The video below was videotaped from one of the sessions for faculty who could not attend the presentation given by the representative from Desire2Learn.
Maryland Distance Learning Association is accepting award nominations for various distance learning categories, including best course and educator of the year. Awards will be presented at the March 4, 2010 MDLA spring event. Conference workshop proposals are also being accepted.
Anna Deadrick of Rockville Campus recently won a gift card for providing input into the title, theme and tracks for the 2010 conference.
Impatica Training
Easily Create Online Tutorials from your PowerPoint Presentations
Are you using PowerPoint presentations in your class? Does it take a long time for your students to load these from the Internet? Then what you need is Impatica!
Impatica allows you to easily convert media-rich PowerPoint presentations into compressed file formats that are easily delivered over the Internet. Your presentations can be converted into asynchronous, interactive tutorials that include narrations, animations, and other forms of multimedia without an increase in download time.
The Learning Technologies Committee is featuring Impatica as its November Technology of the Month. Training sessions have been scheduled at each of the campuses. For more information, please contact the LTC at learningtechnologies@montgomerycollege.edu, Kristin Hensley at Rockville or Love Davis at Germantown are Impatica users who are willing to answer any faculty questions.
Below are the dates, times and locations for training. Please register in PDS.
Tuesday, November 17, 9:30am to 10:30am, Germantown, HS 203 Wednesday, November 18, 1:00pm to 2:00pm, TP/SS, RC 211 Thursday, November 19, 2:00pm to 3:00pm, Rockville, MT 206 Tuesday, November 24, 12:30pm to 1:30pm, Germantown, HS 203
For more information on the workshop, please check out the DL Training Calendar and the PDS.
