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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
QR codes can be a fun and easy way to get new information, store coupons, or learn of great websites. I mean, who can resist scanning a QR code? I know I can’t. However, as with anything good someone has to find a way to ruin it for the rest of us. Enter the cyber [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
I saw this gadget at the ISTE 2012 Conference this summer and thought it would be a cool tool for anyone who is interested in recording their lectures. Swivl is a very small swiveling camera holder that allows you to easily record yourself. If you use an iOS device and the tracking device then the [...]
One of the showcases at the recent TLT Faculty Social was Augmented Reality. Augmented Reality refers to the addition of a computer-assisted contextual layers (3D objects, etc) of information over the real world, creating a reality that is enhanced or augmented. This is typically done using some sort of mobile device that has an integrated webcam [...]
Last week Laura Plotts and I gave a FTI 2 Go session on using Student Created Mobile Video in your classes. In this session we gave tips for successful filming, editing, and sharing and provided many resources such as rubrics, release forms, and free audio and video resources that are copyright free. Since several people [...]
BatchGeo is the “fastest way to create Google maps from your data.” All you need to do is to copy and paste location-based spreadsheet data into the BatchGeo textbox and click “Map Now” and you’ve got a map of all the locations in the spreadsheet. It not only creates a pin on the map but it [...]
