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How Do the Spaces of Our Classrooms Shape Our Teaching?
Listen to the podcast: Or download the mp3 file. Recently, Gene Roche, Director of Academic Information Services, sat down with Arthur Knight, Professor of American Studies and English, to talk about...
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Academic Technology Links for February 8, 2013
The links for this week feature the bill of rights for online learning, text application tools, and a challenge to rethink what we mean by “technology in the classroom.” Enjoy! The Bill of Rights...
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Academic Technology Links for February 15, 2013
The links for this week feature an interview with Gene Roche, the singularity, password (in)security, another story of DMCA abuse, and, as always, some MOOC news. Enjoy! First up this week, our own...
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Academic Technology Links for February 22, 2013
This week, the links include open-source learning materials, team-based learning, and mishaps involving an email mistaken for phishing. Enjoy! The Creative Commons blog posts about open-source...
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Academic Technology Links for March 1, 2013
This week, the links include some posts from Open Culture, a new way to put your courses online, some MOOC links (as usual!), and a post about students disliking e-textbooks. Enjoy! Open Culture has...
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Academic Technology Links for March 8, 2013
This week, the links include a critique of the TED talk format, primary source analysis guides online, a list of free online courses, and the new Google Art Project Art Talks. Enjoy! A post critiquing...
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Options for Sharing Your Research-Related Images
Astronaut Ed White, famously doing the first American spacewalk in 1965. Now, less famously, also part of my dissertation image collection on Flickr! Part of my dissertation research involves images,...
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Academic Technology Links for March 15, 2013
This week, the links include the California bill that would allow students to take online courses for credit, more on MOOCs, the School of Open, and free group video calling from Skype for teachers....
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Academic Technology Links for March 22, 2013
This week, the links include an experimental new format for blog commenting, the lack of privacy with email, tools for digital scholarship, and digital maps. Enjoy! Habemus opinionem: The New York...
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Making Screen Capture Images with a Mac
Making screen captures is quick and easy, and you can use the resulting images in lots of different ways. You can illustrate something to your students in a lecture or discussion, use them for...
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Academic Technology Links for March 29, 2013
This week, the links include working robots, mobile video assignments, mindfulness, and digitized 16th-century parish records. Enjoy! The Chronicle recently had a newsletter with the theme “Robots and...
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W&M Teaching and Technology Expo
For those of you who reside in the Williamsburg area, and have access to the W&M campus, I’d like to share an event with you that you may be interested in attending on April 19 — the Teaching...
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Three Ways to Teach Students Technology Skills
This student at the University of Houston’s M. D. Anderson Library is learning by using the library’s high tech equipment — a video casette player. She looks like she knows what she’s doing, but how do...
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Academic Technology Links for April 5, 2013
This week, the links include “viral” flipped classrooms in Wisconsin, a new guide for audiovisual source citations, claims of Coursera’s elitism, a new MOOC platform, and 20 data visualization tools....
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A new issue of the W&M Academic Technology Newsletter will be coming out this week, so in order to receive it, you should sign up for our email list today by filling out this signup form! The...
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Academic Technology Links for April 12, 2013
There’s a lot of news in the world of academic technology this week, so I’ve organized the links into a few categories. The links include MOOCs (of course), discussions over computerized essay...
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Come to the Teaching & Technology Expo!
If you’re in the Williamsburg area this week, come to the Teaching & Technology Expo on Friday, April 19th! The Expo, at 11:30-1:30 in Miller Hall 2025, will have faculty and staff who are experts...
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Academic Technology Links for April 19, 2013
The links this week include “spammy” academic conferences and journals, team-teaching digital humanities, a conference on crowdsourcing in the arts and humanities, and MOOC news from San Jose State...
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What I Learned from the Teaching & Technology Expo
Two of the folks from W&M IT who helped out at the Expo — Maria Pada and Berni Kenney – at the welcome table. Last Friday I was able to attend the Teaching & Technology Expo, an event put on...
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Academic Technology Links for April 26, 2013
The links this week include “visualization,” the Digital Public Library of America, learning management systems, research organization tool Mendeley’s purchase by Elsevier, and Ira Glass on radio...
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