Category Archives: General Instructional Technology

Plickers: An excellent alternative to clickers

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Chester Ismay

There has been much coverage in education and instructional technology circles about the use of clickers in the classroom.  Clickers can be an excellent way to look for student understanding of lecture material or outside the classroom reading/flipped content during class. … finish reading Plickers: An excellent alternative to clickers

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Tool Talk – Adapter: a three-in-one media conversion tool

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Joe Janiga

There are many media file types that exist for images, audio, and video. A file type that works in one situation make may not work in another. For example, an upload that you need to make might take .png files … finish reading Tool Talk – Adapter: a three-in-one media conversion tool

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Tool Talk: Soundflower for routing audio

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Joe Janiga

In this tutorial I am going to show you how to route your computer’s system audio output into a piece of audio recording software.  Some potential situations that you would want to do this for would be as follows. What … finish reading Tool Talk: Soundflower for routing audio

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Annotating PDFs in Preview and Adobe Acrobat Reader

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Beth Platte

Annotation, or adding notes directly to texts, is an important part of scholarly work. Many of us learned to annotate using some old-school tools: pencils, highlighters, maybe sticky notes to physically “tag” our books. As more and more texts are … finish reading Annotating PDFs in Preview and Adobe Acrobat Reader

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NWACC’s EdTech Deck

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Beth Platte

Every year, during the first week of November, educational technology specialists from across the northwest gather in Portland for a roundtable. This year, Trina Marmarelli and I attended the North West Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC) Roundtable. As a relatively new … finish reading NWACC’s EdTech Deck

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Shoot a film with our new iPad filmmaking case!

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Joe Janiga

As an instructional technologist for performing arts my job is multifaceted. One of the aspect of my job is to look for emerging technologies that could be relevant to education within the performing arts; another aspect is to look for … finish reading Shoot a film with our new iPad filmmaking case!

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R Markdown senior thesis template

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Chester Ismay

“Science is reportedly in the middle of a reproducibility crisis.” This is the claim of quite a few these days including an article from ROpenSci which directly references another article by The Conversation. But what is “reproducible research” and how … finish reading R Markdown senior thesis template

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Creating nice tables using R Markdown

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Chester Ismay

One of the neat tools available via a variety of packages in R is the creation of beautiful tables using data frames stored in R. In what follows, I’ll discuss these different options using data on departing flights from Seattle … finish reading Creating nice tables using R Markdown

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Language Labs: A Brief History

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Beth Platte

The middle of the 20th century was an exciting time for foreign language study in the United States. During World War II, the army created the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) to provide education to officers with strategic wartime skills, … finish reading Language Labs: A Brief History

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729 Miles : collaborations in educational technology across the Pacific Northwest

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Kristin Bott

Educational technology is by nature a collaborative effort, with faculty, students, and staff working together to build an effective learning environment within and beyond the classroom. In order to foster relationship across campuses, in May 2015, Reed and Lewis & Clark co-hosted the … finish reading 729 Miles : collaborations in educational technology across the Pacific Northwest

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