MVCR Tech Tools

The idea of storyboarding was developed at the Walt Disney Studio during the early 1930s. storyboard for video production is essentially a large comic of the film or some section of the film produced beforehand to help directors, cinematographers and television commercial advertising clients visualize the scenes and find potential problems before they occur. Often storyboards include arrows or instructions that indicate movement.More recently the term storyboard has been used in the fields of web development, software development and instructional design to present and describe, in written, interactive events as well as audio and motion, particularly on user interfaces and electronic pages.

Not class related but an important message for all of us.

Illinois has received a grant expected to increase the broadband capacity by 10 fold in 55 Illinois counties

"sults of an online questionnaire (n=967) completed by undergraduate students enrolled in self-paced distance education programming are presented. The paper concludes that these students have very diverse views and exp"

Can these tools really be accessible to the 'common student'??

"With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install"

Very simple tool for recording audio. Clips can be emailed or embedded.

First of a series on media psych

This report defines the google generation and discusses how students and researchers, search for the information they need. While not specifically a techtools article, it is important for instructors to understand students may not have the information literacy skills that we think they have!