When I walked into my first literature course at CSU Channel Islands in 2004, I remember being terrified. At the front of the classroom stood my professor, shuffling through the pages of our large Norton Anthology of Literature. I, like many of our students, was still trying to convince myself that I belonged in college. […]
The Setting: Fully asynchronous online class – Principles of Marketing – Winter, 2015 The Assignment: A course-long project in which the students working in teams had to write a comprehensive Marketing Plan for a new product idea or for an existing product targeted to a new audience. Nothing it is really revolutionary till here. The use […]
Confession: My name is Jaime and I am a regular VoiceThread user. I have been using VoiceThread for the last few years after being introduced to it by Jill Leafsteadt and Michelle Pacansky-Brock. I have integrated VoiceThread in a variety of ways into my courses, from asynchronous discussions about ethical issues in nursing to integrating […]
How can technology improve relationships and provide for humanized learning experiences that transcend or take the place of a physical classroom? Ask one of the 3,521 CI students or 142 CI faculty who have used VoiceThread, an asynchronous conversation tool that is integrated into CI Learn. Some of the ways CI faculty are using VoiceThread […]
Looking for approaches for to improve student engagement? Want to integrate digital tools and technology into assignments? Need to bring a project to life? Spice up your end of semester projects with Digital Storytelling! Why digital storytelling? Digital Storytelling tells a story in a powerful way by connecting ideas, narratives, and emotion through the use […]
Welcome to the second week of the 2015 Fall semester! On behalf of the Teaching and Learning Innovations team, I would like to invite you to our upcoming support workshops for VoiceThread and CI Learn: Introduction to VoiceThread in CI Learn this Friday, September 4th from 10-12p with Michelle Pacansky-Brock Using Grade Center in CI […]
I’ve taught online with VoiceThread since 2007 and since then have felt like a Long Ranger in this space. Over the years, I’ve shared my self-taught skills with faculty in the courses I’ve taught, as well as on my blog, in Google+ Hangouts on Air, webinars sponsored by VoiceThread, and at conferences. This past month […]
What happens when university students in California are connected with university students in Japan to teach each other about diversity in groups? Join Michelle Pacansky-Brock in this Hangout on Air to find out! This is a question that Jaimie Hoffman and Mario Perez recently explored. The two professors took a non-traditional approach to college teaching […]
VoiceThread is a dynamic online conversation tool that provides faculty and students with the unique opportunity to interact using asynchronous (delayed) voice and video commenting. I have been using VoiceThread in my own online classes since 2007. Each semester, my students share with me how our VoiceThread activities make them feel more connected to me […]
A Peek Inside the New VoiceThread! (4-minute video) VoiceThread is an asynchronous conversation tool that provides the ability to converse in voice, video, or text around your media files (PDFs, videos, images, and more). At CI, VoiceThread is integrated with CI Learn, providing a seamless experience for connecting your students in warm, humanized online interactions. […]
