Tag: teaching
Teaching with Technology: Wikis, WordPress and More
Facilitators: Novak Rogic & Will Engle Description: Communication is a key component of successful teaching and technology can help create a dialogue both inside and outside of the classroom. This user-friendly session will provide a crash course on the CTLT’s online publishing framework. Learn how you can easily turn your course notes into a downloadable ebook, engage your students in a private space, or receive instant lecture-hall feedback via twitter-like microblogging. Through the use of blogs, wikis, websites, groups, forums, and other technologies, you can empower your students and increase active learning. Best of all, these tools are all hosted, supported, and freely provided by the CTLT. This will be informal hands-on workshop with lively discussion and activities that focus on UBC supported technology that can enhance your learning and teaching environments.
Teach Yourself HTML5 Tips and Tricks, Video Tag
In this tutorial I will demonstrate how to produce a HTML5 webpage with an embedded video player displaying an mp4 file with controls, size settings, and placement. I will go on to demonstrate how knowing XHTML and CSS before hand allows you to produce an attractive, yet simple video page.