Curation Tools
Curation tools are a great way to help you get inspiration and plan your course. This page contains helpful links to help you get started with your course planning.
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Blendspace
Description: Blendspace is a free web tool for teachers to collect resources in one place to form a bundled, interactive lesson for students or colleagues.
Why should faculty use it?
- To guide students through basic content by combining all types of digital content and your files to create a lesson
- For quizzing students as they move through the content using multiple-choice quiz builder
- Sharing Blendspace canvases on your classroom website
- Flipping the classroom
- Project-based learning
- Differentiating instruction
User Guide: Blendspace Tutorial from EdTech Tidbits Published on March 28, 2014
Accessibility: If students are required to use this software in a course an accessibility statement is required to be added to the course’s student resources, however, Blendspace does not currently have an accessibility statement.
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For assistance with educational technology implementation, student engagement, and best practices for teaching with technology, contact the Instructional Technologists.
Diigo
Description: Diigo is a social bookmarking website that allows users to bookmark and tag webpages. In addition, users can also highlight text directly on the website, add sticky notes, and share their research results.
Why should faculty use it?
- Save important websites and access them on any computer.
- Categorize websites by titles, notes, keyword tags, lists, and groups.
- Search through bookmarks to quickly find the desired information.
- Save a screenshot of a website and see how it has changed over time.
- Annotate websites with highlighting or virtual "sticky notes."
- View any annotations made by others on any website visited.
- Share websites with groups or the entire Diigo social network.
- Comment on the bookmarks of others or solicit comments to your shared bookmarks.
Video Introduction: Diigo V5: Collect and Highlight, Then Remember!
How Faculty Access Diigo: Diigo
User Guide: Diigo Video Library
Accessibility Statement Link: If students are required to use this software in a course an accessibility statement is required to be added to the course’s student resources.
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For assistance with educational technology implementation, student engagement, and best practices for teaching with technology, contact the Instructional Technologists.
Evernote
Description: Evernote is a downloadable application used to capture web clippings, email messages, and images; create and save to-do lists and project notes, and to perform any type of document or image management content that can be accessible from a computer or mobile devices. FYI - There is a free version called Evernote Free.
Why should faculty use it? Evernote is a user-friendly application that is ideal to save/share any type of document or image for collaboration or instruction with colleagues and students. It's a great place to save articles to read later, add notes/reminders for yourself, etc. You can take a picture on your phone and add it straight to Evernote, or save an email.
Video Introduction: What is Evernote - introduction
How faculty access software: Evernote
- To have Evernote downloaded on a Tri-C office computer, complete a software request
User Guide: Getting Started With Evernote Products
Accessibility: If students are required to use this software in a course, an accessibility statement is required to be added to the course’s student resources, however, Evernote does not currently have an Accessibility statement.
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For assistance with educational technology implementation, student engagement, and best practices for teaching with technology, contact the Instructional Technologists.
Description: Pinterest is a virtual pin board that lets users pin and organize images, links, and other media content into theme-based boards.
Why should faculty use it?
- Brainstorming ideas.
- Organizing and storing ideas.
- Connecting and commenting on students work.
- Group work and work in progress.
Video Introduction: Introduction to Pinterest by Hootsuite Published on June 20, 2017
How faculty access software: Pinterest
- Pinterest can also be downloaded from Google Play or iTunes
User Guide: Help Center
Accessibility: If students are required to use this software in a course an accessibility statement is required to be added to the course’s student resources.
Contact:
For assistance with educational technology implementation, student engagement, and best practices for teaching with technology, contact the Instructional Technologists.