Category Archives: Educational Technology
Language Learning MOOC
Instreamia is a new MOOC that focuses on learning a language. Instreamia offers free courses in Spanish, English, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese. Instreamia uses common YouTube videos from pop artists or other sources (like TED lectures) in the language you … Continue reading
Whiteboard iPad App for Recording Audio and Video
When capturing a lecture, an instructor would like to use a whiteboard app to demonstrate a particular point or theory using freehand markup right inside the app. Another bonus when using a whiteboard application is having the ability to add … Continue reading
Capture Audio from Your Applications (like a Web Browser) on a Mac
Sometimes, you would like to capture audio coming from different applications on your computer. A question we sometimes get at the ETC is, how can I capture audio that is playing from my web browser? They would like to record … Continue reading
Productive Scholar: OpenScholar-Personal Websites for Scholars
In this Productive Scholar Session, Angel Brady of the Educational Technologies Center, presented OpenScholar, an OIT-supported web page creation service that allows for faculty and graduate students to create personal, professional academic sites. OpenScholar can host personal CVs, current publications … Continue reading
Lunch and Learn: Timothy Recuber on Teaching with WordPress
Timothy Recuber, lecturer in the Writing Program at Princeton University, spoke about using WordPress as a platform for student writing in his WRI 128/129 courses. The course, entitled ‘Witnessing Disaster’, investigates media depictions of disaster and human suffering. In the … Continue reading
