We joined Professor Emerita Ardine Nelson from the Department of Art’s Photography area for this Adobe Lightroom 4 workshop, the second in a two-session series. For this workshop, attendees were asked to bring a selection of their own digital files to work with, and their own portable hard drive or thumb drive for storing their …Read more at the full article: Adobe Lightroom 4: Part 2 (Hands-On) (5/15/2013)
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Adobe Lightroom 4: Part 2 (Hands-On) (5/15/2013)
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Adobe Lightroom 4: Getting Started (5/13/2013)
We joined Professor Emerita Ardine Nelson from the Department of Art’s Photography area for this Adobe Lightroom 4 workshop, the first of a two-session series. For this workshop, we were introduced to working with Adobe Lightroom 4 as a method for organizing, correcting, storing, and outputting many kinds of digital images, including .dng, .jpg, .psd, …Read more at the full article: Adobe Lightroom 4: Getting Started (5/13/2013)
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New, All-in-One TurningPoint (11/28/2012)
We joined staff from Turning Technologies for a hands-on overview of the latest release of TurningPoint. The new release is the easiest to use and most powerful version to date, offering additional capabilities and an enhanced overall user experience. TurningPoint now consolidates the company’s most popular products into one simple interface for polling in PowerPoint®, polling …Read more at the full article: New, All-in-One TurningPoint (11/28/2012)
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Tagged BYOD, classroom response devices, clickers, laptop, resources, smartphone, tablet, tips, TurningPoint
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Managing your Discussion Board: Strategies and Best Practices (11/16/2012)
Workshop attendees joined Marie Mika, Ohio State sociology instructor, to learn how she uses online discussion boards for student interaction, engagement, and assessment. During the workshop, we discovered how she makes discussion boards manageable in large (~60) classes and how we might adapt her strategies for use in our own online environments. Marie shared lessons learned from …Read more at the full article: Managing your Discussion Board: Strategies and Best Practices (11/16/2012)
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Tagged Discussion Boards, grading, student engagement, Teaching in Virtual Environments workshop series, VoiceThread
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Photoshop II: Layers, Text, & Compositions (11/15/2012)
This was the second portion of a two-part Digital Union Photoshop workshop. Although attendance at Photoshop I was not required, attendees needed to have the equivalent prerequisite knowledge that was essential in order to keep up. This included being comfortable with the interface; knowing how to use the move, marquee, zoom, and crop tools; and …Read more at the full article: Photoshop II: Layers, Text, & Compositions (11/15/2012)
Via Response Hands-On Demo: “Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)” Student Response Platform (11/14/2012)
The recent movement towards BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) has gained rapid traction in higher education as more institutions realize how powerful students’ smart devices can be for facilitating learning, especially in large, hybrid, or extended classroom configurations where legacy clicker devices are not viable.
Via Response is a highly interactive, cloud-based student response platform that …Read more at the full article: Via Response Hands-On Demo: “Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)” Student Response Platform (11/14/2012)
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Tagged BYOD, mobile applications, mobile apps, smart devices, student engagement, Via Response
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Google Analytics for Beginners (11/13/2012)
The Digital Union offered a simple introduction to basic Google Analytics tools. In this demonstration, we covered the basics of Google Analytics, including demographics, landing pages and exit pages, viewer behavior (new vs. returning), viewer technology (browser and operating system), and more. We discussed key Google Analytics terms, such as “pageviews” and “visitors,” and highlighted …Read more at the full article: Google Analytics for Beginners (11/13/2012)
Create a Mobile Flashcard App with HTML5 (11/13/2012)
Interested in mobile technologies and increasing student engagement? Ryan Hansen, graduate student in psychology and digital learning enthusiast, showed workshop attendees how to build an interactive flashcard mobile app to help students study for their courses. During the workshop, Ryan described how to build a personalized version of the app that helped him win the …Read more at the full article: Create a Mobile Flashcard App with HTML5 (11/13/2012)
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Tagged flashcard, HTML 5, Innovate 2012, jQuery mobile, mobile app, PhoneGap, Steal My Idea, student engagement, student learning
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Photoshop I: Intro & Basics (11/13/2012)
In this interactive, beginner-level Photoshop workshop, we briefly discussed terminology, how to take good pictures, and how to prepare them for print versus web. Then, we dove right into a hands-on experience, during which participants followed along with the instructor to get comfortable with the interface of Adobe Photoshop CS5. Workshop attendees learned basic image …Read more at the full article: Photoshop I: Intro & Basics (11/13/2012)
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Tagged adding text, adjusting contrast, cropping, image editing, photoshop, resizing, rotating, straightening, working with layers
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Game-Based Learning Lunch: Teaching About Animals–Total Animal and TCO (5/17/2013)
For this Game-Based Learning lunch series workshop, we joined Jane Wright from OSU Extension, along with Dan Rockwell and Jeremy Patterson from the Ohio State Technology Commercialization and Knowledge Transfer office. We got an inside look at how development is progressing for a project to develop Total Animal. Total Animal is a mobile app that digitizes existing content from Ohio 4-H …Read more at the full article: Game-Based Learning Lunch: Teaching About Animals–Total Animal and TCO (5/17/2013)