{"id":2490,"date":"2013-04-08T18:26:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T02:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:03:24","slug":"presence-through-video-and-voki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/presence-through-video-and-voki\/","title":{"rendered":"Presence through video and Voki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instructor presence, though it can be defined more technically, is a perception that the instructor is there and available to the student during a class. Lately, in addition to my weekly summaries and guidance in the discussion forums, plus announcements and messages with individual students, I&#8217;ve also been using two other elements: an introductory video at the beginning of class, and a Voki introduction to each week.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the introductory video for this coming summer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/i3Oyg-GDmpY?rel=0\">http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/i3Oyg-GDmpY?rel=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s video on how I create my weekly Voki:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/nPd7TklVLRg?rel=0&#038;vq=hd720\">http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/nPd7TklVLRg?rel=0&#038;vq=hd720<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While both are clearly presentations rather than interactivity, I think the spontaneity is important in encouraging students to see me as a real person at the &#8220;other end&#8221; of the class. That&#8217;s why I prefer cheap and easy methods like these (webcam and iMovie for the video, free Voki for the animation) rather than more &#8220;professional&#8221; means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instructor presence, though it can be defined more technically, is a perception that the instructor is there and available to the student during a class. Lately, in addition to my weekly summaries and guidance in the discussion forums, plus announcements and messages with individual students, I&#8217;ve also been using two other elements: an introductory video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-teaching","category-pedagogy","category-presentation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9921,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions\/9921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}