It seems a while back a lot of people were on fire about Xtranormal. If you’ve never heard of Xtranormal, it’s a website where you can create your own animations in 3D with full text to speech options. It used to be free but those days are gone. The desktop version “State” is still free but at 500MB it’s not a small download. Plus you’ll find that once you’ve wasted a lunch time downloading it you still have to pay for most of the characters and scenes…
Putting tests into your module is a great way of allowing the students to test themselves as well as letting you see the progress they are making…Here we offer a relatively quick and painless solution – use Microsoft Excel.
For better or for worse, a lot of us use PowerPoint these days. This can work very well in a traditional lecture environment. We can talk around the bullet points presented on the big screen and hopefully get some interaction going from the students. However, problems arise when we remove the presentation from the medium it was intended for and place it into Blackboard for download…
Getting students to engage and interact with one another is not always easy when they are sitting together in a room. So how about when they are sitting at home, in front of their computers? This is, of course, one of the biggest problems we have when looking at distance learning courses. In this blog post, we’re going to take a little look at the theory behind using discussion boards and also suggest some ways to get your students using them.
