Try something new in your classroom! OET can supply you with tips and tools to help cure those blues! Let’s start with clickers, a/k/a Audience Response Systems and here at ECU we use Turning Point. Students make their selection on a “clicker” and you project your “audience’s” response in your PowerPoint! Audience Response System aka … Read more
Not just days until I leave for Sicily but to the end of the semester! Spring semester is winding down so here are a few end of semester tips/reminders: SafeAssignments – when using this tool in Blackboard make sure you “Synchronize your Course” whenever you deploy a Safe Assignment so that it checks against the … Read more
Today is Wednesday and the day I send out my blog. Had not prepared it yet and was perusing my various readers, feeds, yammer and twitter accounts for ideas and found one on my Yammer feed (that’s for another blog)! ECU offers lots of tools for sharing information as well as obtaining information. One very … Read more
Continuing on my lecture capture dialogue one caveat to remember is that law we all must abide by, COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT! To quote from my colleague Bob Fainter’s post of last year “There be dragons“! Questions and information about copyright issues can be found here, contact Beth Winstead ECU’s Copyright Officer with questions or check out … Read more
The Blackboard icon, the mail icon or something else you usually clicked at the top of the ECU homepage. With the new roll out of ECU’s website some items are located in a different area. You may or may not like the new site but there is a neat feature included called “My Links“. Just … Read more
All those videos you made in Camtasia? Let me move them to our Mediasite server. This will give easy access to all your class recordings in one place, security through Active Directory and management will be hosted by us. Specifically, it allows faculty who create course content with Camtasia Relay to automatically upload their recordings … Read more
Current buzzword around campus click here for a neat way to incorporate into your class. From Yammer’s website https://www.yammer.com/about/product#what-is-yammer , “Yammer is a simple real-time communication tool for organizations. Yammer was created by people who wanted a better way to connect and share with people at work. You and the other members of your organization … Read more
Try something new in your classroom! OET can supply you with tips and tools to stick with that resolution! Let’s start with clickers, a/k/a Audience Response Systems and here at ECU we use Turning Point. Students make their selection on a “clicker” and you project your “audience’s” response in your PowerPoint! Audience Response System aka … Read more