Instructional Tools
CITES has many instructional tools available to enhance your students' learning experience.
- Adobe
Captivate - Captivate is a software program that allows you to easily
create professional quality interactive simulations and demonstrations in Flash
format. Without any programming or multimedia skills, you can automatically record
all onscreen actions, including editable mouse movements, and add text captions
and audio narration.
Examples of Captivate presentations:
You may make an appointment to use Captivate in our Media Center (Room 310).
See the CITES Newsletter article on Captivate for more information.
- IMHC CmapTools -
Concept mapping is a process for representing information visually. This method
facilitates handling complex information, can enhance your teaching and research
and also ease your students' learning.
Use concept mapping to:- plan your studies and career
- generate ideas (e.g., brain storming)
- communicate complex ideas (e.g., graphics for print media)
See the CITES Newsletter article on concept mapping for more information.
- The
Health Sciences Library Collaboration Center encourages discovery
of new knowledge and new ways of transmitting that knowledge through a high-resolution
display wall, SmartBoard, and videoconferencing.
- Hot Potatoes is a free software package for educators that allows you to create interactive games and exercises for students. The interface is intuitive, and there's a wide variety of activities including crossword puzzles and matching games. These activities can be exported to an external web page or Blackboard (NOTE: Activities cannot be graded automatically within Blackboard at this time).
Please contact CITES to help you identify solutions to enhance student learning.