Fair warning: This post contains more questions (we like to think of them as thought-provokers) than answers about navigating the world of social media. We’d love to hear your thoughts – please comment! Can Facebook get you fired? Or maybe worse, not even hired? Boston University School of Management Professor Kabrina Chang recently spoke about…Continue Reading Responsibly using the wild, wild world of social media
YouTube meet PowerPoint!
Everyone has heard the phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words,” but sometimes a picture just does not do justice to a what is being presented in the classroom. This is where video can come in! Video has been a part of classroom educational technology since 1910 (Saettler, 2004) and its use has continued to grow…Continue Reading YouTube meet PowerPoint!
Creating Accessible Presentations
WPI has a new Director of Disability Services starting on Monday, May 2nd and in honor of our new colleague, I thought I would do a post on designing accessible presentations. First, let’s introduce and warmly welcome Aaron Ferguson! Aaron comes to WPI from Springfield College where he served as the First-Year Success Coordinator. You may…Continue Reading Creating Accessible Presentations
Cut, Paste, Fix and Repeat
Anyone who has ever tried to cut and paste a perfectly formatted Word document into myWPI (Blackboard) has probably experienced some difficulties in doing so. Cutting and pasting from word brings a good deal of HTML-like code with the text. This HTML-like code has, in the past, been the cause of endless frustrations such as…Continue Reading Cut, Paste, Fix and Repeat
Academic Continuity: Defeating the Weather with Technology
Much of the talk on campus these past few weeks have centered around the weather and the record amount of snow we have been receiving. However, the snow has incited much more than talk. In an almost unprecedented move, WPI has had to delay or cancel classes more than once this winter! With such short…Continue Reading Academic Continuity: Defeating the Weather with Technology
Coding the Web With Style
Coding the web with style In a previous post, we covered the basics of HTML, the markup language of the internet. We explored ways to divide content into different kinds of contextual containers using tags, and we saw some rudimentary formatting as a result. But how do really style the web? How do we control…Continue Reading Coding the Web With Style
Moving Forward, Looking Back – Asking Adjunct Questions in Class
“It is one thing to find out, from asking a question, that the majority do not understand. It is quite another to then summon up one’s best elucidation of the point in question, ask another question, and find the majority still do not understand.” -Louis Abrahamson in Audience Response Systems in Higher Education: Applications and…Continue Reading Moving Forward, Looking Back – Asking Adjunct Questions in Class
Wait, how did you do that again?
Does the opening question sound familiar to you? or Does this sound familiar to you: “… often students tell me that they don’t understand how to do THIS TASK when they read the book or look at their notes, but when I show them, THIS TASK seems easy. At that moment, they can immediately work…Continue Reading Wait, how did you do that again?
Avoiding Plagiarism
Plagiarism is an issue that every college campus faces at one time or another. This is not surprising according to recent data reported in an article published by Campus Technology Magazine: “Plagiarism appears to be endemic in applications, according to a recently published study by plagiarism prevention vendor iParadigms. The company examined 453,000 applications submitted…Continue Reading Avoiding Plagiarism
HOTs to LOTs in a digital world
As D-Term approaches, we know that many of you are working on revamping your Syllabi. One of the areas on your syllabus that you may be looking at is the course objective section. Course objectives are a great way for us to communicate our expectations to the students while providing guidance for the direction of…Continue Reading HOTs to LOTs in a digital world