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Adding web content to online course with 2 button clicks - Next Page - Goal 5
It's always nice to use technology in a way that makes your more efficient, more effective, or both. As an online faculty member, think about all the steps you normally go through to add some additional course content to your online courses. You either need to create a new HTML page or edit an existing one. You need to copy and paste some content, or write some original content, or add a URL that takes students to some content that is relevant to the course; or something along those lines. Using some of the embedded Web 2.0 tools you can simplify this process greatly as long as you are adding content that already exists somewhere on the web: such as audio, video, news items, RSS feeds from any source (including blogs and wikis). There are many examples of this, but I'll show you three of them for starters.
First example: adding web content (news about volcanoes, in this case). Here's a link to a screencast that shows how to add web content to a course with a couple of mouse clicks using the Shared Items page of a Google Reader account. Or, click the image below to see the screencast.
Second example: adding link to web content using a unique Delicious tag with the embedded Delicious bookmarks page inside D2L. Here is the link to this second screencast, or you can click the image below to view the video.
Third example: by creating your own video channel at YouTube, Blip, or several other sites; you can upload a video to the channel and have it automatically appear in the course as the newest video for the channel, while also providing one click access to the other videos in the series. This screen shot (no video for this one) shows the result.
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