PowerNotes is designed to unify the steps of reading, gathering, saving, annotating, organizing, outlining, tracking, and citing research into a single, efficient workflow that feeds directly into the writing process. Students can share research projects at any stage with faculty, librarians, writing centers, and peers for review. This intuitive interface allows faculty to sort through projects by; date completed, sources used, content gathered and annotations, and overall organizational structure. The commenting feature allows for feedback (real time and asynchronous) on the entire project or individual pieces of research and annotations.

This week's video discusses the benefits and challenges of using humor in the classroom and online. Laughing and humor have many benefits, but humor can also be detrimental to inclusive learning. Join us for a conversation on this surprisingly controversial topic.

This week's video discusses the benefits and challenges of using humor in the classroom and online. Laughing and humor have many benefits, but humor can also be detrimental to inclusive learning. Join us for a conversation on this surprisingly controversial topic.

Compassion, Understanding, and Empathy: Staying in Balance without Losing Your Edge Let's talk about how our concepts of compassion may fuel or hinder us in our teaching and also our life endeavors.

Distancing Together with John von Knorring, Stylus President and Publisher

Distancing Together - Screen Capture Tools with Todd Zakrajsek and Kathryn Smith from ITLC Lilly Conferences Visit www.lillyconferences.com for more information Screen Cast O Matic Chromebook, Mac and PC free option: capture any area of your screen, add narration from your microphone and video from your webcam $20 for deluxe $48 for premium Deluxe features: Easy video editor Record computer audio Import narration and music Scripted recordings Draw and zoom Screenshot tool Create captions with Speech-to-Text Green Screen Filter Premium features: Deluxe features plus Transfer iPhone/iPad & Android Videos to Editor Secure backup for recordings Branded ad-free site Advanced sharing and collaboration Video playlists using channels Add password and set visibility Extra bandwidth Good Old PowerPoint Show Me iPad App iPad app only $9.99/mo or $89.99/year auto-renewing Never-ending whiteboard, but you can import your slides Premium Features: - Upload up to 300 hours of ShowMes - Post privately - Create study groups - Markup and share any documents in groups - Import documents into ShowMe - Search and import images from the web - Download your video files Explain Everything App screencasting, and interactive whiteboard annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere. Create slides, draw in any color, add shapes, add text, pictures and videos, use a laser pointer. Rotate, move and arrange any object added to the stage. Record and playback your screencast. No account is necessary to use Explain Everything and share creations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JQQ4... Camtasia PC and Mac costs $169 per license (education pricing) one-time pricing-- must buy new version each year unless you buy maintenance package can use on two machines Adobe Captivate Like most Adobe software, this is a tool for über-professionals. expensive (@ $399 per license)-- or monthly subscription of $33.99 interface and workflow is frustrating non-intuitive end up with very slick screencasts file sizes that are relatively small CamStudio Please don’t confuse CamStudio with Camtasia Studio. almost nothing in common with Techsmith’s offerings TechSmith Capture-- formerly Jing completely free super-simple interface lacks features: can’t record your webcam, you can’t annotate your videos. can’t record for more than 5 minutes only publishes videos in .swf format which won’t play natively on iOS devices

Todd Zakrajsek, ITLC and Sofia Lawrence from Growga (mygrowga.com) discuss mindfulness, yoga, and educators. Participants consider their needs/ goals around stress reduction. Briefly chat through the basics of mindfulness. Address a few common misnomers and obstacles to practice. Then some gentle movements to down-regulate the central nervous system and physical body. These movements can be done standing or sitting (no special clothing, or even a yoga mat, is needed!). Finally, close with practical ideas for layering mindfulness into our daily lives.