This document provides information about different online tools that can help make a teacher's life easier, including Panopto for recording and sharing lectures, Prezi for enhancing PowerPoint presentations, Slideshare for sharing presentations online, Sophia for finding and creating lessons, ScreenCast-O-Matic for creating video lessons, Jing for recording videos to provide feedback on student work, YouTube for finding educational videos, and how to access and use these tools through Blackboard. Step-by-step instructions are given for setting up Panopto and embedding files into Blackboard. Links are provided to examples and tutorials for each tool.

1. How Can I Make My Life
Easier?
What are those options I
keep seeing on Blackboard?
Why should I care? What
can I do with them?

2. What is Panopto?
This is another program which allows you to
share notes and PowerPoint of your computer
screen with your students. You may also record a
class lecture or share a whiteboard with students.
http://www.panopto.com/
The VCCS has a contract so talk to your IT
individuals to find the address for your schools
connection.

3. Jazz up your PPT with Prezi
This is a fun program to use when you are
talking on screen--- but you can just create
for presentations.
http://prezi.com/
Here is my first attempt.
http://prezi.com/seteuj11qavt/?utm_campai
gn=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0shar
e

4. What is Slideshare?
You will find it at :
http://www.slideshare.net/
This is a terrific free program which will
allow you to upload handouts using
PowerPoint, Open Office, PDF, or Keynote
and share presentations on the Internet.
This will allow you take your handouts and
move them to an easily accessible area.

5. What is Sophia?
This is a delightful site for teachers by
teachers and will allow you to find or create
lesson or quizzes or find some that have
already been created. There is an option to
get suggestions from other teachers about
your lesson if you wish.
http://www.sophia.org/
http://www.sophia.org/tutorials/transitional-
words
My group number is: 3935c6

6. What is ScreenCast-O-
Matic?
This is a simple free program which will
allow you to create an easy video lesson for
your students.
http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/
This is an extremely simple program to use;
all you need is a camera and a microphone.

7. Where can I keep the video?
You can save your video on the this free
program. http://www.screencast-o-
matic.com/
It is simple to save your work here and
allows you the option to copy/ embed your
work.

8. Jing will help you grade
papers
This is one of my favorite sites and has allowed me to
save a lot of time.
http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
Jing is a free program which will allow you to save up to 5
minutes of video. That may not seem like a lot, but it
works well with our students’ attention span.
http://www.screencast.com/
http://www.screencast.com/t/R5dBaLJyIhE
This program is by the same company that created
Camtasia. Your school may be able to provide you with
Camtasia which allows you to edit and do other things.

9. You Tube
I have always found it amusing that it isn’t Utube--
- but there are a lot of excellent lessons to be
found here which can be added to your
Blackboard. https://www.youtube.com/
Once you are registered, you can join groups
which strike your interest, and these groups will
Lead you to other groups… Try Educator.com.

10. Looking at Blackboard
Have a look at the top row for
your categories.

11. Slideshare and You Tube

12. Panopto

13. Step 1 and Panopto
Go to Course Management/Control Panel/Tool Availability/
Find Panopto and make it available. You will only need to
do this once.

14. Step 2 and Course Tools

15. Step 3 and Configure

16. Your school’s link
You must log in to BB before
going to the site. On the
dropdown menu select BB
Production.

17. Download the Recorder

18. Here is your recording
screenTalk to your IT person to get the details of setting
up your recorder.

19. Embed a file

20. Step 2
 Choose Item
 Choose HTML
 Paste Code and submit
 OR use the > /source/general
 bstartt@tcc.edu

21. Check out the Lessons.
http://tcc.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer/Def
ault.aspx?id=2f1574d1-9fbf-4043-b1ce-c0325e29e30c
http://www.slideshare.net/bonniestartt/distance-
peerlessons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTV7H2C3M80&featu
re=youtu.be
http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cI6jn7VdYk

22. Lessons # 2
http://www.screencast.com/t/fKwe8E9oGeqr