Category: For Review
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Learn about course management at Wooster
Wooster offers several options that allow faculty to manage their courses: Moodle (our course management system), Confluence (our institutional wiki), and Voices (our WordPress Multisite instance). Which of these options is best for you depends on your goals for the course and what activities you plan on having your students do. Moodle: This is our…
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Reserve Loaner Equipment
The Instructional Technology department loans out new and innovative teaching technologies to faculty and staff for evaluation. For more information visit our loaner information page. The Office of Information Technologies HelpDesk maintains a loaner equipment pool for student use. For more information visit the student loaner information page. (Login required.)
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Educational Technology Equipment
UNDER REVIEW Educational Technology maintains a small selection of innovative hardware and software that faculty, staff, and students may borrow. This equipment has not yet been deployed generally across campus. If you’d like to explore some of this equipment, simply send an e-mail to the Help Desk. For more information, visit the “Checking out Equipment” wiki…
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Skype Conferencing
What is it? Skype is a software that allows users to make telephone calls over the Internet. Calls to other users of the service and to free-of-charge numbers are free, while calls to other landlines and mobile phones can be made for a fee. Additional features include instant messaging, file transfer, voice conferencing and video…
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Select Survey
What is it? Select Survey is a web-hosted survey software application similar to Survey Monkey. It allows the user to create forms and surveys for data collection. Key features Accessibility: the user can log in to the service from any computer with internet access. Portability: Export data to CSV format, allowing the user to export…
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Sketchup
What is it? Sketchup is a free Google application for drawing three-dimensional objects. Key features A three-axis drawing field Ability to rotate an object and export a 2-D image of the object you have created Various templates for different applications (engineering, architecture, carpentry) Color and texture tools to create building for Google Earth Works on…
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Screenflow
What is it? Screenflow is an Apple screen capture application that enables the user to record everything on the screen, computer audio, video from a web camera, and audio from an attached microphone. Key Features User-friendly, intuitive, easy-to-use interface Powerful video editing and annotation tools Multiple video and audio tracks for bringing in other material…
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Zotero
What is it? Zotero is a Firefox extension online research tool. It catalogs, organizes online sources, syncs them across computers, the World Wide Web and helps the user cite the sources. Key Features Automatically capture citations Organize collections with tags Cite from within Word or Neo/OpenOffice Access your library from anywhere How does it work?…
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Evernote
What is it? Evernote is a note collection and organization tool. Evernote allows you to collect text, image, and sound files and organize them to be able to recall them easily in the future. Evernote is available for and accessible from the web, personal computer and smartphone (iPhone or Blackberry) Key Features Ability to collect…
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E-Readers
What is it? E-readers are devices that the user can read and/or download e-books. There are a number of different e-reader devices like the Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader or the Barnes and Noble Nook. Most of these devices use a technology called digital or electronic ink, making them more easily read in sunlight. They generally…