5.7 Chapter 5 Activities
You are now ready to complete the activities for Chapter 5. In these activities, you will prove your learning by completing tasks in your Training Template. When you log into Blackboard, your training template is the course listed like: Training_YourName. Use your Training Template to complete the following activities.
This chapter only has one activity.
This chapter only has one activity.
Chapter 5 Activity 1
Objective:
Record a Lecture in Blackboard Collaborate
Overview:
For this activity, you will enter a Collaborate room, upload a PowerPoint presentation to the White Board, then record yourself giving a short lecture.
Instructions:
12. Go to your Blackboard Training course. In Week 2's "Submit Assignments" folder, you will see an assignment called "Chapter 5 Activities." Paste the link to your presentation as your answer to that assignment.
Record a Lecture in Blackboard Collaborate
Overview:
For this activity, you will enter a Collaborate room, upload a PowerPoint presentation to the White Board, then record yourself giving a short lecture.
Instructions:
- Enter one of these practice rooms:
- Run the audio wizard to ensure your microphone is working properly.
- Load your PowerPoint presentation to the Whiteboard using the instructions passed out during our first Collaborate training session. Your PowerPoint presentation should be 5-slides long, and can be about anything at all.
- Click the "Record" button at the top right of your Collaborate screen.
- Click the "Talk" button.
- Start talking--give your narrated lecture using your PowerPoint.
- When finished, click the "recording" button again.
- Exit the room.
- Wait 5-10 minutes.
- Click the "Practice Room X Recordings List" link below for the room in which you recorded your narrated presentation:
- Right-click the link for your narrated presentation (It should be the last one on the list. You can click the link to make sure.), then choose:
- Chrome: "Copy Link Address."
- Firefox: "Copy Link Location."
- Internet Explorer: "Copy Shortcut."
12. Go to your Blackboard Training course. In Week 2's "Submit Assignments" folder, you will see an assignment called "Chapter 5 Activities." Paste the link to your presentation as your answer to that assignment.
Submission Instructions
When you have completed these activities, follow the instructions below for submission:
1. Log into Blackboard.
2. Locate the Blackboard Training course named Blackboard Training (the course you are enrolled in as a student).
4. Click on Week 2 and locate the Submit Assignments folder.
5. Click on the Chapter # Activity (make sure to click on the specific activity submission link with the number matching the activity you have completed in this chapter. Example: Click Chapter 5 Activity after completing Activity 1 in the Blackboard etext).
6. Under "Add Comments," paste a link to your recorded presentation and then enter the "I have completed these assignments" statement.
7. Click on submit to inform your instructors that the activity is ready for grading.
**NOTE: You will not receive credit for these activities if you do not do this step!
1. Log into Blackboard.
2. Locate the Blackboard Training course named Blackboard Training (the course you are enrolled in as a student).
4. Click on Week 2 and locate the Submit Assignments folder.
5. Click on the Chapter # Activity (make sure to click on the specific activity submission link with the number matching the activity you have completed in this chapter. Example: Click Chapter 5 Activity after completing Activity 1 in the Blackboard etext).
6. Under "Add Comments," paste a link to your recorded presentation and then enter the "I have completed these assignments" statement.
7. Click on submit to inform your instructors that the activity is ready for grading.
**NOTE: You will not receive credit for these activities if you do not do this step!
Next Step
When you have submitted the statement, move on to Section 5.8 Chapter 5 Checklist