http://blogs.cofc.edu/benignim Instructional Technologist - School of Education, Health & Human Performance Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:04:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's beginning to look like I'm on the advertising team for Google lately given my past blog posts but I have to tell you about one more thing, Google-related, that I ran across that I thought you might find interesting. This site called 3DVinci, created by Bonnie Roskes, has tons of ... http://blogs.cofc.edu/benignim/2009/11/06/great-way-to-teach-3d-math-concepts-sketchup/ Holy smokes it's about time!   You can now share entire folders in Google Docs.  This is great news because so often faculty want to share large numbers of files with their students.  In the past you had to upload or create a file then share it with your class.  ... http://blogs.cofc.edu/benignim/2009/10/17/now-folder-sharing-in-google-docs/ Getting ready to go to participate in a panel discussion at the CCA conference in Wilmington, NC. entitled "What the Tech?" about using blogs in teaching communication.  I have collected resources for the talk including some really great articles on ways to use blogs in classes including some good grading ... http://blogs.cofc.edu/benignim/2009/09/24/presentating-at-cca-in-wilmington/ We had to make a minor upgrade to the blog server this weekend.  All looks good to me so far but if you have any problems with your blog please email the webmasters (webmaster@cofc.edu) and let them know.  Hope everyone had a great weekend. http://blogs.cofc.edu/benignim/2009/09/07/hey-all-you-cofc-bloggers/ I have no idea how long some of these things have been in Google Docs but I just discovered them today so I thought I'd pass them on to you.  There has actually be a bunch of features added but these are the things I think may be of the ... http://blogs.cofc.edu/benignim/2009/09/04/new-features-added-to-google-docs/ Seth Anderson just turned me on to this great link from Penn State.  This page gives you all the formulas you would need to make a great and effective gradebook using Excel. Some of the examples it covers are: Summing Up Scores Calculating a Numeric Percentage Convert Numeric Percentage to Letter Grades Weighting Assignments ... http://blogs.cofc.edu/benignim/2009/09/03/how-to-make-great-excel-gradebooks/ I just added some new tutorials that may be helpful to you and your students.  Check them out at http://benignim.pbworks.com/Tutorials Learn about RSS feeds, what they are and how to use them. Learn how to create a blog on the new CofC blog server. http://blogs.cofc.edu/benignim/2009/08/14/new-tutorials-added/ I know this has probably been around for a bit but I just noticed it today (thanks to Wesley Fryer's Moving at the Speed of Creativity).  Now Google has easy to use, form-based templates that can be used with Docs, Spreadsheets or Presentations.  Finally you can get a decent looking ... http://blogs.cofc.edu/benignim/2009/07/29/google-docs-spreadsheet-now-has-templates/ I just heard about an online, free screen recording application called ScreenToaster so I thought I'd test it out.  It works pretty well.  The best thing is it doesn't require any software to be downloaded to your computer, it's totally online. What is it? "ScreenToaster is a free web-based screen recorder designed ... http://blogs.cofc.edu/benignim/2009/06/26/awesome-screen-capture-software/ Have you ever wished that you could have a threaded conversation within your blog instead of using WebCT? Well now you can. Thanks to John and Jared (CofC Webmasters) and the new blog server upgrade you can have threaded comments. It's easy to do. from within the admin ... http://blogs.cofc.edu/benignim/2009/06/02/cofc-blogs-now-allows-for-threaded-comments/