CIETL Instructional Design & Technology
Ricardo Flores joined Cañada College in spring 2011 as adjunct instructional designer. Ricardo has been working with faculty across the divisions to design instructional materials for distancelearning, as well as one-on-one trainings on using WebAccess and other media technologies.
As the instructional designer at Cañada College, Ricardo will be working closely with CIETL to support CIETL’s mission. For the upcoming 2011-2012 academic year the instructional designer will be assisting faculty with various instructional technology needs on a one-on-one basis, as well as through a variety of workshops, brown bags, and division and program workshops/trainings. Topics covered will range from learning theory, to best practices, to application in hybrid and online learning environments. Emphasis will be placed on using WebAccess (Moodle) and the implications and relevance to the various topics covered.
Contact Information
BLDG 09-154-Phone (650) 306-3101 Email: floresr@smccd.edu
Please check the CIETL Calendar for upcoming instructional technology workshops.
What kind of support can an instructional designer/technologist provide faculty?
- Assist faculty and staff to create media to support learning (e.g., visual aids for face-to-face, various multimedia for e-learning and online)
- Conduct training sessions for faculty and staff to learn how to use instructional media and technology
- Assist faculty designing/developing methods for improving instruction with and without technology
- Create and disseminate online, print, and multi-media materials and tutorials that inform faculty about “best practices” in online and hybrid course design, with an emphasis on materials that meet the requirements of the “Accessible Technology Standards” for students with disabilities.
- Research and evaluate the use of technologies and their impact on student learning outcomes
- Provide one-on-one support for all faculty teaching online and/or hybrid courses.
- Evaluate new technologies to discover new and better ways to enhance instruction
- Work with faculty to identify what students need to learn and identify the best technology to support such learning
- Assist faculty developing objectives and ensuring content matches those objectives
- Assist faculty developing assessments (note that this does not only mean tests)
- Assist faculty adapting instructional materials created for one format to another format (usually this is adapting materials from face-to-face to e-learning)
- Offer workshops in online and hybrid course design and in creating accessible course content. Upcoming workshop information will be posted in the CIETL webpage soon!
Digital media and technology projects
Where appropriate, the instructional designer will work with interested faculty to capture the digital artifacts of teaching and learning activities in the form of electronic portfolios, course websites, wikis, blogs, and other social media. This data serves to develop an array of both pedagogical and technological tools, models, case studies, and practices that are used to support and guide both current and prospective faculty instructors.
Instructional Technology Workshops
Upcoming workshop information will be posted in the CIETL webpage soon! Sample topics include: Image optimization with Photoshop and GIMP, Screen Casting with Camtasia, Adobe Acrobat Dynamic Forms, Moodle Tools & Features, Podcasting, Narrated Power Points, and more!
In an effort to serve the widest number of faculty and staff possible, workshops are offered in a recurring basis with varying times and dates. One-on-one appointments are also available for those who cannot attend a workshop, as well as for those who prefer to work on specific material.
FREE & Open Source Technology (software) Resources for Educators:
| Name |
Type of license
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Description
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| Audacity |
FREE - Open Source |
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:
- Record live audio.
- Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
- Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
- Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
- Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
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| CCCCONFER |
FREE |
Teach & Confer is a live interactive classroom to meet with your students. All you and your students need is the internet and a phone!
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| Google Docs |
FREE |
Documents, spreadsheets, drawings, & presentations. Documents are stored on a cloud, and users can collaborate online.
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| Jing |
FREE Basic Account |
Record video of on-screen action (FLASH file), and share instantly on the web or by email. Note: Flash files will not play on iOS devices.
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| Pollevereywhere |
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Know what your students are thinking and learning right now. Bringing interactive social assessment to every classroom is now possible and affordable.
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| GIMP |
FREE - Open Source
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GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free software raster graphics editor (an alternative to Photoshop). It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and free-form drawing, GIMP can accomplish essential image editing tasks such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, photomontages combining multiple images, and converting between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create animated images in many formats such as GIF and MPEG through the Animation Plugin
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| InkScape |
FREE - Open Source
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An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more.
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| MERLOT |
FREE
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MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services.
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| Screencast-O-matic |
FREE Basic Account
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The basic account has limited features, but they are enough to get started creating screencasts. Screencast-O-Matic is an online screen recorder for one-click recording from your browser on Windows or Mac with no install for FREE!
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| Pencil Project |
FREE - Open Source
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The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.
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| Prezi |
FREE Basic Account
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Use your .edu email address to register for a FREE account and get 500MB of storage on Prezi's server. Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them. The result: visually captivating presentations that lead your audience down a path of discovery.
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| Free Mind |
FREE - Open Source
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FreeMind is a free mind mapping application written in Java. FreeMind is licensed under the GNU General Public License. It provides extensive export capabilities. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X via the Java Runtime Environment.
As with other mind mapping software packages, FreeMind allows the user to edit a hierarchical set of ideas around a central concept. The non-linear approach assists in brainstorming new outlines and projects as ideas are added around the mind map.
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| Google Sketchup |
FREE
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Professionals in the architecture, construction and related industries choose SketchUp Pro because it’s the most intuitive, most cost-effective tool of its kind. With free licenses for faculty and significant discounts for students and labs, SketchUp Pro couldn’t be easier to afford. It’s equally easy to use, so you can spend fewer credit hours learning (or teaching) software and more time on other important things.
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| Open Office |
FREE - Open Source
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OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
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| Wolfram Alpha |
Not Free. $4.99/month |
Wolfram|Alpha is an engine for computing answers and providing knowledge. It works by using its vast store of expert-level knowledge and algorithms to automatically answer questions, do analysis, and generate reports.
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| Zotero |
FREE - Open Source |
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself.There is a fee for more storage beyond what is available as part of the free account.
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Other Resources & Policies Handouts:
Academic Integrity
Cañada College DE Handout
Cañada College DE Rubric
Fair Use
Guide to Evaluating Distance Education
Section 508
Moodle Basics for Faculty
Other links of interest to educators:
www.ted.org
http://www.archives.gov/research/formats/film-sound-video.html#online
http://ubu.com/
http://academicearth.org/
http://mitworld.mit.edu/
www.learner.org
http://www.wri.org/publications
www.plagiarism.org
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