Twitter allows you to share and find brief, text-based updates about things that are of interest to you. Users who follow you on Twitter are automatically sent your updates or “tweets".
Blended Learning and Educational Technologies
Asynchronous discussions are where participants exchange ideas at different times over an extended period ranging from a few days to a few weeks – for example, in a discussion forum in a learning management system such as LEARN.
A screencast is a narrated video recording of your computer screen.
Prezi is a “pan and zoom” tool, which means that it allows you to create a multi-item presentation that your audience can explore either according to a pre-determined path or in whatever sequence they prefer
The following best practices for creating PowerPoint presentations were compiled from Kapterev, Delwiche & Ananthanarayanan, and the University of Western Ontario’s “PowerPoint Primer."
Piazza is a online question-and-answer platform that blends the functionality of a discussion forum with that of a wiki
Padlet is an online platform that describes itself as “somewhere between a doc and a full-fledged website builder
Similar to in-person office hours, virtual office hours support student learning through one-on-one interactions between students and instructors or TAs
Data visualization is the graphical representation of information and data which helps reveal patterns, trends, gaps, and outliers in the data.
This document is a general resource for teaching teams seeking to incorporate lab activities in their remote courses