ITech Posts

A Guide to Teaching Through Disruption for Instructors

In the event of sickness or quarantine, either of students in your class or of you yourself, you may not be able to teach in the way that you’d originally planned. This guide helps you find alternatives. Please contact its​@williams​.edu for help and more information or check the schedule and visit… Continue reading »

Zoom: Complete FAQs for Students

This is an introduction to Zoom video conferencing with a focus on settings for classroom learning. How do I install the Zoom client (one-time installation)? https://zoom.us/support/download How to test Zoom Joining a test meeting allows you to confirm… Continue reading »

GIS & Spatial Analysis

GIS is usually an acronym for Geographic Information System, and like other business intelligence systems it’s comprised of several technologies used for data collection, management, analysis, and visualization.  … Read More…… Continue reading »

Automated Transcription

Transcription is the process of converting spoken or written communications from one format or medium to another.  …  Automated transcription is where a computer program performs the transcription process for you. Read More…… Continue reading »

Social Media Analytical – Netlytic

Netlytic is an open-source and community-supported analytical tool that can summarize and visualize large volumes of text and discover social networks from conversations on social media sites such as Twitter, Youtube, blogs, online forums and chats. Read more …… Continue reading »

Twitter Analytical – SocioViz

SoicoViz is a social media analytics platform that can help you to analyze large volumes of text in terms of hashtags to identify key influencers, opinions and contents from conversations on Twitter. Read more …… Continue reading »

MasteryPaths and Differentiate Assignments

Differentiate Assignment is a built-in feature of Glow that lets you create different due dates and/or availability dates for content releases. MasteryPaths, also a built-in feature of Glow, is based on differentiate Assignment. When both used together, they allow you to design and customize the learning experiences of each student… Continue reading »

Lightboard and Lecture Capture

The Lightboard is a low technology solution that facilitates the recording of good quality instructional videos without any post-production editing. It’s a piece of transparent glass-like ‘whiteboard’ illuminated with LED lights. Read more …… Continue reading »

Quizlet

Quizlet is a free digital study tool available online and for any mobile device. It allows instructors and students to create study materials.  Read More. Continue reading »

Timeline JS

Timeline JS is a free, open­ source tool from Northwestern University Knight Lab. Timeline JS works in tandem with a Google Sheets Template to make production of visually rich and interactive timelines quick and easy. Timeline JS… Continue reading »

Converting Scanned documents into Accessible PDFs

If you scan a document using a flatbed scanner, photocopier or digital sender, the resulting document is simply a singular image of the original. Images are not inherently accessible because computers cannot read the information contained in them. Therefore, you will need to convert the scanned document for Optical Character… Continue reading »

Studio 275

About Studio 275 is a high-end recording facility for video, audio and music recording. Amenities include a three camera video studio complete with lighting, blue/green screen and live editing capabilities, lightboard technology for complex diagram instruction, Professional Digital Audio Workstation (PreSonus Studio One),  32 channel audio Mixer, headphone stations… Continue reading »

Clickers – Self Install How-To

1. Go to https://account.turningtechnologies.com/account/ and create an account. Sign in or create an account for TurningPoint 2. Verify the account. 3. Download the software. For the Mac, use the “TurningPoint desktop (Mac)” For the PC, use the “TurningPoint desktop (PC)” TurningPoint Desktop Installer… Continue reading »

Clickers – Classroom Mac How-To

1. Click to open the TurningPoint Cloud application on the PC. Do not open PowerPoint first or double click on your PowerPoint file. 2. Create an account or sign in with your existing account. Use your Williams email as your id. The password can be anything you want. Continue reading »

Clickers – Classroom PC How-To

1. Click to open the TurningPoint Cloud application on the PC. Do not open PowerPoint first or double click on your PowerPoint file. 2. Create an account or sign in with your existing account. Use your Williams email as your id. The password can be anything you want. Continue reading »

Clickers – Overview

Classroom Polling using PowerPoint and “clickers.” Allowing students to anonymously answer questions can facilitate discussion or provide feedback in larger classes, test content mastery, and allow for the exploration of sensitive topics anonymously. A useful bibliography of papers on the discipline specific use of clickers in teaching… Continue reading »

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