Internationalizing Your Course Fellowship

The Center for Teaching and Learning is proud to announce their Summer 2010 fellowship on Internationalizing your Course.

See the blog site for the application and other information.

Intro to Visual Communication

The Washington Post recently used a word cloud in their coverage of President Obama's State of the Uniion in Jan 2010. One of the workshops I do is on visual communication and we talk about word clouds, screencasts, timelines and other visual tools to convey information.

Below are my slides . . . though I don't really follow them in class.

Using Prezi in the Classroom

Prezi.com is easily my favorite web 2.0 tool. I have used it effectively in presentations. Below is a presentation I gave to the CTL Advisory group. I'm still investigating classroom uses. This week will be the unveiling.

CTL Advisory Group Presentation on Prezi

Beyond the PDF

I used to get really excited about PDFs. I was an early adopter in using these for any web posts back in the early 2000s. I started to investigate some new formats for using PDFs in more collaborative and interactive ways.

Here's a service called uniflip: This is an example of uniflip using a scrapbook.

Here is a version using a tool called issuu:

Below is a version using Calameo

Hip-Hop Scrapbook

Publish at Calaméo or browse others.

43 Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom

Props to Tech Learning for this one:

Useful Internet Tools for the Classroom

The following video was done for the Montgomery College TV station...

Here's the handout:

Useful Internet Applications for the Classroom

Content recommendations from Evri

Tagul

Tagul for Opening Meeting

Students Have 10 Minute Attention Spans

...most of us knew this already:)

Sharing Folders with Google Documents

This tutorial describes how to share a folder with Google Docs. This is an excellent feature for sharing multiple documents with a group of people without having to create different web links for each document.

View Google's HELP page on this topic: http://is.gd/6Okee

Choose a folder to Share.

Either create a folder to share or share an existing folder

Share the folder with others.

Sharing the folder, shares all of the documents within the folder. Be sure to PRESS "Save and Close" to complete the sharing process.

Make the Folder Sharable

Share the folder with others by creating a link. Use a URL shortener like bit.ly or tinyurl to chorten the legth of the URL