by Shaylee Southerland | Dec 4, 2013 | Archived
Celebrate the holidays with your fellow faculty members while enjoying soup on Dead Day. The Adams Center staff will compete in our second annual Christmas cookie bake-off, so be ready to taste them all and vote for your favorite. A drawing for door prizes will be...
by Shaylee Southerland | Nov 26, 2013 | Instructional Design
Some professors are considering using CourseSites as an alternative to OpenClass to manage their teaching online. CourseSites is a cloud-based learning management system, equivalent in much of its functionality to the latest Blackboard enterprise version. As each...
by Shaylee Southerland | Nov 14, 2013 | Instructional Design, Instructional Technologies
Written feedback has been a staple in the grading process in higher education. Although, sometimes written feedback (like any communication medium that is overused) can become white noise to students who often admit they don’t read it. Audio feedback is an option that...
by Shaylee Southerland | Nov 12, 2013 | Instructional Design
Using Shadow Puppet (similar to Photostory on Windows side) for storytelling invites the use of imagery and narrative in formative and informative ways in teaching, training, and learning. This app lets students put those iPads and smartphones to work collecting...
by Shaylee Southerland | Nov 11, 2013 | Instructional Design, Instructional Technologies
Evernote is a versatile tool for taking notes in a variety of format, including text, audio and picture, which you can easily tag for retrieval and share with people you designate or the general public. You can also use Evernote to do some quick editing with photos in...
