NiceCast for Streaming Audio Broadcasts to Students
This tutorial shows how to use Nicecast to create a streaming audio broadcast to send to your students' computers. World Language teachers, this is for you! Use this process to facilitate in-class speaking assessments like in a language lab: you control the playback, and the students record their separate speaking responses.
Download the PDF tutorial
(Rough) Intro Tutorial for Google+ Hangouts
Here's a very rough intro tutorial to Google+ Hangouts. Thanks to Bill Waldman for help.
Note: Students also will have to sign in to their @klht.org Google Accounts, navigate to Google+, create a profile, and accept your invitation to join the Hangout.
TurnItIn Tutorials
TurnItIn's signature feature is Originality Check, which compares student submissions against a database of 40+ billion websites, 300+ million student papers, and 100+ million academic books and publications.
Yes, Originality Check will help you detect plagiarism. But really, Originality Check is an invaluable resource for teaching students to avoid plagiarism.
The recommended best practice for Originality Check is to configure your assignment so that students may check drafts' originality repeatedly by submitting and overwriting drafts until the actual due date. Jump to directions for this configuration
TurnItIn Demonstrations:
(this is a playlist; to access other videos on the list, click icon at top left)
TurnItIn Training Videos:
(this is a playlist; to access other videos on the list, click icon at top left)
TurnItIn Instructor Training Pages:
(clicking the image below will lead you to text tutorials on TurnItIn's website)
Configuring so that students may check themselves over multiple drafts:
On the "New Assignment" page, click for "More Options."
Then, under the menu, "Generate Originality Reports for Student Submissions," choose the second option, "Immediately (can overwrite reports until due date)." This link leads to the precise moment in the "Creating Assignments" video tutorial that demonstrates this configuration. Watch until 2:02.
Into to Prezi for Multimedia Presentations
This post originally appeared on the student tutorials blog.
Below are a few Prezi tutorials. Here's Prezi's official list of YouTube tutorials.
Why Prezi?
Here's a model Prezi created by a King Student
Tutorial: Get Started in Prezi:
Tutorial: Get Started in Prezi:
Three Steps to a Great Prezi:
Collaborate on your Prezi, and Share it:
Taking Attendance with FAWeb
We have password protected this tutorial video on Google Drive because of privacy concerns. You will need to sign in with your King Google username and password.
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Thanks to Ryan for recording this tutorial!
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