ONLINE AND ON THE MOVE

Center for Online Learning, Research and Service

IT’S WHAT STUDENTS WANT.

NUMBER, MOBILE DEVICES CONNECTING TO UIS BLACKBOARD

iOS Android Blackberry

2390

635

1

BLACKBOARD ACCESS (# HITS)SEPTEMBER 2013

3.6%

96.4%

Mobile App

All Other Access

EDUCAUSE RESEARCH

ECAR 2

ECAR 3

ECAR 4

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERS1302/Eig1302.pdf

CELL PHONE USE WORLDWIDE - 2013

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/mobile-phone-world-population-2014/

6 billion active cell phones

1.1 billion are mobile broadband capable

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/mobile-phone-world-population-2014/

PREDICTED NUMBER OF ACTIVE DEVICES 2014

7.3BILLION

IDEAS FOR YOUR CLASSROOM

TEXT ‘EM

Poll Everywhere – Free for limited use. www.polleverywhere.com

Remind101 – Free. www.remind101.com

gText – Free. www.gtext.com

ClassPager – 25 students/unlimited texting. www.classpager.com

Celly – Free. cel.ly

BroadTexter – Free. www.broadtexter.com

WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?

Autocorrect Device Support Flash

http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/pyU1x7MUiEx9caU

TWITTER BACK CHANNEL

Back channel – informal communication

Pick a hash tag for users to follow (#UISfdo)

MS Lync sessions

Pre-recorded lectures or readings

Twitterfall - http://twitterfall.com/

Twitter search - https://twitter.com/search?q=%23uisfdo&src=typd&f=realtime

ETEXT@ILLINOIS

UIS can publish content to eText

Anyone with a NetID and web browser can access the texts

Available on any computer or mobile device

Accessible for all visual abilities

https://etext.illinois.edu/

TABLET COMPUTERS – ARE THEY EQUAL?

ASSURE Analyze Learners

State Objective

s

Select Method, Media,

Materials

Utilize Media and

Materials

Require Learner

Participation

Evaluate and

Revise

INFOGRAPHICS FOR PRESENTATIONS

Mobile-friendly presentation tool

Project instructions

Content lectures

Course overview

Student projects

Infographic about Creating Infographics

Piktochart - http://piktochart.com/

Infogram - http://infogr.am/

TOOLS AVAILABLE ON CAMPUS

CAMTASIA RELAY

Record Lectures, How-to videos, feedback for students

Use for student presentations

Mobile-friendly format

http://www.uis.edu/informationtechnologyservices/iss/camtasiar/

KALTURA

Media (audio and video) Storage and DistributionCamtasia Relay recordings are sent hereMS Lync recordings should be uploaded here

Mobile-friendly

Link or Embed your media in Blackboard and websites

Kaltura is accessed through Blackboard.

BOX.COM

Document storage

5GB for campus users

Easily link to documents in Blackboard

Mobile-friendly distribution & upload (mobile app)

Warning: the document embed feature requires Flash

http://go.uis.edu/box