Tip of the Week
Each week, ODEL provides interesting and helpful posts on educational technology and online education.
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Week of 12/02/2024
ODEL is compiling relevant resources for transitioning to the Lamakū learning management system. These can be found on the ODEL micrositeʻs Faculty and Staff Resources page, under Lamakū. Please navigate to the website for linked resource materials and request ...
Week of 11/25/2024
Learning Lamakū will empower you to design course content effectively, and this undertaking will benefit students. Mahalo for your fledgling efforts to develop your skills and, eventually, your online courses. The UH Online Innovation Center (UHOIC) now offers ...
Week of 11/18/2024
In the months ahead, as you build your courses in Lamakū take the plain text approach to adding content to the Brightspace editor. Plain text is free of special formatting (italics, colors) found in a source document or presentation. By pasting content as plain ...
Week of 11/11/2024
UH-licensed Zoom accounts have an artificial intelligence tool, AI Companion, that can answer questions and summarize meeting information. During Zoom meetings, participants can direct questions to AI Companion and get answers based on the conversation transcript. ...
Create with Canva ColoringBook
Week of 11/04/2024
Looking for new ways to connect with students? The act of coloring can reduce student stress, increase mindfulness and spark creativity. Coloring pages can be related to course content or used as an icebreaker activity and are easy to generate using Canva’s ...
Week of 10/28/2024
Canva is terrific for designing slide presentations, but wait, there’s more. Have you considered presenting directly from the site? Canva’s presenter mode opens two windows. While your audience sees your slides full-screen, your presenter window has a slide-notes ...
Week of 10/21/2024
UH West Oʻahu will soon enter the transition phase from Laulima to Lamakū, our new LMS powered by Brightspace. January 2025, a fresh schedule of Lamakū Discovery Sessions will get underway to support Cohort 2 (UH West Oʻahu and UH Mānoa). Don’t worry if ...
Week of 10/14/2024
This month is your last chance to access and download video and audio files from Augusta ADA Solutions, as the service is being discontinued on October 31, 2024. Your UH YouTube channel is a good alternative for hosting videos and podcasts. Open the Firefox browser ...
Zoom whiteboards include templates
Week of 10/07/2024
Zoom Workplace is a familiar video conferencing platform equipped with communication tools that enhance online instruction. Zoom has updated its online whiteboards with features that can take the place of Google’s defunct Jamboard. The new whiteboards have tools ...
Week of 09/30/2024
You may have noticed that Zoom has morphed into an all-in-one connection platform, Zoom Workplace, with an expanded set of functional tools for synchronous and asynchronous communications. Ever find yourself unintentionally muted during a Zoom meeting? Zoom has ...