Recent Entries
You’ll find the latest from the Adams Center staff here at the Adams Blog. The content varies, but the subject is always the same: teaching and learning.
A Powerful App for Every Level of Bloom’s Taxonomy!
Written by the Instructional Design Team Looking for ways to integrate higher order learning tasks and integrate technology? This article provides apps that assist you with tasks in each level of Bloom’s taxonomy, and contains links to the apps and ideas you may find...
In Case You Missed It – CHARIS Conversations – 09/05/13
If you missed Doug Foster’s CHARIS Conversations - Public Leadership of Women in the Stone-Campbell Movement: Advance or Retreat? session on September 5th, don’t worry! You can watch the full podcast of the session here.
Grabbing Student Attention with Tellagami
Written by the Instructional Design Team Ever feel like students tune you out? Remember the teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day off (“anyone? anyone?”)? Some of our faculty are using a free app called, Tellagami, to grab students’ attention. Below is one from Diana...
Apps to Spice Up Your Quizzes
Written by the Instructional Design Team While quizzes and tests are often used to generate grades, they do not always have to be. Some of you may use quizzes to help students learn and you do not care how many times students take them and how much they get with each...
Text to Test: Use Respondus to Convert Tests into OpenClass Online Assessments
Written by the Instructional Design Team Creating an online test manually can be a tedious and time-consuming process. You can use Respondus to simplify the process. Here is the general process for doing so. Creating tests in Respondus: Format the file (in Microsoft...
Blended Learning Virtual Conference: July 8 & 9
How do we improve student learning? How do we support our students and provide them access to a quality education? How do we develop new opportunities and overcome our limited resources? Institutions of higher education around the world are using blended learning to...
Teaching with the iPad: Creating a Classroom Research Project
Lynda.com has a new tutorial on using the iPad in the classroom. Learn how to lead your students through the process of conducting and sharing their research, with the assistance of the Nearpod app for creating interactive presentations. These lessons highlight the...
Dr. Cynthia Powell uses iPads as a teaching platform in Chemisty
What are you doing? I have written a Physical Sciences textbook using iBook Author that is used in the Chemistry 203 course....this is a course for pre-service elementary school teachers. iPads are used as the teaching platform and all homework, laboratory work and...
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