A large part of the planning that goes into updating classrooms and labs is assessing their current state. What’s working, what’s not, and what can we be doing better? In some cases, it’s not just the technology that needs to change. For most of the last decade, our labs were just rooms full of computers …Read more at the full article: Looking for a computer lab on campus?
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Looking for a computer lab on campus?
Posted in Hey, Look!, Technology (General)
Also tagged classroom technology, digital storytelling, digital video, learning technology, Microsoft, photoshop, Powerpoint, SMART
: craighead.6@osu.edu
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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)
Posted in Mobile Devices and Apps, Technology (General), Workshops Archive
Also tagged BYOD, classroom response devices, clickers, laptop, resources, smartphone, tablet, TurningPoint
: nardacci.1@osu.edu
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The Many Faces of Carmen: the Mobile & Desktop Interface
Hello, OSU community. Look around you. Now back at the blog. Now around you. Now back at the blog. Sadly, the blog is not all around you, but if you stopped using a desktop computer, or cumbersome laptop, and switched to a mobile device, it would be as though the blog were all around you.
Look …Read more at the full article: The Many Faces of Carmen: the Mobile & Desktop Interface
Posted in Carmen, Hey, Look!
Also tagged Carmen, mobile devices
: rake.9@osu.edu, strathearn.3@osu.edu
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Helping Students (and Teachers) Learn Citation in Digital Media (10/9/2012)
Citation plays a central role in academic discourse: it’s how we acknowledge our intellectual debts, how we track the specialized conversations in which we are engaging, how we hold each other accountable for ideas, and more. Most of the established formats for citation, however, are based in print media, and instructors looking to ask students …Read more at the full article: Helping Students (and Teachers) Learn Citation in Digital Media (10/9/2012)
Posted in Teaching, Workshops Archive
Also tagged citation, citation formats, citation models, citations, citing, citing digital media, course design, Digital Media, teaching
: nardacci.1@osu.edu
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Freeze Panes Can Help You Keep Your Cool…in Microsoft Excel
Did you know that you can set up your Excel document so that specific cells (such as rows serving as column headings) are constantly displayed, even when you scroll down and/or across a worksheet? One way to achieve this is by using Excel’s “freeze panes” option. Below is a quick explanation of how to activate …Read more at the full article: Freeze Panes Can Help You Keep Your Cool…in Microsoft Excel
Posted in How To
Also tagged Excel, Excel freeze panes, Excel tips, freeze panes, keystrokes, Microsoft, Microsoft Excel 2010
: nardacci.1@osu.edu, rake.9@osu.edu
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Usability for All: Accessible Content in Carmen (10/2/2012)
Facilitated by Ken Petri, Director of Ohio State’s Web Accessibility Center, this hands-on workshop focused on ensuring that your course’s HTML content in Carmen is accessible to all students, including those with disabilities. We looked at how to use the accessible HTML templates available in Carmen to organize your page content so that it is attractive and …Read more at the full article: Usability for All: Accessible Content in Carmen (10/2/2012)
Posted in Carmen, Workshops Archive
Also tagged accessibility, D2L, examples, learning technology, online teaching, templates, Usability for All, WAC, Web Accessibility Center, web design
: nardacci.1@osu.edu
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Storyboarding
A storyboard provides insight to help you think about ways to use images, sound effects and the sound track to help tell your story as you sketch out key story actions over time.
Why storyboard?
Whether you are working on a simple photo story, an animation or a full-blown video, storyboarding helps you focus your message. Your …Read more at the full article: Storyboarding
Posted in Creativity, Digital Media, How To
Also tagged Digital Media, digital storytelling, digital video
: gray.8@osu.edu, griffiths.44@osu.edu
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Speed tips: three things about lists in Carmen
Here are three related tips that just might speed up how you work with Carmen. They all apply to lists of information. In most cases, I’m talking about lists of students (in Classlist, Grades, Grade Quizzes, Dropbox, etc.), but they also apply to Content, which is essentially a list of links.
Pretty much anywhere in a …Read more at the full article: Speed tips: three things about lists in Carmen
Posted in Carmen
Also tagged Carmen, speed
: admin, bondra.4@osu.edu, evans.1517@osu.edu, rake.9@osu.edu
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Carmen Library Link Use Increases
We recently gathered the usage numbers (visits) to any Library Link page from Carmen courses for the 2011-12 academic year. When compared to the previous years, we found a 257% increase in usage. This is phenomenal! Below are the numbers for overall number of visits by school year since we began in the 2009-10 academic …Read more at the full article: Carmen Library Link Use Increases