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Author: Jessica McCullough
Kaltura makes using and sharing video easy!
Do you teach using video? If you do, or if you’re thinking about it, you should know about Kaltura, the video delivery system used by the college for serving up videos of all kinds for use in the curriculum. Kaltura works in conjunction with Moodle and allows you to upload videos of up to 2GB…
Flipped Classroom: Recording Your Lectures Workshop
We had a great turnout for our workshop, Flipped Classroom: Recording Your Lectures. We started by introducing the idea of a flipped classroom, which in its simplest terms is providing prerecorded lectures to your students outside of class time and using class time for hands-on assignments, discussion, and other activities. Focusing on the positive aspects…
Can I use that image? Finding images for online, educational use
As more and more faculty assign multimedia projects, the inevitable question arises, can I use this image on my site? Or, in a different scenario, why can’t I use this image on my blog? Without wanting to get into the details of what images you can and cannot use, we want to share some easy…
Snow Day Resources: Don’t Let Snow Stop You!
If you are like me and unable to get to campus today, you may be worrying about missing more class time or completing all your work. Here are some ideas to help you communicate with and get content to students when you can’t be there in person. Technology is a great help during weather events…
Workshop Recap: You got an iPad. Now what? Teaching with iPads
Last Friday we met to discuss and show ways to use an iPad in the classroom. We focused on apps that help display content, integrate media, and create interactive learning activities. Here is a summary of the uses we discussed and the recommended apps we showed. Projecting with your iPad Adapters: piece of hardware that…
Workshop Recap: You got an iPad. Now what? Research Apps
We had a great Teaching with Technology workshop yesterday, “You got an iPad. Now what? Research Apps.” Thanks to all who attended! If you were unable to attend but are interested in what we discussed, you can find the list of topics below. The workshop was divided into three areas: ebooks, mobile apps for research,…
APIs and Serendipity
Have you heard of an API, or Application Programming Interface? If not, it may not seem like something you want to hear about. If you have, it might still be difficult to understand exactly what it is and why you should care. In either case, you can still take advantage of APIs for teaching and…
Moodle reminder for the first day of classes
Welcome back! Once your Moodle site is ready, remember to make the site available to your students. By default, the site will be hidden until you make it available. Follow these steps to make it available: Enter your class site Turn editing on Click on “Edit Settings” on the left navigation, in the “Settings” box:…
Easily Build Interactive Timelines with Timeline JS
Timeline JS is a free open-source tool used to create online, interactive and media rich timelines. Creating timelines using Timeline JS requires only four simple steps, allowing you or your students to focus on research, writing, creating, finding, and selecting media to present with each event on the timeline. Timelines can include text, images (flickr),…