Looking for ways to assess students’ understanding, survey opinions on controversial topics, or engage students during a lecture? Student response systems, such as Poll Everywhere, Socrative, and clickers, allow you to create planned or spontaneous surveys and immediately visualize student responses. During this workshop, Joe Schroeder, Jenny Fredericks, and Page Owen will discuss their use…
Category: Tools
Using Historypin to Engage Students with Place
Becky Parmer, Archivist for Connecticut College, wrote the following post for our blog. Thank you, Becky! Historypin is a user-generated online archive that enables users to engage with history through digital storytelling. By overlaying or “pinning” photographs, documents, video, and audio recordings on Google Maps, users from around the world help create digital narratives of…
Mapping Women’s Movements
Following up on our earlier post about Google Maps Engine Lite, Ariella Rotramel, Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, recently created a collaborative assignment using Google Maps in her Transnational Women’s Movements class last semester. The goal of the class project was to “help students explore a broader range of women’s movements beyond…
Mapping Fun with Google Maps Engine Lite
I like maps and I love exploring media rich interactive maps. In preparing this post, I spent far too much time exploring projects like Bomb Sight, Mapping the Long Women’s Movement, the New York City Graffiti & Street Art Project, Travelogue, or Visualizing Emancipation. It seems like there is now a multi-layer interactive map for just about…
DELI Proposals Due July 1
The Digitally Enhanced Learning Initiative (DELI) is a program to provide classes with technologies intuitive to students to enhance the students’ learning. Students in participating classes have been provided with such technologies as iPods, iPads, digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital camcorders. Proposals are due July 1 for fall 2014 courses. If you wish…
Digitally Record Comments on Student Projects for Faster and More Focused Feedback
Karen Gonzalez Rice, Assistant Professor of Art History and Technology Fellow, talks about her use of recording audio feedback on student work. To help solve the ongoing challenging of providing timely and detailed feedback to students, Karen started recording her comments and emailing them to students. You can hear about Karen’s process and the overwhelmingly…
Creating Better Online (and offline!) Quizzes
This post is in response to Chapter 3, “Blended Assessments of Learning,” in the BlendKit Reader, Second Edition, Edited by Kelvin Thompson, EdD. As an instructional designer, I think about assessment early on in course development. Assessments should follow directly from learning objectives, answering the question: “how will students show me they met this learning…
Going Paperless IV: Scanning
In this series we’ve covered tools to maintain your digital files, Moodle for online assignment submission, and PDF mark-up tools. Now we’re turning our attention to digitizing your old files. Each of the following tools can help. Canon Multi-Function Devices (MFD) located around campus allow you to scan one item at a time, or multiple…
Going Paperless III: Mark up PDF documents
PDF annotating tools are a great step forward in working paperless. Whether you are editing your own work, marking up a research article, or grading student papers, PDF annotators have a wide variety of mark-up tools. To get started, you need to save and gain access to your PDF documents (see previous post). Simply open…
Lecture Capture to Stay on Track
Today’s Technology Fellows guest post is written by Joe Schroeder, Associate Professor of Neuroscience. Inspired by one of our recent Teaching with Technology workshops, his post focuses on using easy lecture capture technologies to keep up on course content when the unexpected happens. “I have been thinking more and more about flipped classrooms since Steve…