Teaching Tools

Read on for information about a few tools selected from of the many that have been designed, developed, or supported by the Lehigh Lab.

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Waypoint, an online assessment tool, integrated in Blackboard.[read more]

Audacity: a free, open-source software package used for recording and editing digital audio, was employed in Summer 2005 by Ed Gallagher (English) in "Virtual Americana: Studying American Culture Online" and by Greg Reihman (Philosophy) in "The Examined Life" to bring their voices and their students' voices into their online courses in a novel way.  Students were able to listen to recorded introductions to course material as well as instructor feedback on students' written work.  Audacity is both easy-to-use and powerful; in fact, one of Gallagher's students broke her arm mid-way through the course and used Audacity to submit her discussion board postings and paper assignments as digital recordings. [read more]

iPods may soon play a role in your class.[read more]

Clickers: Audience Response Systems in the classroom... [read more]

Blogs.  Classes on campus are using blogs in innovative ways [read more]

Elluminate: A live, web-based tool for instruction, meetings, communications. [read more]

High-performance Computing: Various options for faculty and students...[read more] [and more]

Graphics Tools in Powerpoint. Tips on putting to good use the tools already available in Powerpoint. ..[read more]

(Please send suggstions or corrections to infdli@lehigh.edu)