Presenting the Image – Powerpoint, Keynote & Prezi
by Matthew Slaats Certain software programs tend to dominate the conversation at times, leading most to fall in line because of their pervasive nature. No software has held court so long as...
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Back Channels in the Classroom
By Matthew Slaats There has been an ongoing conversation taking place here at Vassar College, about the role of the computer in the classroom. At a time when technology seems ubiquitous, there are...
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Don’t Assume Too Much: Teaching the ‘Digital Natives’
by Baynard Bailey In Academic Computing Services, we supervise a number of students that are truly experts in multimedia production in a variety of forms. They continually wow us with their outstanding...
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Moodle Site Revamp in Three Easy Stages: Part 1 of 3
by Baynard Bailey Moodle sites are living breathing documents that evolve as the semester progresses. When push comes to shove during the semester’s crunch, one thing shoved is often an effective...
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Taxonomy of Learning Environments
by Steve Taylor There’s been a great deal of talk in higher-education circles over the past year, about the perils and possibilities of online learning. Often that talk has been in the context of MOOCs...
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Prezi
by Steve Taylor Prezi is a tool for creating presentations, just as Powerpoint and Keynote are, but with some interesting differences. Since its creation in 2009, it’s been seen more and more in...
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Flipping the Classroom
A hot topic in Higher Ed circles is known as “Flipping the Classroom.” The idea is to take the standard, traditional structure of student work in and out of the classroom and flip them— move the...
View ArticleGIS Tools for Teaching and Research
by Baynard Bailey Anthropology Professor April Beisaw is a very active user of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and other technologies in her research and in her classroom. ACS recently produced a...
View ArticleDownloading Audio and Video from YouTube
If you want to download the audio or the video from a YouTube video, here’s a great resource for you: http://offliberty.com/ It is very straightforward. Paste the YouTube url into the box, and press...
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ACS Collaborates with ART 386 students and faculty on “first-of-its-kind...
Amitabha Buddha, Central Tibet, 19th century; pigment on cloth; 38 1/2 x 25 1/2 in.; The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, F1997.6.3. ART 386, Embodying Compassion in Buddhist Art: A Curatorial Training...
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Streaming Copyrighted Films
[ The following are the thoughts of ACS staff and should not be interpreted as the legal opinion of Vassar College. ] Vassar College has the technology that will allow instructors to stream videos for...
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Using Discord for Teaching, Learning, and Community
In the scramble to get classes and work online this spring, there wasn’t a lot of time for careful evaluation of online collaboration tools. We had to move our curricula and other work online as...
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