Socrative: New Features

In July 2011 I wrote about Socrative, a web-based student response system. (See the blog post here.) The brief version: The instructor logs into the Socrative website and gets a room number (change to whatever you’d like). Students visit the… Read moreSocrative: New Features

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EDUCAUSE Live! ECAR National Study of Undergrads and Information Technology 2011: Liveblog

12/15/2011 11:46am The presentation has moved into the Q&A session, so I’m going to wrap up here. Be sure to check out the report and the 2011 study infographic. As we slide into the winter break, I hope to have… Read moreEDUCAUSE Live! ECAR National Study of Undergrads and Information Technology 2011: Liveblog

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EDUCAUSE Live! Web Seminar: ECAR National Study of Undergrads and Info Tech 2011

The ECAR survey folks always have interesting information to present. Free and online. Hope to see you there! For those who can’t attend, but are interested, I’ll be tweeting live during the event. Follow me on Twitter by clicking the… Read moreEDUCAUSE Live! Web Seminar: ECAR National Study of Undergrads and Info Tech 2011

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Decode a QR Code

On the “Tech Handout” page I now have two documents. One is my general tech handout; the other focuses on collaboration tools. At some point I’ll probably merge them into one big document, but until then I have two. Both… Read moreDecode a QR Code

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Dropbox: The Founder

A colleague (thanks Craig C.!) recently sent me a link to a Forbes article (10/18/2011) about Drew Houston, founder of Dropbox. (Disclaimer: Craig swears he doesn’t usually read Forbes; he was in the waiting room of his dentist’s office.) At… Read moreDropbox: The Founder

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Various Things Google

I’ve left Firefox. It was using up a massive amount of RAM (Firefox 6) and had slowed to a crawl. I started looking at my add-ons to see what might be slowing it down as I did with previous iterations… Read moreVarious Things Google

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Socrative: Turn Student SmartPhones into Clickers

[Update: See a more recent post on new features.] This is the tool I’ve been waiting for. Socrative turns your students’ smartphones into a powerful student response system. It’s like PollEverywhere (see this earlier post), but with greater flexibility and… Read moreSocrative: Turn Student SmartPhones into Clickers

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Another Use for QR Codes

I’ve been discussing QR codes in this blog for some time. In the blog for Discover magazine, they report on another use of QR codes. While this isn’t related to teaching, it does illustrate how pervasive those pesky QR codes… Read moreAnother Use for QR Codes

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My Favorite Droid Apps: Spring 2011 Edition

I’m frequently asked, “Android or iPhone?” The good folks at Lifehacker provide the “Top 10 Awesome Android Features that the iPhone Doesn’t Have” and the “Top 10 Ways iOS Outdoes Android“. Truthfully, if Apple had originally opted to open the… Read moreMy Favorite Droid Apps: Spring 2011 Edition

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My Favorite Droid Apps

A number of my colleagues have recently acquired smartphones that run on Android. I promised them that I’d share my favorite apps. Some of them are even relevant to education. Andricious (free). As you may know, I’m a fan of… Read moreMy Favorite Droid Apps

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