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[UPDATE 10/9/2012 : Tegrity now has dual-monitor support for both Macs and PCs. When you run the Tegrity recorder, if Tegrity detects more than one monitor, it will ask if you’d like to record the current monitor. If you want… Read moreUsing Tegrity with Dual Monitors
[UPDATE: See this more recent post on Join.Me’s newest features.] Let’s say that you’re working with a few colleagues on a project. They’re scattered across campus (or the country). It may be easier if everyone is looking at the same… Read moreJoin.me: Share Your Desktop.
I use a student response system in my classroom (iClicker) for low-stakes quizzes and for ungraded questions that give me a sense of what my students are getting and what’s still a little fuzzy. If your institution doesn’t have funds… Read morePoll Everywhere
On one of the teaching listservs I’m subscribed to, participants were having their periodic row over using PowerPoint versus not using PowerPoint. But this time, rather than simply defending themselves, the PowerPoint users went on the attack noting that using… Read moreWhiteboard Markers: AusPen
Prezi is (free for educational use) web-based presentation software that allows you to create a map of your presentation instead of using slides. You can make your presentations public or private; you can download them for offline use if you’d… Read morePrezi: An Alternative to Presentation Slides
One of the most common complaints I hear about PowerPoint is that it is linear; when you run your PowerPoint, you’re locked into running it in the order in which you created it. This is simply not true. “Presenter view”… Read morePowerPoint 2007: Presenter View
UPDATED 6/24/2012 Have a tablet? You can go this route instead. There you are in class and you write on your whiteboard (or chalkboard, I hear those still exist) the most perfect explanation of whatever it is you explain. Wouldn’t… Read moreThe Smartboard Alternative for $40
Classroom Presenter is the coolest thing that’s happened to my teaching since I got a computer in my classroom. If all it did was allow me to present slides in a way that’s a whole lot easier than PowerPoint, it’d… Read moreClassroom Presentations… Unplugged!