Teaching Tools

Helping Students Prepare/Learn

How can I create quick class reviews and tutorials?
Screencasting enables Debra Glassman and Kim Tamura to create tutorials. Podcasting keeps your students in the "know" with audio or video delivered effortlessly to their computers.

How can I create online assignments?
Explore the ways UW departments are setting up course pages on Moodle. The Retail Management Program helps students prepare for careers with an ePortfolio.

How can I promote student collaboration?
Wikis allow students to write collboratively or create an online knowledge base. Google Docs allows collaboration on a single document across many computers at once.

Other tools to help students study/prepare:
Keep your students up to the minute with RSS Feeds. Visit Jack Whelan's Business Communication class blog. and this statistics class blog at Wharton School of Business.
Real content in a virual world. Find out what all the fuss is about Second Life.



Engaging Students' Interest

How can I increase active learning in class and keep students interested?
Used campus wide, in all class sizes, clickers increase class participation. UW Computer Science faculty created and teach with Classroom Presenter.

How can I make PowerPoint presentations more engaging?
Write directly on your PowerPoint slides when you write on a Tablet PC screen.

Other tools to use during class:
Coming soon—hear why Reza Moinpour began using YouTube in class.

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