Free Tools, the Distorted Web, Privacy, and Your Students’ Critical Thinking Skills
Until I saw this TED talk, I didn’t care much that free Web 2.0 tools like Google and Facebook were collecting massive dossiers of...
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September 11, 2023
Edit Video with your SMEs using Text Transcription in DaVinci Resolve Studio
Often we instructional designers are given hours of video footage of recorded lectures or webinars, and it’s our job to edit them down into...
March 24, 2023
What’s Different Between the Life of a Classroom Teacher vs. Instructional Designer?
How is the day-to-day life of an Instructional Designer different than that of a K12 classroom teacher? Many classroom teachers are looking to make...
February 17, 2023
Clean Up your Browser when Screen Sharing
This current era of frequent Zoom meetings and screen sharing means I get to see how lots of peoples’ browsers are set up, whether...
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Cultivate Your Personal Learning Network Part II: Showing What You Know
In Cultivate Your Personal Learning Network Part I, you learned to find and organize information that will teach you, challenge your ideas, and help you...
f.lux– A Plugin To Save Your Eyes
A couple months ago I added a free, open source plugin to my Mac called f.lux that promises to relieve eye strain and insomnia...
Chrome OS Netbooks: Can Your School Live in the Cloud?
If you haven’t heard of Chrome OS, it’s Google’s attempt to do away with the desktop altogether and have everything that happens on your...
Cultivate your Personal Learning Network
This post discusses how to build your own Personal (or Professional) Learning Network. Instead of starting by telling you which tools to...
Search Large Creative Commons Images from the Chrome Omnibar
When I’m doing a creative project (or just working on a presentation) I am always looking for large, beautiful photos bearing a Creative Commons...
Ge.tt: Simple Sharing of Large Files (Remember Drop.io?)
Ge.tt is a great free tool for quickly and easily sharing files that are too large to send by email (up to 100mb). As...
Did You Know? A Simple Trick to Save Time and Improve Your Course Evaluations!
As faculty, you likely spend several hours every week carefully reading, evaluating, and grading student work. Research shows that students report higher course...
LMS Evaluation: Which Tools do Faculty Really Use? (Updated)
During the process of evaluating Blackboard as our Learning Management System (LMS), we came to a basic and fundamental question: “Which tools do faculty...
Did you know? Your Smartphone is a Powerful Medical Reference Tool!
The adoption of Android and iOS smartphones “skyrocketed” in 2010, which means ever more health sciences students, faculty, and staff have access to powerful mini-computers...
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