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Social Media
Collaborative Creation of Multimedia Books
Jun 5th
Write to other authors, send your suggestions and be part of the history of books around the world. Start writing online and publish the chapters as you go, even if the book is not yet finished. Read all available books and approach authors by sending comments and following the writing process page by page. You can do all of this with Widbook!
Vid.ly – make your videos playable anywhere, on any device
May 17th
Vid.ly is a site that will take a video and convert it so it can be viewed on any device. You It gives you a unique Vid.ly URL and embed code for the video that you can share via email, web site, social network or you can embed the video on a site or mobile app. The video conversions are stored on their site and when someone clicks on the video/link, it detects their device and operating system and then delivers the correct video to them.
Google Search Just Got 1,000 Times Smarter
May 16th
The Google Search of the future is here. Now. Today. The long-talked-about semantic web — Google prefers “Knowledge Graph” — is rolling out across all Google Search tools, and our most fundamental online task may never be the same again.
The Butler University Center for Academic Technology Presents
May 7th
The Center for Academic Technology will be hosting a Summer Development Series starting in June. Come join us throughout the summer to learn more about effective pedagogical uses of social media, iPads, digital storytelling, lecture capture as well as engaging students in hybrid or blended courses. We will also be hosting multiple sessions on our new learning management system, Moodle.
Summer Development Series
May 4th
The Center for Academic Technology will be hosting a Summer Development Series starting in June. Come join us throughout the summer to learn more about effective pedagogical uses of social media, iPads, digital storytelling, lecture capture as well as engaging students in hybrid or blended courses. We will also be hosting multiple sessions on our new learning management system, Moodle.
Teaching and Learning Through Technology Series: Using RSS Feeds to Keep Current with Scholarship
Nov 30th
Come join us for our final installment of the Teaching and Learning Through Technology Series for the Fall ’11 semester.
When: December 1st, 2011 at 3pm
Where: JH048
Presenter: Scott Pfitzinger, Irwin Library
Using RSS Feeds to Keep Current with Scholarship – So much information is readily available online so the question arises: How can I organize all of the sites I visit and sift through all of the stories and articles? Using an RSS feed through something like Google Reader is one of many solutions that can keep you organized and save you time.
No registration is required.
Teaching and Learning with Technology Series – Using Social Bookmarking to Build Course Resources
Nov 13th
Using Social Bookmarking to Build Course Resources
Wednesday, November 16, 3-4pm Julianne Miranda, CAT/ Jordan College of Fine Arts
Social Bookmarking is a way of collecting online resources in a single place accessible from any computer, anywhere. As such, it is a powerful tool for aggregating course resources into a single site. Features such as commenting and tagging facilitate engagement in of course content both within and outside the classroom. This session covers the tool Diigo and includes relevant examples from courses across the campus.
