A discussion with Dr. Lanae Hood on the nutrition resource map created for Hunger Week 2022. What did you do? Dr. Lanae Hood and nutrition graduate students in Program Planning and Evaluation collaborated with Paul Keys to create an interactive basic needs resource map for Meredith College students. This was part of a class project […]
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Kaltura Video Hosting is a campus wide application which means students have the same access to desktop recording, editing, and hosting as faculty and staff. This software makes it even easier to assign video projects to students. But how can students easily share a Kaltura video with you? We’ll give you 3 options for collecting
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With our new video platform Kaltura, all content is automatically machine captioned in English. Whoo hoo for captions! These captions are not perfect and will probably need some human cleanup. There are also some other great caption options you can take advantage of with the Kaltura system. This post will address why to care about
Teaching since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many instructors into the virtual world and out of the physical classroom. With these Zoom videos piling up, instructors are looking for options to store, edit and embed these videos into courses. Many instructors have found their solution with the Kaltura Video Platform. Streamlining the
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ReadSpeaker is a text-to-speech tool to help facilitate reading and comprehension. For student use, it is integrated directly into Brightspace with a tool for use outside Brightspace. Faculty and staff will all have access for use outside of Brightspace as well. Why get excited about ReadSpeaker? ReadSpeaker is a user-side tool which puts accessibility right
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Here we are again – a new semester! As you begin to prepare for your next semester, you should consider taking a good look at your courses and brushing them up with a little redesign. Why look at courses for redesign? First, a course redesign can help mitigate problems from a course copy, saving time
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You might have a goal of what you want to do for students but how do you choose which tool to use? We’ve broken our supported tools up into groups by usage goal. In the chart below, you can see which tools will help in each of these areas. Scroll through the chart for each
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MindMup 2.0 is our newly recommended mind mapping software. It is perfect for visually mapping and collaborating with groups, classes, and teams. Read about that here -> You can use the MindMup website for maps, but you they are all public and have some other restrictions. We recommend adding the MindMup 2.0 add-on to Google
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Instructional software tools are everywhere! There are so many engaging, colorful, robust tools out there that we couldn’t possibly support or even know about all them. But we have 2 new software recommendations for you! What that means is that we have researched them, vetted them for safety and accessibility issues, and think they will
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