Associate Professordepartment of mathematicshostos community collegecity university of new york

1. Canadian International Conference on Advances
in Education, Teaching & Technology 2016
TANVIR PRINCE
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
HOSTOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
16-17July, 2016
Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.
Virtual Presentation

2. Presentation Topics
 What is “Panopto”?
 How I use this in my Mathematics classroom?
 Why I use this – my personal benefit.
 What are the Students benefit?
 Disadvantageous – “Nothing is perfect”
 A short survey
 My student’s opinions – how to improve it?
 Q & A

3. What is “Panopto”

4. What is “Panopto”
 “Panopto” is a lecture capture software

5. What is “Panopto”
 “Panopto” is a lecture capture software
 Echo 360 , Camtasia Relay and Tegrity

6. What is “Panopto”
 “Panopto” is a lecture capture software
 Echo 360 , Camtasia Relay and Tegrity
 “Panopto” and “Blackboard” are really very good friend of each other

7. What is “Panopto”
 “Panopto” is a lecture capture software
 Echo 360 , Camtasia Relay and Tegrity
 “Panopto” and “Blackboard” are really very good friend of each other
 “Panopto” Building Block allows one to add powerful media tools to
Blackboard, combining the best features of video sharing, webcam
recording, screen recording, and more all within the Blackboard learning
environment

8. What is “Panopto”
 “Panopto” is a lecture capture software
 Echo 360 , Camtasia Relay and Tegrity
 “Panopto” and “Blackboard” are really very good friend of each other
 “Panopto” Building Block allows one to add powerful media tools to
Blackboard, combining the best features of video sharing, webcam
recording, screen recording, and more all within the Blackboard learning
environment
 To learn more go to : http://www.panopto.com

9. How I use this – My personal journey
 “Panopto” initiative by my college – receive invitation to participate in this
initiative in the beginning of Fall 2015

10. How I use this – My personal journey
 “Panopto” initiative by my college – receive invitation to participate in this
initiative in the beginning of Fall 2015
 There was a training session in the beginning of the semester for those
faculties who will use Panopto for the first time. This training session was
very helpful for me to initially set up the Panopto account and link it to the
Blackboard account.

11. How I use this – My personal journey
 “Panopto” initiative by my college – receive invitation to participate in this
initiative in the beginning of Fall 2015
 There was a training session in the beginning of the semester for those
faculties who will use Panopto for the first time. This training session was
very helpful for me to initially set up the Panopto account and link it to the
Blackboard account.
 My college set up a website just for Panopto:
http://commons.hostos.cuny.edu/panopto
How to set up “Panopto” for the first time, How to connect “Panopto” with
Blackboard etc. 3 to 4 minutes videos in each topics.

16. Webcam is used to capture
the right hand side of the
board

17. The primary sourceThe secondary source

18. Why? – My Personal Benefit

19. Why? – My Personal Benefit
 1. You can use these videos again in the later semester when teaching
the same courses

20. Why? – My Personal Benefit
 1. You can use these videos again in the later semester when teaching
the same courses
 2. These are your own videos – if you want, you can share this in the
social media including YouTube and Facebook

21. Why? – My Personal Benefit
 1. You can use these videos again in the later semester when teaching
the same courses
 2. These are your own videos – if you want, you can share these in the
social media including YouTube and Facebook
 3. These videos will be very helpful when developing hybrid or online
courses of the same subject.

22. Why? – My Personal Benefit
 1. You can use these videos again in the later semester when teaching
the same courses
 2. These are your own videos – if you want, you can share these in the
social media including YouTube and Facebook
 3. These videos will be very helpful when developing hybrid or online
courses of the same subject.
 4. In an emergency, if your class is cancelled, you can post videos from
your home and cover up part of your missing lecture.

