by Mendi Benigni | Dec 1, 2020 | Collaboration, Communication, Content Delivery, Google, Google, Google, Google, Google, Lecture, Productivity
Zoom is an online communications service that allows members to hold sessions (called Meetings), either one-on-one or in a group. It can be used to conduct video chats, audio chats, collaborate on an interactive whiteboard, and to share your screen with your...
by Michael S. Overholt | Dec 5, 2018 | Audience Response
Weighted grading In weighted grading, certain types of activities count more than others. You can decide that certain questions are harder than others and therefore should be worth more. If you have a paid account, you can enable the “Weighted grading”...
by Michael S. Overholt | Dec 5, 2018 | Audience Response
Presenting in a slideshow You can display a poll directly from PowerPoint by embedding your poll as a slide, to seamlessly present with your other PowerPoint slides. To embed your polls in PowerPoint, you must install the PollEv Presenter app. In addition, the...
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, Group Work, 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 | Apr 3, 2017 | Audio, Communication, 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 | May 11, 2016 | Audience Response, 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 | Formative, Games, Immediate Feedback, Immediate Feedback, Other
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 | Jun 12, 2015 | Content Delivery, Lecture, Lecture, Multimedia, Other, Presentation
What is Blendspace? Blendspace is a free web tool that allows users to create interactive online lessons using resources collected from all over the web. You can add Youtube videos, items from Google search, images from Flickr, lessons on Educreation, web pages, PDFs,...
by ratcliffcr | Apr 13, 2015 | Audience Response, Content Delivery, Formative, Immediate Feedback, Immediate Feedback, Lecture, Mobile, Mobile, Mobile, Other, Summative
What is Nearpod? Nearpod is an all-in-one presentation and polling application that allows teachers to deliver interactive lectures to students by pushing content to students’ mobile devices. Teachers control the presentation while students follow along. With...
