Resources

Video. Use this to insert YouTube videos into a PowerPoint slide. All you need to do is to provide the YouTube video URL that appears in the browser address bar, the rest is taken care of by the YTV Wizard.

Citation Machine automatically generates citations in MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian. Helps students avoid plagiarism.

Create interactive online video presentations with just a webcam and PowerPoint slides.

Simple and free, Jing allows you to capture what is on your computer screen and save it, send it or add it to a video. Easy tool to use to help you flip your classroom.

Course management software through iTunes.

Learning "technology" can feel overwhelming: so much so, that it's easier just not to get started. Mullen offers three easy ways to start small with big payoffs…and how to take them to the next level when you're ready. Covers back-up, writing in plain text, and organizing computer files.

Having attended her first "unconference," the writer shares five ideas she brought to the event about "Teaching teachers technology," and five ideas she returned with. Also includes reflection on the "unconference" as a model for better faculty pedagogy workshops.

We used to worry that an online presence would be perceived in academia as unprofessional. Increasingly, it's not "whether" to have an online profile, but how to manage one's online footprint professionally. The piece offers many annotated links with a variety of perspectives, advice, and how-to's. Comments also lend their own views.

Many instructors would like to make voice-recording (or audio-visual recordings) for their students, but either don't know how, or aren't sure how to make the recordings available to learners. This piece proposes one simple solution, while linking to others. Commenters also offer their own proposals.

This piece first describes the unprecedented possibilities offered by the Web to people with physical or cognitive disabilities. It then describes, with links, laws pertaining to accessibility. Finally, the work offers detailed guidance on creating Web (and also non-HTML electronic) content following the principles of assessible design.