Useful Sites, How-Tos, Student Samples
Over the course of the summer, I’ve noticed some new features on sites here and there. Usually, other people write about these new features before I catch them, but I haven’t seen much about some of these so I thought I’d share.
The first new trick comes from Diigo. If you’ve never used it, Diigo allows [...]
I just finished teaching EDU 601. It’s a graduate ed. tech class I teach at Creighton University and it’s consumed the majority of my non-family time the last month. This is the second summer I’ve taught the course and I find it to be a wonderful learning experience for myself and very rewarding to work [...]
I’m in the midst of redesigning our school’s website and I’ll be upfront, I’m not a web-designer. Specifically, I can’t do much of anything beyond basic HTML. There aren’t a lot of resources in a small private school so I sort of volunteered to take it on. My goal is to make it user friendly [...]
Note: I normally write about the things I do with the 6-8th graders at my school, but this post is an extension of a 1 credit class I teach to undergraduates. You can follow some of the things we’re doing in class at tech42s.pbworks.com.
Dear Tech 42s,
Over the past month we’ve covered a variety [...]
I’ve written several times recently about how I use Drop.io with my students. In response to some questions about it from readers and colleagues, I created this presentation (with screenshots) about how to use drop.io. It doesn’t go beyond the basics, but it will help you get started. This presentation is pretty [...]
It’s snow day number two of the new semester and I’m almost stir crazy enough to go outside and film a re-enactment of To Build a Fire by Jack London. Rather than freeze my camera as I fake freeze to death, I’ve been fine-tuning the course plan for a 1 credit class I’ll begin teaching [...]
A few months ago, my students and I went on a field trip to the local recycling plant. As we neared the end of our tour I realized I forgot my camera and we were in a prime photo location. Without a camera on hand, I asked one of the student teachers with [...]
In my last post on student made movies I discussed x-tranormal. The application itself (web or software based) is very easy to use, but getting students up and running on it can present some challenges (accounts, # of computers, downloads, etc.). If you’d like to make student movies, but need something a little simpler, the [...]
I witnessed backchanneling on Google Docs for the first time this summer and was immediately impressed. Backchanneling allows viewers of a presentation to become part of it by writing in responses to slides or comments a presenter makes.Â
Several people had inquired about this recently, so I decided to modify a lesson to incorporate backchanneling and [...]
Google forms are great, but they don’t leave you a lot of room for customization. There are some other programs that can help collect a lot of data with highly customizable forms, but they usually cost money. Today, while working on another project, I needed to find a way to make a google [...]