It happens all the time. An instructor assigns a reading that students are asked to complete before the next class. Shortly after the next class starts, it quickly becomes evident that few, if any, students completed the reading. The discussion stalls out and the instructor needs to quickly pivot to keep everyone on track. Enter […]
What is VoiceThread?
VoiceThread is a piece of educational technology fully integrated with Brightspace. Instructors can use the tool to create interactive media/lectures and students can use the tool to create multi-layered presentations or complete assignments. You can see some examples of the tool in action on the VoiceThread website. Some use cases include: Interactive Lectures: Rather than […]
Exciting Update for Perusall
Perusall, for anyone who hasn’t had the opportunity to use it yet, is a social annotation tool that’s fully integrated with Brightspace. With this tool, instructors can provide articles, videos, and/or podcasts to students who can then annotate and otherwise mark-up the material. Social annotation exercises are wonderful to enable students to construct knowledge with […]