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Getting Past Powerpoint, James Hayes-Bohanan, Eric Lepage
Getting Past Powerpoint, James Hayes-Bohanan, Eric Lepage
EdTech Day
For an entire generation, integrating technology into the classroom has very often meant using PowerPoint to enhance—and even to organize—lectures. More advanced integration of technology often means teaching students to prepare their own PowerPoint presentations.
Dr. James Hayes-Bohanan became acquainted with PowerPoint when working as an in-house software trainer as the application was first coming to market. As a new professor in the ensuing years, he used many of PowerPoint’s bells and whistles—sometimes literally—in his own teaching and helped both middle-school and college students to use the software.
It is from this deep involvement with PowerPoint that he eventually came …
Elearning Live, Diane Forand, Andrew Hinote
Elearning Live, Diane Forand, Andrew Hinote
EdTech Day
BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system similar to DimDim, Elluminate, and Wimba. This solution runs on Mac, Unix, or PC computers, and is very simple and quick to install and configure. Faculty have found to be the simplest interface for web collaboration. Come take a look at how we are using it at Bristol Community College to supplement and support eLearning and face-to-face courses.
Ditch Your Lms Discussion Board And Make The Move To Facebook Groups, Eric Lepage
Ditch Your Lms Discussion Board And Make The Move To Facebook Groups, Eric Lepage
EdTech Day
This past semester I taught an undergraduate Communications course on social media, and we spent a week holding our online course discussions in a Facebook Group site, rather than in our course Learning Management System (Moodle). The Facebook discussions worked so well that my students asked if we could abandon the Online Discussion Board tool and use Facebook Groups for the remainder of the semester. I will share with you the pros and cons of using Facebook for your online course discussions.
Increase Student Participation With Poll Everywhere, Susan Eliason
Increase Student Participation With Poll Everywhere, Susan Eliason
EdTech Day
Do your students text-message in class? An article inspired me to use their passion to text as a teaching tool and to increase in-class participation. Poll Everywhere allows you to pose a question to students via an embedded PowerPoint poll. Students can then respond to the poll via SMS text, Twitter, or the web. Your polls can be multiple choice based or open-ended questions to create conversations. The service is free for up to 30 responses per poll question. The polls have engaged students in conversation and participation in the learning activity and it created a novel learning experience.
Unlv Faculty Institute On Research-Based Learning For High Impact Classes, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
Unlv Faculty Institute On Research-Based Learning For High Impact Classes, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
UNLV Libraries-Greater Western Library Alliance Conference
IF YOU ARE A FACULTY MEMBER . . .
- Teaching a large-enrollment, lower-division course in Fall 2010
- Coordinating a multi-section, high-impact, lower-division course in Fall 2010
- Seeking ways to enrich your course and engage your students
- Committed to including substantive research and critical thinking components that utilize the Libraries’ collections in your course
- Interested in exchanging teaching ideas with colleagues from across the UNLV campus
- Eager to explore creative and effective ways to work with University partners to bring research into the classroom
- Interested in utilizing technology to create active learning environments in …