Jessie Daniels (Distance MBA Productions Manager) recently presented at the MTSU IT Conference. Her presentation, titled “Confessions of an IT Poser” focuses on tools, tricks and tips to help you achieve your distance education goals. She looks at different open source, free and fee-based software options that are available. This presentation covers some great tools that anyone can use in their classroom. (Thank you Jessie for sharing!)
Our mission in the Technology Institute is “to foster the effective and innovative use of technology supporting excellence in the educational mission of the faculty of TTU“. Something we like to do is try out new software to see how it can be a solution in the classroom. Faculty will come to us with an issue (or just a wish list) and we look for a way to solve it (or make it happen) at the lowest cost and, of course, the easiest solution we can find. We do not use technology because it is new, we experiment and try to find the best use and sometimes we just find it is “cool” but not useful. However, many times we find software that does help provide a solution. All of the software mentioned in Jessie’s presentation is great for the classroom (on-ground, online or hybrid) and just might fit a need of yours.
Look at her presentation online: http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dd5pj94c_214ghj66nhh&skipauth=true
What software have you found that can be used for education purposes effectively? In these times of budget crunches we are always looking to see what we can do within our realistic constraints. Post a comment!
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