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Twitter

Overview Twitter is a free social software and microblogging service that allows users to post, or “tweet,” 140 characters of text (plus a photo, and searchable tags, if desired) in the style of a blog...

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Virtual Laboratories

Overview A virtual laboratory is an interactive environment for creating and conducting simulated experiments. Application to All Resources Critical Thinking: To provide students with hands on...

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Virtual Reality

Overview Virtual Reality (VR) is a technology that allows users to interact in a computer-simulated environment. Although there are many different types of VR, there are three types that are...

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VoiceThread

Overview VoiceThread is a cloud based web application that allows users to post media such as a document, slide show, video, or photo collection that can be commented on by a community and then...

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Whiteboards

Overview The term “whiteboard” is used to describe computer software applications that function like dry-erase boards. Virtual whiteboards allow one or more people to write or draw on the whiteboard...

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Wikis

Overview A wiki is a type of website that permits users to edit available content. Wikis are designed with the philosophy of making it easy to correct mistakes and through collaboration, difficult to...

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Blogs

Overview A blog, derived from the term “Web log”, is a website where content is written in a journal entry style. Many blogs function as online personal diaries and typically provide commentary on...

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IM and Chat

Overview An instant message (IM) is a form of text-based real-time communication between two or more people over a network. Instant messaging boosts communication because it happens in real-time and...

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Photo Sharing Websites

Overview Photo Sharing Websites allow users to upload, store, edit, organize, and share photos. These sites connect individuals with others through comments, tags, keywords, or descriptions. While many...

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Social Bookmarking

Overview Social bookmarking refers to storing, sorting, classifying, sharing, and searching through a collection of bookmarked links of web pages, images, videos, and audio files that are stored on the...

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Social Citations

Overview Social citations refers to storing, sorting, classifying, sharing and searching through a collection of internet based bookmarked links of citable sources such as e-journals, news articles,...

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Social Libraries

Overview A Social library is a website that allows users to keep track of and catalog media collections ranging from books to CDs and DVDs. Users can share their collections, keep lists and wish lists,...

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YouTube

Overview YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video content such as videoblogs, home videos, original videos, TV clips, music videos, and move clips. Unregistered...

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Clickers/Classroom Response Systems

Overview A classroom response system is any kind of audience response system that allows instructors to collect real-time responses from students during a lecture, meeting, or web conference. They can...

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Discussion Boards

Overview A discussion board is a virtual forum for holding discussions and posting content. Most discussion boards are asynchronous forums that resemble bulletin boards and blogs. Instructors and/or...

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Self-Evaluation

Overview Self-evaluation refers to reviewing one’s own performance critically. Self-evaluations can be done individually or in the context of a larger review. Application to All Courses Assessment...

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Rubrics

Overview A rubric is a system of grading that consists of a criteria chart outlining exactly what is to be evaluated in a piece of work. A rubric is often used in the evaluation of actions, procedures,...

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Online Journaling

Overview Online journaling assignments and other reflective writing assignments can be used in traditional, blended, or online courses to help create a sense of community, or to provide reflective...

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Podcasts/Videocasts

Overview A podcast/videocast (sometimes also called a netcast) is a music, talk, or video program that is recorded and then offered for download over the Internet. Many podcasts allow listeners to...

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ePortfolios

Overview In education, a portfolio refers to a collection of information or prior work that documents learning, growth, and achievement. A portfolio can be considered anything from a learning log, to a...

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Group Critiques

Overview Group critique refers to a method of analysis in which a group of people critique a work, project, or assignment and give feedback to the creator. In a classroom, groups can be given a rubric...

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Exams/Quizzes

Overview An exam or quiz is a form of student assessment that measures knowledge, skills, and abilities. Generally, an exam is a culminating assessment that assesses a student over a large period of...

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Collaborative/Peer Editing

Overview Collaborative/Peer editing refers to a group of students who edit a document together. This can be done simultaneously in a face to face environment or in a distance education environment by...

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Role Model Interviews

Overview A role model interview is generally a conversation between two people in which one person acts as an interviewer to ask a set of questions, and the other person answers the question as an...

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Role Play

Overview In role playing activities participants act as various characters or roles. Role playing activities encourage students to “put themselves in another’s shoes” in order to act out a fictional...

