- Flipcams are small, but mighty!
- Deadlines for electronic grade submission, fall 2009
- Educause 2009 presentations available online
- Zimbra Weekly: Sharing task lists
- Smart.fm, a cool learning tool
- Building course packs with help from online companies
- Spotlight: Make websites easier to visit with URL shortening services
Flipcams are small, but mighty!
Tuesday, November 17, 2009At the Nov. 5 TechBytes session, Christopher Lavergne, Department of Communications, discussed the use of “Flip Cams in the Classroom”. Flipcams (or Flip Video camcorders) are very small, affordable, and easy-to-use video cameras.
Discussion covered how flipcams are a product of viral marketing and allow us to meet the students where they are — on cellphones, YouTube, and other social-networking venues. This enables us to merge education with viral media.
Examples mentioned at the session for using flipcams in the classroom included:
- Student-filmed oral presentations
- Digital ethnographies (art, architecture)
- More…
Deadlines for electronic grade submission, fall 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009- Friday, Dec. 11 — Grade rosters for regular courses will be available in iSIS.
- 5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 21 — Grades are due for Dec. 14-16 final examinations.
- 5 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 22 — Grades are due for Dec. 17-18 final examinations.
- 4 p.m. Dec. 22 — Deadline to copy grades from K-State Online to iSIS in order to allow time for back-end processes to run.
- Wednesday, Dec. 23 — Students will be able to view grades for regular courses in iSIS.
For non-standard courses, grades are due five business days after the class is complete. More…
Educause 2009 presentations available online
Tuesday, November 17, 2009For those who could not attend the Educause 2009 conference in Denver or via the Web here at Kansas State, the video recordings can be found on the Educause Mediasite public library.
Zimbra Weekly: Sharing task lists
Tuesday, November 17, 2009Sharing a task list allows multiple people to have access to meetings scheduled in that calendar. For example, you could share a task list for a group project with each member of a project team.
How to share a task list
- Sign in to K-State webmail at webmail.ksu.edu.
- Right-click the task list you want to share and click Share task list. The Share Properties window will open. More…
Smart.fm, a cool learning tool
Tuesday, November 17, 2009Smart.fm is a neat, free learning website from Tokyo. It was created as a learning platform that adapts to each learner’s style. One of the cool features about Smart.fm is the ability for individuals to create their own learning modules to share with folks.
Smart.fm currently hosts modules ranging from language learning to animal identification. For those who prefer to do their learning on the go, a free iPhone and iPod Touch application is available. All you need is a network connection, cellular or WiFi, and you should be good to go. Visit www.smart.fm and learn something new today.
Building course packs with help from online companies
Tuesday, November 17, 2009Some online companies support the building of course packs of readings for students without faculty members having to do the legwork of pursuing intellectual property (copyright) releases themselves.
One such is University Readers, which offers an online library of readings that instructors may choose from. The staff will also help faculty who have their own preferred lists of contents by pursuing the copyright releases and then packaging the copyright-release costs into the costs of the course packs. University Readers may be accessed at www.universityreaders.com. University Readers also creates digital packs and text books.
Spotlight: Make websites easier to visit with URL shortening services
Tuesday, November 17, 2009Tired of trying to point your friends to that one picture on Facebook, or that great blog post with the ridiculously long URL (web address)? There’s a solution out there for you. Many websites have started offering URL shortening services. What is URL shortening?
Imagine you want to point someone to an article in InfoTech Tuesday and the article’s URL is itnews.itac.k-state.edu/2009/07/simplify-internet-browsing-by-using-tabs/ . Obviously, that URL is too long and difficult to dictate to someone. What if, instead of that gargantuan URL, you could give them tinyurl.com/muzhwa or bit.ly/3WASwn?
Those are a lot more manageable and won’t take up an entire line in an e-mail, which is the beauty of URL shortening. More…
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