I gave my students a list of useful videos, pointing out that “Some of these tips and tricks videos will seem just like calling for tech support—you’ll need to adjust your ear to foreign accents!”
The majority of videos I found were not very useful because they were “talking heads” or because the resolution was so poor it was impossible to understand what was being demonstrated.
Rajure Sanjay provides close-up views as he describes how to accomplish various tasks in Windows XP, like this explanation of how to change screen resolution.
Since I am only providing links to videos posted on the Internet by their creators, I don’t think this violates any copyright guidelines.
Using an LMS (Blackboard) suits my teaching style, allowing me to organize everything for students in one place while at the same time giving links to resources outside the LMS.
Blackboard lets me post my Instructor Notes and Student Assignments as Word documents, which allows me greater control over how they look (and how they print for students, if they chose to print). When I uploaded my Module 2 – Windows as a Google Doc, the images (and especially the arrows and shapes I had used to enhance images) ended up in places I didn’t intend. Most font formatting disappeared and I had to re-do it. I had to remove some of the images and shapes, since they were now meaningless and confusing.
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