No it’s not football season and the baseball team has just started back practicing. But many of you are giving first exams and/or projects and now it is time to grade. Rubrics help and Blackboard enables you to add rubrics for grading. You can also use inline grading directly in Blackboard. Perhaps you would rather … Read more
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Clickers have been a great tool to quiz students and the software is available in all classrooms. I have lots of clickers in my cabinet and you don’t have the students sign up if you are doing anonymous polling. You don’t have to get a license just sign up for a free Instructor account. Some … Read more
What’s in your wallet? Advertisement – I am asking a similar question which is “What’s in your Classroom”? Are you trying something new this semester or have you tweaked something old? Any light bulb moments? Is it working or have you tried something that just isn’t going right? Take a moment and share here or … Read more
Was from ECU Technology Digest about OneDrive for Business (OD4B) Cloud Storage. So you may be using Dropbox for your lecture files but consider putting them on your OneDrive. Start using your OneDrive for Business today by logging in to http://pirate365.ecu.edu. OD4B makes it easy to share files and/or folders as well. Features Storage – 1TB … Read more
Want to get to know your students quickly, try having them create a homepage blog, try using clickers gives them a bit of anonymity. Perhaps a video introduction would be a way to get to know your distance ed students. Need to set up presentation or meeting schedules there are easy to use apps to … Read more
In the news recently was Microsoft will acquire LinkedIn for $196 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at $26.2 billion As your students go out into the “real” world beyond academia LinkedIn is one way for them to network outside of Facebook and other social media tools. Here are some tips on creating the … Read more
Today is Reading Day and have you been reading this blog? Well if you haven’t take a few minutes and glance at the various topics, perhaps there is something that catches your eye? Spring semester is just about over, hopefully it was a successful one! For some of you summer semester is right around the corner. … Read more
Or why not? I will admit I have not embraced this technology but I am exploring it’s use in higher ed and have found some articles which tempt me to continue in this endeavor. If you use “tweets” as part of your class or were thinking of incorporating them into class let me know and … Read more