Category: Tips for Teaching with Technology

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

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

So you want to sing… Tweeting in the Classroom

Seems like everywhere we go lately everyone is all a flutter about Twitter.  From professional conferences to the boy next door, everyone seems to be doing it! Which has led some of us to wondering, “Is there a use for Twitter in the college classroom?”.  Turns out the answer is yes! Check out these great…Continue Reading So you want to sing… Tweeting in the Classroom

Free yourself from chalk dust!

Wondering what that monitor-that-doesn’t-quite-look-like-a-monitor in your classroom could be?  If it has a plastic pen attached, it’s called a Sympodium, manufactured by SMART Technologies, Inc.  If you’re thinking about trying it out this term, here are some things for you to consider: Pros. The ATC has been surveying students who participated in captured lectures (using…Continue Reading Free yourself from chalk dust!

We know you thought the world was round….

but we are here to tell you that the world is actually flat!  Not geometrically flat, that was dis-proven way back in 1521 by  Ferdinand Magellan when he circumnavigated the earth, but virtually flat. Through economy, trade, and technology we humans have succeeded in virtually flattening our world. Thomas Friedman was one of the first…Continue Reading We know you thought the world was round….