HowToGeorgetown: From conception to prototype
This past week, CNDLS welcomed Kristen Eshleman, Director of Digital Learning Research & Design and Director of Academic Technology at Davidson College, and Adam Croom, Director of Digital Learning...
View ArticleIntroducing Elementor Page Builder
Elementor Page Builder is a plugin that you can install to your WordPress site. It allows you to simply drag and drop a variety of elements to your webpage. Elementor is a live frontend page builder,...
View ArticleGoAnimate, a platform for creating online animated videos
Over the past few months, CNDLS has created several videos in GoAnimate as a part of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting: The Right Questions are Key! training course. GoAnimate is...
View ArticleUsing WordPress in your class? Here’s how to add a list of links to your...
Two of the more popular plugins used on Georgetown Commons’ WordPress course blogs are the AdminWidget and AuthorWidget plugins. Instructors often want a list of students in their class, and with the...
View ArticleSerendipity Day
Educators have started thinking about Virtual Reality (VR) as a means of creating immersive experiences for students to enhance learning. CNDLS Serendipity Day (inspired by Google’s 20 percent time)...
View ArticlePiazza Discussion Tool
Looking for an engaging online discussion tool for your courses? Piazza offers a number of features to promote collaboration and foster community among your students. Students can send posts to the...
View ArticleTeaching Law Students Evidence Rules through Virtual Reality(VR)
Virtual Reality (VR) has continuously gained a lot of traction in different sectors. The ability to be able to immerse oneself in an environment and interact with it provides a lot of possibilities....
View ArticleState of Domains @ GU
Georgetown Domains is a space for personal domains and web spaces for the entire Georgetown community. Georgetown Domains is part of the Domain of One’s Own (DoOO) project that was started at the...
View ArticleEnvisioning a community site for GU Domains
Since early 2015, Georgetown has offered the service of Georgetown Domains to students, faculty and staff. Domains is a web space meant to encourage the creation, development, and ownership of digital...
View ArticleOn WordPress Timeline Plugins
Have you ever wanted an easy and beautiful way to share a history of your work or events and conferences you’ve attended? Maybe you’ve done a creative work-around like making a photo and text timeline...
View ArticleApple Releases New Screen Recording Feature
Recording lectures just became a lot easier with Apple’s latest operating system update for mobile devices. Apple users now have the ability to capture screen recordings directly from their device....
View ArticleGet Creative with Canva
Have you been looking for a way to make impactful graphics, but don’t want to break you budget? Canva is the solution for you! Whether you are making an infographic about your research project, a...
View ArticleHypothes.is
Reading online is a great way to catch up on news and academia, but can be frustrating when you want to save or share a particularly good passage. Not anymore! Introducing hypothes.is, a Chrome browser...
View ArticleIntegrating Elementor Into A Custom WordPress Theme
Here at CNDLS, we recently redesigned the website for our masters program, the Master of Arts in Learning and Design (MLD). We chose to build a custom WordPress theme so that we could have maximum...
View ArticleWhat is… the Best Way to Turn a Classroom into a Quiz Show?
Game shows have not only entertained American audiences for decades and been the subject of many a quality Saturday Night Live sketch, they can also be useful educational tools in the classroom....
View ArticleCanvas Spring Cleaning: Tidying Up the Dashboard
You don’t leave old parking passes, papers, or candy wrappers on the dashboard of your car. Not only does it get in the way of your driving, it’s just messy. The same goes for your dashboard on Canvas....
View ArticleAI and Ethics — GnoviCon 2018
Maybe you’ve learned about AI from Hollywood dystopian films or from you Facebook news feed. To many, AI can be a scary thing of the future, but whether we realize it or not, we are surrounded and...
View ArticleJamming with the Jamboard
Here at CNDLS, we’re dedicated to our effort of exploring new technologies, even those that seem the most enigmatic. This was certainly the case with the Jamboard, a relatively new product released by...
View ArticleA Walkthrough of the “Webex Board”
Having had so much fun with the enigmatic “Jamboard” in our previous post, we thought we’d explore the “smart whiteboard” concept further by experimenting with Cisco’s “Webex Board”, previously known...
View ArticleCollaborative Online Learning with Zoom
In some cases during our exploration of tools for teaching and learning, we find something that is somehow both fairly simple, reliable, and flexible. Zoom is one of these cases, and many here at the...
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