This month’s guest blogger is Dr. Denis Keyes from the Department of Teacher Education in the School of Education, Health, & Human Performance. I wasn’t really sure how I was going to use the iPad we received from the FTI last year, as I tend to be more of a “traditional lecturer” than an “innovative [...]
This week’s FTI Guest Blogger is Dr. Christine Finnan in Teacher Education & Anthropoplogy. Evernote was one of the many tools shared at the 2012 summer Faculty Technology Institute. I began using it after the FTI to clip articles that are relevant to my teaching and research. I like it because it is easy to [...]
This week’s FTI guest blogger is Susan Flynn from Teacher Education in the School of Education, Health, and Human Performance. I have been teaching in post-secondary education for over 17 years. I continue to seek out opportunities to learn, improve, and adapt my teaching strategies and delivery of content to engage the ever-changing college student [...]
This month’s FTI guest blogger is Dr. Emily Neil Skinner from Teacher Education. Attending the Faculty Technology Institute 2012: Teaching the Tech Generation last summer was reminiscent of going to the Cooper River Bridge Pre-Race Expo. Or seeing Cirque de Soleil. Like the race expo, there was so much to see and try on- only [...]
GoodNotes and AirSketch are iPad apps that allow you to draw and annotate but they both have different strengths and weaknesses. Dr. Richard Nunan in Philosophy came up with a great idea to combine these two amazing apps. For his class he wanted to create Venn diagrams that his students would then complete as a [...]
Our guest blogger this week is Dr. Mike Flynn, chair of the Department of Health and Human Performance. After attending the FTI in 2012 Dr. Flynn implemented both AirSketch and GoodNotes which are note taking/whiteboard apps that will allow you to annotate on PDFs. In this post he talks about his experiences implementing these iPad apps [...]
Today we have Dr. Mike Duvall of the English department as our guest blogger. He is a blogger in his own right and this post was actually taken from his blog, Duveronymous Yawp. Originally posted: http://goo.gl/3eE5B Last fall semester, I experimented with using an iPad (courtesy of TLT @ CofC) to read and mark up some of [...]
QR codes can be a fun and easy way to get new information, store coupons, or learn of great websites. I mean, who can resist scanning a QR code? I know I can’t. However, as with anything good someone has to find a way to ruin it for the rest of us. Enter the cyber [...]
To start off the new year I wanted to take a look at two apps that allow you to annotate on video. You may be asking, What does that even mean? or Why would I want to do this? Well, here’s the answer. Annotating video allows you to take a video using your mobile device [...]
I saw this gadget at the ISTE 2012 Conference this summer and thought it would be a cool tool for anyone who is interested in recording their lectures. Swivl is a very small swiveling camera holder that allows you to easily record yourself. If you use an iOS device and the tracking device then the [...]
