iPad’s are becoming popular education tools. This workshop will provide hands-on training with iPads. We will discuss not only the advantages of iPads in the classroom, but also the apps that can be used for teaching.
Available Dates:
Mar. 28, 10am – 11am
Mar. 29, 1pm – 2pm
To sign-up email John-Mark Ikeda at, jikeda@law.berkeley.edu.
Please specify date and time. If you are unable to make these dates, please contact us and we can make arrangements for a personal consultation.
Powerpoint and Keynote are essential presentation tools. Learn how to make an effective presentation by using best-practice tips. Attendees will also have an opportunity to ask questions about using Powerpoint and Keynote, along with other resources like Google Docs.
Available Dates:
Apr. 4, 10am – 11am
Apr. 5, 1pm – 2pm
To sign-up email John-Mark Ikeda at, jikeda@law.berkeley.edu.
Please specify date and time. If you are unable to make these dates, please contact us and we can make arrangements for a personal consultation.
The Advanced RedDot workshop will cover how to create pages along with adding new page elements. Learn best-practice tips and discuss how an entire site can be built into the law.berkeley.edu website.
Available Dates:
Mar. 23, 1pm – 2pm
Apr. 6, 1pm – 2pm
Apr. 20, 1pm – 2pm
To sign-up email John-Mark Ikeda at, jikeda@law.berkeley.edu.
Please specify date and time. If you are unable to make these dates, please contact us and we can make arrangements for a personal consultation.
With the ubiquity of web camera’s and mobile internet, people are able to connect with one another from anywhere around the world. In this workshop, You will learn how a guest speaker from across the country can use their laptop or iPad to present in front of your class. You’ll also experience how they can share Powerpoints and documents, all while taking questions from students.
Available Dates:
Apr. 25, 10am – 11am
Apr. 26, 1pm – 2pm
To sign-up email John-Mark Ikeda at, jikeda@law.berkeley.edu.
Please Specify date and time. If you are unable to make these dates, please contact us and we can make arrangements for a personal consultation.
Learn how you can uses the technology that students already have to allow them to respond to questions and take polls in class. Using Poll Everywhere, students can respond to questions using their laptops, smart phones or even by text message. Poll everywhere lets you show the results and even take text responses to questions. During this workshop, I’ll show you how to quickly create questions using Poll Everywhere, display dynamic results, to improve student engagement.
Available Dates:
Apr. 18, 10am – 11am
Apr. 19, 1pm – 2pm
To sign-up email John-Mark Ikeda at, jikeda@law.berkeley.edu.
Please specify date and time. If you are unable to make these dates, please contact us and we can make arrangements for a personal consultation.
Traditional slide presentations move in a linear fashion, from beginning to end. While this form is effective for a simple lecture, it is less effective at addressing complex topics. Learn how to easily move through your presentation in a dynamic way with Prezi. While you can still create a linear flow through a Prezi, it is interactive, allowing you to change course quickly and easily. I’ll show you how to make a quick Prezi and talk about the benefits of non-linear presentations.
Available Dates:
Apr. 11, 10am – 11am
Apr. 12, 1pm – 2pm
To sign-up email John-Mark Ikeda at, jikeda@law.berkeley.edu.
Please specify date and time. If you are unable to make these dates, please contact us and we can make arrangements for a personal consultation.
Prezi rethinks slide presentations. While Prezis can have a linear flow, they also can produce interactive and non-linear presentations. Presenters can zoom into slides for more detail and easily pan from one area to another. Prezis can also be far more creative with the way information is displayed.
Think of Prezi as more like a large canvas, with groups of information on it, rather than just a deck of slides. Images and graphics, even text can be displayed in ways that reinforce the concepts you are teaching. Animations and the ability to dynamically move between content on your Prezi, makes it also more interesting to watch as an attendee.
Presenting flowcharts or complex systems with a Prezi would transform a static image to an interactive and engaging learning experience. For more information on Prezi, visit www.prezi.com, or contact John-Mark Ikeda at jikeda@law.berkeley.edu
LectureTools allows teachers to create slide presentations, with interactive tools to improve student engagement. Leveraging technology that students already own, LectureTools allows students to follow along with slides on their computers, take notes, respond to polls or quizzes and type questions to the instructor.
After class students can study with their notes and the slides that were presented in class and you can respond to student questions that you may have received.
LectureTools requires student to purchase a subscription, which is $15 for a semester. For more information on LectureTools visit, www.lecturetools.com.
If you are interested in using LectureTools in your classroom, we would be excited to support you in this endeavor.
For more information on this and other tools to improve student engagement through interactivity, contact John-Mark Ikeda at jikeda@law.berkeley.edu
A multiple choice question appears on the projector and all of the sudden you hear the clicking of 34 different remotes — each click representing a vote from a student in the class. Steve Weissman stands in the front of the class and after he closes the poll a chart is displayed on the screen. The results are surprising. After a short moment, Weissman initiates an engaging discussion about the results.
Weissman teaches Energy Regulation and the Environment and several other courses here at UC
Using iPad’s in the classroom opens many new and exciting opportunities. They are portable, easy to use and there are a wealth of apps. One of the challenges that we have encountered though, was finding an app that would allow faculty to not only present Powerpoint files, but annotate them during class. To our excitement, Explain Everything appears to fit that need.
