1. Enhancing your Online Course
with Free Interactive Applications
Minnesota State University Moorhead
Professor
Rhonda Ficek, Ph.D.

2. Agenda

3. Learning Styles
Poll http://bit.ly/learningStyle
http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/4EqxNmAVGDszxsB
Visual Auditory
Linguistic Kinesthetic
Logical Social
Solitary

4. Visual Learning Style
Images Color
Mind
Maps
Systems
Diagrams
Maps

5. Visualization: Images
• ALT tag
• Description
Accessibility:
Microsoft Word:
Right-click, Format Picture, Alt Text

6. Visualization: Color
Accessibility
• http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
Color Contrast Checker

7. Visualization: Word Clouds -- Tagxedo
http://www.tagxedo.com/gallery.html
http://www.tagxedo.com

8. Visualization: Word Clouds-- Wordle
http://www.wordle.net

9. Visualization: Word Clouds -- Tagul
link every word in your word cloud to a Google search
http://www.tagul.com
http://tagul.com/gallery

10. Using Word Clouds for Online Classes
http://www.teachthought.com/literacy-2/19-
interesting-ways-to-use-word-clouds-for-learning/
Introductions
Analyze
Writing, important
concepts
Analyze Character
Traits
Share Criteria for
Writing
Compare/Contrast
Themes
Summarize skills

11. Glogster: http://edu.glogster.com/

12. http://www.glogster.com/mariaha/harriet-tubman/g-6ol16jq2rksu7fdctlv3f2r

13. Glogster: Online Poster Creation
Text Audio Video
Hyperlinks Images

14. Ideas for using Glogster?
Book
Reviews
Marketing
Projects
Collages of
Work
Geography
– Places to
Visit
Biographies

15. Mind Maps

16. http://www.novamind.com/gallery/summarizing-information-3/

17. Concept Mapping:
Identify
Relationships
Structure
Knowledge
Facilitate
retention, recall
Summarize
Identify ideas /
processes

18. Concept Mapping
Mindomo
(http://mindomo.com)
Free for 3 maps
Bubbl.us
(http://bubbl.us)
Free for 3 maps
Freemind
(http://freemind.sourceforge.net)
Free download of software
Gliffy
(http://gliffy.com)
Free : 3 private, unlmited public
maps
VUE
(Visual Understanding
Environment)
http://vue.tufts.edu
Open Source – free todownload

19. Assigning locations to addresses
and visualizing as points on a map.
Also called “Address Mapping”

21. Tutorial:
http://web.mnstate.edu/instrtech/SCModules/Geocodingv2/index.html
• Create an Excel spreadsheet:
Street #, City, State, ZipCode, other
• Go to http://www.batchgeocode.com/
and copy/paste your Excel info into the table
• Click “Validate Source”
• Map Fields – select how to create the map
• Run Geocoder

22. Google Drive: Online Forms, Data Collection
Doodle
Poll Everywhere

23. Google Drive: Google Forms

24. Directions: Google Forms
http://bit.ly/Google_Forms

25. Doodle:
Scheduling Synchronous Sessions
Schedule
Online
Meetings
Schedule
Presentations
Schedule
Makeup
Exams

26. Poll
Everywhere

27. Wikis
Voice-Based Discussions
Web Conferencing
Presentations
E-Notebooks
Interactive Online Whiteboard

28. Voice-Based Discussions
VoiceThread Examples

29. Web Conferencing: VYEW.COM
http://vyew.com/s/help/account/register/11032/vyew-quick-start-guide/

30. Presentations
SlideRocket Google Drive Prezi
Slideshare.net

31. Prezi: Coke Presentation
http://ashleylashleyk.wikispaces.com/Coca+Cola+Prezi+Example

32. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1I-
sQgyGiu6zEzgnWUjMwfG9hLxFifl2G15TbutDQHkQ/present#slide=id.i0

33. E-Notebooks: Evernote

34. Contact Information
Rhonda Ficek
Minnesota State
University
Moorhead
ficek@mnstate.edu