Mediasite captures audio, video and presentation materials and makes the content available for live broadcasting or on-demand access over the Web.

CSU San Marcos wins the 2007 Rich Media Impact Award for Excellence in Distance Education

Awards recognize excellence in the practical and innovative integration of rich media technology in education, government and corporate enterprises

Excellence in Distance Education Award
"This award recognizes a higher education institution that transformed its distance education program through web communications. The 2007 winner is California State University at San Marcos. Mediasite is widely used for online learning, sharing student presentations, capturing guest speakers and enhancing face-to-face instruction. Over the past year, more than 400 events have been recorded and archived for faculty, students and alumni to view. In addition, Mediasite is also being utilized for business support activities, providing on-demand training to all areas of the campus."

Below are some of the innovative ways faculty and staff are using Mediasite on campus.

Uses for Teaching and Learning:

• Capture special events or speakers in face-to-face course
• Create supplemental resources to support learning
• Record student presentations & publish to WebCT
• Create content for a hybrid course
• Add dynamic content to fully online course

Dynamic content for fully online courses:

• Marisol Clark-Ibanez, Sociology and E-Learning Faculty Fellow, uses PowerPoint presentation with video of lecture
  • Sociological Imagination
• Professor Clark-Ibanez gives a detailed explanation of an intricate assignment for an online course
  • Exploring the Internet: Suicide Trends
• Librarian Gabriel Sonntag provides library instruction for online research projects
  • Teaching and the Library Part 2: Begin to Research
• Mary Jo Poole, Sociology, introduces her syllabus and course
  • Prof. Poole's Introduction (fully online sociology)
• Nancy Dome, College of Education, demonstrates how to use a program
  • Nancy Dome's Introduction to Movie Maker

Supplemental resources for face-to-face and hybrid courses:

• Penny Perkins-Johnston, Physiology
  • The Human Skull
  • Muscles that move the hand and fingers
  • Ear and Hearing
  • Structure of the Eye
• Elizabeth Bigham, Human Development
  • SPSS Module 4
• Judith Downie, Librarian
  • HIST 318 Scholarly Articles
    
  • Exhibiting use of Polls and Questions

Student Presentations:

• Education student shares website
  • Filamentality lesson: The Cold War
• Physiology student presentation
  • Cardiac Bypass
• Student shares their TurnItIn experience
  • WebCT 6 Integration with Turnitin for Students
• College of Business students present their senior projects

Guest Speakers:

• Judy Leff, 2006 San Diego County Teacher of the Year
  • Technology and Second Language Learners
• Kimberly Dark, Jazz poet
  • The Sub by Jimmy Jazz
• Kroeger Vice President speaks to marketing class
  • Don Dufek
• In the Executive Chair

Training Modules for faculty, staff, and advisors:

• Pam Bell, Interim Assistant Director Undergraduate Advising Services
  • Advisor Resource Training example of captioned presentation
  • Degree/Audit
• Ed Price , Physics
  • Brown Bag presentation on Student Response Systems
• Candie Halstead, Coordinator for User Support Services
  • Introduction to MediaSite
  • Web-Based Trainings using MediaSite
• WebCT 6 Orientation
  • Are you ready to teach with the new WebCT 6

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