Thursday, November 19, 2009

INTELECOM and YouTube

The College of Southern Maryland has a subscription to INTELECOM online streaming video clips. If you would like access to this treasure of videos available on demand, please contact the DLF.

INTELECOM has recently created a YouTube channel. We have added INTELECOM under subscriptions to CSMDTube (Visit: http://www.youtube.com/CSMDTube)

View a quick and informative video on INTELECOM at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dsOov3OUJ0

More information about INTELECOM:
INTELECOM Releases Luminaries Collection

INTELECOM is pleased to announce a comprehensive new collection of streaming video clips featuring interviews with some of the most accomplished thinkers in recent American intellectual history.

The Luminaries collection from INTELECOM offers colleges, universities and virtual high schools a library of nearly 1,000 video clips and discussions across a range of academic topics from authors, researchers, scholars and others whose work has changed the world. The collection includes such notables from the political arena as James Baker and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. Experts from the business sector include Richard Branson, the charismatic entrepreneur behind the Virgin Group of Companies. Students will also hear from Noam Chomsky, whose work in linguistics changed our understanding of language and the mind.

The INTELECOM Online Resources Network® is an award-winning video clip repository and searchable database designed to meet the growing need for rich media in support of online, hybrid, and face-to-face classes. More than 3,000 video clips in core disciplines including History, Psychology, Oceanography, Environmental Studies, Physics, and more.

The Luminaries collection is included in all Full Subscriptions to the INTELECOM Online Resources Network®. For more information go to www.intelecomonline.net.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Downloading MP3 (Class Lectures) from Blackboard

I had an e-mail today from an instructor who said her students were trying to download the course MP3 lectures to listen to on their iPod. The only option they had was "Save Target As.." and that was only saving the URL. This is a common problem we have when we use different browsers and media players so I created a tutorial for two options to download MP3 files to your computer.

The tutorial "Downloading MP3 files (class lectures) through Blackboard" is located on our "Getting Started" web site at http://www.dlf.csmd.ewdu/gettingstarted
On the "BlackBoard Information" page, I have two suggestions on how to download MP3 files from your Blackboard course.

Quickly view the instructions here: See the attached .PDF for more information.