What is Poll Everywhere? Poll Everywhere is a real-time polling assessment, clicker-free student response system. Polls can presented through Poll Everywhere’s website, Google Slides, PowerPoint, or Keynote. The audience can respond by visiting a webpage, texting or through the app. Can present through: website, Google Slides, PowerPoint, or Keynote. Audience response by: website, apps, or
Academic Technology Workshops/Trainings Spring 2018 (Available here for download and printing) Title of workshop/training Presenter Location Dates/times Drop-in Blackboard Support Sarah Blake Tech Hub, DeMille 104 Monday Jan 29: 3-4:30PM Drop-in Blackboard Support Sarah Blake Tech Hub, DeMille 104 Wednesday Jan 31: 2-4PM Drop-in Blackboard Support Sarah Blake Tech Hub, DeMille 104 Friday Feb
For a more complete explanation on this topic, I recommend reading this Educause article, “The Section 508 Refresh and What It Means for Higher Education.” In a nutshell, an accommodation is a specific change that is made to allow a student to participate in a course. For example, an accommodation could be providing audio files
At our institution, we are fortunate to have several video-making spaces and programs at our fingertips. For example, we have Panopto, a streaming service that captures, stores, and shares in-class and desktop lectures, and we have the One-Button Studio at both our Orange and Irvine campuses. Add to this all of the individual devices with
What’s New Drag and Drop Files It is easier than ever to attach files in Blackboard. As a faculty member, you can now add files to Items and Assignments by dragging files from your computer to the “hot spot” in the Attach Files area. Students can also drag and drop files to upload when they
Word documents are often used to deliver content and agendas to students in courses. Whether faculty know it or not, a portion of their students may be at a disadvantage when trying to extract the information from Word pages due to documented or undocumented disabilities. Some of the various issues that may prevent students from
In a few weeks the Office of Academic Technology & Digital Scholarship will be moving to the Tech Hub, located in DeMille Hall 104. This new space will feature the latest and greatest technology for faculty to use. Additionally, faculty can drop in for tech support at our “Genius Corner” and will be able to
Hybrid Technologies Hybrid instruction is typically described as a blend of online and face-to-face instruction. This blend can be mixed in a variety of ways. For example, instructors can choose whether the online portion of the work is synchronous (at the same time) or asynchronous (work fulfilled within a time period, but not necessarily at
This post has notes and links for my talk at the IETL Teaching Academy: First of all, is a link to the blogpost that inspired this session My favorite alternatives to PPT presentations: PREZI ADOBE SPARK PAGE Here are two examples of each: Prezi talk: Into to DH Master Class Adobe Spark Page: Digital Scholarship
Last year I attended my first BbWorld conference. It was my first time attending any conference and I had just started my role here at Chapman as the Blackboard Support Specialist. Blackboard Learn LMS was new to me, and I was still learning the basics. I wanted to get the most out of the conference, so