Faculty are using Twitter in very interesting and exciting ways in their classes! This was the major takeaway from our Twitter for Teaching workshop last Friday afternoon. We asked each of our four discussants to discuss three aspects of their Twitter experience: pedagogy, assessment and organization. Here is a very brief summary of how each…
Today at 1:15 PM: Twitter for Teaching
Join us TODAY for our second Teaching with Technology event, Teaching with Twitter. Hear from four colleagues who are using Twitter in exciting ways: Steve Luber (Theater), Ariella Rotramel (Gender and Women’s Studies), Luis Gonzalez (Hispanic Studies), and Hisae Kobayashi (East Asian Languages & Cultures). We will be meeting in the Haines Room, Shain Library…
Are students #TextbookBroke?
With the rising costs of textbooks (3 times the rate of inflation or over 1000% since 1977), more students choose not to or are simply unable to purchase them. You are probably aware of this phenomenon from recent articles in the Chronicle, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post, NBC, or from the hashtag…
Workshop Your Assignments with Us on Thursday!
We haven’t even had a full week of classes, but our first Teaching with Technology event is happening this Thursday! The timing is deliberate because we’ll be workshopping this semester’s assignments together. If you are incorporating technology into an assignment, new or old, join us in the Haines Room on September 10th from 10:30-11:30. Coffee,…
Sign up for our Reading Group!
We are excited to hold our first ever reading group! We will be reading Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology this semester and invite you to discuss the book with us over lunch. Minds Online is “an outstanding new book…for truly effective teaching with technology” (Chronicle of Higher Education). Participation is limited to 10 faculty and…
Technologies for Making Appointments and Learning Student Names
As a Technology Fellow, I have been working to find ways to incorporate new technologies into my classes and assignments. With the semester about to begin, I wanted to share two simple technologies that have consistently been saving me a lot of time and frustration. While the first simply limits the number of emails in my inbox (using Google…
Fall 2015 Workshops & Special Events
Planning your semester? Add these dates to your calendar! This is a list of instructional technology events open to faculty and staff. Find more information, including registration forms, by clicking on the workshop titles. Thursday, September 10, 10:30-11:30 Workshop Your Technology Assignments Haines Room, Second Floor, Shain Library Friday, September 18, 1:15-2:30 Twitter for Teaching…
The Return of the “Digital Natives” – r u ready? ;)
The relative quiet of summer gives faculty time to think deeply and ambitiously about course structure and assignments. Whether you’re developing a new course or tweaking a familiar one, the syllabus likely includes technology-dependent activities – maybe the familiar Moodle discussion board or a novel hashtag project. As you put on the finishing touches and…
Fall 2015: What’s New with Moodle? (Part 3)
We are excited to introduce the new Library Resources Block for Moodle (pictured above). The block connects your students to a librarian and to library resources right within the Moodle environment. Our goal for creating the block is to provide research support at a student’s point of need. If you wish to include the block…
Fall 2015: What’s New with Moodle? (Part 2)
When you log into Moodle to set up your Fall courses, if you look closely, you’ll notice a new text editor appearing. This new text editor is called Atto, and replaces the previous text editor, TinyMCE. If you find that Atto isn’t working well for you, you can always change your preferred editor back to…