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Taking Advantage of the Wireless Classroom
Image wire twisting from Flickr user oskay During the summer of 2011, wireless technology was made available in all of the Keene State College classrooms thus...
Crowdsourcing or YouTube: Which Free Captioning Route Do You Choose?
You’ve just put together a short informational video that gets to the heart of the topic you’ll be discussing with your students. You’re proud of...
PowerPoint Ate my Video!!!
Have you ever lost the video you embedded in your PowerPoint presentation when you emailed it to someone else? Here’s a quick explanation of what’s...
5 Easy Things You Can Do to Your Course This Summer
We thought Dr. Amy Collier’s recent post was so on-target we asked if we could reprint it here. Thank you Dr. Collier, Director of the...
Having Trouble with Blackboard? It Could be your Browser
Follow these two steps for a better browsing experience: Check here to make sure you’re using a browser supported by Blackboard. Then take the time to...
Convert Your Files with Free Studio Manager
I always raise a skeptical eyebrow when someone tauts an application as the “best”; something that will make things easier. “Yeah”, I think to myself,...
Making your Mark… on Google Maps
Google Maps has long been one our favorite tools over here in CELT. Google maps is great for a lot of reasons, but especially when...
Making your Mark on Google Maps
Google Maps has long been one our favorite tools over here in CELT. Google maps is great for a lot of reasons, but especially when...
When Feedback is Music to the Ears
When Professor Céline Perron heard Cara Meixner from James Madison U talk about how much more students hear and take action on audio visual feedback,...
Working Smarter, Not Harder
Anna’s got a problem. She’s a biology student at Keene State College working on original research and she needs to count the stem cells. Specifically...
Flipping a Class
Flipping a class is the process of providing students with content, often lecture-demonstration content, outside the class and then applying the concepts in class. The...
Got a Blackboard Question? You’re Not Alone.
Since our upgrade to Blackboard 9.1 last July (’10) we have been inundated with questions, as well as a few complaints – understandably so. The...
Media Literacy
What does the skill set of today’s learner look like? Last year, several faculty met to have just that discussion. As a product of their meetings...
Media Fluency
What does the skill set of today’s learner look like? Last year, several faculty met to have just that discussion. As a product of their meetings...
Your Time is Valuable: Learn How to Pick the “Right” Technology (and strategy) to Save Time
(The following are notes from the 2/4/11 CELT Faculty Friday) Does this sound familiar to you? “I’m responding to student email all the time”, “I have...
Embed A Video in Any Web Page
Most organizations and individuals that produce video appreciate the widest audience for their work. Therefore they often include some code that enables you to embed...
Teaching and Assessing with FlipCam Video
At a recent workshop several faculty shared how they were using a FlipCam, a small video recorder. Flip Cams make it easy to record and...
Common Google Spreadsheet Tasks
So you’ve jumped into Google Spreadsheets with both feet… Now what? Creating a Form with Google Spreadsheets: Working Logic Formula’s Referencing Cells Filtering Results Protecting Sheets in your Workbook Creating a...
A Conversation With Wesley Martin About Teaching, Learning and Political Thought
Wes Martin teaches political science and political thought at Keene State College. We recently talked about where his teaching inspiration and training comes from and...
Why Use Google Spreadsheets?
There are lots of reasons that you might use Google Spreadsheets instead of Microsoft’s Excel or SPSS. As a teaser for this week’s Faculty Friday,...
Why Use Google Spreadsheets?
There are lots of reasons that you might use Google Spreadsheets instead of Microsoft’s Excel or SPSS. As a teaser for this week’s Faculty Friday,...
Richer Professional Development
CELT may have hit on a richer type of learning experience – students and faculty learning together – and all by accident. Here’s how it...
New Blackboard Tools: Journals, Blogs and Wikis
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: You make this sharing choice after you have upload...
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...