During Elon’s summer terms, students have the opportunity to take a variety of online courses. A key difference between these online courses and their in-class counterparts is the lack of face-to-face communication between professors and students. Screencasts, or recorded video lectures, propose a solution to this challenge while adding visual and audio dynamics to the ...
How do you engage students without seeing them face-to-face? How does the time commitment of teaching an online course compare to teaching an in-class course? How should I communicate with my students? These questions are among the several Elon faculty members might have as they navigate the challenges of designing and teaching online courses for ...
What do chickens, fire trucks, and alarm clocks have in common? They are all among the projects created during a #MakeElon workshop featuring Legos and LittleBits electronics. During the workshop, Kenneth Wilson, Coordinator of Interactive Projects at Elon, guided a group of faculty and entrepreneurship students through the basics of circuitry and electronic projects before ...
Have you ever wondered where that inspiring quote on Instagram, that catchy Facebook event banner, or the pretty Pinterest post came from? There's a chance these designs might have been created using Canva, a graphic design app for iPads. Experimenting with Canva was my first journey into the wide, wide world of graphic design. I wasn’t ...
Since the launch of Writing with Thumbs in September, I’ve been exploring iPad apps that help students become more versatile writers and presenters. Along the way, I’ve discovered that iPads provide a lot of benefits, and a few challenges, for university students. Benefits of using an iPad Before I started exploring my iPad Air, I never brought ...
If you're looking to spice up your daily note-taking habits, Notability is the iPad app for you. Notability, which has all the features of a standard word processor and then some, is available for iPads, iPhones, and Macs. It’s the extra features – the ability to insert handwritten notes, sketches, doodles, voice recordings, and more – ...
Haiku Deck is an app for iPads that creates quick slide decks (fancy word for presentations) that are simple, beautiful and fun. It's available for free on the iTunes store or can be used on any web browser. Each slide has a simple background visual and short text, and it's also possible to import your ...
Welcome to my first blog post! My name is Stephanie and I’m so excited to be writing for Elon’s Technology Blog, though I never expected to find myself here. Read on and find out why!