MVCR Tech Tools

Get the most out of your 140 characters when you tweet - shorten those long URLs...

Blog about using twitter, includes video

video that compares 2D and 3D

Adobe Connect presentation

This band opened at the Empty Bottle last night. They ripped. I do not believe they made any Camus references.

This is a good introductory treatment of Social Constructivism, which sets the stage well for what social networking tools might be able to do for us in education.

Do you know that to be able to factor polynomial in a less that a minute you need to know your multiplication tables

Great easy to use.

You can develop your own questions, use their test bank, or import your existing quizzes. You can select the order of the questions, indicate scores for passing, will show you their score at the completion of the quiz and reveal the correct answer to the questions. Very easy to follow. Almost no learning curve. I would definitely use this in an online class to assess students understanding of concepts covered. I would offer it either as a review or as a quiz itself.

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One of my favorite procrastination tools when I don't want to do the grade that last stack of papers.

Interesting artilce by Jeffrey Young. This article argues that "holding out" on technology is akin to malpractice.

Article points out how students view copying in the Internet age. As educators, I believe we should be aware of attitudes towards plagiarism not to condone it but to help students learn.

Has anyone used this software? Wondering how we can use this to create focus of a specific action area in the animation. Any other similar tool?

I love snagit- my favorite tool when i want a fast screen capture!

This article by Clive Thompson was referred to in "Twitter for Academia"

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This journal article contains ideas of how instructors used Twitter in their classes. Tammy Miller

Apparently there is no such thing as too much participation in online discussions. Participation in discussions (as measured by words posted) scales linearly with grade on test.

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

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

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.