by Chris Meshanko | Sep 22, 2020 | content, Distance Ed, Video, Web 2.0
What is VideoAnt? URL: https://ant.umn.edu/ Do you host your lectures on YouTube (unlisted) or share other videos with your students? If so, you and your students can use VideoAnt to take notes or leave comments during video playback, anywhere on the video timeline....
by Mendi Benigni | Mar 24, 2020 | content, Distance Ed, instructional technology, iPad, Mobile, Productivity, Share
With the College operating online, I know it’s difficult for some discipline whose work isn’t easy to do online, for example Math and Drawing. If the assignment you wish to give is better suited to the student handwriting or hand-drawing something then...
by Mendi Benigni | Oct 21, 2019 | content, Innovative Instruction
Customizing your Textbooks with AR!Textbooks are awesome. Almost everyone uses them. But sometimes they don’t cover the material in the same way you are or they aren’t as clear, customized or interactive as we wish they were. However, adding augmented...
by Mendi Benigni | Sep 9, 2019 | content, Pedagogy, Research
In the early 2000s a popular lesson type was a webquest. The goal of this was to create an inquiry-oriented lesson where all of the information comes from web-based resources. This isn’t a newsletter on how to create a webquest. There is tons of information on the...
by Mendi Benigni | Jul 30, 2019 | content, Innovative Instruction, instructional technology, Video
What is a 360º camera? It’s a video/still camera with two lenses that takes images of what is happening all around the camera. How does a 360º camera work? Most of these cameras have a fisheye lens on each side of the camera and these lenses can capture 180º in...
by Chris Meshanko | Jun 27, 2019 | content, Distance Ed, OER, Teaching Advice
What is OER? “Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium–digital or otherwise–that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and...