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- How To Use TaskStream Eportfolios
The following url’s link to resources to help students use TaskStream eportfolios. Click the links to preview the resources. To share any of these resources with your students, copy and paste... - Integrating Clickers in the Classroom at Northeastern
Step 1 Faculty Equipment Checkout and ResponseWare Account Requests Faculty can checkout clicker receivers and request account access for ResponseWare at no cost. Call the Helpdesk at ext.... - Google Chat
Google Chat (Gchat) is a free instant messaging application that allows you to chat online with other Gmail users. This webcast will help you to better understand the functions of Gchat. - Quick Response (QR) Code
What is it? A Quick Response Code, a QR Code, is a two-dimensional bar code created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. It is called "Quick Response", as the creator intended the... - BB9 Journals, Blogs and Wikis
Blogs, Wikis and Journals are collaboration tools available in BB9. Journals are usually used as a private reflection tool where students post journal entries that the instructor can read and comment... - Google Docs
Google docs allows users to upload or create new text documents, spreadsheets, presentations (similar to PowerPoint) and forms. Users can invite others to view or edit the document and multiple users... - Jing
Jing is a free, easy to use tool that is used to instantly create short screencasts (movies of what you do on the computer screen) or take screenshots (pictures of your computer screen). Jing limits... - Prezi
Prezi is an online tool that gives you the power to create and share non-linear presentations. All elements of your presentation are placed on a single, large canvas and paths are created between the... - Slideshare
Slideshare is a free, online service that makes it easy to share presentations and documents. Users can upload PowerPoint, Keynote, PDF and Open Office files to Slideshare and then allow other users... - Youtube
Learn how to upload your videos to YouTube and embed them in your Blackboard course or website. - Google Forms
Google Forms is a simple Google Docs tool that you can use to create an online form or survey. Form input is instantly added to a Google spreadsheet that you can view at any time. After you create a... - How can I design an effective Digital media assignment?
Would you like to integrate a digital media assignment into your curriculum but do not know where to start? Learn the curricular design and technical planning process for effectively integrating... - What are Clickers and How Can I Use Them in Large Classes?
Classroom response systems, or "clickers", is a tool that can help increase student engagement and measure student comprehension real-time. Explore clicker capabilities, learn more about Turning... - Build your personal learning network with Twitter, Ning and Delicious
A Personal Learning Network (PLN) is the collection of people with whom you engage and exchange information. As web applications have become more robust, your PLN can easily grow using tools like... - TurningPoint Anywhere - Clicker Training
The EdTech Center hosts virtual training sessions of Turning Technologies' TurningPoint AnyWhere. The training gave participants an opportunity to experience Turning Technologies’ ‘light... - TurningPoint PowerPoint - Clicker Training
The EdTech Center hosts virtual training sessions of Turning Technologies' TurningPoint PowerPoint. The training gave participants an opportunity to experience Turning Technologies’ robust... - Description of Turning Technologies Products
Turning Technologies clickers allow students to participate in lectures by submitting responses to interactive questions using a ResponseCard keypad, web-enabled phones, or computer devices. Turning... - Digital Photography - Tips for Taking Great Pictures
Photographs are often a major part of a multimedia project. Whether it be a website, a digital story, or an eportfolio, the imagery presented often gives the viewer a sense of the quality of... - Teaching with PowerPoint
This tutorial is designed to help faculty assess their goals for using PowerPoint and develop presentations to meet those goals. Through hands-on exercises, you will learn to create a PowerPoint file... - TaskStream Demonstration
Northeastern has been piloting ePortfolio projects since 2007 using the ePortfolio software "TaskStream". This webcast is a presentation of the software by a company sales representative.... - Developing a Podcast
What is podcasting? Technically speaking podcasting is making files (usually audio, but not exclusively) available online with RSS feeds. RSS feeds allow a "subscriber" to get an automatic... - Managing Online Discussions
Asynchronous online discussion is a valuable way to extend students' engagement with class material and encourage active collaborative learning. This workshop will help you develop and moderate... - Online Participation Guidelines
From: Chapter 7 of Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt, Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999). "Attendance... - Creating a Digital Story
Step 1: Develop a Script A digital story allows an author to capture the essence of an experience with visual images and sounds. However, the script remains the backbone of the story. The narrative... - Disruption Planning
These pages offer resources to help instructors continue teaching in the event that classroom instruction must be interrupted. Many of the recommendations in this section, such as backing up files,...
Events
- Can Blogs and the Popular Media Help Educators? Working with Numb3rs
Wed, October 18, 12:00 - 1:00
Every Friday night at 10 p.m. on CBS, the cast of NUMB3RS takes on another crime that requires advanced mathematics skills to solve. Based on actual events, NUMB3RS explores the connection between... - Connecting Your Classroom with Facebook
Tue, November 14, 12:00 - 1:30
Facebook (http://www.facebook.com) is an online directory that connects people through social networks at schools and colleges. It receives 250 million hits per day and is ranked ninth in overall... - Turning Point Demo - Clicker Technology
Wed, June 10 (All day)
Turning Technologies provides a variety of software and hardware options. Pharmacy is currently piloting the most robust software offered called TurningPoint, which includes many advanced features....
Demonstrations
- Google Earth
Google Earth (and Google Maps) are free web mapping technologies that let you view maps all around the world, zooming in to street level or out to country or global scale. You can use Google Earth to... - Building Mashups From Multiple Data Sources
A Mashup is the combination of multiple data sources mashed together into a new application. It can be as simple as a few rss feeds combined and filtered into one location, or as complex as a google... - Digital Story Telling - First Person Narratives
Everyone has a story to tell. Maybe you are a professor glimpsing how your research and teaching can alter the course of a student's life. Or perhaps you would like to have your students explore an... - Podcasting 1: Recording Your Lecture
Audio-podcasts allow your students to time-shift (listen to the podcast when they wish) and multi-task (listen to the podcast while doing something else such as working out at the gym or commuting).... - Podcasting 2: Enhancing Your Lecture
"Answer-casts" offer a way to quickly respond to your students e-mailed questions in your own voice. "Wrap-ups" can be used to extend your class by offering additional insights or... - Rich Media Sharing and Integration (Flickr, YouTube, Slideshare)
College and high-school students regularly share audio and video via the Web. Sites like flikr and YouTube allow users, in a few clicks, to easily post and share media files. This demonstration will...
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- Getting Started with Blackboard
Many faculty work their way into Blackboard slowly, beginning with posting announcements and their syllabus, and then adding more functionality each semester, such as discussion forums and digital...
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Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative
The Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative (NEJRC) is made up of scholars dedicated to building a more transformative environmentalism in the United States and around the world. Based at Northeastern University, NEJRC... Read more...
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