Most educators would agree that multi-sensory learning offers obvious and tangible benefits for students. Using a combination of information delivery methods can increase learner engagement, comprehension and retention. As a teacher, you can talk at length about complex subjects (it’s called lecturing for a reason), and you’ve probably written countless pages in your area of…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Make Your Own Graphics
There are lots of great reasons to consider using video calling in your classroom. Maybe you’re thinking about bringing in a guest speaker from across town, the state, or even the world. Perhaps you want to hold a “virtual” class and give a lecture while you’re out of town. Or maybe you teach online or…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Skype in the Classroom With Anyone, Anytime
I’ve written before about how using styles in Word is the most important and easiest step you can take to make your documents accessible to all learners. However did you know there are all sorts of other good reasons to get in the habit of using styles to be more productive and efficient with your…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip : Use Styles in Word
This #UPTechTip is for those of you using Moodle to present information, activities and resources to your students. You may have a lot of content in Moodle – some of it you may want hidden, some of it may need to stand out, etc. Do you ever wish you could get a quick view of…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Get a Student View of Moodle
Today’s #UPTechTip is to sync the calendar in Moodle to your Outlook calendar. It’s can be handy to glance at the calendar in Moodle to get a reminder of due dates or other class events you have set, but as one faculty member recently said to me “I NEED everything to be on one calendar”….Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Sync Moodle Calendar to Outlook
Today we have a very simple but very handy tech tip for working in MS Office. Very often we will find ourselves with a document that has the formatting we want applied to one section. Trying to match the rest of the document to it can be a pain. Format painter to the rescue! It…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Format Painter is so Handy!