Welcome to Eyejot!

I discovered Eyejot after reading an article in this morning's online Chronicle about the recent Sloan-C conference on technology and teaching.  There's other good stuff in the article, FYI, about using social networking (especially Facebook) as a teaching tool.

But one conference contributor suggested the use of video updates for students, as a means to potentially increase the level of student engagement with things like assignment reminders and course updates. Since a key concern in my project is the potential impacts of blended learning technologies and strategies on perceptions of teacher immediacy and social presence, this option sounded really attractive -- instead of reading verbal text that's easy to ignore and delete, students can see my face and hear my voice as I provide a brief message of explanation and reminder.  As well, as you can see, you can get embed code for the video file so you can put in in, say, a Moodle course page.

Later on, I'll post a brief tutorial video on how this works.  Like any good online tool, the basic version is free!  Check it out.