{"id":6315,"date":"2017-10-11T16:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=6315"},"modified":"2017-10-12T07:01:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T07:01:46","slug":"brightspace-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2017\/10\/11\/brightspace-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightspace and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have officially been using Brightspace for three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>And like a blind date, we\u2019ve had our ups and downs.<\/p>\n<p>Upon first meeting, Brightspace and I weren\u2019t really too attracted to each other. Brighty thought one way; I worked in another. But as we spent more time with each other and got to know each other a bit better, a bond of sorts started to form.<\/p>\n<p>Now this was not without some interference from friends\u2026 namely the Brightspace support team, \u201cTeam David\u201d, I call them\u2026 David Biggins, Academic Learning Designer and Brightspace guru, \u00a0and David Hunt, learning technologist extraordinaire!<\/p>\n<p>Between the two, they\u2019ve kept my relationship with Brightspace blossoming. But this is not a tale of love between an academic and her VLE, no, what I want to share today is the number one thing that I absolutely love about Brightspace!<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO NOTES!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was never one to record a video for MyBU. Let\u2019s face it, it was clunky. You needed to have a YouTube account, and then needed to upload there and embed links\u2026 it was just way too many steps for a busy academic like myself! But Brightspace? The video can be created within the VLE and it\u2019s automatically there with the press of a record, stop and upload!<\/p>\n<p>And my students LOVE them!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been leaving the students what I call, \u00a0\u201cthoughts to ponder\u201d, instructions for what I want them to do that week, questions to answer while reading journal articles, and I may have put a congratulatory video in there on making it to reading week and surviving my class!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s brightened up my unit, added a bit of pizazz and I\u2019d encourage you to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve created a video to show you how to do it. Please don\u2019t judge my filming skills.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to try this or find other hidden gems that Brightspace has to offer, there are Brightspace drop-in sessions on the following dates and times:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Lansdowne S117<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday 10<sup>th<\/sup> October 9am-12pm<\/p>\n<p>Friday 20<sup>th<\/sup> October 9am-12pm<\/p>\n<p>Thursday 26<sup>th<\/sup> October 9am-12pm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Talbot Campus DL115<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday 17<sup>th<\/sup> October 1pm-5pm<\/p>\n<p>Monday 23<sup>rd<\/sup> October 1pm-5pm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/93KkB-kIN_s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have officially been using Brightspace for three weeks. And like a blind date, we\u2019ve had our ups and downs. Upon first meeting, Brightspace and I weren\u2019t really too attracted to each other. Brighty thought one way; I worked in another. But as we spent more time with each other and got to know each&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2017\/10\/11\/brightspace-and-me\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Brightspace and Me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brightspace","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6315"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6330,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315\/revisions\/6330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}