Tech Of The Month

By Laura Hamrick January’s Tech of the Month is YouTube’s captioning tool . Using this tool increases the quality and usability of your videos, while also helping CU Boulder become more accessible online to all individuals. After you upload a video to YouTube, you can use YouTube’s built-in caption editor...

Did you know you can embed quizzes in video content and track student interactions with your videos? PlayPosit is an interactive video tool that allows you to customize the student experience by laying your own custom lesson (quiz questions, text prompts, images, etc.) over video content. Using video from YouTube...

How might we encourage students’ to engage in course materials? Well, if your goal is to guide students in thinking more critically and reading online texts more deeply (PDF or web article), than Hypothesi.is might be right up your alley. It’s a tool for annotating online texts that encourages students...

How might we help our students communicate in teams even when they are out of the classroom? The phrase, ‘my students are slacking,’ doesn’t usually roll of an instructor’s tongue with a positive connotation. However, for instructors using the communication tool, Slack, it may be perfectly fine for students to...

How might we boost authentic engagement in class while having a little fun, too? Heading down the stretch to the end of the semester, sometimes calls for a little stress relief. Kahoot can introduce an element of competition and be a fun way to review concepts. With similarities to clickers,...

How might we integrate academic technologies based on students’ learning needs and validation? The students have spoken! We asked them to comment on the coolest technologies faculty use in our fall Learning with Technology Survey. By far, the most frequently mentioned cool tech was Clickers. Students described a diversity of...

How might we check for understanding when sharing videos with students? Google forms now lets you embed videos from Youtube! So, if you’ve been busy creating screencasts or if you regularly ask students to watch youtube videos before coming to class, now you can easily create a few short questions...