Goodreader and Organization
January 25, 2013
As I prepared for my research, I sought out a tool to help me electronically organize the journal articles I was reading. I wrote about that experience in Faculty Focus which published the article today.
Finalizing Fall Teaching
December 13, 2011
It’s been a great semester! Your students were at the top of their game, and you were at the top of yours. Now for the winter break.
Now is the perfect time to consider the role of technology in your courses. The first question you might consider is how are you using technology currently? Do you use Blackboard, email, netfiles or PowerPoint? If so, how are you using those technologies?
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Learning@Richmond November 2011 Issue
November 1, 2011
If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future issues, please contact the Learning@Richmond editor, Dr. Matthew Trevett-Smith.
November 2011 Issue
Faculty and staff from across the University of Richmond were invited to participate in an informative networking event sponsored by Boatwright Library and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology that aimed to highlight innovative strategies in teaching, learning, and creativity.
Erika Damer (Classical Studies), Joe Essid (The Writing Center), Suzanne Jones (English), Jeannine Keefer (Art), and Melissa Ooten (Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies) discussed their experiences using tools such as iPods, Digital Stories, Google Maps, and WordPress blogs, and how these various technologies have encouraged student collaboration, active engagement, and stronger research and writing skills.
Plus the Fall CTLT Calendar, Pizza and Pedagogy Announcements, and what resources on enhancing teaching effectiveness has inspired your CTLT liaisons.
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Links featured in this issue:
CTLT Liaison Blog
Boatwright Memorial Library
Old Medium, New Media Presentation
Americans in Paris Blog
Americans in Paris Interactive Map
Richmond Architecture Blog
Without Sanctuary Website
Tomorrows Professor Listserv
New Media Consortium
What the Best College Teachers Do
Quality Matters Rubric
CTLT Fall 2011 Workshop Schedule
CTLT Training & Classes
New Faculty Learning Community Forming
October 12, 2011
Faculty and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology (CTLT) are both highly engaged in remaining current in higher education technologies, and both are responsible for anticipating the impact of remaining current in a highly developing environment. However, the venues for formally researching technology dynamics, predicting the impact locally, and recommending particular paths is modestly invested by the faculty as a whole, has a relatively short-term lens, and there is little cross-talk between faculty and staff that would result in the fullest picture well in advance of critical decision points. This year the CTLT is establishing a pilot faculty learning community (FLC) that can study such areas as those highlighted in the annual NMC Horizon Report and that will make recommendations based on those pieces. The Center will facilitate for the FLC, with outcomes for each participant as well as for the overall group.
Activities:
The FLC will meet a total of 5 times between the end of October 2011 and the end of April 2012. The community will meet October 26, 2011 at Noon for introductions, receiving equipment and planning FLC meetings. This meeting is required of all participants.
Specifics:
Each member chosen to participate in the FLC will receive an iPad 2 and a stipend of $500. The FLC will use the iPad for calendaring of meetings , sharing of documents, note taking and other tasks to eliminate the use of printed materials as well as create an efficient group workflow.
Each member of the community also will submit a report for what they learned through the FLC approach. This will be discussed further at the opening meeting in October.
The FLC also will prepare a way to share with the University community about the FLC process as well as what was learned through the FLC study.
Proposal:
Please complete the proposal to be considered for membership in the emerging technologies faculty learning community.
Link to the proposal form (this is an online form): http://tinyurl.com/FLCproposal
Summer Webinar Series, July 12 Speaker
July 5, 2011
This summer, you’re invited to join your colleagues, the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology, and Next Generation Learning Challenges for a “Summer Learning Series” - a schedule of webcasts dedicated to the transformative role that technology can play in fostering student success with solutions designed to improve college completion.
The next speaker (presenting on July 12, 2011) will be Thomas Cavanagh, Assistant Vice President of Distributed Learning. He will discuss, “Blended Learning at the University of Central Florida.” Cavanagh is an accomplished instructional designer, program manager, faculty member, and administrator. He has developed award-winning e-learning programs for Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and the military. Currently, he is the Assistant Vice President of Distributed Learning for the University of Central Florida. He has been interviewed or featured in many publications including Training, Federal Computer Week, Information Week, and the Washington Post. He has represented the Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida on the Florida Distance Learning Consortium and has participated on the Advisory Board for the Brevard Community College Virtual Campus. He is also the author of several mystery novels.
Throughout the summer, subsequent webcasts will explore the critical role that technology can play in expanding the use of educational models designed to promote engagement, flexibility, and collaboration in the classroom from the first wave of NGLC grantees.
Location: Taylor Haynes Commons Room 310. Bring your lunch and arrive early. Time will be provided after the presentation for discussion.
For additional information please visit: http://learning.richmond.edu/atc/
Emerging technology at a glance
September 3, 2010
Attention, Richmond faculty: If you hear an education or technology buzzword (or phrase) such as “open education,” “e-readers” or even “Audioboo” and wonder what it is or how it can help with your teaching, what is the first thing you should do? (Besides talking with your UR technology liaison, of course!)
Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) has created a solution in its “7 Things You Should Know About” series. Each month, ELI publishes a 2-page PDF highlighting an emerging technology and how it can be beneficial to learning. These practical guides put technology in laymen’s terms, explaining how it works and providing examples of how faculty use them and their reasoning behind them.
Curious? Peruse the site, and perhaps you’ll find a technology you’re interested in experimenting with.
7 Things You Should Know About…
Clicker reservation
August 27, 2010
The CTLT has several kits of Turning Point clickers available for classroom check-out for faculty.
What can you do with clickers? Read more
Faculty feature: Nature of Mathematics
July 27, 2010
Bill Ross, professor of mathematics, has embraced the blog as a platform for his newly created first-year seminar course, Nature of Mathematics. Inspired by Jake Kulstad’s workshop Blogging to Supplement Course Work, Bill created a Wordpress blog. It will stand as a web site housing his syllabus, lecture notes, assignments and references to required readings.
Bill’s extensive lecture notes section will undoubtedly serve as an invaluable resource to his students — and likely those outside the class who want to further their understanding of the mathematical concepts he covers.
As far as technology goes, Bill’s even tasked his students with creating several video proofs. I look forward to watching those and learning about the variety of technologies that students use to capture and produce them.
The semester hasn’t even started, and Nature of Mathematics has already become a model blogs for UR faculty using the blog as a course management tool.
Preparing for the fall
May 17, 2010
It’s been a great semester! Your students were at the top of their game, and you were at the top of yours. Now for the summer break. The time when students earn extra money and faculty plan for the fall.
Now is the perfect time to consider the role of technology in your courses. The first question you might consider is how are you using technology currently? Do you use Blackboard, email, netfiles or PowerPoint? If so, how are you using those technologies?
Read more
Can iPod Touches Help Students Learn Neuroscience?
May 11, 2010
Faculty Academy 2010
Below are some links used in Dr. Linda Boland’s spring 2010 Introduction to Biological Thinking (IBT) course: Biology 199, Neural Communication.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute podcasts
