Meograph: Tell 4-D Stories

Meograph is your new favorite presentation tool. Without training or downloading software, you can easily and quickly create stories with video, audio (including your own narration), pictures, text, links, maps, and timelines.
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Digitize Your Sticky Notes with Lino

Our path to the paperless world still includes hard copy sticky notes—the colorful, cross-functional notes we rely on have avoided the digital conversion. But a web-based service called lino has captured what we adore about our sticky …… Continue reading

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Gamify Your Class with VoiceThread Mobile

Gamification involves integrating game mechanics and design techniques into your class to boost learner engagement and provide problem-solving opportunities. How you gamify your class is a creative process, but one key method that opens new …… Continue reading

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Haiku Deck: Create Simple, Visual Presentations

Haiku Deck is the latest presentation software you’ll want to use. The free iPad app was designed by a Seattle startup team seeking to improve and “reinvent presentations for how we work, communicate, and create …… Continue reading

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Instagram for Education: Applying Gardner’s Intelligences

We were inspired by the blog post Using Instagram in an Educational Context, which cites Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences. In this post, we’ve linked great examples from Instagram and its own blog to …… Continue reading

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MHHE Making Super Adaptive Learning Affordable

This post is the first of a two part series with Brian Kibby, President, McGraw Hill Higher Education.
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Inforgraphics to Enable Learning: Part 2

This is the second part of a two-part series on using infographics to enable learning. In part one, we defined an infographic and shared several examples; below, we discuss how infograhics enable learning, specifically when used as assignments. Infographics to Enable Students University students must be able to read, analyze, and apply data.…

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Your Students Might Know How to Really Use Google

It’s true, despite the fact that Google is the most common search engine. Take a look at the infographic below that says most students don’t know how to perform a well-excuted Google search. This statistic is shocking, especially when 94% of students say they use Google and other search engines to conduct research.…

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How to Easily Caption Videos in Canvas

To ensure the accessibility of an online course, instructors should provide captions with each video. Doing so allows a course to meet Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards as indicated in Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act.…

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Technology: The Answer to 3 Educational Challenges

With the constant push towards integrating technology into teaching practices, educators have asked, “Does technology really make a difference for learning?” According to Richard Culatta, deputy director of the Office of Educational Technology, it all depends on how you’re using technology in your pedagogy.…

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