Using Technology

PowerPoint Usage

PowerPoint is a high-powered software tool used for presenting information in a dynamic slide show format. Text, charts, graphs, sound effects and video are just some of the elements PowerPoint can incorporate into your presentations with ease. This fun, eight-unit tutorial from actDEN shows teachers how to use PowerPoint to present many different forms of information, including the basics of using PowerPoint's toolbars, laying out your information, saving, moving your information to the place you'll be presenting it - and much more.

Online and Face-to-Face Blended Learning

This page from the E-Learning Centre provides links to some resources on blended learning - that is a learning solution created through a mixture of face-to-face and online learning delivered through a mix of media Listed in order of entry with most recent first.

The IDE (Innovations in Distance Education)

This tool from Penn State presents methods for integrating instructional strategies into distance education courses. Information in this tool includes instructional classes, strategies, tactics and examples that demonstrate this integration.

Using Instructional Technology

This University of Washington site lists a number of resources for planning and teaching classes using instructional technology.

"New Tools for Teaching"

This page, developed by James J. O’Donnell, leads to others that introduce, describe, and exemplify new Internet-based resources for teaching that are already available and in the main astonishingly easy to use.   Although dated it is still a useful summary.

Teaching Strategies: Technology in Teaching

This University of Michigan page provides links to resources with guidance for enhancing teaching and learning by using technologies. The articles in this section outline both the benefits and drawbacks of incorporating technology into teaching and offer practical tips on using technology tools.