{"id":3112,"date":"2014-04-03T14:11:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T19:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2014-04-03T14:11:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T19:11:55","slug":"microlecturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/microlecturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Microlecturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Microlecturing\" href=\"http:\/\/elearningindustry.com\/are-you-already-microlecturing?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ElearningIndustry+%28eLearning+Industry%29\" target=\"_blank\">Microlecturing<\/a> is a short (1-3 minutes long) multi-media presentation used to engage learners.  Jana Jab, co-founder of <a title=\"Edynco\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edynco.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Edynco<\/a>, has a concise but <a title=\"microlecturing article\" href=\"http:\/\/elearningindustry.com\/are-you-already-microlecturing?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ElearningIndustry+%28eLearning+Industry%29\" target=\"_blank\">detailed article<\/a> discussing when one would want to use microlectures and how to create them.<\/p>\n<p>What can microlectures do?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>provide a brief overview of a topic using key concepts<\/li>\n<li>provide step-by-step instructions (i.e. how to solve a problem)<\/li>\n<li>provide a personal introduction to a topic to engage your learners<\/li>\n<li>provide a breakdown of a larger lecture into smaller more manageable pieces for your learners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"edynco you tube video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cJcXz10m25o\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nHow can one create a microlecture<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"460\" height=\"215\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cJcXz10m25o?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of course, you can always come to CAT and use our Camtasia studio and receive expert support from Bart Everson--Happy Microlecturing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microlecturing is a short (1-3 minutes long) multi-media presentation used to engage learners. Jana Jab, co-founder of Edynco, has a concise but detailed article discussing when one would want to use microlectures and how to create them. What can microlectures do? provide a brief overview of a topic using key concepts provide step-by-step instructions (i.e. <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/microlecturing\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Microlecturing\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-online","7":"category-teaching","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry","10":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-Oc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11023,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/gamification-pitfalls-to-avoid\/","url_meta":{"origin":3112,"position":0},"title":"Gamification Pitfalls to Avoid","author":"Janice Florent","date":"September 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"In my blog post on using gamification in your courses, I wrote about why educators are using gamification in teaching and learning. 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