academic technology

We would like the ability for students to easily add images to pages and discussions beyond just providing the URL.

Amherst College, through its library, seeks to join the vanguard of academic publishing by launching the Amherst College Press.

create your own story with Bayeux tapistry tools

Canvas how-to for faculty

With Photo Stream, when you take a photo on one device, it automatically appears on all of your other devices. And now with Shared Photo Streams, you can easily choose which of your photos you want to share and who you want to share them with.

Bill of Rights & Principles 4 Learning in the Digital Age

Reset your password You can change or reset the password for your Apple ID account by providing some information.

"Online education: A review of the literature"

Contributions from many including: Bryan Alexander Howard Rheingold is book, and accompanying website, is a resource for selforganizing self-learners. With YouTube, Wikipedia, search engines, free chatrooms, blogs, wikis, and video communication, today's  have power never dreamed-of before. What does any group of self-learners need to know in order to self-organize learning about any topic? e Peeragogy Handbook is a volunteercreated and maintained resource for bootstrapping peer learning. 

Lots of good stuff from UMW Look under 'resources'

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 The History of Architecture, a free course that recently debuted on iTunes. Taught by Jacqueline Gargus at Ohio State, the course features 39 video lectures that collectively offer a classic survey of Western architecture. We begin in Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, laying the conceptual foundations for what's to come.

any publishers and teachers have ExamView Question Banks that would be great to be able to import into Canvas rahter than typing it all out in the Quizzes tool. Well, you CAN do this! Here's a screen-cast on how to do this and create a Quiz in Canvas that randomly picks "x" amount of  questions from a question bank. http://youtu.be/ugcke8zMjkc

If you use email distribution lists, you may have noticed that your iPad doesn't. Here's how to fix that.

Back in October 2012 I made my first Little Box of Poems - this is a self-contained box that prints out a random short poem when you press a big red shiny button. I like having poems instead of receipts in my wallet. And it makes a good educational project combining physics (wiring), DT (making the box), ICT (programming) and English (writing or finding poems

Key Takeaways For the actor, today's digital technology provides career and business support while - thanks to the increasing use of digital acting counterparts such as linear animation films, games, and virtual simulated performances - threatening the actor's livelihood. An intermediate acting class added digital technology to investigate how it might enhance character interpretation and explore whether it could play an integral part in the performance without becoming the performance. The acting instructor fostered creativity with traditional acting skills, while the technology expert provided tools and instruction in their use for students, with mixed success apparent in the final performances.