In a recent Technology Fellows meeting, the conversation turned to the topic of e-mail. Faculty in the room expressed frustration with the burden imposed by ever-increasing e-mail inboxes. For many, messages from students, administrators, committees, and peers pile up and create a crowded inbox, with hundreds of unread or unfiled e-mails. Here are a few…
Author: Karen Gonzalez Rice
Social Media in Academia: Instagram for Engaging with Students Outside Class
During an in-class discussion early in the semester, I made an offhand comment suggesting that the course should have its own hashtag. I was surprised to notice several students nodding vigorously in agreement. Sparked by this unexpected response, I decided to create an academic Instagram account. Since my pedagogy invites students to work directly with…
Intentional uses of Social Media in Academia
This post begins a short series on uses of social media in academia. The following post was co-authored by Karen Gonzalez Rice and Anthony Graesch, with help from Jessica McCullough. Social media can be used to share, co-create, critically evaluate, and discuss ideas, all of which fall squarely within the spectrum of goals shared by…
Use Evernote to Create a Clean pdf of Your Moodle Syllabus
This semester, I followed Anthony Graesch’s advice and moved my syllabus entirely online. For all the reasons he outlined in his post, the shift from a paper-and-Moodle syllabus to a Moodle-only syllabus has been successful, and I’ll continue to do this in all of my classes in the future. However, this week I encountered a problem: how…
Digitally Record Comments on Student Projects for Faster and More Focused Feedback
Karen Gonzalez Rice, Assistant Professor of Art History and Technology Fellow, talks about her use of recording audio feedback on student work. To help solve the ongoing challenging of providing timely and detailed feedback to students, Karen started recording her comments and emailing them to students. You can hear about Karen’s process and the overwhelmingly…
Karen Gonzalez Rice on Evernote
Assistant Professor and Evernote enthusiast Karen Gonzalez Rice shares ideas for using that multifaceted tool with attendees of the recent Teaching with Technology workshop Productivity Tools to Make Work and Life Easier. Thanks, Karen, for this ringing endorsement & for taking the time to make this video! You can access the Evernote notebook we explored…