  • Superheros collaborate! Teaching virtual teamwork
    • A once-feared online capstone class has been transformed into an epic adventure for students with online collaboration tools.
  • Virtual Keynote: Dr. Howard Gardner, Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • A response to the challenge of digital accessibility
    • What does it mean to create “accessible course documents”? Follow a step-by-step protocol for creating accessible content and discuss recent trends in accessibility.
  • Making sense of the new world of digital credentialing
    • More than five years have passed since the inception of the open badges experiment, and in that time the concept of digital badges has moved steadily into the general consciousness. Learn more about the many opportunities and challenges. 
Participants may choose to sign up for a single day or the whole event. During the BbWorld conference, follow social media via Twitter hashtag #BbWorld16, or network with other Blackboard users.
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Join instructional designers, faculty, and academic leaders from across the University System of Maryland in exploring how games and gamification can reinvigorate courses, boost student engagement, and enhance student learning. 

The University of Maryland University College (UMUC) and the Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation at the University System of Maryland are pleased to cosponsor a working symposium entitled “New Designs for Learning: Games and Gamification,” on Thursday, September 29, 2016 at the College Park Marriott Hotel & Conference Center.

The Symposium promises to be a forum where participants can explore what is meant by gamification and game design thinking, discover the research behind the movement to gamify learning, and test out ways to gamify their own content and approaches to course design. The keynote address and a featured workshop will be offered by Dr. Karl Kapp, an Instructional Technology Graduate Professor at Bloomsburg University. Dr. Kapp is a national speaker, consultant, and author of numerous books, including The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education (2012). 

Registration will open in late August: Sign up to get notified. Questions may be directed to Nancy O’Neill, Associate Director of the Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation, at noneill@usmd.edu. Please share this announcement and the attached flyer with interested colleagues.

Image credit: Freepik

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As the campus begins the migration to TurningPoint Cloud this summer, students who purchased and registered their clickers on Blackboard prior to March 1, 2016  will receive Turning Account license codes via their UMBC email. Students will use these license codes to create their Turning Accounts and register clicker information on Blackboard.

License codes will be sent out to students starting the week of May 23. The length of a student's license subscription is based upon the student’s enrollment status during the Spring 2016 semester (e.g., freshman, sophomore etc). Please see below for more information.

Enrollment Status/Year

Subscription Length

Freshman

3 years

Sophomore

2 years

Juniors

1 year

Non-graduating Seniors/

Graduate Students

8 months

Once students receive their license codes, they will need to log into Blackboard to create a Turning Account and register their clicker information.

The updated clicker registration link will be available in Blackboard starting on May 26.

Students who have not previously purchased and/or registered a clicker on Blackboard will be able to buy a clicker bundle from the UMBC Bookstore.

If you have any questions or concerns, please visit our Clicker FAQ page and/or contact Holly Owens at holly3@umbc.edu.

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Through a University System of Maryland partnership with the Online Learning Consortium (OLC), DoIT is pleased to offer an exceptional online training opportunity to UMBC full-time and part-time faculty.

The OLC workshop format utilizes proven teaching strategies and learning activities while modeling best practices for online and hybrid learning. Participants engage with experienced instructors and collaborate with peers via synchronous (live) and asynchronous environments. Normally these workshop cost about $300 each, but our partnership provides a limited number of seats at no cost to UMBC faculty.

These workshops require a time commitment of 3-7 days on average with some lasting up to 3 weeks. All workshops are delivered online with either a synchronous or asynchronous component. A full list of workshop titles is available through this year.  

Below you will find a list of recommended workshops for the SU2016 semester. The workshop descriptions are linked in titles.

June 2016

July 2016

August 2016

To register for a workshop, please open an RT ticket. Be sure to include the name of the workshop you would like to attend and the date(s). Instructional technology staff will assist with your registration, answer any questions you may have about the experience, etc. Sign up early -- some workshops fill up due to popular demand.

[Note: The Mastery Series workshops are not eligible for the coupon code.]

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As of June 1, 2016, DoIT’s Test Scoring Services (Scantron) will no longer reside in the International Media Center (IMC), but will be relocated to the Technology Support Center (TSC) on the first floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library, to the right of the security gates and adjacent to the Retriever Learning Center (RLC). The move is a result of the IMC being repurposed for use by offices and staff in the Academic Services Bldg, which will be razed for the new Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Bldg.

In addition, due to storage constraints at the TSC and analysis of prior usage, DoIT will be shredding scored exams one week after final grades are submitted for a given semester, if they are not picked up by the instructor. Faculty will continue to be notified via RT ticket when their exams are available for pickup during the semester, but we will shred them after final grades are due, unless we’re told we can do so sooner.  We will continue to provide .csv and .pdf electronic files of scanned results in each course’s Blackboard “course files” area as well as on Box.com.

Finally, DoIT will be upgrading our current Scantron hardware and using the new Remark Classic analysis software recommended by Scantron and used by many other schools using Scantron products. However, DoIT welcomes feedback from faculty as we explore new reporting functions and formats while supporting current needs.

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