At the Exchange, we have a number of tools that can help you to create truly exceptional eLearning content. I’d like to share one of the latest additions to our suite of tools, Dragon Naturally Speaking, and in particular talk about…
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How to Train Your Dragon
Tagged with: ADA, captions, closed captions, Dragon, Dragon Naturally Speaking, eLearning
Posted in Cool Tools, Instructor Makerspace, The Exchange
Posted in Cool Tools, Instructor Makerspace, The Exchange
Taming the Looming Grading Beast
With the optimism and re-invigorated spirit that comes with the start of a brand new semester, it’s a great time to add tools to your toolkit that can make your faculty life easier and keep a spring in your step.…
Tagged with: Assignment Grader, feedback, grademark, grading, GrammarChecker, Rubrics, Turnitin, Turnitin for iPad
Posted in Cool Tools, The Exchange
Posted in Cool Tools, The Exchange
water, water everywhere….
A common problem in the world of technology, not just among educators, is the overwhelming sense that there are too many tools. We are constantly bombarded with more options about how to create a presentation, how to edit your photos,…
Who doesn’t love a game about disease?
The spread of disease isn’t just fun for zombie movies anymore, oh weary traveller! When it seems like the only epidemic we’re seeing on TV is the spread of fear of Ebola, rather than an actual discussion of the disease…
New Grant for Creating eBook Texts announced today
In today’s meeting of Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG), a grant was announced for creating or converting existing texts to eBooks for free distribution to students in an effort to make learning more affordable for more Georgia students. Awards provide $5000…
Posted in The Exchange, Top News
Cool Tools: Word Lens
Folks who have attended our seminar on Teaching with iPads have heard me talk about the major benefits of mobile devices and how they relate to learning. Particularly, the characteristics include: Location awareness Remote engagement Continuous updates Collaborative Creative Informative…
Tagged with: just-in-time learning, mobile technology, pedagogy, Word Lens
Posted in Cool Tools, The Exchange
Posted in Cool Tools, The Exchange
Google Search Tips and Tricks – Mad Skills in the Age of Information
In the digital age, one of the most important skills is having the ability to find just the right information at the instant you need it. The problem is that when everyone is a knowledge producer and places their content…
Tagged with: Google, information, information age, knowledge, search, search terms
Posted in #trending, The Exchange
Posted in #trending, The Exchange
Interwebs – fun friday link
Here’s a link to a video just to make you think a bit about technological change Best line is at 4:14. Trust me.
Posted in Interwebs, The Exchange
Interwebs – NYTimes – Young Minds
If you aren’t a reader of The Stone, the NYTimes weekly opinion column where “contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless” or something or other, you should probably pat yourself on the back – it was…
Tagged with: educational philosophy, liberal education, pedagogy, pragmatism
Posted in Interwebs, The Exchange
Posted in Interwebs, The Exchange
