Technology

Podcasting By Phone with Gabcast & iPadio

Jan 13th, 2010 | By Coop | Category: Technology, The Maricopa Experience, Web2.0

I posted this on my podcasting blog almost 3 years ago. I’m doing a presentation tomorrow on enhancing courses with audio and thought I would revisit gabcast and take a look at iPadio. Check it out. I attended the TechEd ‘07 conference in Ontario last week and podcasting was all the rage. Most sessions were [...]



Schedule Student Conferences with TimeDriver

Nov 23rd, 2009 | By Coop | Category: Technology, The Maricopa Experience

Every semester I schedule conferences with all my students to talk about their final papers before they start to finalize the paper. I was always a pain trying to schedule these 60+ conferences with students until I found TimeDriver. Watch how I use TimeDrive to schedule student conference fast and easily.



Mobile Learning Takes Shape in ENG101

Aug 24th, 2009 | By Coop | Category: ENG101, Technology

I’m about one semester away from teaching a fully mobilized ENG101 course. What do I mean by a mobilize course and mobile learning? Mobile learning is learning that happens when the learner takes advantage of the learning opportunities offered by mobile technologies. Mobile gadgets are everywhere, and just about every student has a mobile phone [...]



New FAQ Avatar for my Online Students

Feb 12th, 2009 | By Coop | Category: Technology, The Maricopa Experience

I’ve been playing around with SitePal for a year and a half now. I love the idea of having an avatar for students to interact with, but it has proven to be a bit time consuming and expensive. My initial investment was a cool $99 to get five avatars and scenes with 1 minute of [...]



Multimedia Infused Freshman Comp

Oct 10th, 2008 | By Coop | Category: Presentations, Technology, The Maricopa Experience, Web2.0

Multimedia Infused Freshman Comp From: soul4real Multimedia Infused Freshman Comp View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: multimedia tyca-west) Presentation for the TYCA-West conference in Clarkdale, AZ. Using podcasting in freshman composition courses. SlideShare Link



New Player for ENG101 Podcast

Feb 16th, 2008 | By Coop | Category: ENG101, Technology

I’ve been experimenting with flash players for my weekly podcasts in my freshman composition courses. I this one from MyFlashFetish.com was pretty cool. I’ll paste the code into the course blog and see how students like it. I made this music player at MyFlashFetish.com.



High Tech, White Boards and Developmental Writers

Oct 31st, 2006 | By Coop | Category: Developmental, Technology, The Maricopa Experience

Okay, first notice that I didn’t say Smartboards. I said white boards. I would love to be posting about the use of Smartboards in my developmental writing class at GCC, but that is not the case today. I’m posting about the technology of white boards and markers and technology use in developmental classes. I often [...]