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My First MOOC: A New Year’s Resolution Revisited Posted by: bodewedl / August 25, 2015 August 25, 2015 By Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer In January, I enrolled in my first MOOC to learn more about this controversial form of instruction.  It was definitely valuable, both for instructional design research and as a learning experience. The course was designed around five basic elements: video lectures, readings, weekly online quizzes, discussion boards, and video recorded “office hours

Recording Instruction and Communications for Distance Learners Posted by: Marcom Web Team / March 31, 2020 March 31, 2020 By Dana Shreaves, Instructional Designer When instructors want to communicate with students at a distance, one option is to create video or audio recordings. Many faculty dislike seeing or hearing themselves recorded. Others are intimidated by the process of creating recordings. However, recordings can be as simple or complex as you want them to be. Screencasting software

Embedding YouTube & Audio Players in Sakai Posted by: Jenna S / February 17, 2017 February 17, 2017 By Sean Horner YouTube video players and audio players can now be embedded in any instance of Sakai’s rich-text editor (CKEditor) while avoiding the use of the Adobe Flash Player. The CKEditor is embedded within many Sakai tools including Forums, Mailtool, Assignments, Lessons, etc. Illustrated steps for how to use the new CKEditor features are available in the following Sakai help documents: How

Streaming Concerts now a permanent reality Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / October 21, 2012 October 21, 2012 In early September, three small, black video cameras were installed in Lagerquist Concert Hall and on September 25, 2012, PLU streamed its first live concert – the President’s Inaugural Concert.  Moving forward, streaming live concerts will become a permanent aspect of SOAC and PLU. These robotic cameras, a result of a joint capital improvement request between the School of Arts and

September 22, 2008 DMC grants appear in classrooms Interactive software, a Wii to use in graphic design and a video which will record future teachers at work – all these ideas received funding this year through the Digital Media Center Small Grants fund. Each year in May, Layne Nordgren ‘76, Director of Instructional Technologies and his crew award three to five DMC Small Grants to PLU faculty seeking support for the integration of instructional technology into their courses. This is the fourth

February 22, 2011 PLU students spend 96 hours figuring out halfpipes and VHF signals By Chris Albert Pro snowboarder Shaun White is entering a halfpipe going for maximum vertical air. For hours Dan Case ’11 and his team study the YouTube video of White during a 96 hour Mathematical Contest in Modeling. “We’d pause it over and over again to see how to make a model out of it,” Case said. Four teams, totaling 11 PLU students, spent 96 hours competing in the Math Modeling Contest. (Photo by John

October 1, 2012 Imagine hundreds from the PLU community spelling-out PLU – with candles – on Foss Field Nov. 1 as part of the PLU Christmas video. (Photo by John Froschauer) Do you like cookies? Cocoa? Coffee? Music? Do you like Christmas and cool Christmas videos? If you’ve answered yes to all of the above, please gather at Foss Field at 5:15 pm on Nov. 1, and we’ll supply the cookies, cocoa, music and candles – did I mention candles – to do a neat stop action portion of the PLU Holiday video

September 5, 2014 PLU Center for Media Studies and MediaLab students Amanda Brasgalla, Olivia Ash and Valery Jorgensen (L to R) conducting a video interview. New Center for Media Studies Takes the Classroom Into the Community By Natalie DeFord ’16 Communications Major Like many college students, Olivia Ash ‘15 was uncertain about her future when she first arrived on the campus of PLU back in the fall of 2011. “I’ve always loved music, and so I knew I wanted to get involved with PLU’s student

require a video assignment at the start of his religion course at Pacific Lutheran University. The creative ambition of a group of students in 2008 planted the seed for what’s become a university tradition — PLU Hebrew Idol.The competition features short films written, filmed and edited by students in Finitsis’ course titled “Religion and Literature of the Hebrew Bible.” Each year, online voting by students determines the top three movies, which go on to face evaluation by a panel of judges. This year

Get out of the classroom: Study Biology at PLU Posted by: vcraker / December 15, 2020 December 15, 2020 If you love learning about animals and plant life then a career in Biology might be for you. The PLU Biology program encourages its students to question, probe, experiment and experience the natural world in-person as well as under a microscope. In this video, Professor of Biology Michael Behrens covers daily life in the program to opportunities in research, study abroad, and hands-on lab