More Twitter for more courses
Instructors are finding good uses for Twitter to increase student learning. Some examples: Dale Basler writes about having his students tweet during a physics field trip. He shares tips for …
Bb Tip: Give student groups private spaces to work in Blackboard
Blackboard’s Groups feature allows instructors to provide a group of students with their own set of communication tools that only the group members can access. A group of students collaborating …
How To: Using Blackboard to Foster Collaboration Across Classes
Elisabeth Benfey, a lecturing fellow, and Michael Malone, a professor of the practice, both in Theater Studies wanted to collaborate by sharing one common Blackboard site accessible by the students …
Use Screencast Video to Connect with Students
Screencasts are short videos that you can create in very little time on your work or home computer and easily share the results with students. Screencast software records your actions …
Economics problems solved in video
Dr. Fullenkamp is helping his students learn economics by creating video answers to problem set questions. He uses Jing and Windows Journal on a tablet PC. Jing is a free …
Neuroscience major tweets
Dr. Len White (Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies in Neuroscience, and Director of Education, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences) is using Twitter to engage students and build community in Duke’s …
See what students see: enroll in a sample Blackboard site
Ever wondered what students see when they log onto your Blackboard course? Ever asked yourself what Blackboard can do besides letting you upload your syllabus? We have constructed a sample …
What are my students thinking? Ask!
We’ve been meeting monthly to discuss using mobile devices in teaching. Several faculty have been interested in trying Poll Everywhere, which uses the students’ phones or computers as clickers to …
Twitter lists can simplify academic tweeting
One of the challenges of using Twitter within a course is getting students to follow one another. Even worse, what students would want their peers to see that they were …
Take out those cell phones in class
Most students have cell phones, and more than half of all US undergraduates own an internet-capable handheld device and more plan to purchase one in the next 12 months (ECAR …