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
Category: UP Tech Tips
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
UP Tech Tip: Create Animated Gifs With Snagit
Have you ever seen those cool animated images on the internet and wondered if you could create one yourself? Well, wonder no more! At UP, we are fortunate to have access to Snagit, which is a great application for capturing, marking up and working with images from our computer screens. There are lots and lots of…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Create Animated Gifs With Snagit
#UPtechtips Update
I’m taking on some new challenges in life and at work and have decided to scale back #UPtechtips (slightly) from twice a week to once a week – new publishing day of the week will be every Thursday during the academic year. I have some fun ideas for tips and incorporating some more video elements…Continue Reading #UPtechtips Update