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Tutorials

Tutorials

The following tutorials are designed to assist in learning various forms of digital media software for the creation of instructional classroom materials.  The following list of tutorials connect to webpages that contain both a QuickTime movie tutorial you can watch, and a written Word document with photos you can print out and read.  Watch this space for a regularly updated list of tutorials. 

Final Cut Pro Basics

The Final Cut Pro Basics tutorial is designed to acquaint a new user with Final Cut Pro enough to get them started on projects.  If you want to create a video, but want to do something more complex than is possible on iMovie, Final Cut Pro is for you!  This tutorial takes the viewer through the entire process of importing, editing, and exporting video in Final Cut Pro in under 10 minutes.

Final Cut Pro Basics Tutorial

Moodle Basics

 

The Moodle Basics tutorial has been created for new users who would like to use Moodle in their classroom.  Moodle is the new replacement for Blackboard and allows instructors to add a number of online activities and resources to their course including online discussions, assignments, and a lot more.  This short tutorial can help you get your moodle site started regardless of your experience level.

Moodle Basics Tutorial 

Educational Podcasts

Podcasting is the name that has been given to episodic video and audio "shows" that are uploaded to the web for free subscription.  Podcasts allow anyone with a computer to subscribe to audio and video material online.  There is great potential for use of podcasting in educational courses as a means of supplementing classroom information.  This tutorial discusses Podcasting and its potential uses in Education while giving easy to follow instructions on creating and uploading a podcast using Apple's iLife '06 software package.

Educational Podcasting Tutorial 

Moodle Grade Book 

 

The Moodle Grade Book tutorial is a follow-up to the Moodle Basics tutorial and looks exclusively at the grade book feature and what can be done with it.  This tutorial contains up-to-date information on the gradebook that is hard to locate in other Moodle tutorials and guides the user through constructing a gradebook, whether they choose to use the simple or advanced settings.

Moodle Grade Book Tutorial 


 

          
 

 

Spring Term at Alma is a one-month immersion on a single academic topic that offers learning experiences not typically available during the more traditional 15-week fall and winter terms. For example, during Spring Term '09, students toured cultural sites in Peru, studied alternative energy in Sweden, analyzed theatre and dance in London, and examined Native American culture at the Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota.

 

Student Profile

Terra Teague

Terra Teague
Graduation: 2008
Major: Business Administration
From: Monroe
Interests: Business Simulations, Athletics

Terra’s Spring Term experience in China is a tremendous help understanding the relationship the U.S. has with one of its largest trading partners. The business administration major from Monroe has seen first hand the economic effects on southeast Michigan of low-cost imports and Chinese monetary policies.