Tag Archives: FTI

Using My iPad and Splice To Teach Students a Practical Skill

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Mendi Benigni

This month’s guest blogger is Dr. Denis Keyes from the Department of Teacher Education in the School of Education, Health, & Human Performance. I wasn’t really sure how I was going to use the iPad we received from the FTI last year, as I tend to be more of a “traditional lecturer” than an “innovative [...] Continue reading →

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Introducing Evernote to Graduate Students

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Mendi Benigni

This week’s FTI Guest Blogger is Dr. Christine Finnan in Teacher Education & Anthropoplogy. Evernote was one of the many tools shared at the 2012 summer Faculty Technology Institute. I began using it after the FTI to clip articles that are relevant to my teaching and research. I like it because it is easy to [...] Continue reading →

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Susan Flynn Talks About PBL and Twitter in Her Class

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Mendi Benigni

This week’s FTI guest blogger is Susan Flynn from Teacher Education in the School of Education, Health, and Human Performance. I have been teaching in post-secondary education for over 17 years. I continue to seek out opportunities to learn, improve, and adapt my teaching strategies and delivery of content to engage the ever-changing college student [...] Continue reading →

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Good Times with GoodNotes

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Mendi Benigni

This month’s FTI guest blogger is Dr. Emily Neil Skinner from Teacher Education. Attending the Faculty Technology Institute 2012: Teaching the Tech Generation last summer was reminiscent of going to the Cooper River Bridge Pre-Race Expo. Or seeing Cirque de Soleil. Like the race expo, there was so much to see and try on- only [...] Continue reading →

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Combining the Wonder Twin Powers of GoodNotes and AirSketch

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Mendi Benigni

GoodNotes and AirSketch are iPad apps that allow you to draw and annotate but they both have different strengths and weaknesses.  Dr. Richard Nunan in Philosophy came up with a great idea to combine these two amazing apps.  For his class he wanted to create Venn diagrams that his students would then complete as a [...] Continue reading →

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