In an era marked by rapid technological advancements in education, the ancient Greek concept of τέχνη (techne) emerges as a guiding light. This concept, translating to ‘art,’ ‘craft,’ or ‘skill,’ offers profound insights into how we approach technologies in teaching, learning, and research today. This blog post explores the relationship between τέχνη and modern educational technologies, highlighting how this age-old concept can enhance our understanding and use of these tools.
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Availability: University owned computers
Perceptive Content (formerly known as ImageNow) is a document management system used to track and store electronic documents. It uploads, organizes, and stores documents and content. This can include items such as email, electronic files, multimedia, XML and hundreds of other formats in addition to scanned documents.
Availability: UNC Charlotte Canvas
Comparable: Camtasia Studio, Screencast-O-Matic, BB Flashback Pro, Screenflow, Expression Encoder
Kaltura CaptureSpace is a video and screencast presentation tool. Kaltura CaptureSpace is available in UNC Charlotte’s Canvas instance. The tool has the ability to record a multimedia presentation, record screen and voice, record screen and video, record from a webcam, or record audio only. Captions can be added to the video through Canvas’ My Media link. Videos can also be embedded on a Canvas page and streamed from the external Katura server, optimizing playback and saving storage space in the Canvas course.
Interactive quizzes can be added to existing Kaltura videos.