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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Source: A TeacherView Survey by ClassroomWindow and the Flipped Learning Network: Conducted June, 2012
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 [...]
Pecha Kucha is a simple presentation format devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham where you show 20 slides or images, each for only 20 second. The images or slides advance automatically to keep you on time and you can only talk about each slide or image while it’s being displayed. Designed to keep presentations [...]
Reversing (a.k.a. flipping) your classroom is a form of blended learning in which faculty move much of the traditional lecture and in-class information delivery to the web for the student to view outside of class. This in turn allows the professor to spend more time interacting with students in the classroom. That classroom time is used to [...]
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 [...]
