This week’s #uptechtips is all about getting started with podcasts. Podcasts are internet distributed, episodic audio or video programs. They are almost always free. What makes podcasts truly special is that the low-cost and resources needed to make a podcast allows a wide variety of people to start making their own podcasts and share their knowledge…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Intro to Podcasts
UP Tech Tip: Moodle for Low Stakes Writing
Today’s #uptechtip came out of a meeting I had with a faculty member who incorporates frequent, low-stakes writing into his course – pages a week, reams per semester. To save paper and make life easier, he was looking for a way to transition this activity to the digital realm. One obvious solution would be to…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Moodle for Low Stakes Writing
UP Tech Tip: How to Read the Internet
In the world of higher-ed, one thing that never changes is that we do a lot of reading. These days, many of us are doing more and more of our reading online. Whether it’s a blog post on an iPad or a summary of a scholarly article on a laptop, we’re spending more and more of…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: How to Read the Internet
UP Tech Tip: Share MediaSpace to Social Media Sites
At UP, we’re fortunate to have MediaSpace, which is a great video streaming and sharing site. It’s the home for our academic and course videos and is easy to manage access to for students or embed into Moodle courses. But sometimes we have video assets we want to share far and wide, on social media…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Share MediaSpace to Social Media Sites
UP Tech Tip: Create Moodle Quiz Questions the Easy Way
The Moodle Quiz activity can be very useful for creating everything from ungraded self-checks to weekly reading quizzes, to exams. However, sometimes the actual process of creating questions in Moodle can be a bit clunky and time-consuming. Did you know that you can write up quizzes in Word or in a plain text document and…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Create Moodle Quiz Questions the Easy Way
Camtasia, Snagit Updates Available Now
Two popular desktop capture tools, Snagit & Camtasia, have recently received major updates and improvements in the form of new versions. These are tools that can be very useful for educators and support staff in higher ed to communicate using images, video, and sound. The University of Portland has a site-license to make the newest…Continue Reading Camtasia, Snagit Updates Available Now