Archive for November 2010

Announcing ContentBoxer 1.1

We’re rolling out a whole bunch of user-requested features today! Here’s a list of some of the bigger ones:

  • Box ordering. The Box Settings page now has an “Order” field where you can enter any positive or negative integer. When your boxes are displayed in a group, this number is used to sort them.
  • Disable registration. Set disable registration to “Yes” to allow people to access the content in a box without registering. Anonymous statistics are still gathered for the user, allowing you to see how many times the content was accessed.
  • Disable box image. Set disable box image to “Yes” to hide the image associated with your content box.
  • Scheduled Publish / Unpublish. These are date fields (on the Box Settings page) that, if set, will be used to determine whether or not a Content Box is active.
  • Box Clone: a simple button in the Box Manager that allows you to make a copy of a ContentBox’s settings to create a new Content Box.
  • Tags: a new field for entering a comma-separated list of keywords associated with your ContentBox. These keywords are used for search engine optimization and to create custom RSS feeds.

Each of these new features came from user feedback we’ve gotten since our beta launch. Are there any new features you’d like to see or do you have ideas for how we can improve existing features? Let us know!

Classroom Video: Tools and Strategies to Engage Students in Learning

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This eBook is a guide to understanding student engagement, strategies that work, and how to use and integrate a particularly effective tool in this digital age: video in the classroom. Video is shaping the world around us. Students watch videos and should understand what they see and learn how to create effective videos. Addressing student engagement means turning tools for personal enjoyment into tools for engaged learning.