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Using My iPad and Splice To Teach Students a Practical Skill
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 [...]
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Using Dropbox in Teaching and Research
For this guest post to the TLT Blog, Dr. Ana Oprisan, who received this year’s CofC Distinguished Teaching Award, reflects on her use of Dropbox.com both inside and outside of the classroom: During the summer of 2012, I attended a weeklong session of the summer Faculty Technology Institute (FTI) that presented new potential technologies for [...]
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Problem Based Learning
Leena Karambelkar attended the Spring 2012 FTI and after that experience decided to try a Problem Based Learning assignment, a strategy that was covered in the FTI. Here is what she had to say about that decision: PBL: Empowering students by bringing more creativity, curiosity and interest to my Hindi Language classes Among the methods [...]
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Using an iPad Keyboard for Math LaTex
The following guest post is from CofC Math Department’s Stephane Lafortune. As hinted at in the post, his research is highly technical; his most recent work through the NSF is RUI: Stability analysis for soliton solutions of the Vortex Filament Equation and beyond I recently acquired an iPad and then was awarded an Ungrant for the [...]
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Introducing Evernote to Graduate Students
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 [...]
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Screencasting take two
Back in September 2011 Instructional Technologist Mendi Benigni did a post on screen-casting (simply put, screen-casting is the act of recording the activity on a computer screen. Any action a user makes on their screen can be recorded as a video). As you leave for the summer and soon start to plan your classes for [...]
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May 2013 Newsletter
Download the full PDF of the May 2013 Newsletter: TLT Newsletter: May 2013.pdf Topics for this month include: Good Times with GoodNotes PBL and Twitter OAKS Discussions in the Classroom Faculty Final Exam Here is a quick preview (click to download full PDF):
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Google+ Hangouts On Air
A Google+ hangout feature that is now available in the CofC Google Apps for Education Suite is Hangouts On Air. This feature allows you to live broadcast, and record your hangout with just a few clicks. Over the past couple years we have seen the demand for web conferencing in the classroom grow. Instructors are [...]
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Faculty Final Exam ... Twitter Style
With the end of the 2012-2013 school year approaching, we thought a Final Exam for the CofC Faculty would be fun (and a good distraction from grading exams). Via Twitter, using the hashtag #CofCFacultyFinal, please tell us the most important thing you learned this year as a Faculty at CofC. All entries are due by [...]
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