MVCR Tech Tools

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7.

High Resolution Tutorials - Complete Dedication to Moodle

One of my colleagues likes to create a "Wall" for major topics in his course such as the Cold War. This takes the places of a conventional classroom bulletin board where instructor and students can post photos and web sites and their own work.

Here is a tool which will work for larger groups, as for example if we wanted to survey all 3,000 first year English students in one poll group

Strategies for building a sense of community among online learners using the relatively simple technology of discussion forums.

Techorati keeps me sharp for following the blosphere and other tech top lists.

Voice recording tool...Free and EASY!

Here is a four minute youtube video on information literacy. Music is a bit overdone, but the message is important.

We are trying to grow awareness of the College of Lake County library activities by blogging about recent events.

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.