Activities – MacDigital

Copying Perusall Content To a New Course

If you’ve added lots of readings and assignments to Perusall and want to reuse them for new classes, you’re in luck: there’s a straight-forward process to copy materials from one course to another. It even preserves your assignment links on Moodle. The trickiest part is remembering the right order of operations. These instructions walk you through the process step-by-step. In...

Annotation/Asynchronous/Discussion-based

Shooting Video with a Cellphone

General Tips and Tricks Tip that camera sideways! Make sure you’re recording landscape unless you specifically need to record in portrait. Clean your lens! Don’t use digital zoom – it can lead to pixelization Use airplane mode to help silence notifications Shoot with the back lens (even when you’re shooting yourself) rather than the selfie lens Turn on grid lines...

Asynchronous/Digital Projects/Flipped Classroom/Lecture/Presentations

Podcasting

I need to make a podcast… A podcast is a recorded digitally recorded audio file that can be downloaded or streamed for listening. Podcast content is as varied as the hosts who produce them. They can be long or short, serious interviews or comedic parodies, groundbreaking research or fictional stories that last for 5 minutes or span several episodes. As...

Asynchronous/Digital Projects/Practice-based

Annotating Emailed Attachments On Your iPad

There are numerous ways to get files onto and off your iPad when you’d like to do things like annotate with the Apple Pencil. Using Google Drive is one way the ATS team recommends. But sometimes email is the easiest method. Using a mobile mail app (like Gmail’s app) and Notability, you can easily download a PDF or Word doc...

Annotation/Sharing Media/Whiteboard

Using the Tech Kit in the Classroom

This brief video provides an overview of the equipment in your tech kit, and shows you how to set up the tech kit in your classroom.

Hybrid/Dual Delivery/Lecture/Presentations/Sharing Media/Synchronous

Trust Message Not Showing Up When Connecting iPad to Mac Laptop

To share your iPad screen in Zoom via a cable (or to do other things that require a wired connection between your iPad and your computer), you need to tell your computer to trust your device. You’re usually prompted for the first when you first plug your iPad into your laptop, but sometimes this doesn’t happen. Additionally, security changes in...

Hybrid/Dual Delivery/Synchronous/Whiteboard

Sharing Your iPad Screen via a Windows PC – Off Campus

The above video walks you through how to share you iPad screen in a Zoom meeting that’s hosted (joined) on a Windows computer. You essentially connect the two devices — your PC and your iPad — via the iPad’s AirPlay protocol. This will be useful for whiteboarding during synchronous classes, or when recording mini-lectures. Notably, this method only works at...

Annotation/Uncategorized/Whiteboard

Using Groups in Perusall

Overview In Perusall, you can organize students into groups that limit whose comments they see. This can be useful when you have a large class and want to reduce the volume of annotations any single student is seeing, or if you want to create smaller cohorts where students might assume certain roles (skeptic, synthesizer, etc.) as readers and responders. You...

Asynchronous/Discussion/Discussion-based/Group Work

Getting Files Onto (and Off Of) Your iPad

Whether you’re using your iPad to annotate an article during class or recording a lecture over your Powerpoint slide deck, you’ll need a way to get documents onto (and off) your iPad. The best set up for this depends on a number of factors like what cloud storage or iPad apps you already use. In general, though, the easiest option...

Annotation/Asynchronous/Lecture/Presentations/Sharing Media/Synchronous/Whiteboard

Perusall Workshop Recording

The above is a recording of the social annotation tools workshop, which focused on a Peruall, a platform that allows for in-line, threaded commentary on and discussions of texts. Formatted as a VoiceThread, the recording includes two “slides,” which you can toggle between using the arrows on the lower right. (Here is a direct link to the recording, if you’d...

Annotation/Asynchronous/Discussion

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