By Carlo Daniels, Instructional Development Services Graduate Assistant
Panorama™
Price – $0.99
Panorama by Wondershare Software Co., Ltd for iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, and Android offers users a clean and facile way of creating panoramic images. All of this can be done in mere seconds by simply tapping the “Capture button” within the app and steadily moving/panning one’s [...]
By Nicole Dobyns, Instructional Development Services Graduate Assistant
The Department of Homeland Security sponsors Cyber Security Awareness Month in October. This month is dedicated to Internet and mobile safety. Staying safe with the Internet has become a common practice by many people. We all know to not open suspicious emails, or to not go to sites [...]
By Carlo Daniels, Instructional Development Services Graduate Assistant
QuickTime for Mac OS is a powerful media technology, which allows one to watch video from the web or one’s computer. Furthermore, QuickTime also gives one the ability to screen record, making it possible to capture lectures presented within COEHS classrooms at WIU. Benefits of doing this include [...]
By Carlo Daniels, Instructional Development Services Graduate Assistant
iMovie for iPad
Apple’s iMovie for its mobile devices is a powerful and simply effective video editing tool that utilizes only the touch of one’s finger to tap, drag, and swipe to create exciting trailers and movie compositions. One can choose from existing videos or photos straight [...]
By Nicole Dobyns, Instructional Development Services Graduate Assistant
This week we are featuring another iPad app, Coach’s Eye, which has been purchased for use with the iPad cart in the Technology Resource Checkout. Remember, the new iPad cart is available for faculty reservation to use in the classroom. Stop by the Interactive Multimedia Lab in Horrabin [...]
By Carlo Daniels, Instructional Development Services Graduate Assistant
The Technology Resource Checkout (TRC) within the Instructional Development Services has a brand new iPad cart with 20 iPads for faculty reservation and checkout to use in the classrooms! A number of apps have been purchased and installed on the iPads and we will be spending the first [...]
By Amanda Richards, Instructional Development Services Lab Assistant
Live Binders is a website that works as an online organization tool for URL’s, PDF files, pictures, movies, power points, and word documents. Instead of saving a list of URL’s and having information in different places you can use Live Binders in order to collaborate your resources, organize [...]
By Hayley Dallmann, Instructional Development Services Lab Assistant
Researching a topic and having a hard time fishing through thousands of pages and information to find what you’re looking for? Finding the right information is not always the easiest thing to do. MentorMob is the perfect free online application to help you with this problem. MentorMob was [...]
By Melissa Gatza, Instructional Development Services Lab Assistant
**** Edistorm has been updated and the name has been changed to Stormboard. For more information check out the website ***
Edistorm was inspired by Thomas Edison’s idea factories, which is a concept more commonly known today as brainstorming. Edistorm enables multiple people to collaborate online, allowing [...]
by Amanda Richards, Instructional Development Services Lab Assistant
Dipity was developed and founded by Derek Dukes and BJ Heinley in April of 2007. Their overall idea was to create an online visual representation of history that would enable better research to be conducted by users of the Internet.
Dipity is a free digital timeline creation website [...]