Mobile devices can offer unique features which could be utilized to further educational goals by leveraging and building upon the functions of technologies already considered indispensable to a majority of students.
Technology isn't just something you assign students to do outside of class. In this section, we look at some of the classroom equipment and devices that can help you integrate active learning strategies into your course and help record significant classroom activities for later use by your students and others.
Digital Media
This section provides an overview of digital media tools we use frequently in instructional technology projects or that we are exploring as part of our ongoing research into effective technologies for teaching and learning.
Web 2.0
"Web 2.0" refers to a new generation of web-based applications and/or networks that share certain characteristics such as user-generated content, community-driven tagging and seemingly instant interactivity. Some of these applications include: social networks like Facebook, geospatial tools like Google Earth and virtual worlds like Second Life.
Assessment & Evaluation
Here are tools to support assessment of the individual student, assessment of teaching strategies and evaluation of educational programs.
Web Authoring
Web authoring tools help create text or multimedia documents that can be published to places like the Web, blogs and Blackboard course spaces.
