by mckinleysa | Apr 10, 2020 | Mobile
When I met George Ducker on the steps of St. Phillip’s Dorm (now referred to as Berry Hall), he told me that one day he would be a paid writer and “the doctor of rock-n-roll.” Fast-forward to present-day, Ducker, who spent his first (and only) year...
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...
by Mendi Benigni | Oct 26, 2014 | Assessment, Collaboration, Google Apps, iPad, Pedagogy, TLT
Clickers (or audience response systems) are a great way to check for understanding, poll students’ opinions, and even give quizzes. Normally it requires the students to have a purchased clicker such as iClicker or Turning Point or a phone, tablet or computer...
by Mendi Benigni | Aug 13, 2012 | Conferencing, Productivity
I was helping out a faculty member the other day who had a request to record a phone interview and found a website called Free Conference Calling. This site is free and after signing up you are given a phone number, conference code and host code that allows you to...
by Mendi Benigni | Jul 9, 2012 | Web 2.0
I fell in love with the Desmos free, online graphing calculator this June at ISTE, not just because it’s a cool, fully-functional graphing calculator but because of the philosophy of the people who founded and run the company. Their philosophy is that...