Category: Classroom
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ProfCast
On Tuesday, Feb. 21 we had our first use of ProfCast. It was a great success. Amy Jo Stavnezer agreed to test the application during her Faculty at Large address. I was there a little ahead of time to hook the laptop up and make sure Amy Jo got started OK. There were no issues…
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e-portfolios
Who are electronic portfolios for? I was thinking through the e-portfolio I’ve designed for the Education department and thiniking about how I could improve it. Now a student is required to go through and change information on each page (about 30 of them) to personalize the e-portfolio. If they need to change the navigation bar…
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Are faculty scared of technology?
In an article published today in The Guardian and highlighted in the The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog, David Buckingham from the Institute of Education says, “Schools are becoming ‘technically irrelevant’ because pupils know more about computers than their teachers.” Is Prof Buckingham correct? Wooster has a large number of faculty using technology in their classes…
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Personal Response Systems (clickers)
On Friday 10/21, I held a demonstration of the PRS system from eInstruction that we have until the end of November. PRSs are a way to poll students in class and display the results imediately. Usually the instructor is posing a question and having the students click to enter their answers. We will be getting…
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Course management
The other thing I am working on is Course management. Moodle and Sakai are chugging along. Students don’t seem to like Sakai very much. It has also been a little frustrating for me.