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Author Archives: Sam Parker
Countdown: Campus Technologies’ most popular blog posts: #10
Number 10 With 104 total pageviews, “Moodle Q&A: Forum emails, resubmit assignments, remove from gradebook” by Dan Reis secured number 10 on our list. The blog post highlights how faculty can send emails via forums, resubmit assignment files and remove themselves from Moodle’s gradebook. Read the post. The Countdown As the semester comes to a close, Campus Technologies took a … Continue Reading → Continue Reading
Countdown: Campus Technologies’ most popular blog posts: #11
Number 11: With 104 total pageviews, “LectureTools: An engaging presentation tool to use in the classroom” by Sam Parker secured number 11 on our list. The blog post highlights how Jim Barbour, chair of the economics department and associate professor of economics, uses LectureTools in his courses. Read the post. Continue Reading
Countdown: Campus Technologies’ most popular blog posts: #12
As the semester comes to a close, Campus Technologies took a look at its Top 12 most popular blog posts of the semester. This fall, on the Technology blog, we published 53 posts, and those posts had 9,021 total pageviews. Among our most popular posts, Moodle and mobile device technology were the most prominent themes. Number 12 With 97 total Continue Reading
Getting Started with Google+ Hangouts
Imagine you would like to invite two well-established professionals to your economics class to speak about their professions, career paths and real-world experiences. Unfortunately though, you discover one person’s company recently transferred him to Beijing, China, and he will not return to the United States for another two years. The other individual lives in California, and her schedule will not Continue Reading
Getting started with Google+
Are you looking for a way to virtually meet and share links, videos and resources with your students? You may want to consider Google+. Overview Google’s social media tool offers unique collaboration and control features that make it very appealing to instructors in higher education. It also works well with Google’s other applications like Google Drive and YouTube. This post … Continue Reading → Continue Reading
Moodle Q&A: How to transfer content from one course to another
As the semester winds down, faculty may need to move assignments, quizzes, videos, audio files or photos from one class to another. The easiest way to do this is through Moodle’s Import feature. This allows you to reuse instead of recreate activities and resources. Q: How do I transfer material from one course to another? A: You can transfer all … Continue Reading → Continue Reading
Five useful Android applications to use in higher education
As the popularity of tablets continues to grow, instructors are beginning to experiment with ways to use education-based applications in their classrooms. There are thousands of applications available for both iPad and Android users, but for this article, we selected five Android apps we believe are especially useful to faculty in higher education. In a previous article concerning education-based applications, … Continue Reading → Continue Reading
