academic technology

This video shows how to change the points possible per question for a 100-question Quiz in Canvas. The Quiz is exported, the export file is changed in a text editor and then imported back into Canvas.

"5 Reasons Why Educators Should Network"

If you are looking for a way to convert, resize, rotate and flip an unlimited number of images, Converseen is worth a look. It's an open source program that supports over 100 image formats and the user interface is easy to use. The site for the program includes a FAQ area and this version is compatible with Windows and Linux operating systems

"True innovation in Higher Ed will emerge from faculty-driven, open-source projects, not start-up commercialisation"

A sticky idea is understood, it's remembered, and it changes something. Sticky ideas of all kinds-ranging from the "kidney thieves" urban legend to JFK's "Man on the Moon" speech-have six traits in common. If you make use of these traits in your communication, you'll make your ideas stickier. (You don't need all 6 to have a sticky idea, but it's fair to say the more, the better!)

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have the potential to enable free university-level education on an enormous scale. A concern often raised about MOOCs is that although thousands enrol for courses, a very small proportion actually complete the course. The release of information about enrollment and completion rates from MOOCs appears to be ad hoc at the moment - that is, official statistics are not published for every course. This data visualisation draws together information about enrollment numbers and completion rates from across online news stories and blogs.

canvas course on Peer Review that Carrie Saarinen shared at Canvas Users Group April 2013

EDUCAUSE - great video

ODS uses

10 of the best Apple and Android apps for higher education in 2013

Easy way to search #'s from originating from multiple social media hubs

good list of open source and proprietary software available.

Audio comments to google docs essay. A little bit clunkier than canvas, but nice to have.

Many of these are setting anyone can turn on that make the audio and visual easier to see and hear.

$10.