23. Why? – My Personal Benefit
 1. You can use these videos again in the later semester when teaching
the same courses
 2. These are your own videos – if you want, you can share these in the
social media including YouTube and Facebook
 3. These videos will be very helpful when developing hybrid or online
courses of the same subject.
 4. In an emergency, if your class is cancelled, you can post videos from
your home and cover up part of your missing lecture.
 5. Observe and evaluate yourself

24. Student’s Benefit

25. Student’s Benefit
 primarily there are two reasons of why students are watching my Panopto
videos:
1. To get and study the materials for a missing class
 2. To review for the exam

26. Student’s Benefit
 Primarily there are two reasons of why students are watching my Panopto
videos:
1. To get and study the materials for a missing class
 2. To review for the exam
 Other minor reasons:
1. To correct and complete the notes which was taken during the lecture
 2. To share the content with other students who are not officially
register in my class

27. Some Other Advantageous:
 1. Very easy to set up initially
 2. Link with the existence Blackboard account courses – no separate account or
website is needed
 3. Give option to use power point with the lecture and capture both at the same time
 4. Very easy to edit the video after the recording is finished. In this editing mode, you
can easily cut part of the video, add caption and notes to the video etc.
 5. A local copy of the video is saved by default in the local computer where the
Panopto is used. This video can be used later for other places including your personal
webpage and YouTube etc.
 8. Students will be held responsible for the missing class since now they can access
the lecture any places in the world where there is an internet access.
 10. Students can watch these videos on the go – by downloading these in their smart
phones.

28. Disadvantageous

29. Disadvantageous

30. Disadvantageous
At the end of the lecture, I need to stay for a few minutes for the videos to
be processed. It does not take a long time but it does need about 5
minutes to process. This can be done at a later time, but it is recommended
to do this right after the lecture for immediate uploading into the
Blackboard account.

31. Disadvantageous
At the end of the lecture, I need to stay for a few minutes for the videos to
be processed. It does not take a long time but it does need about 5
minutes to process. This can be done at a later time, but it is recommended
to do this right after the lecture for immediate uploading into the
Blackboard account.
The default name that come with the videos are quite long and does not
reflect the topics of the video. If anybody wants, the name can be easily
changed but must be done manually one by one.

32. Disadvantageous
When you move away from the laptop, the quality of the audio
decrease
If you write too small in the board or use a marker which is not
sharp enough, students may have difficult time seeing these
clearly in the videos.
It is not free. Usually the institution has a license or agreement
and in that case the instructor does not need to worry about the
money, which is what happen in my case.

33. Short Survey:

34. Short Survey:
1. How many times (in average) you watch these Panopto videos per week?
a. 0-1 b. 2 – 3 c. More than 3 times
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
0-1 3-Feb more than 3 times
Question#1

35. Short Survey:
2. Why you watch these videos (for most of the time)? Select
all that apply:
a. To prepare for the exam b. Making up for the missing
class. c. Other
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
Prepare for the exam Make up for missing class Both (a) and (b) Other
Question#2

36. Short Survey:
3. How helpful are these videos in your study:
a. Very helpful b. Somewhat helpful c. Not really helpful
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Very helpful Somewhat helpful Not really helpful
Question#3

37. Student’s Suggestions – How to
Improve:

38. Student’s Suggestions – How to
Improve:
1. Improve the angle of the right camera. It can be slightly off sometimes. But overall I am incredibly pleased with the system of recording your
classes.
2. It would be better if the images were clearer. And not all the videos are posted. There are some "missing" videos.
3. Picture and voice quality can be improved. Videos did not capture the entire board.
4. So far you have been doing a pretty good job with the videos. Maybe speak a little slower for us that English is not our first language.
5. The video's are great so far. The only thing I would suggest is to place the camera a little farther back to make sure both boards are in view
and none of the notes are cut off.

39. I like to acknowledge the EdTech
Office (Carlos Guevara) of my college
for their support and for giving me the
necessary technology and equipment
to make it possible. In particular I like
to thank Iber Poma and David for their
one on one support and technical help

40. THANK YOU
Q & A