It’s been about five months since I jumped into the world of smart watches, and I wanted to write a short review or reflection of my experience using this emerging technology. Smart watches have been around for a while, but the technology has only become practical in the last few years, and it wasn’t until…Continue Reading Tech Review: Pebble Time
If you’re thinking about creating instructional media for online, hybrid or flipped classrooms, you are probably imagining creating video content. But it’s also a great idea to consider mixing things up by creating audio only content, such as a podcast or mini audio-lecture. Students benefit from class content delivered in multiple modes, and busy students will appreciate…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Try Recording a Podcast
This tech tip is for any faculty (or students, staff, etc…) who have been using personal Google accounts to store documents and data and work in the cloud. You may want to leverage work you’ve done in the past and use your UP Office 365 account to share and collaborate with peers at UP –…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Migrate Google Drive docs to Office 365
We all depend on our networks for support. As humans we love to communicate, to share our experiences, to learn from others, and to influence and be influenced within our social spheres. This is equally as true for professional networks where we can talk shop with peers as it is for networks of family and…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Develop Your Personal Learning Network with Twitter
Educators use Microsoft Office to deliver a wide range of material — syllabi and other vital class documents in Word, slide decks in PowerPoint, and more. With Office 365 coming to campus, now is a great time for a reminder and refresher on the importance of creating documents that are accessible to a diverse audience. Creating documents in an…Continue Reading MS Office and Accessibility
One of the best things about Office 365 is that it lets us view, edit, share and collaborate on Word documents online – from any device and any web browser. As our students can attest using an online productivity tool (such as Office 365 or Google Docs) has a lot of advantages: You can work…Continue Reading Tech Tip – Getting Started With Word Online