Screencasting with Jing

As someone who uses technology to teach and assess students, I love Screencasting.  Screencasting allows me to demonstrate complex procedures and give presentations from a distance.  Since these videos are uploaded and streamed online, my students can view the screencasts at their own pace and review parts they might have missed during class.  When teaching [...]

Student Engagement with Poll Everywhere

I’m sure this is a common experience.  I’m in the middle of a brilliant lesson with my students and we’re discussing something really important.  I look back and I see a student who isn’t that engaged with what the rest of the class is discussing.  In fact, the student seems to be more interested in [...]

Reflecting with Wordle

This week’s Tech Tip is Wordle (found at http://www.wordle.net).  Wordle is an online tool for generating “word clouds” based on submitted text.  By varying the size of the words in the word cloud, Wordle shows which words are used most frequently within the text.  The really large words are used very frequently and really small [...]

Embedding Files with Embeditin

If you’ve been following the blog or Tech Tip emails, you’ll notice that I’ve used the word “embed” a few times.  When I featured Slide Share, I talked about being able to embed a Powerpoint presentation on Blackboard or on another website.  When I featured Audiopal, I also talked about being able to embed audio [...]