Learning Technologies Coaches at UCalgary

Category: How-to

  • Augment Your Teaching

    Augmented reality (AR) was a huge hit with Pokémon GO. When you turned on AR mode, the camera on your mobile device would open and a 3D video of a Pokémon would be superimposed over your camera’s view of the world, which made it look like the Pokémon was right in front of you, as shown below. But I’m not here to…

  • What is H5P and How to Use it?

    While on a quest to find a tool that would allow me to embed questions and polls and other interactive content in a YouTube video, I stumbled across something called H5P. In technical terms, H5P is a plug-in for the blogging platform WordPress. In other words, if you have a WordPress blog on ucalgaryblogs.ca, you can use…

  • Importing questions within random sections into the Library -D2L-

    I’ve recently got this request.  As there is no way to do that in D2L, at least for now, I am sharing with you my solution. Let me know if you have a better idea or something similar happened to you.    

  • Live Streaming the “Fruit Fly Life Cycle” to the Classroom

    Hi!, my name is Laura and I’m a Learning Technologies Coach for Science. Let me tell you about a cool project I’ve been working on during this Fall semester. The project was meant for first year biology students and consisted on implementing a real time observation activity of the Fruit Flies’ life cycle. Fruit flies….those…

  • Our ‘D2L Basics’ Workshop at the Faculty of Arts

    This post is about how my fellow LT coach at the Faculty of Arts – Hany Ibrahim and I organized and presented a workshop on D2L Basics.  I will take you through the different stages of preparation and then the workshop itself. What to cover? First, after answering numerous professors’ questions on how to build…

  • Podcasting 101

    Podcasting Suggestions Generally, when building a stereo rig the prevailing ideology is to build from the source out. So, in an analogue world you’d get the best turntable and stylus first and then worry about better speakers. The rationale being If the needle can’t read the record well the quality of the speakers are irrelevant…