QR Codes (Quick Response Codes) allow smart device users to easily connect to the mobile Internet, and the Inigma QR code scanner is the fastest and most widely used QR code scanner on the market, simply point and connect. Use this with your students and connect them to anything you can share with them in […]
Posts Categorized: Technology
Screen Captured!
I get quite a few questions about Screen Capturing and Screen Casting. “How do I do it?” “Will the technique work on my phone?” “Can I do this on my tablet?” “Is it easy to teach students?” Simply put, both screen capturing and screencasting are easily and freely done on just about any device. If you […]
Planar: Clear Concept Awards
Today, Rob McCaffrey and I submitted our applications to the Planar Clear Concept Awards for a chance to win a Planar® LookThru™ OLED transparent display. If you haven’t seen one of these yet, you should take a look at the video below, or click here to read about the 9 Things You Need to Know about […]
NomadCast – Live your Life
NomadCast – the first ever mobile application to let you video stream LIVE to your Facebook Friends & Twitter followers Special thanks to John O’Keefe for sharing NomadCast with Circles of Innovation. According to John, “It is basically Periscope but better. The only drawback is that it requires an iPhone or iPad to stream. However, […]
Lightboard Learning: An Interview with James Coddington
Special thanks to James Coddington for taking some time to talk with the Circles team about how he is using a Lightboard to enhance learning.
Enhance Your Research With Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a powerful tool that can be set to search Valencia’s Research Databases. Google Scholar also has several useful features for faculty that are conducting literature reviews, pursuing publication, or working on an advanced degree. Students doing research papers can take advantage of Google Scholar as well. The video below will demonstrate how to […]
How do you Sli.do?
Are you looking for a FREE tool that will allow you to poll students/participants and let them ask questions and then social rank those questions in live time? Sli.do is an easy-to-use, device agnostic (works on any device), audience polling technology that is my current favorite for large and small audience interaction. Teachers can use it for […]
Let’s Hangout
Like Apple’s Facetime & Microsoft’s Lynk (Now called Skype for Business) Google Hangouts allow teachers and students to get together virtually, to chat, text, videoconference and more. Students can easily install Hangouts on their devices or run Hangouts right from inside of their web browsers. Since many students already have Youtube or Gmail accounts (Remember Google owns Youtube), […]
Digital Learning Strategies: PCCUA STEM Summit
Thank you for coming to our session at the STEM Summit. If you would like to contact us to ask any follow up questions, you can email us here. As promised, here is your outsourced memory. In the fall of 2013, a new course was piloted on the East Campus of Valencia College in Orlando, […]
A digital “To-Do” List–Get started with Padlet
Padlet is a free web tool that acts almost like a virtual “bulletin board”. Users can collaborate on a Padlet wall to brainstorm, share ideas, or present content. You can post to a Padlet wall from any web enabled mobile device! And yes, you can embed a Padlet wall in Blackboard. There was a Circles post […]
A Digital Workflow: autoCrat add-on for Google Spreadsheets
Have you ever wanted documents to personalized, but still be formatted the same way? For example, for the Active Learning Destination 2015 track, the goal was to have the mini-teach lesson plans all formatted in the same fashion, but with each unique teacher’s information/ideas/objectives/plans….following me? So what’s the solution? We used a great combo package […]
EDpuzzle: Make Any Video Your Lesson
As part of Destination 2015: Flipped Learning, the Circles team wanted to share a technology that would allow teachers to easily curate great videos and then flip those videos to create interactive out of class content.Of the many technologies we tested in preparation for Destination 2015, EDpuzzle was the most robust with the easiest interface. The […]
Intel Compute Stick
Will new technologies like the Compute Stick change the way faculty and students use technology around the college? First there was a migration away from desktops to laptops; then many of us jumped to the tablet, in large part because tablets were cool but also because we didn’t want to lug around 4 lb laptops with heavy adapters. […]
Course Copy Assistance is Available to You
So you’ve taught a course using Blackboard, and are getting ready to copy it over for the next term. Have you ever had problems with this in the past? Or maybe you’ve never done this before and want some help? Remember, the Centers for Teaching / Learning Innovation are here to support your teaching. If […]
How to Embed Academic Twitter Feeds into Online Courses
Social media. Is it the bane of our students’ attention span? Have you ever wanted to use it for good rather than for evil? Maybe you’ve considered trying Twitter. Maybe you are constantly finding great resources that you’d like to post on the fly from your mobile device, but your students will never see because […]