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- 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.... - 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... - 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... - Use myFiles to Post and Share Media Files
View at Full Size » - 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... - 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...
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- ePortfolios
What Are ePortfolios? An electronic portfolio, in an educational setting, is a digital collection of student work, often referred to as artifacts, displayed for specific audiences and specific... - Digital Story Telling
Everyone has a story to tell. Perhaps you are an undergraduate student living the latest exciting chapter of your life at Northeastern University. Maybe you are a professor glimpsing how your... - Mobile Learning
The flexibility and portability of most mobile technology, including smart-phones, netbooks, iPads, and other tablet-type devices have quickly made them indispensable to people in their daily lives.... - Google Collaboration Tools
Google has created a number of tools that facilitate synchronous and asynchronous online collaboration among groups on a variety of file types such as text documents, spreadsheets, presentations,... - Immersive Worlds
What is an Immersive world? The easiest way to describe an immersive world is to loosely call it a "3D web" experience – many who are part of an immersive world might find that... - Social Networks and Media Sharing
The concept of anytime, anywhere learning is not new to the majority of Northeastern University students. With personal websites, multi-functional cell phones, MP3 players, YouTube accounts, Facebook... - Blackboard
Blackboard is a learning management system that allows instructors to create, deliver, and manage web-based components for courses. It can be used to add online elements to a traditional course, or... - Mashups
Mashups combine content from different sources to create something entirely new, allowing data to be analyzed in creative ways. How do you make a mashup? If you have programming skills, you can... - Podcasts
What is a podcast? According to Wikipedia, "a podcast is a digital media file, or a series of such files, that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on portable... - Surveys
An online survey is a traditional, but effective, means of collecting valuable data or performing quantitative research *. You can use a survey to solicit feedback from your students regarding your... - Wikis
A wiki is a type of website development software that allows multiple users to create and edit pages from a web-based interface; the term is also used to refer to sites developed with wiki software.... - Blogs
According to the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, a blog is "a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order". The word "blog" is a portmanteau (a... - Clickers
Turning Technologies is the university-wide supported clicker vendor. See Clicker Fall 2009 Pilot at Northeastern University for additional information. TurningPoint Anywhere (light...
Links
- Northeastern faculty iPad projects: Creative Industries Program (Gaming)
Mark Sivak is using an iPad to assist in curriculum design and creation of apps and workshops in games. His goal: to allow groups of students to explore course topic pairs in context. Students are... - Northeastern faculty iPad projects: Physical Therapy
Alycia Markowski, Associate Clinical Professor in the Physical Therapy Department, is integrating an iPad2 into a capstone course for Senior Doctor of Physical Therapy students participating in the... - Northeastern faculty iPad projects: Writing Center
Neal Lerner, Associate Professor in the Department of English and Director of the Writing Center, is incorporating the iPad2 into the writing tutoring services offered at Northeastern University's... - Turning Technologies ResponseWare is here!
ResponseWare, a (mobile) clicker technology subscription service by Turning Technologies, is available at Northeastern University. Students can use a web-enabled mobile device or laptop to respond to... - Making Creative Commons Easy with Open Attribute
Open Attribute is a new tool that helps you identify and attribute Creative-Commons licensed content. - Art Project powered by Google
Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces. A collaboration with some of... - Chem4Word
The Chem4Word Project (http://research.microsoft.com/chem4word) began in 2008 as a collaboration between Microsoft Research and the University of Cambridge, designed to make it easier to insert and... - 3 Faculty Views of Teaching Online vs. Face to Face
The first course I taught online just happened to be the same as the first course I taught in person. It was an introduction to writing about literature, and in an adjunct schedule that was heavy... - Web 2.0 in the Classroom
In spite of the fact that web 2.0-enabled tools and services are supposed to be easy to set up and simple to use, some faculty in higher ed never got that memo. They don’t know a tweet from a... - Storytelling Part I & II by Ira Glass
The basics of storytelling as told by Ira Glass of "This American Life". Part I & II - Storytelling Part III & IV by Ira Glass
Finding great stories as told by Ira Glass of "This American Life". Part III & IV - Academhack
Academhack blog author writes about his "thoughts on the way the digital is transforming knowledge creation and dissemination." - Profhacker
"ProfHacker delivers tips, tutorials, and commentary on pedagogy, productivity, and technology in higher education" - Blogs, Vlogs, Wikis, and Podcasts - Websites Compiled by Sue LeBeau
Extensive listing of blog, wiki and podcast resources ranging from examples to tutorials compiled by Sue LeBeau, a long time advocate for using technology in teaching. - Wikiversity
"Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university... - Educational Uses of Digital Story Telling
"Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular... - Teaching With Twitter: Not for the Faint of Heart
"Opening up a Twitter-powered channel in class—which several professors at other universities are experimenting with as well—alters classroom power dynamics and signals to... - Omeka
"Omeka is a free and open source collections based web-based publishing platform for scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, educators, and cultural enthusiasts. Its “five-...
Events
- "Hands On!" Web Tools for Teaching and Collaboration
Wed, July 20, 1:30 - 3:00
Register Google's mission statement is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." This is the perfect tag line for this Hands-On! Session... - 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....
Projects
- Clicker Fall 2009 Pilot at Northeastern University
When a working group discussed clickers years ago, IS concluded that the technology was too much in flux to choose one system to standardize on. Faculty members continued to use clickers but vendor...
Software and Applications
- TurningPoint Clicker Technology
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...
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... - 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...
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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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