CII on Pinterest – we hear it’s the future!
So, evidently there’s this thing called social media, and within the thriving nucleus of it, there is a tool called Pinterest (the Pinterest to those in the know….wait, that’s the Google’s – it’s so hard to keep up). Anyway,...Cool Tools: Swivl – Not just Lecture Capture, Conversation Capture
It seems like in the world of technology right now, you can’t throw a rock without hitting a free option for live streaming an event, or course even, to Twitter. This goes beyond our current university solution of Panopto, allowing you to stream live, or in the...Innovations in Methodology – statistics edition
Though most innovations that are discussed revolve around new hardware, software, or services, it’s important to remember that there are still plenty of methodological innovations that are worth discussing in the frame of “innovation”. Recently, the...Skype Translator
In the ever-rushing march of massive technological change, real-time voice translation is beginning to hit the mainstream market, and amazingly you can take part in it’s development. Skype, venerable old online chat and messaging app owned by Microsoft, is...quick tip – How you’re using Photoshop wrong
Wow! How quickly we learn how little we know. Here’s a great quick set of tips on how you could be using Photoshop better. From editing on separate layers, to converting items to Smart Objects to prevent file degradation, and everywhere in between. If you...A+A>A?: The Ever-Evolving Intergalactic Saga of the ebook Market
In case you hadn’t been paying attention (which is entirely understandable – you’re a human, with actual lives, families, hopes, dreams and whatnot – unlike us in the Exchange that live, breathe, and sleep virtually), the eBook market has been...
Tableau Day Follow up and Data Viz User Group Meetup
In case you missed it, Tableau Day was this past Friday in Curve, and we were very pleased with how everything went. The large crowd was able to hear about how not only Tableau, but also data visualization in general, can help to simplify complex information, from...
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, how to format your text, how to...
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 and its spread, it seems like a...
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 for...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...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.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 great...Cool Tools: How to pull data from a PDF for use in Excel
This post is reposted from sites.gsu.edu/data_viz. Have you ever wanted to pull all of the raw data out of, let’s say, a pdf file of government data or a journal article? It’s the worst! You can’t just copy and paste from it, so first you try to...Subscribe by Email
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