APPS & APPETIZERS: A NON-CONFERENCE

Explore new ways to integrate meaningful technology into your practice. Through this event, educators will share ways which they visualize their research and help students connect concepts, which will include infographics, video presentations, blogs, tools for formative assessment and more.  Schedule (PDF):

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Easel.ly, Piktochart, Canva

Alison Black

Professional quality Infographics, processing, and timeline templates help students to process, synthesize, and display information in a variety of creative ways, especially data.

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Formative Assessment Tools

Junko Simpson

By answering questions simultaneously through personal technological devices, students share their ideas and options freely and anonymously under a low anxiety environment.

Screen Capture Tools - Camtasia

Nate Bayless

Find out easy ways capture what happens on a computer screen and aid classroom instruction through Camtasia and Zoom.

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StoryMaps & Survey123

Amy Work

StoryMaps presents findings and research that has a geographic component. Survey123 easily integrates into StoryMaps, but is used primarily for data collection.

Media Visual Essay

Makeba Jones

A Media Visual Essay assignment was used for student to examine how language, culture, and/or education are represented in various multimedia venues.

Student Slides to Create Conceptual Frameworks

Esin Duzel

An assignment prompts students to create a PowerPoint with only three slides to explain a critical multicultural perspective and convince them of a way to foster that perspective.

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EasyGrade

Sahoo Debashis

An open source simple interactive web-based grading tool for assisting tutors for grading exam sheets.

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Digital DDX & PocketPex

Charlie Goldberg

Web App helps clinicians derive differential diagnosis. Smart Phone App describes key elements and orders of the physical exam.

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Making Mistakes Using 
Ed Tech

James Friend

Making mistakes on purpose: a strategy to drive student engagement in learning.

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Piazza

Megan Bardolph

Piazza is an online discussion forum where students, instructors can ask and answer questions.

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Google Classroom

Erica Heinzman

Tired of clicking through endless screens to post content for your class? Come dive into the intuitive LMS of Google Classroom.

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iPad Mobile Teaching - Brandl's Basics

Katharina Brandl

Simple instruction on how to develop simple educational videos by drawing free-hand images and text on a screen while narrating the topic.

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PollEverywhere SRS

Jennifer Vanos

A live interactive audience/classroom participation method to engage learners in real time with various polling methods.

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Twitter in Education

2Richard Armenta

This session will discuss how twitter can be used to foster meaningful interaction with students and course material.

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VideoScribe 

Sherry Seethaler

Videoscribe allows you to make whiteboard videos on your desktop, which you can use to highlight your research for public audiences or to craft short explanations of key concepts for your students.

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Green Screen

Barry Grant

With a digital camera, a green backdrop, and a simple green-screen app or movie editing software, any instructor can incorporate this technology into their classroom.

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VR Surreal App

Paul Hadjipieris

Free Augmented Reality (AR) app that allows for content to be created and accessed by students in AR.

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Quizlet

Allison Czapracki

Quizlet is a free iOS and Android based flash card app. Instructors can create and share flash card decks; app adapts to learning and tracks progress; allows users to type in their guesses and scores them; and provides notifications to study.

iBooks & iPad Notes

Lina Lender

Interactive books that can include video, audio, 3D models and have a variety of features to facilitate personalized learning.

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Explain Everything Screencast

Melissa Soto

Explain Everything is an interactive whiteboard that allows users to record written and verbal explanations to create dynamic screencasts.

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Slide Deck

Rick Gessner

A real-time teaching, learning, communication and interactive presentation system for the web. (Imagine the possibilities if PowerPoint were interactive and real-time).

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Twitter in Education

Richard ArmentaThis session will discuss how twitter can be used to foster meaningful interaction with students and course material.

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Jet engine noise and a robot

Bob Bitmead

Listening to jet engine noise and using a small robot to link the math to the real world.

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SuAVE

Ilya Zaslavsky

SuAVE: a new online system for visually exploring surveys and image collections.

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Universal Design for Teaching - Hypothe.is& Amara

Alex Meill,

Cami Lyn West,

Noni Brynjolson

Amara Subtitling Platform allows instructors to easily caption videos for ADA compliance. Amara is a collaborative, interactive tool that allows instructors to annotate any webpage and have students annotate that same text in turn.

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Kahoot

Adrian Borsa

A fun and free interactive alternative to clickers for in-classroom polling.

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Google Forms

Drew Walker

Free, survey software that allows you to gather information for large (or small) groups.

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GoAnimate

Seth Marshburn

An easy-to-use online subscription-based animation tool that helps users make more interesting instructional videos, without the need for high-level technical knowledge and expertise.

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Guided Assessment

Saharnaz Baghdadchi

Guided quizzes are problems with step by step instructions on how to solve these problems.

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Instructor Adjustments

Lauren Lee

A typology of actions instructions can take to incorporate student interests into their teaching, both within a single class period and over time.

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Plickers

Jace Hargis

A powerfully simple tool that allows instructors to collect real time formative assessment data using only the instructors’ mobile device. 

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Visme

Sheena Ghanbari

VISME is a free application to create engaging infographics and visual teaching tools.