Our updated Blackboard system offers some new options for engaging students: journals, blogs and wikis. Here’s a short explanations of what they are and how...
What is a Wiki
Much of the academic world is already familiar with Wikipedia – the free online encyclopedia of nearly 4 million entries – but also hesitant to...
The Importance of PRE-flection
Learning skills is a process largely based on expectation failure — we do something expecting a certain result, we get an unexpected result, we stop...
YouTube Sharing Options
When you upload a video to YouTube you have three ways that you can share it: 1. Public- anyone can search for and view the...
Google Docs Surveys Make Life Easier
The Google Docs utility called Form creates a survey that gathers data into a spreadsheet. Such a simple thing, but it can be very powerful,...
Jing Basics
Jing is a desktop video program that allows you display what is on your screen and do a voice over at the same time. There...
Using Participatory Technology to Reach Students
“Talk to Larry” is the common response when asked who incorporates new participatory technologies in their teaching. Long considered a technology innovator, Larry has recently...
ISTE 2010: Kick-Off
Not Usually a Bloggy Blog I don’t usually use this particular blog as a bloggly blog – for those of you unfamiliar with that highly technical term, a...
An Easy Way to Embed Jing Desktop Videos
When you use the Screencast button in Jing you are returned a url which you can paste anywhere. However, sometimes you want to embed the...
Class Blog Examples
UMW Blogs Directory of UMW Blogs Adventures in Digital History Musicians’ Marketplace Women and Modernism Examination of Environmental Problems Looking for...
Teaching What You Don’t Know
Teaching outside your expertise is not as unusual as you might think, according to Therese Huston, author of Teaching What You Don’t Know. Most college...
QR Codes and You
What’s a QR Code? Quick Reference or QR codes are a two dimensional matrix code that performs a function similar to a bar code. That is...
Easing Student Fears about Publicly Posted Material
“If I post something publically on YouTube, what if my mistakes go viral and haunt me forever?” Viral videos: the spread by-the-net short clips that usually...
Screen Toaster
What is this, and What is it good for?! ScreenToaster is a web based service that allows you to create and host screen casts online. What,...
Embed a Picassa Slide Show in BlackBoard or Your Blog
Complete directions here:...
Practice, practice, upload
You too can join the symphony orchestra mashup! YouTube and Carnegie Hall are holding online auditions for the world’s’ first collaborative online orchestra. “The YouTube Symphony...
Braille Music
How does a blind music student complete music assignments involving written music scores? With a team of dedicated and persistent faculty and disability counselors, a...
Creating a survey using Google Forms
The steps to creating a survey using Google docs forms are well documented already. Therefore, I’ll just point you to some good step-by-step directions and...
Embed a News Feed in Your BlackBoard Course
If your course is one in which you would like students to keep an eye on the news, you can embed a newsfeed from Google...
Viddler
What is this, and What is it good for?! Viddler is a web based service that hosts video content online. That’s a nerdy way of saying:...
Math Questioning in Primary School Context
Great video shared by Tom Woodward of effective questioning style by a skilled primary school teacher. I think this might be a great resource for...
Building Critical Thinking Skills with Graphs
One of the Quantitative Reasoning Outcomes for Integrated Quantitative Learning courses is that students should be able to analyze, summarize, and interpret quantitative data and...
Community Service Counts
Last year over 700 Keene State students worked 17,000 hours in the community. Mary McEntee, Coordinator of the Community Service office, captures all that...
Embed You-Tube Video in PowerPoint
By far the easiest way to embed a You-tube video in a PowerPoint presentation is to use the ISpring Free converter. It’s free and easy...
Workflow
Workflow seems to be absent from nearly every conversation about group projects I’ve ever been a part of. Helping students understand how they should work...
Embedding Documents in BlackBoard
Just as you can embed videos and PowerPoint presentations in BlackBoard, you can also embed documents. The advantage to embedding a document is much the...
5 Steps to Creating a Test in BlackBoard
1. Create the test items, use one of these methods. one by one importing them from a previous course creating from a word or text document View...
Create tests in Blackboard from Word doc
You can convert Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer, True/False, Essay, Fill in the blank, and Matching questions from a document into BlackBoard test items thanks to...
Seven Resources To Introduce Educators to Social Media
I’ve put up a Diigo list of some helpful links to introduce educators to the use of social media in the...
Thank You 2010 MAT Students
I was invited to talk with the class of 2010 MAT students at the Marlboro College Graduate School last night and I have to say...