Posted by The possibilities are nearly endless and we can’t cover everything in class, but here are some resources in different areas of digital assignments:
Blogs
- Domain of One’s Own (Emory) and here
- ScholarBlogs (Emory)
- Ideas about blogging in higher ed classrooms (gradhacker)
- Several posts about blog assignments and blogging for different audiences
- How to evaluate class blogs (profhacker)
Wikipedia
Infographics
- Canva
- Piktochart
- Venngage
- Easel.ly
- Infographics in the classroom (Emory)
- Teaching with Timelines and here
Digital Storytelling
Podcasts
- Resources from podcasts at Duke
- Podcasts to Inspire Your Classroom Practice (GradHacker blog at Inside Higher Ed)
- Student Thoughts About Podcasting Assignments (Evan Cordulack at the College of William and Mary)
- Podcasts as an Assessment Tool (Christopher M. Buddle, Arthropod Ecology blog at McGill University)
- Sample Rubric for Assessing Student Podcasts (A+ Rubric, University of Wisconsin-Stout)
Social Media
- Storify
- Using Storify in the classroom
- Teaching with Storify (gradhacker)
- Example Twitter assignment
- 50 ways to use Twitter in the classroom
- Structured Twitter assignments
- Example rubric for Twitter assignments
Polling and Backchannel