Monthly Archives: March 2012
TTI Tech Tip #20: Creating a Jeopardy Game in PowerPoint 2010
Creating a Jeopardy Game in PowerPoint 2010 Games are not only a way to add excitement and fun to the classroom, they can also help to motivate students. Creating a jeopardy game in PowerPoint is a great way to review course material, as well as a new way to present course content. Click here to learn more.
TTI Tech Tip #35: Blackboard Online Course Template
Are you teaching online or getting ready to teach online or hybrid for the first time? Montclair State University has developed an online course template built on research-based best practices. Online courses at MSU adopting the course template are designed using a learner-centered and interaction-facilitated approach. To learn more about the Course Template, we suggest viewing the Interactive Course Template video. To request a copy of the template simply fill out the Blackboard Course Template…
Study Suggests Many Professors Use Interactive Tools Ineffectively in Online Courses
The original articles appears at on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus blog. Link to the original content here. Philadelphia—Professors can choose from a growing palette of Web-based tools to make their online courses more interactive. But a new study suggests that many community-college instructors aren’t taking advantage of those options. Instead, the professors are relying on static course materials that aren’t likely to motivate students or encourage them to interact with…
Apple’s iBooks & iTunes: It’s Complicated – follow up
[reposted with permission from here] On February 22nd the ADP Center and the Emerging & Instructional Technology unit co-sponsored a roundtable discussion called “Apple’s iBooks and iTunes: It’s Complicated!”. The meeting was a great success and the UStream recording can be found here. As promised during the meeting, here is the information about the community that the ADP Center was gracious enough to create and host for us. In fact, Gregg Festa has…