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Examples of Media in Education: Shaping Curriculum
A few years ago, I worked with a professor to plan an interactive media component to help students with the concepts of a chemistry lab that spanned several weeks and several experiments. The professor found that students were having a hard time figuring out which data to use in what way when they reached the final experiment.
Continue reading >Trends in Online Education: More predictions
April 5, 2012
It must be the season for predictions! Jes posted yesterday about the Horizon Report, and there is more to come! In the meantime, our neighbors to the north have some thoughts as well. Sir John Daniels of Ontario’s Distance Education Network Contact North introduces three trends he thinks will have a high impact on higher [...]
Continue reading >The Pluses and Minuses of Sharing Your Stuff in Google Hangout
March 21, 2012
It’s not even a year into Google+’s life, and it already has a storied existence of battling Facebook. But in the social media ruckus, a useful tool seemed to pop out over all the +1s—Google Hangout. Hangout is Google’s take on a conferencing web application—with it, you can create a virtual space to share video, [...]
Continue reading >Think green!
March 14, 2012
As we approach the Sustainability poster competition, held during April – or “Earth Month” – I thought it would be appropriate to have a “green” blog post. (Plus, even though I’m not Irish, St. Patrick’s Day is this coming weekend!) So, how can you adopt more environmentally friendly practices into your teaching and research? There [...]
Continue reading >Wikipedia! Wikipedia… Wikipedia??
January 18, 2012
While we all acknowledge that Wikipedia is not primary literature and should not be cited as a resource in most academically oriented works, we also are cognizant that Wikipedia is the first stop for many of our students on the way to more in depth research. Not today! Today Wikipedia’s English language site is in blackout mode! Why you might ask? It political [...]
Continue reading >Rethinking composition: Bring on the audio!
December 16, 2011
As we head off to the holiday break many of us are thinking about how courses will run in the Spring semester. For some it is logistical question, but for others it may be larger questions of course delivery and project design. I was reminded recently of an interesting article in EDUCAUSE Quarterly on rethinking [...]
Continue reading >Welcome back!
August 25, 2011
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Happy first day of school! We look forward to seeing you this year and working together on all of your teaching and learning technology needs! We hope that you have a great day!
Continue reading >The New Kid on the Social Media Block: Google+
July 7, 2011
As many of you are already aware, Google has decided to throw its (metaphorical) hat into the social media realm. There has been great hype over Google’s newest foray with news outlets both TV and Internet covering the beta release of the new Google+. Wait, Beta? Yeah that’s right, Google+ is still in a limited [...]
Continue reading >What might your reCAPTCHA be helping with next?
June 22, 2011
Back in April we posted on the ways in which reCAPTCHA, an anti-spam mechanism, was helping Google to digitize many older novels as well as the the entire New York Times archive. Well, now that it has been a few months we wondered: ‘what might reCAPTCHA be helping with next?’ Turns out approximately 250,000 books from the British Library! [...]
Continue reading >The ATC TTL Group Welcomes their newest member!
June 20, 2011
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The Academic Technology Center’s Technology for Teaching and Learning (TTL) Group has grown! We would like to welcome Joseph Cotnoir, the newest member of our team. Joe joins us as an Instructional Technology Support Specialist, and will be extending the support hours of the TTL group by working evenings and some Saturdays throughout the year. Joe [...]
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May 3, 2012
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