Collaborating with faculty and students to explore questions of pedagogy, practice, and technology.
What is Voices? The College hosts a WordPress multi-site installation where faculty and students can create sites. Users can select from a variety of themes including those intended for websites or blogging. Faculty have the option to create a course site and can add students as users with varying degrees of permissions (editor vs. viewer). […]
Visit Unsplash.com to browse and download from their collection of over 550,000 free (do-whatever-you-want) high-resolution photos – brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers. Visit their Help for Using Unsplash for topics like: Downloading Photos Crediting Photographers Contacting a photographer Collections Topics Likes
Join Educational Technology the week of January 7th for a series of pre-semester workshops. Light refreshments will be served.
“Caption is a text representation of the audio in the video. Captions are often used by those viewers who are hearing impaired, and will describe what is being said, emotions, and background sounds.”—Vangie Beal In addition, captions enable language learners to accelerate their understanding process. Especially when complicated words/slangs are used, captions provide reference for […]
A concept map is a hierarchical form of a diagram that illustrates conceptual knowledge and relationships. They visually represent information and can take many forms such as charts, graphic organizers, tables, flowcharts, Venn Diagrams, timelines, or even T-charts. Electronic concept mapping tools 1. Lucidchart Free account (3 maps) – can use Office 365 login (College credentials) […]
The Xiaomi Mijia MI SPHERE 360 degree panoramic camera captures images up to 23MB and shoots 3.5K video. Checklist of best practices – how to be successful Check out the camera from Technology Services Check the camera battery and the SD card Connect the camera to either the selfie stick/small tripod or expandable tripod Tutorial Guide [Links […]
What is it? Oculus Go is a Standalone VR headset that allows users to enter virtual reality with no PC or wires attached. Visit the Oculus website for more details. Using Your Oculus Go Getting Started with Your Oculus Go – Set up and use your Oculus Go for the first time. Using the Oculus Store – Purchase and download […]
Learn about Oculus Go VR headsets, 360 degree cameras, and easy-to-use virtual reality tools and content that you can use in your classroom. Finding Content YouTube 360 Video house channel YouTube Virtual Reality Channel Discovery VR channel on YouTube National Geographic 360 videos on YouTube XR Portal for simulations and 360 videos Veer for 360 videos and […]
Blender is an open source program that can be used in game design, modeling, animation, and image editing. This workshop focuses on the animation aspect of Blender. Attendees will bring a simple nature scene to life using different methods of animation in Blender. Agenda Create the Ground Inserting a Plane Assigning a Material Subdivision Sculpting Add […]
Educational Technology will be hosting 3 workshops for faculty to inspire your thinking and boost you through the semester. These will be informal sessions with lots of opportunities for faculty to ask questions and have hands-on engagement with the technologies. No prior experience is necessary. Light refreshments will be served. Registration is appreciated. Click the date/time […]
