Welcome back to the first #UPTechTip for Fall 2016! Today I want to highlight the new and improved TurnItIn interface for providing feedback on student work. Using this tool for feedback lets you keep a check on plagiarism (or just sloppy citing or paraphrasing), leave text or audio comments in context for students, or set…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: New TurnItIn Studio
We’re excited for the year ahead and the many new ways that UP faculty will be engaging learners in the classroom. In this podcast, Ben and I talk about: New tech tools for teaching New speaker series UP Crossroads: Conversations at the Intersection of Teaching and Emerging Technology The new Tech Ambassadors Program! Teaching and…Continue Reading UP Tech Talk Kicks Off Another Year of TechxTeaching
Moving assessments online has many potential benefits. For one, you can free up class time for more group or active learning activities. Out of class, LMS-based quizzing eliminates the chore of manually grading objective multiple choice, true or false, or match questions. (This last one alone is enough to pique the interest of many instructors.) Some faculty, however, are concerned that,…Continue Reading Should You Worry About Cheating in Online Quizzes?
One popular concept in higher education at the moment is gamification. There are a lot of variables to consider when thinking about gamification and if it’s right for your class. There are many different apps out there, most of which depend on students to have BYOD or 1-1 device access. If you’ve been thinking about gamification but…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Use PowerPoint to Gamify the Classroom
In this week’s episode Maria and Ben reflect on faculty attitudes towards technology and how important it is that faculty have a platform to express their honest opinions, hopes and concerns around the use of technology. We talk about our approaches to support faculty use of technology through traditional workshops and training sessions as well…Continue Reading S03E03: Tell Me What You Really Think