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Embedding a PowerPoint Presentation
By Matthew Ragan Presentation slides are handy things for students, in fact for anyone, to have after a lecture or talk is long over. PowerPoint documents, especially, can contain useful information...
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VoiceThreads for Learning
Voicethreads is a tool that allows you and your students to make comments about graphic content. It looks like this: Uses Explaining graphs and charts Language practice Sharing and critiquing student...
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Viddler
By Matthew Ragan What is this, and What is it good for?! Viddler is a web based service that hosts video content online. That’s a nerdy way of saying: “this is a place where you can share videos on the...
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Unintended Consequences… of Sharing
You never know who might be asking the same questions that you are. Nine months ago I started a conversation with a few instructors in the Biology department about their undergraduate researchers and...
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Integrating Web 2.0 Tools into Blackboard
Many of you are already enhancing and enriching the learning process for your students by using Web 2.0 tools like Google Docs, Jing, Slideshare, VoiceThread, Twitter, YouTube, and more. But did you...
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Using EverNote
Instructional Technologist Judy Brophy found a great post about how one academic is using Evernote for serious writing, and I thought that our group might be interested in his process. Original Post...
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Pinterest and Visual Research
In Celine Perron’s “Design for The Performing Arts” class, students learn about scene design construction, lighting, and the nuances that make a design effective. The course demands that students think...
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Screencast-o-matic Screen Recorder
What is this and what is it good for? Screencast-o-Matic is a web based service that allows you to create and host screen casts online. What, you might be asking, is a screen cast?! What a wonderful...
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Using Google Earth’s historical imagery and interactive layers
Google Earth is a free application for Macs and PCs. It’s a lot like Google Maps but in 3D. Using a vast repository of satellite and aerial photography and topographical data, the software allows you...
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