Technology TimeTechnology Time was created to share technology at the College of DuPage with faculty and staff. We have incorporated free applications with some of our institutional standards. It is our hope to have everyone involved in learning, teaching, and sharing technology.
Are you interested in sharing technology in an informal setting with your colleagues? Is there a technology you would like to see demonstrated? Contact Peggy McCarthy at mccarthy@cod.edu.
This semester our technology sessions will be held in the Teaching and Learning Center lab that has been updated with new equipment and software. Links to Google sites provided by UIS |
Spring 2011 - Starting January 2011
February 22, 9:30 - 10:30 and February 25, 1:00-2:00
The three most useful free web storage -- document sharing web site accounts that everyone should have.
Microsoft SkyDrive
25 GB of free online storage
Store, access, and share thousands of documents, photos, and Microsoft Office
files on Windows Live SkyDrive. SkyDrive password-protects your files so you
control who has access to them. Watch the YouTube video below to learn how to sign up and share.
Google Docs
Google Docs is free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet,
presentation, form, and data storage service offered by Google. It allows users
to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other
users.
Adobe Acrobat.com is a suite of free web applications from Adobe Systems that allows users to create, store and share documents and PDF files online.
March 4 - In-Service Day Time 1:00 in the TLC
Web Conferencing Tool
AT&T Connect Web Conferencing Trial
March 10, 1:30 - 3:00 SRC 3687
Elliott Levine is the Education Strategist for Hewlett Packard’s Personal Systems Group in the Americas. He drives thought leadership and the future evolution of technology in education, encompassing K-12 and higher education across the U.S. Elliott and his team collaborates with educational institutions across the Americas on comprehensive educational technology initiatives that foster 21st century skills, as well as assist with major HP customer academic initiatives around the world. He chairs HP’s education advisory councils, hosts their annual academic summits, represents HP on the strategic council of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and is a sought-after speaker to discuss the future of, and innovation to, the learning paradigm.
March 14, 11:00 -12:00 and March 16, 2:00 - 3:00 In the Classroom
Insight
Insight is a classroom technology management solution that empowers instructors with the ability to educate, assist, monitor, and communicate with an entire class from one central computer. Insight makes it easy for instructors to monitor user computers; blank user screens; mute audio; remote into their computers; open, close, block applications and web activity on user workstations. Insight is currently installed in all Windows computer classrooms.
Microsoft Interactive Classroom
With Microsoft Interactive Classroom, students participate like never before while staying up-to-speed on instructor notes. It gives educators the power to add in-class polling and to share lessons over a wireless network. If a teacher updates a presentation, students capture the notes in real-time via Microsoft OneNote. Microsoft Interactive Classroom will be in all Windows classrooms starting Fall 2011.
Student ePortfolios
Microsoft E-Learning
- Word 2010
- Excel 2010
- PowerPoint 2010
- OneNote 2010
- Outlook 2010
- Windows 7
Mind Mapping - Brain Storming Software
So what is Bubbl.US?
Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm or mind-map online. You do not require additional software on your computer and it does not matter what operating system you are using. In addition you do not need the latest and most powerful computer in order to use this free software. As long as you can access the internet, you can use this mind-mapping tool.
Using Bubbl.Us you can take your idea about creating that website, opening that business, planning a trip, etc and put it down in the form of a diagram that can be just for your benefit or to be shared and developed by your partners, friends or colleagues.
By using this free web application you can fully explore what is involved in developing your idea and making it a reality. You can start using this software by typing http://www.bubbl.us/ in to your web browser address bar.
Mind-Mapping
A mind-map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, visualise, structure and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing. (wikipedia definition)
When you start using mind mapping techniques, you will experience immediate benefits:
- Mind-maps help you to memorize information easily
- Mind-maps make things visible and clearer
- Mind-maps reveal what is behind the information
- Mind-maps are one of the best ways to organize your tasks and to-do lists
- Manage and retain information more efficiently
- Communicate information more effectively
- Enhance thinking and learning
Why would you use this tool in Learning?
1. You would use this application to clearly lay out your thoughts on actions that will be required regarding a project you are undertaking either on your own or in partnership with fellow learners or colleagues.
2. By using this application you incur no cost, require no specialist software and can share your project online with one or more people.
3. The software is easy to use and should not present any problems for users or training issues for tutors.
4. All age groups could benefit from this application and any subject matter could be used as a mind-map.
5. It can be used by individuals or groups.
6. If you wished to set a group of learners a task to develop a project from scratch, each with their own area of responsibility, then each could add in their own sections with someone taking responsibility to co-ordinate the mind-map and link it logically.
7. It could be used to assist in the process of recording student progress and achievement.
8. You can print the mind-map for your records, or use it to make a project road-map that you can post on your blog or website.
9. It could be used to build up a library of resources and planning techniques that could be shared online with friends and colleagues.
10. It could be used by tutors to develop classroom and e-learning content.
11. By learners and tutors to brainstorm and capture ideas.
12. To deliver presentations and lectures.
13. Utilize a powerful alternative for conveying complex information.
Mind-maps are said to be the most effective way to plan things because they follow your thinking better than any other method.
The great thing about a mind-map is that it shows you the relationships between separate entities in your thought process clearly. It is in a form which you can overview and comprehend easily, even if you're looking at someone elses map. We have seen out share of offline mind maps, but bubbl.us has brought the technology to the web, injecting it with sharing goodness in the process.
Great collaborative tool!
Free Mind Map allows you to build, save, share and print arbitrary mind maps absolutely free.
Edraw Mind Map is a freeware vector-based application with rich examples and templates. Mind Map makes it easy to create basic flow charts, mind maps, brain-storming diagrams and sketch maps.
Free Download, more features than bubbl.us, but it's not collaborative and is not Mac compatible.
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