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Case Studies

Overview Case studies are collections of detailed information about a particular person or group. Case studies generally include descriptive research, exploration of a situation, and draw conclusions...

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Web Conferencing

Overview A web conference, also known as a webinar, refers to meetings or live presentations over the Internet. In a web conference each participant is connected to the other participants in real-time...

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OneDrive

Overview Microsoft OneDrive is a web-based file hosting service that utilizes cloud storage to allow users to store, edit and share files with other users via the Internet. UF now offers OneDrive...

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Big Blue Button

Overview BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system for on-line learning. BigBlueButton enables you to share documents (PDF and any office document), webcams, chat, audio and your desktop....

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Canvas

Overview: Canvas is an open source Learning Management System that is currently supported and sponsored by the University of Florida for online and distance learning. The Canvas Learning Management...

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ProctorU

Overview ProctorU is a live online proctoring service for students taking exams online. Proctors use a three-step process to replicate the face-to-face proctoring experience over the internet. Through...

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Turnitin

Overview Turnitin is an originality checking and plagiarism prevention service used by students and faculty. Turnitin encourages best practices for using and citing other people’s written material. The...

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Blended Learning and the Flipped Classroom

Overview What is Blended Learning? In their Blended Learning infographic, Knewton defines blended learning as any situation in which “…a student learns, at least in part, at a brick-and-mortar facility...

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Writing Learning Objectives

Overview When designing a course it is important to know what you want students to achieve during the semester. Ideally, students who receive a passing grade should master a set of skills they can take...

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Lynda.com

Overview UFIT provides free, 24/7 access to Lynda.com for all students, faculty, and staff. Lynda.com is an excellent online training resource with over 2,900 courses on a variety of software...

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Quizlet

Overview Quizlet is a free online study tool that students may use to choose from a variety of interactive study activities including flashcards, matching activities, and other learning games. Students...

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Storyline

Overview Using Storyline, instructors can build interactive content for online delivery, potentially increasing the range and styles of active learning. Interactive content options include screencasts,...

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Office Mix

Overview Office Mix is a free add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint, which you can use to turn your PowerPoint presentations into interactive online lessons that you can share with anyone. Mix allows you to...

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UFApps

Overview UFApps is a full production service provided by UFIT and provides UF students affordable access to Microsoft Windows based desktop tools, UF services, and select software applications through...

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Bloom’s Taxonomy

Overview The original Taxonomy of Educational Objectives is commonly referred to as Bloom’s Taxonomy, named after Benjamin Bloom who devised a system of categorizing and classifying student learning...

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Virtual Field Trips

Overview Virtual field trips present a variety of content for student learning in online environments. Virtual field trips tend to be highly visual, and offer varying levels of interactivity. Many...

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Animation

Overview Animation within a presentation can be a powerful way to communicate ideas and underscore important concepts within a variety of tools and software. Animation is simply the use of a series of...

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Mind maps

Overview Mind maps are visual representations of a central topic and its relationship(s) to other themes and concepts. Mind maps blend creativity and logic and can be a helpful learning tool for many...

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Gamification

Overview Gamification is an approach to motivating students to learn by incorporating game elements into the learning environment. These game mechanics can be used as motivational tools to encourage...

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Yammer

Overview Yammer is a social networking service, used for private communication within organizations. Only individuals with an approved email address may join a Yammer network. Students, faculty, and...

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Accessibility in the Online Classroom

Overview You can read about The University of Florida’s commitment to provide accessible content to people with disabilities on the UF Accessibility page. If you need to make existing material...

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Digital Humanities

Overview Digital Humanities is the intersection of computing with social, scientific and humanities studies that enables scholars, technical experts and students to expand traditional disciplines like...

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QuickTime Pro

Overview QuickTime is a well-known media player used to view, edit, record and convert video files. It supports most of the modern video formats and has the ability to open audio, still images and even...

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Adobe Spark

Overview Adobe Spark is a free creative app that can be used to create dynamic materials to tell a story through the use of impactful social graphics (Spark Posts), web stories (Spark Pages) and...

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Kolb’s Four Stages of Learning

Overview In Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development (1984), Kolb defined learning as “the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of...

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