File management
Maintain order over your files by instilling file management best practices: give your files comprehensive titles, and save them in appropriate subfolders (not just lobbed into the pile on the desktop!).
Category Tools and how to (tips)
This is for tools and ‘how-to’ items
Pinterest in the classroom
Pinterest is a free image-based curation site that allows users to create themed “boards' onto which they may “pin' relevant links, which appear as tiles. Board creators and viewers alike may comment on the pins. In this week's teaching tip find out how Pinterest relates to education.
Additional Google Drive apps
Use Google Drive to do more than create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, etc., with the many apps that you can add to your Drive for creating a vast variety of media. Simply click "Create" and then "Add More Apps," then choose from the list of apps which appear.
Collecting information with Google Forms
The ability to quickly create a form for collecting information is packaged within UA Google Applications. Google Form is a very handy application for creating forms with multiple possible uses within your class or department or program. Create a form to collect information on a wide variety of topics and review the responses in an aggregated, organized-for-you format.
Collaborative maps with Google Maps
Google has recently added sharing features to its Maps tool, making it easier than ever to collaborate on building custom map-based resources. With these new features you can build your own information into a Google map, share it with others and embed it in your web site.
Interactive timelines
Creating an interactive timeline can provide perspective on how a topic has evolved, and how events occurred along the way. By using a Google Spreadsheet template and resources on the website,Timeline JS, you (or your students) can quickly create a multimedia-rich timeline.
Creating comics with Pixton
Critical inquiry often benefits from the inclusion of visual elements, like comics, to complicate and challenge the idea of how we interact with text. Pixton is one of the most flexible and useful online comics-generating tools.
Layar Creator (for AR)
Augmented Reality (AR) can seem like magic but there are a growing number of creation tools that make it easy and fun for everyone to get started making their own. Layar Creator is a simple drag-and-drop interface available online. Read this week’s teaching tip to find out how to get started.
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality (AR) has been mentioned in the last couple years’ Horizon Reports for Higher Education as one of the latest upcoming technologies for education. You may have heard of new wearable technologies such as Google Glass that will bring AR to the masses in the near future.
Survey says – ask your students…
Provide your students an avenue to communicate with you on how they are learning or what is working in your course. Use a Google form, a quick poll from Poll Everywhere, or a JotForm survey, etc.
Using video in your course
One way to ensure good instructor presence in an online course and present your lecture is by incorporating short lecture videos into your online course materials.
Wikis
Wikis are great for group work with your students. Wikis are web sites or web pages that multiple authors can edit without needing to know HTML code. Wikis and wiki-like applications provide a readily available, relatively easy-to-use, low-bandwidth platform for collaborative writing and editing.