Telling stories digitally

This week, I’m focusing on digital storytelling as an alternative assessment tool that instructors can use in both online or face-to-face environments.  Instead of assigning a paper or giving an exam, consider having your students create digital stories as a means of assessing student learning.  For instance, Dr. Richard Kerper, a professor in the Elementary [...]

Understanding the world “in plain English”

With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, the language of the Internet has changed.  We now have wikis, blogs, Google Docs, Twitter, cloud computing, social networking, social bookmarking, podcasting and so much more.  It can be hard to keep up with all of the new terminology, let alone understand conceptually how a blog differs from [...]

Online publishing with Issuu

What do you think of when you hear the words “online publishing?”  Maybe a web page?  Or a blog?  Or possibly a wiki?  While most of the textual content published online probably falls into these traditional categories, issuu offers something completely different.  Issuu is a site that allows users to easily create online magazines and [...]

Sharing videos with YouTube

Recently, I read an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about professors who were using technology to “kill the lecture.”  For example, one professor uploads his lectures online which students have to watch before class.  The professor then uses class time to have discussions, work on homework, and answer questions.  This approach really turns [...]