by Mendi Benigni | Oct 5, 2018 | Assessment, Engagement, OAKS
Since OAKS is hosted off-campus (with D2L/Brightspace) is it subject to monthly upgrades. Because of the rapid changes, TLT cannot keep up with creating customized tutorials and therefore has decided to link to the D2L/Brightspace resources and tutorials. Track class...
by Mendi Benigni | Oct 5, 2018 | Collaboration, Communication, Engagement, Group Work, OAKS, OAKS, OAKS
These tutorials are all about interacting with your students via the: Activity Feed Announcements/News Tool Discussion Tool Groups Tool Post messages and links to course materials in the Activity Tool Activity Feed is a course homepage widget that provides a central...
by Mendi Benigni | Sep 11, 2017 | Communication, Engagement, Group Work, Multimedia
OVERVIEW: We normally use VoiceThread (VT) to record lectures and occasionally allow students to comment or ask questions. But what about creating a single VT where all your students actually contribute the content? For example, instead of having every student...
by Mendi Benigni | May 31, 2017 | Collaboration, Communication, Content Delivery, Engagement, Google, Google, Google, Google, Google, Lecture, Productivity
OVERVIEW: Google Hangouts is a unified communications service that allows members to initiate and participate in text, voice or video chats, either one-on-one or in a group. It can be used to conduct video chats and to share your screen with your participants....
by Mendi Benigni | Apr 3, 2017 | Assessment, Audio, Communication, Engagement, Feedback, Formative, Immediate Feedback, Multimedia, Summative, Video
OVERVIEW: “Flipgrid is a video discussion community for your classroom that supercharges your students’ voices. You add the topics, your students respond with short videos, and everyone engages!” – Flipgrid website SUGGESTED USES: Online discussion board Class...
by Mendi Benigni | Sep 7, 2016 | Assessment, Content Delivery, Engagement, Presentation
The OAKS VoiceThread integration has undergone a change, making it easier to add VoiceThreads (VT) to OAKS and giving instructors a new way to assign VTs. With the new integration instructors can: assign students to create and submit their own VT. require students to...
by Mendi Benigni | May 11, 2016 | Assessment, Audience Response, Engagement, Feedback, Formative, Immediate Feedback, Immediate Feedback, Lecture, Lecture, Multimedia
Kaltura MediaSpace is a Youtube-like, online media area specifically for CofC faculty, staff and students. Unlike other media servers on campus Kaltura is available to students so it can be used to upload video projects. Faculty can use it to upload tutorials,...
by Laura Plotts | Feb 9, 2016 | Assessment, Engagement, Formative, Games, Immediate Feedback, Immediate Feedback
Socrative is a great tool for collecting immediate feedback from students via mobile apps or the internet on laptops or tablets. With Socrative teachers gather assessments via short answer, multiple choice and/or true or false questions. Socrative auto-grades multiple...
by ratcliffcr | Jan 22, 2016 | Announcement, Collaboration, Communication, Engagement, File Sharing, Group Work, Organization, Productivity, Uncategorized
Description: Padlet is a collaborative online bulletin board that can be used to display text, photos, links, and many other types of media. Padlet allows users to create a board where students and instructors can collaborate and share information in a secure...
by Laura Plotts | Oct 12, 2015 | Assessment, Audience Response, Content Delivery, Engagement, Formative, Google, Google, Immediate Feedback, Immediate Feedback, Lecture, Presentation, Summative
Description: The Poll Everywhere Chrome extension allows for live polling to be embedded in Google Slides. Now your polls will load live in Slides just as they do in PowerPoint. Note: This is still in Beta Uses: View live poll results during your Google Slides...
