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),…
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Thanks for lunch! Reading Day Recap Summary
Thanks to those who joined us yesterday at the Reading Day Recap Lunch! The purpose of the lunch was to get faculty together to informally discuss their uses of technology in the classroom, in research, or in daily life. In reading through your comments, it sounds like we achieved this goal. Some of the topics…
Using the Moodle Gradebook? Use the Moodle Gradebook!
Help students take responsibility for their learning by using the gradebook in Moodle. The gradebook allows students to keep track of their grades on individual assignments throughout the semester, giving them greater awareness of their progress and standing in a course (and potentially avoiding grade-related panic at the end of the semester). As we enter…
Browse Online Scholarly Journals with Browzine
With more and more journal subscriptions moving online, it is difficult for scholars to browse recent research as they once did. A new app, Browzine, aims to solve this problem. The library is running a trial of BrowZine, a new tablet application (iOS & Android) that allows you to browse, read and follow scholarly journals in a format…
Animate messages with Tellagami
To continue our series on easy-to-use illustration resources, we’d like to let you know about Tellagami. This free app lets you create short animated messages (called “gamis”) that you can send in an email, tweet, status update, or text message. Choose a character, an emotion and a background, record an audio message, and your “gami”…
Comic Relief: Create Your Own Comics Without Drawing
Comics are a great way to communicate a lot of information using few words. To create a good comic, one must select images that convey a lot of meaning, choose words wisely, and develop character and plot in limited space. A free online tool, Make Beliefs Comix! allows anyone to create a comic using their…