MVCR Tech Tools

PlayPosit is an "interactive video" tool that I'm excited to try out. Not quite there yet, but this is a neat blog article talking about how they use it.

Lucidchart is a great mind-mapping tech tool that can be used for content creation, group work, asynchronous AND synchronous communication! If you're looking for an "elective" or any of the other categories I just mentioned to round out your "scrapbook," this is one you might want to check out!

Helpful article detailing the reasons that instructor feedback is critical in online classes, along with strategies for how to provide feedback effectively.

I have used this in my classes and love it! The free Poll Everywhere mobile app is perfect for responding to polls, presenting polls, and clicking through PowerPoint presentations. Use it to... 1.) Respond to polls: Audience members can use the app to respond to the presenter's questions live. 2.) Poll an audience: Presenters can ask the audience questions and display poll responses live. 3.) Navigate in Powerpoint: Presenters can control the flow of Powerpoint presentations using a smartphone as a wireless remote. Participants Audience members or students can easily respond to polls or vote using the app on a smartphone or tablet. Aside from the app, they can respond via web browser, text message, or Twitter. Presenters Professors, teachers and presenters can create and display questions on the fly, including Q&A and multiple choice polls. Questions can be presented directly from the web or embedded in a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation. Audience responses are displayed in real-time. Great for classroom participation, or gathering opinions from the audience. PowerPoint Remote Presenters using PowerPoint can use the Poll Everywhere mobile app as a presentation clicker, to navigate through your PowerPoint presentation with ease. It has a slick, streamlined design and a set of polling controls built-in. Key Features: * Create or answer multiple choice, true/false, open ended, ranking poll, and clickable image questions. * Participants are automatically shown the presenter's current question, for quick and easy participation. * Watch results update live. * Click through a PowerPoint presentation with the included Presenter Remote feature.

What a great way to be able to asynchronously poll students and still allow them to remain anonymous. This also gives students to see how well their knowledge compares to other students. It also allows them to see if their way of thinking is similar to other students.

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Poll Everywhere is the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue... conferences, concerts, classrooms, and company off-sites - anywhere with internet. We've been working to end 'death by PowerPoint' and raise the bar on presenting since 2008. More than 4,000 schools and 100,000 teachers poll with Poll Everywhere.

Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. You can create dynamic interactive lessons, activities, assessments, and tutorials using Explain Everything's flexible and integrated design. Use Explain Everything as an interactive whiteboard using the iPad video display (via Airplay/cable).

The primary purpose of VoiceThread is to provide students with the ability to collaborate with fellow students on their websites or save to MP3 or DVD. The tool is used by students to upload multimedia material by microphone, webcam, text, phone, and audio-file upload.

Another great source on providing timely feedback throughout the course to enhance student learning.

I love articles that describe the history of school supplies!

Interesting article on student study groups. Introduction includes the potential pitfalls, moves on to the potentially enormously benefits, then offers a long list of suggestions for providing structure for study groups so that students benefit from them.

Nice article.. Great compilation of the benefits associated with this.

I prefer GameMaker: Studio for my students and myself professionally, but it's nice to see competing products.

human Resource Machine isn't listed but it's a great logic game!

Let's go Indie!

Great article about responding to email in a timely manner, even when you don't have any answers for the sender or are incredibly busy. Enjoy!

It sets the tone for academic structure and decorum in the classroom whether local campus or online. https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2015/04/16/advice-students-so-they-dont-sound-silly-emails-essay?utm_content=buffer1f81f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=IHEbuffer I have included the link here. There may not be all bullet points you will find applicable, but I find most certainly are. Let me know what you think.

A majority of U.S. adults - 62% - get news on social media, and 18% do so often, according to a new survey by Pew Research Center, conducted in association with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Neat video about building a phylogenetic tree of the insects. Could be used towards the end of an introductory evolution course in a modern research setting.