R. Jack Fishman Library: mHumanities: mAcademic Divisions

Division Mobilization Activities

SPAN 2010 - Field Trip to Migrant Head Start
Link to photos of students on a field trip to Head Start
Spanish Class Field Trip into the Community
Pictures of Spanish Class Mobilizing the Community
Sharing Student Written Picture Books in Spanish
Photos of Spanish Students Sharing Their Picture Books

Department Heads Flip Classrooms

Photo Gallery

Apps for Instructors

AirBeam
Good tool to share student work by projecting through iPad.
Art Authority for iPad
Art Authority for iPad transports you to an enthralling, real-world art museum filled with works by over 1,000 of the western world's greatest artists, from ancient times to today.
Fotopedia National Parks
See the US National Parks on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. An extraordinary collection of 3,000 stunning photos by renowned professional photographer QT Luong.
GoDocs for Google Docs
The Ultimate solution for Google Docs™, Google Drive™
Goodnotes
GoodReader for iPad
GoodReader has earned its accolades by the way it handles huge PDF and TXT files, manuals, large books, magazines, and renderings of 100 mb and more with great speed. The ability to mark-up PDFs opens up new doors to GoodReader users who can now use typewriter text boxes, sticky notes, lines, arrows, and freehand drawings on top of a PDF file.
Introducing Ethics - A Graphic Guide
Introducing Ethics is one of the Introducing Graphic Guides, an award-winning collection of books that employ text and graphics to explore the biggest ideas mankind has ever come up with. The app transforms the 174 page book into an interactive format enjoyable on iPhone or iPad, also featuring notes, comments and social sharing capabilities.
Introducing Philosophy - A Graphic Guide
Introducing Philosophy is one of the Introducing Graphic Guides, an award-winning collection of books that employ text and graphics to explore the biggest ideas mankind has ever come up with.
Jump Desktop (Remote Desktop) This app allows an instructor to access their office computer from a remote site. It is also used in remote lectures to control the classroom computer. Excellent tool
Keynote
Keynote is the most powerful presentation app ever designed for a mobile device. Built from the ground up for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, it makes creating a world-class presentation — complete with animated charts and transitions — as simple as touching and tapping.
Memory of Colors presented by Fotopedia
The amazing colors of humankind’s last treasures. A message of peace, tolerance and respect for the people threatened by globalization.
Mobile Recorder
Mobile Recorder HD has an simple and intuitive user interface for moving through your recordings. You can directly position within your recording by moving the play-head position, or you can move the jog-wheel control forwards or backwards to fast-forward or rewind through your recording at half-speed, full-speed or double-speed.
Philosophy - Oxford Dictionary
The Gambler's Fallacy, the Dirty Hands Argument, Pascal's Wager--philosophical terms can be both intriguing and baffling. Now, eminent philosopher Simon Blackburn offers the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of philosophy.
Qrafter- QR Code Reader and Generator
ShowMe Excellent whiteboard tool for short audio/video presentations of sample problems and concept discussion.
Sign-N-Send Designed as an app that permits document signatures, the WSCC faculty use to grade students documents that have been submitted electronically. Saves as a PDF.
Sketch Club
Everyone needs a drawing app and if you get just one it should totally be Sketch Club!! It combines standard digital painting and drawing tools, vector art, old school pixel art, and also new procedural tools which help you get amazing results even if you're new to working digitally.
World Mythology - Oxford Dictionary
A Dictionary of World Mythology presents the powerful gods of Greece, Rome, and Scandinavia, the more mystical deities of Buddhist and Hindu India, and the stern spirits of the African and American continents together in one fascinating application.
Hinduism - Oxford Dictionary
Dictionary covers all aspects of Hinduism, including practices, festivals, beliefs, gods, sacred sites, languages, and religious texts--everything from Tantra to temples, from bhakti to Divali.
Merriam Webster Dictionary
Cloud On
Rover
Today's Document
Flipboard
Pearson e Text
Easy QR
History of Jazz
Virtuoso
Scorio Music Notator
UKIYOE
Peason E-Text

iPads as Recording Devices in Debate

Mobilization Tools

iPad The Natural Science Division utilizes a combination of iPad 2 and New iPads within our classrooms for testing and with apps for visual tools. We have 6 classroom sets of 30 iPads housed within a Bretford cart.
iPevo Point 2 View Document Camera The educational cost is $62 per camera. We purchase a case for each camera. Great for photos and as a camera for video-recording.
Camtasia Studio WSCC has a volume purchase discount with annual license renewals.
Prezi Presentation Cloud-based presentation software that provides a zoomable canvas.
Vernier Technology WSCC uses this technology is biology, chemistry and physic courses to support hands-on lab experiments.
Adobe Connect
Mastering by Pearson
Livescribe Echo Smartpen Records audio/video demonstrations that our chemists and physicists use for practice problems presentations that uploads to our learning management system.
Bretford iPad Cart
Airstrap by Griffin
Survivor Case for iPad
Apple TV We use in classroom and conference presentations. If the classroom projector does not interface, we use HDMI adapter to interface with any VCR.
HDMI Video Converter
We use this converter to activate Apple TV through VCR in classrooms that have projectors that do not have HDMI capabilities.
Jambox Speaker

Featured App

Track180

Track180 is a news aggregator that allows students to access the latest news articles and helps them to generate ideas for essay topics. The sources are credible, and it serves as a fantastic jump start to their research.

Mac Lab Impact

Quality Matters and Mobilization

Quality Matters

The Quality Matters program uses a nationally recognized rubric that evaluates courses to be sure that students are actively engaged in learning assessments and activities that are directly aligned with the learning outcomes for the course. Thus, the rubric serves as a good guide to gauge the impact of mobilization tools inside and outside the classroom and helps faculty to determine whether a mobile tool aligns with the learning objectives that a student needs to master.

Click here to visit the Quality Matters website.

So far, six Humanities faculty members have completed two or more Quality Matters Training Courses.

Conference Presentations

TASSR Learning Support

Dickson, TN

October 24, 2012

Mobilization in Reading and Writing Classrooms

Candace Daniel Justice

2012 MTSU Mobilization Summit

MTSU - Murfeesboro, TN

October 15, 2012

Using Apps in the Music Classroom
Elissa Keck

2012 TYCAT

Dickson, TN

October 5, 2012

Mobilization in Dev. Writing, Comp. I, and Comp. II

Sherri Jacobs, Candace Justice, and Christie Wilson

Rocky Mountain Conference on Graphic Novels

Denver, CO

June 14th, 2012

How Comics and iPads Can Save an Intro. to Lit. Course

Christie Wilson

Hamblen Co. Foreign Lang. and ESL Training

Hamblen County, TN

May 25, 2012

Michelle Mitrik

Mobile Learning Mini-Conference

Roane State

March 30, 2012

Mobile Teaching Tools for Humanities

Michelle Mitrik

Mobilization in Reading and Writing
This is a PowerPoint presentation given by Candace Justice on using mobilization in Developmental Courses.
Mobilization in Comp. I
This is a PowerPoint presentation given by Christie Wilson on using mobile devices to teach writing.
Comics and iPads
This is a PowerPoint on using the iPad to teach concepts in literature.

Spanish Class Field Trip

Facetime with Speaker in Spanish Class

Instructional Practices and Design

WSCC Staff at 2012 CES
Video of WS Faculty at CES.
Mobilization in Art Classroom
Link to photos of mobilization in Art Class
Mobilization in Spanish Classroom
Links to photos of mobilization in Spanish Class
Educreations Video on MLA
This is a link to a video demonstration of how to create and incorporate MLA citations into an essay.

mHumanities: mAcademic Divisions