by Mendi Benigni | Oct 11, 2021 | Communication, 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 | Jun 18, 2020 | Collaboration, Communication, Content Delivery, Multimedia, Productivity, Uncategorized, Video
It can be tough getting to know people in an online class, but Flipgrid can help in a major way. Using the selfie video format our students already know and love, students can easily create online videos using the free Flipgrid app on their phone or computer....
by Mendi Benigni | Feb 5, 2016 | Communication, Content Delivery, Feedback, OAKS, OAKS, OAKS, Presentation
VoiceThread is a learning tool for enhancing student engagement and online presence. With VoiceThread, instructors and/or students can create, share, and comment on images, Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, videos, audio files, documents, and PDFs, using microphone,...
by ratcliffcr | Oct 22, 2015 | Organization, Other, Productivity
RescueTime is a web app and personal challenge to help you become more productive. The app will record your own electronic productivity and time management data to provide focused lessons and exercises so that you can learn what you are spending time on and how to...
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...
by Mendi Benigni | May 11, 2015 | OAKS, Productivity
Did you know that you can check your Sent Mail sent from within OAKS? Step-by-Step Instructions: OAKS – CHECKING YOUR OAKS SENT EMAIL
by Amy Ostrom | Apr 17, 2015 | Content Delivery, Images, Infographics, Multimedia, Other
Easel.ly is a tool to help you or your students to create infographics to visually represent data. This tool is free and has both a web based interface and an iPad app. Here is an example of an infographic created using Easel.ly: Link to...
by Jessica Smith | Dec 11, 2014 | Collaboration, Group Work, Immediate Feedback, Mobile, Mobile, Other
ClassKick is an iOS app that allows instructors to observe their students’ work as it is created. Instructors first create a class, which is assigned a unique code, and add their roster. Then, the instructor can create questions by drawing or typing on the...
by Mendi Benigni | Apr 4, 2014 | Content Delivery, OAKS
The CofC Library subscribes to two streaming video databases, Academic Video Online and Films on Demand. These databases offer wonderful resources for you and your students and can easily be embedded into OAKS content for easy access. This tutorial will cover how to...
by Mendi Benigni | Mar 24, 2014 | Other, Productivity, Research
There are many times you may have wished you could take two or more PDFs and combine them quickly and easily into one. Creating a PDF is easy to do on a Mac as it is built in to the Print function of every application. Combining them, however, is not as straight...