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 [...]
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 [...]
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):
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 [...]
Download the full PDF of the Newsletter: TLTNewsletterApr2013.pdf Topics for this month include: How Tech is Changing College Life Apply now for the Maymester FTI GoodNotes and more GoodNotes Bye Bye Google Reader Here is a quick preview (click to download full PDF):
Tom Kunkle, an Associate Professor of Mathematics at CofC, and all-around good guy, writes here about his experiences with GoodNotes in the Math Classroom. For instruction, he balances the tech gamut from chalk to the iPad, and (spoiler alert) the technology does not necessarily win out in the end. Of all the applications we saw [...]
There are many varied opinions (and some myths) about the characteristics and capabilities of current students. In fact, there is no single accepted label for Americans born after 1990: Net Generation, Digital Natives, and the Tech Generation are all referring to the same demographic. However, here are three commonly held beliefs about this generation of [...]
With the most recent Faculty Technology Institute still fresh in our minds, we are still thinking about techniques to engage our #TechGeneration students. From the teaching perspective, there will always be an issue of ageism (“Get off my lawn!”), and there will always be content dependent issues (teaching Art versus Chemistry). However, as illustrated by [...]
MOOCs are the buzz-ronym of the moment. The media hype, combined with the accelerated trajectory of the movement, seems to be pressing the information / decisions / alliances faster than a twitter feed. But rather than try to summarize these seismic vibrations in the educational technology landscape, here is a brief overview / history in links: [...]
The following guest post by Dr. Kate Owens of the CofC Math Department. The original post (and comments) can be found at her CofC Blog: http://blogs.cofc.edu/owensks/ I have six days of teaching left this year. I have finished the last round of midterm exam grading. Committees are meeting to talk about writing the common final examinations. At [...]
