One way to go paperless in your courses is to have students submit papers electronically, rather than in hard copy. Moodle’s Assignment activity facilitates the collection of student papers by providing a space for students to upload their work, and for professors to return graded work to students. Not only are students saved the time…
Video and Second Language Acquisition
The Technology Fellows Program is underway! Our initial discussions have focused on social media, digital literacies, using and creating video, among other topics. We are excited to share our discussions with the broader community and will use Engage as a platform to publish guest posts written by the Fellows. Our first post is written by…
Going Paperless I: Saving & Organizing
Before moving to a paperless environment, you’ll want to spend some time thinking about how to best organize your digital files. Maybe you already have a system, and adding new files to that system won’t be a problem. Or maybe you need to create a system, or rethink the one you are using. Considering workflow…
New Lynda.com Courses!
If you haven’t looked at Lynda.com recently, you should! New courses are added daily. Access lynda.com through CamelWeb or by using this link, then browse or search the 2,000 courses (and because each course is made up of many short videos, there are over 10,000 videos!). Here are a few new courses: Up and Running…
Tired of paper? Going paperless blog series
The predicted paperless office has not yet come to pass. In fact, global consumption of paper doubled from 1980 to 2000. With the advent of tablets, apps and cloud-based tools, however, the goal of a paperless office, or paperless classroom, seems easier to achieve. This blog series will describe some of the tools you can…
Tempel Summer Institute: Call for Proposals
Send your proposal to participate in this year’s Tempel Summer Institute! The Institute, in its 14th year, will take place June 2-6 in Shain Library from 9:00am – 4:00pm each day. The program’s focus is improving pedagogy through technology, and includes hands-on instruction sessions, group discussion of learning goals and pedagogy, small group breakout sessions, and…
Getty Images now available free for non-commercial use!
Recently we posted about finding images that you or your students can use in online projects. Getty Images, with an archive of 80 million images, announced that over 32 million images are now available free of charge for non-commercial use (without watermarks). For those creating educational websites, blogging (like us), using Twitter, or publishing online…
Looking forward to spring!
We hope that you have a great break – catching up on work, vacationing, reading, writing, relaxing. If you have any technology related questions we will be here! Feel free to contact us. Image credit: By Rdsmith4 (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons
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…
