Educational Technology

Category: For Review

  • ARTstor

    What Is It? ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Who Uses It? The ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars, and students at…

  • Edublogs.org

    What Is It? Edublogs.org is a free blog hosting service based on the WordPress blogging software. Who Uses It? The service is for faculty and students. How Does It Work? Signing up for an account on Edublogs.org takes all of 20 seconds. Once you register you’ll get a confirmation e-mail and then you are on…

  • WordPress.com

    What Is It? WordPress.com is a hosted version of the open source WordPress software package where you can start a blog in seconds without any technical knowledge. Who Uses It? There are 4.2 million blogs hosted on WordPress.com ranging from TechCrunch to The New York Times, and from the British Prime Minister to Curt Shilling.…

  • Turning Technology Student Response System

    What Is It? Turning Technology’s student response systems are used by faculty members during class to poll students or give a short quiz. Typically, they are used in larger, lecture-style classes and can involve hardware-based systems (where students are given a hand-held device similar to a remote control) or software-based systems that use existing hardware…

  • Sympodiums

    What is it? Sympodiums are a tablet-style display that are attached to computers to provide a more interactive and versatile workspace for instructional use. Users may write or draw on the screen using a stylus tool to annotate or make notes on any application or window. Similar in functionality to SMART Boards but without touchscreen…

  • SMART Notebook

    What Is It? SMART Notebook is a presentation tool similar to Power Point or Keynote. It is designed for use with a SMART Technologies Sympodium or Smartboard but can be used on any Macintosh or Windows computer. It is an incredibly flexible tool for annotation, manipulation and capture of on-screen objects. SMART Notebook allows user…

  • Keynote

    What Is It? Keynote is an application in the Apple iWork suite for Macintosh. It can be used to combine text, pictures, audio, video, animations and Web links into slides that can be displayed as part of a lecture, presentation or training session. Used well, computer-based presentations can help to present instructional materials in a…

  • PowerPoint

    What Is It? PowerPoint is an application in the Microsoft Office suite for Macintosh and Windows. It can be used to combine text, pictures, audio, video, animations and Web links into slides that can be displayed as part of a lecture, presentation or training session. Used well, computer-based presentations can help to present instructional materials…

  • Screen Capture Programs

    What Is It? Screen capture applications allow the user to capture still images or video of actions or objects on the user’s computer screen. There are a variety of tools available, but their capabilities are very similar so the information here will be somewhat generic, but is generally true for all screen capture utilities. If…

  • Adobe Premier Elements

    What is it? Adobe Premier Elements is a digital video editing software program for Windows. With iMovie, you can import video from several sources (such as a miniDV tape, VHS recording or DVD). Once you have imported your video you can trim content, combine clips, insert images and add audio tracks, special effects and transitions…