Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Search for Closed Captioned Videos

You can find videos that are closed captioned by using the Google Advanced Search page. Captions make videos accessible to those who are hard of hearing. Captions also help students whose native language isn't English, since they may find it easier to understand written English than spoken English. Videos used in online courses that are required to pass the course must be captioned. Google has made it easier to find captioned videos using Advanced Search.

To access this, just begin your search as you normally would at google.com.

On the results page, click Videos.

Next click "Advanced Search"


On the Advanced Search page, you can select to show only videos that are closed captioned, have the duration you're looking for,  and a few other options.

 



Sunday, August 14, 2011

My Workshops This Week

Professional Development workshops start today and if you're looking for something that may interest you, please come to one of these workshops about online teaching. No reservations required, just come on by!

Accessibility
Monday, August 15, 11:30am to 12:30pm
E-206

Getting Started with Blackboard
Monday, August 15, 2:30pm to 4:30pm
E-206

Whats New in Blackboard 9.1
Monday, August 15, 6:00pm to 8:00pm
E-206

What's New in Blackboard 9.1
Tuesday, August 16, 1:00pm to 3:00pm
E-206

Great practices in online teaching
Tuesday, August 16, 3:00pm to 5:00pm
E-206

Online Teaching Forum
Tuesday, August 16, 6:00pm to 8:00pm
E-205

Open Lab with Teaching and Learning Center Staff
Friday, August 19, 10:00am to 12:00pm
E-206

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

How to Hide the McGraw-Hill Icon in Tools


You may have clicked Tools on your menu in Blackboard and tried to hide the McGraw-Hill icon and instead of hiding it, Blackboard just gave you a blank white screen in response. This is a bug that can be fixed by following these steps:

  1. Get back into your course either through the Welcome Tab or using the Back button
  2. In the Control Panel expand Customization
  3. Click Tool Availability
  4. You don't need to change anything here, amazingly, just clicking on this link fixes this
  5. Click on Tools in your menu and you'll see the McGraw-Hill icon is gone