MVCR Tech Tools

When University of California, Davis student Anthony Nguyen wants to spelunk a little more deeply into the day's geology lesson, he knows help is just a click away. All the college senior has to do is visit YouTube.com, a file-sharing Web site typically known more for recorded stunts and home-video confessionals than for educational wisdom.

You can plan events, make a survey or poll, give students a quiz, or collect other information in an easy, streamlined way with Google Forms. You can create a form from Google Drive or from an existin

"Nobody makes an IRC channel for no reason. Who are we doing this versus?" - topic of #slatestarcodex I. Some old news I only just heard about: PETA is offering to pay the water bills for needy Detroit families if (and only if) those families agree to stop eating meat.

Office Mix allows you to turn your PowerPoints into interactive online lessons or presentations. Office Mix provides great tutorials on how to do basic functions within Mix!

A rubric is a scoring tool that explicitly represents the performance expectations for an assignment or piece of work. A rubric divides the assigned work into component parts and provides clear descriptions of the characteristics of the work associated with each component, at varying levels of mastery.

Jing can capture and share videos (up to five minutes long) from your computer screen. Narrating a quick video is a great way to show someone exactly what you mean. Once you select your entire desktop, window, or custom area, click the Capture Video button.

Here is a great video how to use Audacity. Audacity is an audio recording software.

This video explains how to use Screencast-o-matic, a free tool that allows you to record your voice and screen for up to 15 minutes.

How do we reinvent education? These TED Talks explore the latest thinking -- from teachers, parents, kids -- on how to build a better school.

Complete resources for learning to use Unreal Engine 4. For those instructors teaching game development, this is the best and most thorough source of tutorials and videos which support learning the software package.

This article provides information on tech tools that can be used for various purposes including providing feedback to students.

Actually, no one uses just one type of intelligence; we all use several in our daily lives. Some are stronger than others for each person. Thus it's helpful to determine your learner's top intelligences and tailor your methods to best meet your learner's particular combination of strengths.

This is a nice article about using starting to use twitter in your course.

Do you remember what inspired you to go to college? Take a minute, think back, and see if you can recall the specific moment. Maybe it was your first glimpse of a college campus near home. Maybe a trusted teacher encouraged you to study a field you loved.

The article reflects on the divide between students and instructors with respect to social media and technology.

This article does not directly address the educational use of social media, but the key points are important reminders that social media activity is always evolving. I was particularly struck by the emphasis on using video.

Successful accountants and accounting firms need to be both socially responsible and responsibly social in order to survive in today's tech savvy world. It is crucial for accounting firms to demonstrate that they are keeping up with the times, and that they understand modern ways of communicating with each other, their clients, and potential clients.

As a social media platform, Twitter is extremely easy to use and quick to adopt. Users distribute short snippets of information in a dynamic stream that is accessed on a desktop or mobile device. Twitter's format options allow for a variety of ways to communicate. Users demonstrate transliteracy skills when composing tweets using #hashtags, @messaging,...

Social media has given us a global revolution in communications and interconnectivity. We endlessly hear about the big benefits of social media and rightly so, but ... what about the dark side? I believe it's important to talk about the negative side of social media especially if we want to integrate it into the classroom.

By Pamela Pollara in Educational Technology and E-learning. The acceptance of Facebook by school-aged users is evident, but the potential of using social networking sites for educational purposes is still being debated. This paper explores the use of Facebook within a high school science-mentoring program.