The University of Arizona
Learning Technologies Center
 

Instructional Tools

 
Blogs

Instructional blogging turns passive students into active participants. Easy to use templates allow students to post comments online and provide feedback to each other and to the instructor where necessary.
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Breeze

Adobe Breeze provides a collaborative online meeting place where synchronous communication takes place to enhance the sharing of multimedia content. Useful for online learning, meetings and training.
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Caucus

A conferencing system that allows multimedia content to be shared and promotes the blending of conversation and education without time constraints.
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D2L

Desire2Learn (D2L), the campus wide Course Management System, is supported by LTS. This robust online tool allows entire courses to be taught online, offers the ability to host hybrid courses and offers a flexible environment where faculty can control the learning environment.
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Podcasting

An online language environment to facilitate language instruction. Voice and video are incorporated into a threaded discussion format for online testing and research purposes.
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Podcasting

Instructional podcasting is growing in popularity due to student interest and ease of production. Class lectures, presentations and material complementary to the course can easily be podcast for students to review in their own time.
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UA YouTube

At this time, we see our UA YouTube channel largely as a resource that high school students and college undergraduates might turn to for information about student life, academic programs and promotional videos about the UA.
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WebBoard

Online threaded discussions are made easy with password protected message boards. Users can create categories of discussion and this tool allows additional chat and whiteboard features to be activated where needed.
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