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Effectively Using SoftChalk to Deliver
Today’s Instructional Options in Online
and Blended Courses
Ms. Darla Runyon
Dr. Roger Von Holzen
Northwest Missouri State University
http://cite.nwmissouri.edu/presentations/
Quality Issues with Content Delivery
Poor design of most online and blended
course sites
 Domination of text-based content
 Lack of interactivity within content delivery
 Lack of professional design and delivery*
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Instructional Options
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Screen recordings
– Jing
– Captivate
– Tegrity
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Video recordings
– FlipVideo
– YouTube
– Web conferencing recordings
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Audio recordings
– Podcasts/vodcasts*
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Instructional Options
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Audio recordings
– Podcasts/vodcasts
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Polling/Surveys
– Pollinganywhere.com
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Widgets
– Calorie counters
– Green word dictionary
– Mortgage calculators*
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SoftChalk
Build lessons for the web
 Easy to use interface
 Integrates different interactive learning
activities
 Stands alone or incorporates into course
management system*
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SoftChalk
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Demo of activities
– http://cite.nwmissouri.edu/tr/softchalkdemo/
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SoftChalk Demos
– http://www.softchalk.com/lb_examples.html
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SoftChalk Tutorials
– http://www.softchalk.com/lb_demo3.html
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SoftChalk within a CMS*
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Darla Runyon
[email protected]
Roger Von Holzen
[email protected]
Northwest Missouri State University
http://cite.nwmissouri.edu/presentations/
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