Making your command terms accessible

How can I make my command terms a little more engaging and accessible? I’ve long loved Haiku Deck as an application to create stunning visual slideshows quickly.  Recently this application went from freeware to pay, so some people may want another alternative. An easy way to make ‘Haiku Deck-like’ slides is with two Google Slides…

Be a connected service learning leader

Many of our Global Concern and Service teams have taken the plunge into hosting their own portfolio this year. Our Daraja group has explored podcasts and guest posts in their portfolio. Recently Generation Education Period (G.E.P) has started their portfolio (you can see Melanie Wilson’s post here).  The thinking and action coming from our groups…

Not all bots are bad…

When you hear the term ‘bot,’ you may think about the US Presidential election or political propaganda in general, but that’s not the entire story about the ways coders are getting creative. If you haven’t followed or heard of @Horse_ebooks check out this introduction as an introduction to the wild ways of Twitter bots (for a really cool visual…

How to BookMark Tweets: A Digital Curation Top Tip

The Twitter-verse marveled over the release of the new Bookmark-option available to the users on mobile a few years ago (if you missed that, here is a quick refresher). Bookmarking tweets is an excellent way to gather information, curate relevant shares without publicly liking the content.  This might be useful if you are doing research and…

Digital Bytes – 27th Nov. 2017

How Social Media Can Help Teach Good Writing Micro writing for social media is a powerful tool for students to learn. The limiting of number of characters of many social media platforms forces students to learn brevity and to condense their thoughts. Watch Later Playlist in YouTube Patrick Green takes us through a great feature…