by Mendi Benigni | Oct 11, 2021 | 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 mckinleysa | Jul 14, 2021 | Accessibility, File Sharing, Filming, Group Work, Images, Social Media
The TLT often gets this question: besides iMovie, what free video editor might you suggest for students? One new option is Kapwing. Kapwing is an online image, video, and GIF editing platform whose mission is to enable digital storytelling. Unlike most online editing...
by mckinleysa | Jan 15, 2021 | Communication, Content Delivery, Engagement, Flipping, Group Work, OAKS, OAKS, Productivity
The statistics tool for OAKS Discussions allows instructors to view data for the whole class and individual students. This can be used to monitor student engagement and track participation in Discussions. See this TLT tutorial for directions on how to view OAKS...
by Mendi Benigni | Aug 12, 2020 | Collaboration, Content Delivery, Group Work, OAKS
Microsoft OneNote is a note-taking program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It gathers users’ notes, drawings, screen clippings, and audio commentaries. Notes can be shared with other OneNote users over the Internet or a network...
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 ratcliffcr | Apr 18, 2016 | Collaboration, Communication, Group Work, Planning, Project
Description: GroupTing is an easy-to-use event planning tool for both big and small events. GroupTing simplifies the process of RSVPs, sign up lists, reminders, and updates, and one of my favorite features is that there is no sign up or log in required. With...
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 Kaitlin | Dec 14, 2015 | Collaboration, Communication, Group Work, Organization, Planning, Productivity, Project, Projects
Description: Coggle is an easy-to-use mind-mapping tool that makes it possible to quickly make, share, and collaborate on notes or maps. It is easy to share the maps with others and collaborate in real time on the same map or note. Coggle is free, unless you want to...
by Mendi Benigni | Sep 15, 2015 | Collaboration, Google, Google, Group Work, Planning, Productivity
Choice Eliminator, a Google Forms add-on, will eliminate a choice on a form once a specific criteria has been met. This can be used to allow students to sign up for groups or meeting time slots. For example, you want students to sign up for a meeting time. You only...
by Laura Plotts | Aug 3, 2015 | Collaboration, Google, Google, Group Work, Planning, Productivity
Description: The Appointment slots feature lets you set one period of time on your calendar, divided into available time slots for people to reserve. This feature is ONLY available with your CofC Google apps for education account. For steps on activating your CofC...
