October 20, 2016
by Heidi Olson
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The big news it that there is a name change for all those pieces that make up The Google. Google Apps is now Google Suite. Google says, “So we’re excited to introduce a new name for Google Apps for Education … Continue reading
August 19, 2016
by Heidi Olson
Comments Off on Interactive presentation using Smithsonian Learning Lab
The Smithsonian Learning Lab is an interesting website where you can create interactive collections using media from the Smithsonian archives (over a million items) along with adding your own images or files (various image file formats as well as word … Continue reading
April 7, 2016
by Heidi Olson
Comments Off on What’s new with Google Apps for Education March 2016
Google is always moving forward with new tools, techniques and processes. Here are some of the new things that pertain specifically to Google Apps for Education and are of interest to faculty and students. Hangouts Google has raised the participant … Continue reading
September 9, 2015
by Heidi Olson
Comments Off on Google Drive Permissions and Downloading, printing and copying
Let’s say you want to share a specific Google video that you’ve created, but you don’t want viewers to download a copy. Or maybe you have a file that you don’t want viewers to print or to make a copy for their … Continue reading
November 4, 2014
by Heidi Olson
Comments Off on Lessons learned from Hangout on Air Presentation
Getting ready for a presentation delivered using Google Hangouts and recorded and viewed on Youtube takes some prep time. Presenting with two others on Oct 16 in an eCampus Teaching Tips Live session, was a great experience and I learned several … Continue reading
March 27, 2014
by Heidi Olson
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UAF’s Blackboard was recently updated to Service Pack 13 (SP13). There are several new features that have been added for increased functionality, as well as solutions to some issues with the previous version. Some features that were added include: Achievements … Continue reading
December 24, 2013
by Heidi Olson
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This application seems like a good tool for learning language or increasing vocabulary using your mobile device, currently compatible with iPod,iPhone, or iPad. Create a collection of items, add images to individual items within the collection, and then record an … Continue reading
November 21, 2013
by Heidi Olson
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Create a fill-in-the-blank study aid from any PDF by using an iPad application called Quizdojo. Upload any PDF to Quizdojo and as you read through the content you can use the highlight, underline or strike-out tools to annotate as you … Continue reading
November 6, 2013
by Heidi Olson
Comments Off on Auto-Graded Google Form
I think Google Forms are a great course room tool for collecting information. I’ve written about them before in a Teaching Tip called Collecting Information with Google Forms and on iTeachU in the Grow Skills section. Here is a video … Continue reading
July 29, 2013
by Heidi Olson
Comments Off on Creating online Quizzes
Here are two interesting quiz creators that offer opportunities to use images and video as the basis for the quiz questions. ImageQuiz isn’t very pretty but is straight-forward and easy to use. Random quizzes that have already been created can … Continue reading