Teaching and Learning Technologies:
Tools and Services at Georgetown

Website Creation

Domains

Georgetown Domains offers students, faculty and staff web space and personal domain names, encouraging the creation, development, and ownership of their digital identities.

Blogs

Blogs are social web pages that allow students and faculty to share their writing or ideas and spark a related conversation in the comments below the post. Georgetown hosts both course blogs and public blogs built on WordPress, an open-source blogging platform.

ePortfolios

Use ePortfolios to organize, share, reflect on, and assess student and faculty work. Choose from a variety of ePortfolio platforms in use at Georgetown including blogs, various web apps on Domains, Omeka and the e-portfolio feature in Canvas.

Omeka

Omeka is an online curation tool that lets users collect items and create online exhibits. Omeka employs a robust metadata standard called Dublin Core as well as layout tools for crafting exhibits.



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Media Creation

Panopto

Panopto enables faculty to capture lectures or other content by recording their voice, computer screen, webcam and/or other devices. Students can view videos, respond to quiz questions, take personal notes, or engage in a discussion around the video.



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Digital Scholarship

Text Mining

Text mining is the process or practice of examining large collections of written resources in order to generate new information or insights, typically using specialized computer software. The technique can be used to analyze huge amounts of text that would be arduous to read and remember for the human brain.



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Data And Assessment

Clickers

Clickers are handheld devices enabling students to respond immediately to questions posed by the instructor. Instructors can use clickers to promote class discussion, assess students’ knowledge, and make their class more interactive.



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Pilots

Hypothes.is

Hypothes.is is a collaborative annotation tool that can be integrated in a Canvas assignment, allowing students to annotate an external webpage or PDF, as well as see and comment on each other’s annotation. The instructor can also participate, and access individual student annotations through SpeedGrader.



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Services

Classroom Services

Georgetown provides technologies to enhance teaching and learning in the classroom as well as personalized training, consultations, and other classroom services to Georgetown faculty and students.

Course Evaluations

Georgetown uses CoursEval, an online survey tool, to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of courses and professors. Evaluation surveys are available to students at the end of each course.

Multimedia Services

Equipment loans, support for digital media assignments, production spaces and software, and multimedia instruction.

Plagiarism Detection

Georgetown offers faculty two plagiarism detection tools, Turnitin and SafeAssign, both of which can be accessed via the Blackboard Course System. In addition to deterring student plagiarism, these tools provide guidance in how to attribute sources correctly.

Streaming Media and eReserves

Provide anytime/anywhere access to your course materials.



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