To kick off the second half of Spring Semester, UP Tech Talk is kicking off a brand new season of UP Tech Talk! In this “TechTalk Mini” episode, ATS crew Maria Erb and Ben Kahn talk about media creation tools available for faculty on UP campus. It’s been over a year since the last time…Continue Reading S03E01: Update on Campus Media
This time on TechTalk, co-hosts Ben Kahn and Maria Erb take a look at the time-honored content delivery vehicle of the lecture. The Chronicle of Higher Ed recently featured a spoof video hitting all the cliches — the Facebook-surfing students, the bland PowerPoint, the monotone back-to-the-students dry-as-a-bone professor. We’ve all had that experience. But while…Continue Reading S03E04: What’s so Bad about “boring” Lectures?
Filmmaking has always been a highly technical endeavor. Sophisticated cameras, complicated lighting set ups, editing software, and high powered audio recording devices are just some of the aspects that have always made film one of the more tech heavy arts. So too is the process of putting on a film festival. From registration to promotion,…Continue Reading S03E02: The Tech behind the Kate Regan Short Film Festival
The UP Tech Talk podcast will be off the air for the next few weeks for Spring Break, and will return on Friday, March 18th. We will be using the downtime to think about fun new ideas for the podcast. In the meantime please feel free to visit our archive to catch up on old episodes,…Continue Reading TechTalk Returns March 18th
ATS will be offering a workshop session on the Moodle grade book in the Library Classroom on Wed. August 24th from 9:30am-11:00am. Faculty are welcome to attend this working session, which will focus on best practices for converting your syllabus grading scheme into a Moodle grade book so that you can easily and transparently track student grades through the semester….Continue Reading Moodle Gradebook Workshop: 8/24/16