Category: NWACCo

Weebly – Really Easy Web Sites

Weebly – Really Easy Web Sites

We’ve been experimenting with Weebly and find it is much easier for instructors to master. WordPress can be a bit too feature rich at times. Check it out: How Weebly Works

Explain Everything for the IPAD

Explain Everything for the IPAD

We’ve been experimenting with a variety of IPAD apps for faculty to create podcasts.    Elena Bernard,  UP Business faculty found Explain Everything for the IPAD.   She is using it to create podcasts for her Marketing students to present/re…

Learn About Recording Sounds

Learn About Recording Sounds

The recording functionality on SoundCloud allows you to easily record any type of audio and directly upload it to your account. Great for voice memos, messages to your fans or for capturing sound bites. Before you start To get the most out of your recording experience, make sure you have connected your other social networking […]

Create wraparound panormamas

Create wraparound panormamas

A colleague recently introduced me to the free Photosynth app for iOS that allows you to create and share immersive 360-degree panoramic photos. It’s very easy to use and creates pretty decent images that you can then share on your … Continue reading

ScreenChomp

ScreenChomp

ScreenChomp is a digital whiteboard app for the iPad from our friends at TechSmith (makers of Jing, Camtasia, SnagIt, etc)  Screen Chomp is similar to another app reviewed here, ShowMe. Some features of ScreenChomp:...

ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard app

ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard app

As part of the roll-out of the new iPad lab we are showing the use of many apps.  One of the fun apps that will be on the iPads is the ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard app.  This app allows someone to draw on a whiteboard but also records your voice and your actions on the whiteboard …

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Beautiful things

Beautiful things

It is currently 2:47 PM and it is getting dark. This is the misery that is solstice season in the Pacific NW, and the price we pay for our glorious summers. Watching this has special significance at this moment: http://laughingsquid.com/a-history-of-the-sky-a-yearlong-time-lapse-of-the-san-francisco-sky-shown-in-mosaic-of-360-simultaneous-days/ Best of all, you can hear how Moby has made wonderful music freely available for […]

From podcast to slidecast

From podcast to slidecast

As interest in digital storytelling continues to grow at Evergreen, Academic Computing and Electronic Media have been working to find appropriate technologies to custom fit the needs of our unique and varied curriculum.  In previous years we have used GarageBand … Continue reading

How I think we small liberal arts colleges can stay in business in an OER world

How I think we small liberal arts colleges can stay in business in an OER world

I wrote this a few weeks ago in response to a discussion I was having with some faculty about the value of distance learning vs. residential learning: I don’t think we need to choose between models; I think we are in a great position to cherry-pick from the best models. We can offer the highly […]