As I go to meetings and offices throughout the college I am seeing more and more I Pads. So how do you use yours? Check email, take notes, check weather, watch videos, play games? Any of these or all of these? Did you know that Blackboard, Centra, Mediasite, Yammer, Twitter and Tegrity all have apps … Read more
Lync 2010 is a secure chat and online communication software available to ECU faculty and staff. Sporting all the features of its predecessor, Communicator 2007, Lync adds sharing and collaboration tools so users can meet online, give a presentation, brainstorm using a whiteboard, share your desktop/applicationsand more. Great way to communicate instantly with a colleague! … Read more
Did you know that with our newest upgrade to Mediasite 6.02 students can watch lectures on virtually any mobile device! There is a Mediasite App for phones and students can just launch the catalog directly in their browser to view on their IPad. Students also now have the ability to search within a presentation for … Read more
With the close of Spring Semester here are some reminders for start of semester (I know Spring just ended!)– Copy/collapse your courses from past semesters for summer session, info at BB on how to do this easy task. Submit your mediasite recording form or request for release of past recordings. Contact the OET for form … Read more
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 talking but Yammer!!! Lot’s of great ways to use this tool. Think about incorporating it into your Summer classes. Training sessions are offered via ITCS training calendar or via OET’s training calender. Yammer with it’s recent acquisition will soon allow desktop sync capability and file folder sharing. Click here to find out more!
Not your test in Blackboard but your student’s ability to access information on their computer while taking a test. Lockdown browsers when run on a computer prevents the student from printing, copying, screen capturing a test. Students are also unable to navigate to other locations within their Course Management System or on the Internet. Securexam … 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