Have you ever worked with an instructional designer to improve a course? According to a recent study released by Inside Higher Ed, the chances are good that you haven’t. Fewer than half of faculty participants in the study have experience working with instructional designers, but those who have reported that they “overwhelmingly appreciated the experience” – a full 93 […]
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New Professional Development Workshops Available
Academic technology services & innovation is pleased to offer a catalog of on-demand professional development workshop opportunities, available on your schedule, and designed to help faculty develop the skills to successfully integrate technology into their practice. The Spring 2018 catalog has been updated with new offerings including training on Moodle, Office 365, WordPress, Padlet, Skype and […]
New Resources From Academic Technology Services & Innovations
To better serve the academic community, Academic Technology Services & Innovation will not offer drop-in workshops this term, according to Ben Kahn. Instead, ATSI is pleased to offer a catalog of on-demand professional development opportunities, available on your schedule, and designed to help faculty develop the skills to successfully integrate technology into their teaching. Our […]
TLC from the TLC: VoiceThread Is In The House
If you’ve been keeping your ear to the ground in the world of education technology, you’ve likely heard of VoiceThread. It’s a widely-known tool that’s used in everything from online graduate courses to kindergarten classrooms. Now, according to Ben Kahn, academic technology services, the University has added VoiceThread to its toolbox, so now you, too, can […]
Announcing Moodle Bootcamp, Jan. 11, 12
The academic technology services office will present its first Teaching With Technology event of spring 2017 on Wednesday, January 11 and Thursday, January 12, in the Clark Library digital lab. “Moodle Bootcamp” take place both days from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Ben Kahn and Maria Erb will be on hand to facilitate professional development on the use of the […]
TLC Tip of the Week: CaptureSpace
CaptureSpace is the simplest way to turn a presentation into a video to share with students. Faculty can use this tool to capture video as part of a flipped classroom or use screencast videos to provide feedback to students. Also, CaptureSpace makes it easy to record audio as part of podcast lectures for online, hybrid, […]
Academic Technology Services Faculty Workshops
The academic technology serives office is offering a number of faculty-focused workshops on using Moodle and related academic technology resources this fall, according to Ben Kahn, academic technology services. Moodle Quizzing: Learn a smart and comprehensive approach to using online assessment in Moodle. We’ll cover how to create and configure quizzes & question banks, import […]
Update to Office 2016 Before Fall Break, Please
Office 2016 is generally available as a self-service update across all campus Windows PCs starting October 1, according to Ben Kahn, academic technology services. That means PC users who need to update to Office 2016 will see pop-up messages upon login with a prompt to update. Users have until fall break to complete the update. […]
UP TechTalk Special Series
UP TechTalk is back with new episodes for Fall 2016. The bi-monthly podcast, cohosted by Ben Kahn (pictured) and Maria Erb of academic technology services, features faculty guests and explores the use of technology in the classroom one conversation at a time. Visit sites.up.edu/techtalk for episodes and subscription options. UP TechTalk is proud to premiere […]
Office 2016 Upgrade Plans for Academic Units
Information services is hard at work on the all campus rollout of Microsoft Office 2016. Staff and administrative department trainings are wrapping up and IS staff are looking ahead to rolling out the new software to the academic units. The goal is to complete updates prior to the start of fall term. Information services is […]