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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Another of our FTI 2012 attendees, Dr. Adam Mendelsohn, shares how he decided to incorporate technology after the FTI. In the semester following the FTI, I spent some time mulling how to incorporate technology into my teaching. I’ve long used digital slide presentations (steering clear of the constricting hand of PowerPoint) and webtools (such as [...]
This month’s FTI guest blogger is Dr. Emily Neil Skinner from Teacher Education. Attending the Faculty Technology Institute 2012: Teaching the Tech Generation last summer was reminiscent of going to the Cooper River Bridge Pre-Race Expo. Or seeing Cirque de Soleil. Like the race expo, there was so much to see and try on- only [...]
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 [...]
Download the full PDF of the Newsletter: TLTNewsletterMar2013 Topics for this month include: Using YouCanBook.Me for Scheduling Attention iPad Users! (note-taking apps) Reading and Marking up PDF Texts for Teaching: Observations on Using iAnnotate (Mike Duvall) QR Code Safety Here is a quick preview (click to download full PDF):
Back in October of 2011 the College of Charleston announced the availability of Google Apps for College faculty and staff and one of the many features, Google Reader, will no longer be available after July 1, 2013. If you’d like to download a copy of all your Reader data before then, you can do so through Google Takeout, click [...]
