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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An Apple a Day…
June 17, 2009
Should an institution of higher education dictate a particular technology for student use? This is the question arising around the University of Missouri School of Journalism’s decision requiring all majors to purchase and iPhone or iPod Touch. The school’s rationale for this decision is to provide students with lectures, allow the student immediate access to the Internet for fact checking and for watching instructional videos. Coming against strong pressure, the school clarified its policy to say it recommends the use of iPhones or iPod Touches but that students could use “any web-enabled, audio-video player” which meant Microsoft’s Zune or RIM’s Blackberrys.
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Wordpress and RSS - Thursday, March 20
March 20, 2008
The goal of this workshop is to give participants an overview of UR’s new academic blogging platform, WordPress. Participants will learn the basic concepts and requisite skills needed to create, operate, and review blogs. Additionally they will be introduced to RSS technology that can make blogging more efficient, social and organized.
2:30pm - 3:30pm [Thu, Mar 20th 2008] in the TLC Training Room 320, 3rd Floor Boatwright Library
Find more Wordpress information, video tutorials and more at http://blog.richmond.edu/wordpress
