Our second presenter at last week’s Technology Fellows presentations was Joe Schroeder from the Psychology department. Joe focused on two experimental changes he is trying this semester. First, instead of relying on a textbook, Joe has replaced the textbook with freely available online educational resources (OERs). The materials he selected, such as animations produced by…
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Workshop Recap: Technology Fellows Curricular Innovations I
A special thank you to the Technology Fellows who presented at our event last week. I think each presenter deserves his/her own blog post because the projects presented were so different and interesting. Here’s the first recap. Ann Marie Davis (History) shared new assignments she is developing in collaboration with library, special collections, and…
Don’t Miss This!
Thank you for keeping up with the daily posts last week celebrating Open Access Week! We had a great time writing the posts and finding fun and informative materials to share. There is still much to explore on this topic… but we will take a break and focus on our upcoming workshop. On Wednesday, Ann…
Literacy, Technology, and a 21st Century Curriculum
In my last post, I discussed some of my ideas for flipping the classroom in the Social Sciences/Humanities. In this post I turn to a different theme – literacy – which has surfaced as an important and recurring topic in the Technology Fellows Program (TFP) meetings. In fact, the topic has come up so often,…
On Blended Learning and Flipping the Classroom
This is a guest post written by Anthony P. Graesch, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Technology Fellow. Representing the Faculty Technology Fellows Program at Connecticut College, I recently travelled with two colleagues to attend the 2014 Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference hosted by Bryn Mawr College. The roster of presentations included 15 talks…
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…
Camp Teach & Learn Instructional Technology Related Sessions
We are very excited to be a part of this year’s Camp Teach & Learn. Here are some sessions related to instructional technology – hope to see you there! Reading Group: Teaching Naked Tuesday, May 20, 8:30 – 10:30 Didn’t read the book? Feel free to come anyway. We’ll be discussing Jose Antonio Bowen’s (President…
“Flipping” the Classroom with Web 2.0 and Social Inquiry
This is a guest post written by Technology Fellow, Ann Marie Davis, Assistant Professor of History. One of the areas that I have been exploring as a Tech Fellow draws on the practice of sociality in academic inquiry. To put it simply, good scholarship often depends on good social interface. Trying out new ideas, drawing…
Lecture Capture to Stay on Track
Today’s Technology Fellows guest post is written by Joe Schroeder, Associate Professor of Neuroscience. Inspired by one of our recent Teaching with Technology workshops, his post focuses on using easy lecture capture technologies to keep up on course content when the unexpected happens. “I have been thinking more and more about flipped classrooms since Steve…
Video and Second Language Acquisition
The Technology Fellows Program is underway! Our initial discussions have focused on social media, digital literacies, using and creating video, among other topics. We are excited to share our discussions with the broader community and will use Engage as a platform to publish guest posts written by the Fellows. Our first post is written by…