Category: TechTalk Podcast

Dr. Rebecca Smith of UP’s School of Education decided to make assessments more fun.  How? By having her MAT students take quizzes.  What, that doesn’t sound fun to you? Ah, but these are not your grandmother’s quizzes.  Using quiz making apps like Socrative and Kahoot takes quiz making to the next level with fun interactive…Continue Reading S05E05: Appy Hour is Happy Hour

Teaching from “among” students rather than teaching “to” them is one of the core concepts behind Academic Technology Services & Innovation’s “Untethered in the Classroom” project.  Faculty are free to roam throughout the classroom while teaching instead of being chained to the podium at the front of the room. Using an app called “Explain Everything”…Continue Reading S06E03: Untethered in the Classroom

Social Media seems to permeate every aspect of life and often consumes many waking hours for lots of people.  Something with such a large footprint deserves a serious look.  Peter Pappas, of UP’s School of Education, has put a spotlight on the topic of where social media has taken us. Once enthusiastic about the promise…Continue Reading S06E02: Trolls, Tales, Twitter, and Thoughts

Theology professors face a big challenge.  How do you make the words spoken a few thousand years ago talk to young people today?   One way is to combine the multisensory stimuli of media with the connectivity of the web and add in a large dose of community building.  That’s what Dr. Rebecca Gaudino does to…Continue Reading S06E01: Finding the Tech to Talk to the Way Back

The ISTE standards (International Society for Technology in Education) for students are designed to empower students to become global, innovative, creative learners by leveraging technology in the process of learning, collaborating and problem-solving.  In this podcast with Drs. Eric Anctil and Randy Hetherington from UP’s School of Education, we discuss the role the ISTE standards…Continue Reading S05E04: 21st Century Skills for Every Learner