My Maps – Collaborative map making
Google Maps contains a feature called My Maps which allows you and your students to mark places of interest on a map along with an accompanying photo, video, description, and link to another website. You can access this set of tools by visiting
Low-stakes Assignments – High Gains
Many people groan at the mention of Blogs. And honestly, I can understand why. It’s just one of many over-hyped (and at times poorly utilized) technology tools. Spinning up a blog for students to work within is a fairly simple task so it’s easy to […]
Polling in the Classroom: Tech Tool for Student Engagement and Learning Assessment
Are you looking for a way to increase student engagement during a lecture? Or are you wanting feedback on whether students grasp a difficult concept during class? ZSR Library has been using an audience response system, or “clicker,” to enhance instruction in the classroom since […]
Group Work
In this post I have a several resources on managing group work for both classroom and online instruction. While I’m not a fan of using technology simply for the sake of using something “cool”, the productivity value of collaborative documents can certainly make life easier […]