Collaborating with the campus community to explore questions of pedagogy, best practices, and technology integration.
Electronic concept mapping tools 1. Lucidchart and Lucidspark Free account (3 maps) – can use Office 365 login (College credentials) and with .edu email can request a free education license. Higher Education student or professor? For Higher Education students and professors, sign up for a Lucidchart account with your education email address. Click your name in […]
Evernote is a note collection and organization tool. Evernote allows you to collect text, images, sound files, clippings from web pages, lists and organize them to be able to recall them easily in the future. Evernote is available for and accessible from the web, computer, smartphones, and tablets. What can it do? Collect information from […]
Google Documents, Sheets, and Slides are parts of a free, web-based software office suite powered by Google. As web applications, Google Docs allows users to create and edit files online while collaborating with other invited users in real-time. This cuts down the number of versions of a document by linking to a single document that […]
Resources Easl.ly Blog Crash Course on Infographics, Free e-book Hoonuit “Creating Infographics Training” log in via The College of Wooster Agenda In this workshop you will learn how to turn information into a creative and engaging visual display. This free online tool can be used to make posters, charts, timelines, graphs, character analysis, idea maps, […]
In this workshop, we will learn how to make interactive graphs using Plotly, a free online graphing website used and trusted by fortune 500 companies. During the workshop we will plot data from the Titanic incident and we will learn about some of the features that Plotly has to offer. By the end of this […]
Omeka ( Oh-mehk-ah) is a free, open-source web publishing system for online digital archives. This web-based tool allows users to manage digital exhibits. Omeka can be customized through plugins and themes. The main purpose of Omeka is to display and organize digital images. What can it do? Download and use the software with no contract or […]
Select Survey is a web-hosted survey software application similar to Survey Monkey. It allows the user to create forms and surveys for data collection. What can it do? Easy survey delivery to users by only requiring a device with internet connectivity Export data to CSV format or Excel format Create a question bank for future […]
Tableau is an interactive data visualization software. Tableau Desktop software is available to faculty and students for free. For an overview of features, visit the Tableau Desktop website. For more training resources, check out Tableau’s on-demand videos and their Forum. Sample data (password required) for use during the workshop Agenda The Basics What can Tableau do for you? How to import data […]
Tagging and bookmarking are methods of categorizing relevant websites in order to be able to find or renavigate to them quickly. What is it? Originally, bookmarking was simply a method of storing websites on your personal computer in order to be able to easily return to often used websites and internet services. As the internet […]
Voyant Tools is an open-source, web-based text analysis program. Its intuitive platform is easy to use for scholars new to text analysis. You can open and upload a document from your computer, copy and paste a website URL, or directly paste the text for Voyant to analyze. Voyant creates word clouds that users can hover […]
