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Collin Department of Strategic Initiatives
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A podcast dedicated to providing faculty, staff, and student at Collin College with the information that they need to use technologies, tools, and services at Collin College.

  1. 12/04/2020

    Workday - How will it impact our day-to-day? What processes will change? With Guest Melissa Irby

    In this episode, Mark sits down with Collin's CFO, Melissa Irby, to talk about how Workday will streamline a large number of the day-to-day processes at Collin. During our chat we discuss her role, along with the role of others in the Workday initiative, how Workday will impact and streamline the processes that are currently handled by CougarMart, TimeClockPlus, and CougarTravel. Also covered are the various types of information, data, and reports that Workday will allow faculty and staff to visualize, and the devices that they can be accessed from. At the end, we explore the features of Workday that Melissa is the most excited about. Additional Resources Discussed in this Episode Workday - Official Workday Website Collin Workday Microsoft Team - Join the Collin Welcome 2 Workday Team

  2. 10/09/2020

    Workday - What is it? What are its benefits? When is it coming? With Guest David Hoyt

    Join us for our first episode of the Workday Series of the podcast! In this week's episode, Mark sits down with the Chief Information Technology Officer at Collin College, David Hoyt to talk about Workday. We scope out what Workday is, why Collin chose to make the switch, the anticipated deployment date, and what it means for Collin staff, faculty, and students. Dave also takes some time to talk about the features and functions of Workday that have made him a fan of it. Additional Resources Discussed in this Episode Workday - Official Workday Website Collin Workday Microsoft Team - Join the Collin Welcome 2 Workday Team

  3. 06/19/2020

    Making Content and Courses More Accessible and Compliant

    In this week's episode of the podcast, Mark sits down with Summer Helm and Francis Choy of the eLC. Francis and Summer are experts on just about everything as it applies to accessibility and compliance. During the episode we talk about why accessibility is important for all users, not just a few, and we take a deeper look at the many ways that a course may not meet accessibility needs. With their wealth of knowledge, the guests breakdown some of the more common mistakes that are made when curating course content and they also discuss many of the low-hanging fruits that faculty can begin to assess today if they are wanting to work towards having a course that is more accessible. Finally, Mark asks his guests to talk about some of their biggest challenges and successes as they have worked towards creating their own content of faculty content that is more accessible.  Technologies discussed Blackboard Ally - https://www.blackboard.com/teaching-learning/accessibility-universal-design/blackboard-ally-lms Canvas Studio - https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-9669-50736467895 Canvas Accessibility Checker - https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-26400-how-do-i-use-the-accessibility-checker-in-the-rich-content-editor-as-an-instructor Windows 10 Accessibility Features - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows?activetab=pivot_1:primaryr2 Microsoft Office Accessibility Features - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/office?activetab=pivot_1%3aprimaryr2 MacOS Accessibility Features - https://www.apple.com/accessibility/mac/vision/ ReadSpeaker - https://www.readspeaker.com Dragon Speech Recognition - https://www.nuance.com/dragon.html WebAIM - https://webaim.org WAVE Accessibility Evaluation Tool - https://wave.webaim.org

  4. 06/12/2020

    Faculty Fellows Lessons Learned During COVID-19

    In this week's episode, members of the department of strategic initiatives at Collin sit down with some of the Virtual Campus Faculty Fellows to discuss how the Spring semester went for them. During our discussion, we breakdown successes that the faculty celebrated, and challenges that they encountered as they progressed through the semester. Additionally, they talk about some of the key pieces of software that they used as they proceeded through the semester.

  5. 05/29/2020

    COVID hacks and lessons learned

    In this week's episode the Department of Strategic Initiatives team sits down to discuss the lessons that were learned during the shelter in place. Some of the more important lessons included: Learn when the groundskeeping crew will be visiting your apartment community if you plan on having Zoom or Teams calls. AC Window units are a must if you are going to isolate yourself in a room with little to no ventilation. The first person who can create an app that can translate requests into not only understandable guidelines for a toddler, but guidelines that a toddler will actually follow is going to be a very wealthy person. So join us as we explore the things the challenges and successes of our time working remotely, and the things that we have missed and will once again enjoy as we return to the office.

