by Jessica Smith | Oct 4, 2016 | Collaboration, Google, Google Apps, Productivity, Small Teaching Tip, Teaching Advice
Collaboration and project management are important skills for college students to learn. Unfortunately, many students grumble about group work and faculty spend too much time managing logistics. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were tools that could make in-class...
by Mendi Benigni | Sep 5, 2016 | Best Practices, Collaboration, Google, Google Apps, Presentation, Productivity, TLT
We all use PowerPoint to create and deliver lectures and for student presentations. But PPT lacks one major feature…collaboration. Google Slides, part of our Google Apps for Education, is a PowerPoint-like presentation application that has that collaboration piece,...
by Mendi Benigni | Aug 23, 2016 | Google, instructional technology, TLT
SAS Writing Reviser is a Google Docs add-on that helps to create better writers. Writing Reviser collects and highlights a multitude of potential flaws in a paper or writing sample and displays it in categories for the writer to review and change if desired. The goal...
by Mendi Benigni | Apr 29, 2016 | Google, Google Apps, Productivity, Research, TLT
I am a huge fan of Microsoft Excel. It’s my second favorite application, after Photoshop. However, I’ve been attempting to move all of my work to Google Apps for Education and I felt like Google Sheets was just not as robust a program as Excel. That being...
by Mendi Benigni | Apr 24, 2015 | Distance Ed, Google, Presentation, Video
Google Chrome has been making some updates recently that will directly effect your use of Kaltura in that browser. Per Kaltura, As of the latest version of Chrome (42), released last week, Google has decided to block Java by default, as described...
by Mendi Benigni | Apr 17, 2015 | Google
Bad news: Google moderator is shutting down June 30, 2015 From Google’s website: “Unfortunately, Google Moderator has not had the usage we had hoped, so we’ve made the difficult decision to close down the product. We want to ensure users have enough time...