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):
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 [...]
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 [...]
Our guest blogger this week is Dr. Mike Flynn, chair of the Department of Health and Human Performance. After attending the FTI in 2012 Dr. Flynn implemented both AirSketch and GoodNotes which are note taking/whiteboard apps that will allow you to annotate on PDFs. In this post he talks about his experiences implementing these iPad apps [...]
I had a conversation with a new professor this week. Although she was new to teaching, she was knowledgeable, enthusiastic, passionate, creative…everything that we look for in our new CofC faculty. Listen in on part of our conversation when she met me (her friendly neighborhood instructional technologist) for the first time: New Faculty Member: Oh, [...]
Teaching, Learning and Technology and Academic Affairs are hosting the next Faculty Roundtable Discussion on January 24, 2013. Mark your calendars! The faculty will describe how they re-worked their lessons and give a demo of the the tools that they’ve used. This will be a fun, fast-paced, informative session; and will provide you with the [...]
Good news! The College now has a Sloan Consortium (Sloan C) Institutional Membership, provided by Teaching, Learning and Technology. The Sloan C is an institutional and professional leadership organization that is committed to quality online education in higher ed. Sloan C offers a variety of conferences and workshops to help improve online programs. You can learn more [...]
Yes, you read that correctly! The Tech Happens! Un-Grant™ is now accepting applications for January! THIS IS GREAT NEWS! But wait … What is the Tech Happens! Un-Grant™ you say? And what do you mean by Tech Happens!? (and is that a clever play on the other thing that often Happens!?) And it seems strange [...]
We’ve all heard that the iPad is a wonderful tool for teaching and learning in the classroom. Technology keeps students engaged while the mobile access allows for students to participate in active learning experiences outside the confines of a four-walled classroom. However, according to an article in eCampus News, only 7% of college students in [...]
Teaching, Learning and Technology and Academic Affairs are hosting the next Faculty Roundtable Discussion on January 24, 2013. Mark your calendars! This is a great opportunity to hear from your colleagues about how they’re utilizing technology to make their classes more engaging! We’ll have food and beverages for you to enjoy! Date: January 24, 2013 [...]
