Ensemble is WPI’s online video platform – like an internal YouTube. WPI community members can request space in the system for creating their own repository of videos which further educational goals. Many instructors are already using Ensemble, from System Dynamics to Fire Protection to Biology. Like YouTube, users can create playlists. Playlists can have neat…Continue Reading Custom Ordering Playlists in Ensemble
Lecture Capture: This Time It’s Personal
There are many reasons to explore contingency planning for your class lectures and anyone who was in Worcester last winter can remember a particularly cold one. But even if you’re not trapped behind a sheet of ice you may still want to find a way to deliver course content to your students remotely. One tool that…Continue Reading Lecture Capture: This Time It’s Personal
Poster Printing! Best Practices to Ensure You Make a Poster that Effectively Communicates Your Ideas
This week we have invited Ellen Lincourt, Master of Posters (seriously, this should be an official bullet in her job description!), to contribute to our blog. Ellen is generally the first person you will meet when you come to the main ATC office in Fuller Labs. Not only does she coordinate the poster printing services…Continue Reading Poster Printing! Best Practices to Ensure You Make a Poster that Effectively Communicates Your Ideas
Welcome back WPI Faculty!
Hope everyone’s first week is going smoothly! Last Wednesday TTL was able to meet with new faculty members at WPI and give them an overview of the services we offer from Technology for Teaching and Learning @ the ATC. It got me thinking that we should give the same refresher to our returning faculty! Such is the…Continue Reading Welcome back WPI Faculty!
Create Competition with Clickers
Did you know that you can divide your class and form teams with clickers during your PowerPoint lecture? You can! Adding in teams, who will be competing through out the lecture, will add a heightened focus as our inner need to compete is strong. If you are already familiar with creating PowerPoint clicker questions –…Continue Reading Create Competition with Clickers
The app that we’ve all been waiting for is here! Echo360 for Tablets!!
Over the past few years, the ATC has fielded requests from many instructors concerning how they might record annotated videos using their tablets. And have them publish to their myWPI site using Echo360, our lecture capturing system. For the earlier, we always recommended the iPad app “Explain Everything.” However, for the latter, we never had a great…Continue Reading The app that we’ve all been waiting for is here! Echo360 for Tablets!!
myWPI Update Completed 11/26
During our morning maintenance window on 11/26, our System Administrators were able to successfully deploy a fix to the myWPI Grade Center. We had several reports over the past month that e-mail was unable to be delivered to students via Grade Center. E-mail can now once again be sent from Grade Center in myWPI. Please…Continue Reading myWPI Update Completed 11/26
Check out these 3 great features of PDF Annotator!
On the classroom podiums you will find 2 programs that will allow you to mark up PDFs as well as Powerpoint presentations and other files – Smart Notebook and PDF Annotator. Alright! So lets start with why I’m focusing on PDF Annotator and not Smart Notebook. At some point in the near future WPI will…Continue Reading Check out these 3 great features of PDF Annotator!
I’m also new to the ATC TTL group! I’m Jess!
Hello! I am Jess Baer and I will be supporting all things Clicker and Qualtrics related! I’ll also be doing my best to support all the different software and hardware the Academic Technology Center offers to students and faculty. I’ve spent the last 7 years doing what I love as a technology trainer for Natick…Continue Reading I’m also new to the ATC TTL group! I’m Jess!
New ATC TTL group member introduction!
Hi everyone! I am Lindsey (Tapper) Van Gieson, the new myWPI guru for the ATC. I have a broad background in instructional technology, my most recent experience managing and supporting the Content Management System at Tufts Medical School- and less recently Classroom and A/V support for the Tufts Medford campus. I worked at Tufts University…Continue Reading New ATC TTL group member introduction!