  6. 05/22/2020

    Content Creation Tools: Working with What You've Got

    In this week's episode, Mark takes a trip down memory lane to when he first started working at Collin College. As he moves through the podcast, he recalls various times when he was able to identify a need that his students had, and select the appropriate tool to address that need. From creating lecture videos and review sessions, to discussing how a podcast can be turned into a useful feed of information that students can use as a way of studying while they commute, Mark covers some of the most commonly requested features that he faced during his time as a lecturer at Collin.

  7. 05/15/2020

    Principles of Design and Asset Creation

    In this week's episode Mark sits down with Kasie Moon, the assistant graphic designer in the department of strategic initiatives to talk all things design. Join us as we discuss the laws and principles that encompass good design, and how these principles can be applied to Powerpoint presentations and Canvas courses. After talking about how we would go about creating or preparing our assets for implementation, we also then discuss the different file formats that we could use for our assets and what the advantages and disadvantages are for each. Reference's in this week's episode Cognitive Overhead - How many logical connections or jumps your brain has to make in order to understand or contextualize the thing you’re looking at? Read more about Cognitive Overhead Hick’s Law - The time it takes to make a decision increases with the number and complexity of choices. Read more about Hick's Law Jackob’s Law - Principle of usability ((described by Jakob Nielsen)) that recommends the use of familiar patterns in design in order to facilitate user-experience, because users prefer it when a site works in the same way as all the other sites they already know. Read more about Jackob's Law Law of Pragnanz - People will perceive complex information in the simplest forms possible. Read more about Law of Pragnanz Law of Similarity - People perceive elememts together based on type and color. Read more about Law of Similarity Serial Position Effect - We best remember the first and last items in a series. Read more about the Serial Position Effect Show Me What You're Working With Apps Affinity App Suite - Creative Suite that allows for image manipulation and asset creation. Download the Affinity App Suite for Windows, MacOS, or iPadOS Sketch - Asset and Layout Design Tool for MacOS. Download Sketch for MacOS Font Awesome - A webfont library of over 7,000 icons. Download any icon as an SVG file. Visit FontAwesome Website. Assembly - Icon and asset creation tool for iOS. Download the Assembly App for iOS

  8. 05/08/2020

    The Canvas Rich Content Editor's Big UI/UX Update

    In this week's episode Mark sits down to discuss the changes that have happened the rich content editor of Canvas. For those of you who haven't heard of this element before or maybe didn't know its name, the Rich Content Editor (RCE for short) is the blog-like interface that appears on Pages, Assignments, Quizzes, and Discussion Boards in Canvas, and allows instructors and students to curate and insert content. Recently, Instructure, the creators of Canvas issued a huge update for the Rich Content Editor that brings with it a fresh approach to its User Interface and User Experience. Mark talks through not only the changes that happened to the RCE, and his suspicions as to why they happened, but he also dives, head-first, into the concepts of User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) Design. As he explores the definitions, best-practices, and methodologies of both of these critical components in software development he also attempts to edify the significant changes in the RCE as they apply to both UI and UX.  So buckle up and enjoy this week's episode as we explore UI, UX, and how they apply to the RCE. Reference's in this week's episode Canvas Guides - "What is the Rich Content Editor?" Want to read up a bit more on the RCE in Canvas? Check out this article in the official Canvas Guides on the Rich Content Editor. Read the Guide on the RCE Canvas Guides - "The New Rich Content Editor" Want to see the changes that happened with the RCE in video form? Instructure has also produced the following video on the new RCE. Watch the New RCE Video Webflow Blog - "UX vs UI: key differences every designer should know," read this illuminating article on the principle differences and touchstones of UI and UX design. Read the Webflow Article UX Honeycomb - This Medium article discusses the UX Honeycomb and breaks down the different components of it. Read Medium Article on UX Honeycomb Asana - Task management application with a Unicorn animation when some tasks are completed as a means of enhancing the user experience. Asana Website Steve Job's Keynote for iPhone (2007) - Watch the video of the original iPhone's debut wherein Steve Job's discusses what makes the iPhone a "revolutionary new product" Watch the full video.  Watch from the start of the Smartphone UI monologue.  Watch from the start of the Pinch to Zoom monologue. Show Me What You're Working With Apps Microsoft Office App - Download the all new MS Office App for iOS, Download the all new MS Office App for Android

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A podcast dedicated to providing faculty, staff, and student at Collin College with the information that they need to use technologies, tools, and services at Collin College.

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    Collin Department of Strategic Initiatives
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    2020
  • Episodes
    14
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