Instructor Welcome Video
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Meet Rob Power
A short video that I created to introduce myself, and welcome students to my online courses! |
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Selected Video Resources: Instructional Design and EdTech
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Creating Courses in Canvas
A series of short tutorials to walk you through the steps of creating a new course using the Canvas learning management system. Check out the Power Learning Solutions blog post Creating Your Own Courses in Canvas for more resources. |
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Two Basic Steps to Make Your Documents Digitally Accessible
A short overview of how to make your documents more digitally accessible by properly formatting your section headings and adding ALT text to your embedded images and figures. |
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Using Storyboards to Develop eLearning Courses
It's important for eLearning course developers to plan in detail before actually creating any media, or building a course inside of an LMS. In this video, I demonstrate how I use a storyboarding process to create a blueprint, complete with a page-level script, before even logging into the LMS to build a course -- and show how that map translates into reality once you get to the building stage of an online course development project. |
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Using Mid Course Surveys to Improve an Online Course
This video provides examples of how to use mid-course student satisfaction surveys to make on-the-fly improvements in an online learning course. Presentation Transcript |
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Educational Technology Planning
This presentation provides an overview of where to start with the educational technology planning process, including defining context, mapping potential tools against affordances, maximizing engagement, making your case, staying flexible, and other bigger picture considerations. Presentation Transcript |
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Selecting the Right Tool with SECTIONS
In this video, Rob provides an overview of how to use Tony Bates' SECTIONS tool to determine first what type of educational technology is best suited to solving your instructional design problem, and then which current applications best meet your teaching and learning needs. |
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Building an mHealth RLO Using Google Forms
Screen cast video produced when giving a live presentation about building mHealth reusable learning objects at the BC Educator Network Day 2016. |
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Turning PowerPoint Presentations into Videos
Video produced as an instructor support resource at the Advanced Learning Technologies Centre, College of the North Atlantic-Qatar |
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Becoming a D2L Superhero with Google Forms and Docs
Video produced as an instructor support resource at the Advanced Learning Technologies Centre, College of the North Atlantic-Qatar |
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Selected Video Resources: Paper Writing and Grading Tips and Tricks
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Paper Writing Tips & Tricks - Getting Started
A short video produced for UOIT MEd students to provide some tips & tricks on how to organize reference materials, and start building the body of an academic paper around the useful quotes, charts, tables, and figures collected during the literature review and background research (pre-writing) phases. |
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Paper Writing Tips & Tricks - Addressing Peer Feedback
A short video produced for UOIT MEd students to provide some tips & tricks on how to organize and respond to peer-reviewers' feedback on academic papers. |
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Writng a Data Analysis Chapter
Inspired by questions for participants in a graduate-level applied research project course, in this video Rob presents some tips on how to get started with writing the results, or data analysis chapter of a research report. These same strategies apply for writing the results, or data analysis section of a shorter (non-chaptered) research paper. |
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Data Analysis vs Discussions (Chapter 4 vs Chapter 5)
In this video, Rob discusses the basic structure of a final research report, with particular attention to the differences between what to include in Chapter 4: Data Analysis versus Chapter 5: Discussions. Note that in this video, Rob refers to "chapters" for the different sections. The same structure applies for any research paper -- whether it be for a major course paper, a thesis or dissertation, or a paper or chapter for submission to an academic journal or book. |
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APA Formatting Tips - Page Numbers
In this video, Rob demonstrates how to add properly formatted APA version 7 page numbers to the page header of a paper using Microsoft Word, how to remove a page number from your cover page by using Section Breaks, and how to use Section Breaks to use different page number formats for different sections of a paper. |
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Formatting Reports for APA and Accessibility
In this video, Rob walks through tips and tricks for "fixing" some of the common document formatting issues students often make when submitting APA format research papers and reports. This video focuses on properly formatting an APA v7 title page, using different page numbering styles for different sections of a document (front matter and main body), inserting an automated table of contents, and properly spacing and aligning References lists. |
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Making the Most out of Your ePortfolio
This short video offers a few tips on how to get the most our of your ePortfolio. |
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Automating Feedback Rubrics Using Spreadsheets and Mail Merge
A demonstration of how to use the mail merge function with Word and Excel to automate the creation of feedback rubrics when grading student paper submissions. |
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 The works and resources posted to this ePortfolio site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. |
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