by Amy Ostrom | Mar 14, 2014 | Organization, Productivity
Asana is a web based project management system that allows for one person or a group of people to share tasks, calendars, updates and more within a single collaborative workspace. You can create multiple tasks/subtasks, projects, and tags to help with organization...
by Kaitlin | Nov 15, 2013 | Content Delivery, Lecture, Lecture Recording, Mobile, Mobile, Multimedia, Presentation, Video
ShowMe is a free app for your iPad/iPad mini that allows you to create interactive whiteboard recordings. You can record your whiteboard drawing along with a voice recording, and supplement your video by importing images from your Camera Roll. When you have completed...
by Mendi Benigni | Oct 16, 2013 | Assessment, Collaboration, Content Delivery, Feedback, Mobile
Use the VoiceThread App with the CofC licenses. It allows all of the same features of the web version. This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for downloading the app, creating a VoiceThread, making comments and sharing a VoiceThread. Uses: Online discussion...
by Mendi Benigni | Oct 16, 2013 | Audio, Content Delivery, Lecture Recording, Multimedia, Presentation, Projects, Video
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 Mendi Benigni | Sep 10, 2013 | Assessment, Audience Response, Engagement, Formative, Immediate Feedback, Immediate Feedback, Summative
Poll Everywhere is a free, online polling application (a.k.a. audience response system) that allows you to quickly gauge student understanding using their computers, tablets, or cell phones. The Poll Everywhere educational license purchased by CofC now allows faculty...
by Laura Plotts | Jun 10, 2013 | Communication, Content Delivery, Google, Google, Publication, Social Media
CREATING A BLOGGER BLOG To create a Blogger blog through the College, use your Google Apps account to sign in to Blogger at blogger.com. You can also access Blogger through the More menu of Google Apps. If you have questions about your Google Apps account, please...
by Laura Plotts | Apr 11, 2013 | Communication, Social Media
A Facebook Page is public facing; anyone can “like” the Page and get updates in their News Feed from the Page administrator (in this case, from you, the teacher). Pages create an easy way for both teachers and students to share relevant links, like newspaper...
by Mendi Benigni | Dec 7, 2012 | Collaboration, Group Work, OAKS, Project
OAKS Groups allows faculty to create self-enroll groups, where students can sign up for the specific group they want. This tutorial outlines how a student can enroll themselves in a group. Note: This is only available if the faculty member has created a self-enroll...
by Laura Plotts | Nov 9, 2012 | OAKS, Organization, Planning, Productivity
The Calendar tool allows you to arrange and visualize your course events in multiple views and enables integration of course content and your Calendar. You can use iCal to synchronize the Calendar tool to your personal calendars (such as Outlook and Google Calendar,...
by Mendi Benigni | Oct 25, 2012 | Content Delivery, Mobile, Presentation
Pecha Kucha is a simple presentation format devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham where you show 20 slides or images, each for only 20 second. The images or slides advance automatically to keep you on time and you can only talk about each slide or image while it’s...
