These are a few of our favorite… apps!
Faculty often ask CER staff about our favorite smart phone apps. There are many categories of apps including entertainment, games, books, lifestyle, productivity, communication, collaboration, news,...
View ArticlePadlet – A Web and Mobile App with Possibilities
One of my favorite activities as an instructional designer is seeking out and experimenting with new applications. Some of these are web-based and work best on laptops or desktops, others are designed...
View ArticleWeb 2.0 Tools for Teaching and Learning
As I have signed up for several Coursera MOOCs, I now benefit from getting advance notice of MOOCs being offered in my areas of previously indicated interest. A few weeks back I was made aware of a...
View ArticleTwine 2.0: Not just for storytelling
For the past several years, I’ve been interested in storytelling as a means of improving student communication skills in any media. When I talk to students about communication skills, we discuss the...
View ArticleMemrise: Making Memorization Fun
Rote memorization as a learning strategy has fallen out of favor in recent years, for good reason. When students cram by memorizing facts for an exam, those memories are often fleeting. Long term...
View ArticleWe Have an App for That! SketchUp
SketchUp is a three-dimensional rendering application that uses a sketch-based approach for creating models. It may be beneficial to anyone looking to visualize three dimensional structures, spaces, or...
View ArticleNew Mobile Application to Improve Your Teaching
Finding time to implement effective teaching strategies can be challenging, especially for professors where teaching is only one of their many responsibilities. PhD student John Hickey is trying to...
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