by Jessica Smith | Oct 4, 2016 | Collaboration, Google, Google Apps, Productivity, Small Teaching Tip, Teaching Advice
Collaboration and project management are important skills for college students to learn. Unfortunately, many students grumble about group work and faculty spend too much time managing logistics. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were tools that could make in-class...
by leea5 | Aug 15, 2016 | instructional technology, OAKS, OAKS Tips, Productivity, Teaching Advice, Tech Generation, TLT
Starting a new semester can be daunting but let us help you with our Start of Semester Checklist! This checklist gives you a list view of important tasks to complete to make sure your semester starts off smoothly, it also tells you how to complete most tasks. Some...
by Laura Plotts | Aug 1, 2016 | 1-1-1, Innovative Instruction, iPad, Web 2.0
This month’s faculty blogger is Heidi Collins, who is Adjunct Faculty of French in the Department of French-Francophone-Italian Studies. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Looking to...
by Laura Plotts | Feb 26, 2016 | TLT, TLTCon
I wanted to share the article 8 Engaging Ways to use Technology in the Classroom to Create Lessons That Aren’t Boring from EmergingEdTech that offers up some strategies and tools for the classroom at this time because a few ideas noted in the article will be...
by Jessica Smith | Nov 13, 2015 | Best Practices, Pedagogy
Last week, I was commiserating with an instructor about her struggle to engage students in discussion during class. “Sometimes it’s like talking to a brick wall,” she lamented. Facilitating lively conversations that require students to apply, synthesize, and...