Collaborating with faculty and students to explore questions of pedagogy, practice, and technology.
What is it? Adobe Acrobat Reader is a free app for viewing, annotating, and signing PDFs. Download: Adobe Acrobat Reader for iOS at iTunes Adobe Acrobat Reader for Android at Google Play Key Features VIEW PDFs • Quickly open PDF documents from email, the web, or any app that supports “Open In…” • Search, scroll, zoom in and […]
What is it? Apple TV gives you access to the best content — blockbuster movies, TV shows, sports, your music and photos and more and displays it to an HDTV or projector. You can even play content from your iOS device or Mac wirelessly using AirPlay. Key Features Hit movies and TV shows on demand Live […]
Educational Technology’s own, Megan Smeznik, wrote an article for the National Council on Public History about the challenges and the opportunities for crafting a digital history pedagogy. She emphasizes in the article about the importance of all those invested in the information community coming together and developing a holistic pedagogy that not only promotes scholarship […]
In the newest update to the Microsoft software for Mac, you can now draw with the trackpad. Whether you need to sign a document or you want to highlight a particular section in your student’s document, this new function allows another option for digital inking. For more information, visit: What’s new for Office Insiders
What is it? The Epson BrightLink projector is a short-throw interactive projector. The projector is mounted on the wall and the lamp is less than three feet from the wall so that a person does not cast a shadow on the image. The image is projected onto the wall or a whiteboard. Two interactive pens allow the […]
Updates will probably soon be rolling out on your device for Microsoft Office PowerPoint. Here is a preview at some new updates that you can expect to see coming your way soon for your Windows or Mac OS. Inserting Online Videos You no longer need a separate plugin for PowerPoint to insert a video from […]
Garage Band is an audio editing software available on Apple’s App store for Macintosh computers. It has a variety of features to fit the needs of various audio projects from short recordings to elaborate multi-track projects to incorporate audio to other sources. What can it do? Live recordings with the computer microphone or connected micrphone […]
iMovie is a digital video editing software program for the Mac and some iOS systems. With iMovie, you can import video from several sources (such as a miniDV tape, VHS recording or DVD) or record directly in iMovie using a Web cam. Once you have imported your video you can trim content, combine clips, insert […]
Need to listen to a story or play for a class? Want to use the audio for a project or research? You don’t need to open your wallet or ask for permission to use any of it.LibriVox is an archival website containing audio books of plays and stories that are free domain. All materials are […]
Need a podcast for class demonstration? Or maybe you would like your students to engage with a topic via audio? Then check out Listen Notes. Listen Notes is a search engine just devoted to podcasts. It combs the web and finds that elusive podcast that Google just can’t seem to pull up in their results. […]
