Month: January 2016

Tanya Buckingham shares how she used Google Drive, a collaborative cloud storage service, to organize both her course resources and student assignments. Activity Sheet • Active Teaching Lab full schedule   Tanya’s Google Drive Story Takeaways There are MANY uses for …

Bronwen Masemann from Library Science shares how she used free online Timeline software for student-created assignments. They created online timelines and maps to better understand their digital humanities project. Activity Sheet  • Active Teaching Lab full schedule Bronwen’s Timeline Story …

Laurie Brachman from Marketing shared how she uses TopHat, an interactive personal response system, to engage and track her 700-student class. (Spoiler: she likes it much more than iClickers). Activity Sheet • Active Teaching Lab full schedule Laurie’s TopHat Story …

Jeremy Morris from Communication Arts shares how he used genius.com‘s Web Annotator for authentic student online annotation assignments. Activity Sheet • Active Teaching Lab full schedule Jeremy’s genius.com Story Jeremy’s GENIUS PROMPT: Using the technologies behind the annotation site Rap …

Hear Anna Andrzejewski from Art History share how she used omeka.net, a web-publishing and digital exhibition platform, to structure student-curated course content assignments. Activity Sheet • Active Teaching Lab full schedule Anna’s omeka.net Story Takeaways Allow yourself time to …

Steel Wagstaff from Learning Support Services shares how Open Author, a platform to build and share open educational resources, has been used to create online eTexts in WordPress. Activity Sheet • Active Teaching Lab full schedule Steel’s Open Author Story …

Alan Hackbarth from UW Colleges shares how he uses the Workflow Visualization Toolkit to track how students interact with course content. WVS allows instructors to design student work, tracks their work (currently in Moodle and D2L), …

John Puccinelli from Biomedical Engineering shares how he uses LabArchives (Electronic Lab Notebooks) to replace traditional lab notebooks in his research, courses, and life. Activity Sheet  • Active Teaching Lab full schedule John’s Electronic Lab Notebook Story Takeaways …

Kristen Pickett from Occupational Therapy shares how she used GoPro cameras. Her idea was to give her Occupational Therapy (OT) students opportunities for concrete, real world learning experiences prior to and when embarking on their fieldwork …