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Author: Margaret Merrill

05.8.15 Shawn Peters on Twitter

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Margaret Merrill

On May 8th, Shawn Peters from Integrated Liberal Studies shared how he gets students interacting outside of class with Twitter. We saw a few strategies and examples and then tried it ourselves and shared resources (check out the …

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05.01.15 — Nick Balster on Scapple (mind mapping)

Posted on May 7, 2015 by Margaret Merrill

On May 1, Nick Balster from Soil Science shared how he’s been using Scapple to design his courses — from semester overview to individual sessions. Participants learned about Scapple and explored other mind mapping tools and techniques that …

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04.17.15 Cathy Middlecamp on Siftr

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Margaret Merrill

Cathy Middlecamp from the Nelson Institute shared how she had her students use their smartphones to collectively crowdsource a map of photographs and descriptions of campus wildlife. She told us that story, and we explored Siftr as participants and ran …

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A super-easy video chat tool

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Margaret Merrill

A super-easy video chat tool If you are looking for quick and easy way to do video chatting for your classes, check out: https://appear.in/ It is almost ridiculously easy to use – no need to …

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