Category: Web Tools
Ever feel like life moves too fast? Like new technologies evolve too quickly and you can't keep up? Like there should be a way to make things easier, and you just don't know where to look?
A new website launched recently that aims to present new web tools and techniques to those in higher education. It's called Profhacker. (http://www.profhacker.com)
Recently, they presented simple articles on...
A great chat, like any lesson, requires some planning
beforehand, some good decisions during the class, and a little help
from your friends at each step along the way. After observing a number
teachers lead successful chats, we’ve compiled this list of tips on
both teaching and technology, to help you make your chat sessions
great.
L&S Learning Support Services recently completed a pilot course, the Global Spread of English, with University of Wisconsin-Madison English Professor Jane Zuengler. LSS provided the training and support that allowed students to create multimedia assignments and then share content online.
With a new DoIT Engage award program and an innovative new LSS service, now is a great time to explore how instructional technology tools can support and expand the role of group collaboration in your courses.DoIT's Engage Adaptation Award is focused on working with UW-Madison instructors to assess and evaluate technology-enhanced collaborative group work to develop best practices for instructional use.
LSS is always trying to find innovative ways to make teaching with technology fun and effective. This semester, we’ve set up a Moodle site for several courses to use. Moodle is a course management system that provides a wide activity set along with great language support. Because
This semester LSS is helping several language instructors use wikis for collaborative and interactive writing assignments. A wiki is a website that makes it easier than ever before for students to publish work online, read and comment on the work of their peers, collaborate on written documents, and build shared pools of information.
Here are descriptions of three of the wiki projects supported by LSS this semester.
This semester DOIT’s Engage program is awarding grants for instructors that integrate podcasts into their classes. Each grant provides $800 plus help from instructional technology staff. Better yet, the grant application is quick and easy.
For several years, LSS has been helping language students “chat” their way to a more extensive and spontaneous vocabulary in their chosen language. Students regularly use chat and instant messaging (IM) for recreation, so it can be a struggle to repurpose this sort of communication method for instruction.
