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Overview:  The ITS Academic Technology team would like to assist faculty in preparing for the new Spring 2015 semester with:

• January Workshops
  • Exploring Technology for Enhancing Learner Feedback
  • Exploring Technology for Enhancing Communication and Collaboration

REGISTER FOR A WORKSHOP

• Moodle End-of-Semester/Start-of-Semester Reminders

Do-it-yourself or assisted content migration from old courses, combining Moodle courses, creating personal grade and course backups, and more…

• Classroom Technology Orientation

If you are interested in an orientation to the technology in a classroom please send an email request to ITSHelp@colgate.edu and we can schedule an orientation meeting.

• Technology Project Planning

Now is the time to reserve a spot on our planning lists for student technology projects, be they via CEL – send an email request to cel@colgate.edu – or with ITS – send an email request to ITSHelp@colgate.edu  

• Teaching with Technology Microgrants

Interested in trying a new piece of software or a mobile app with your class?  Up to $500 is available for software and apps just by completing this simple application.

• Other Needs?

Just send us an email at ITSHelp@colgate.edu or call x7111 and we will be glad to assist you however we can.

Learn about projects your colleagues have done:

You can review many projects undertaken here; we are also happy to discuss and apply other educational technologies in support of teaching and learning.

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The annual EDUCAUSE conference is where innovative higher education CIOs go to learn about new industry trends and compare notes on the latest breakthroughs. This year was no exception as 7,300 IT leaders from more than 50 countries gathered in Orlando along with 260 educational technology exhibitors. Discussions took place in session rooms, on the exhibition floor, after the keynotes, and throughout the hallways. These are the common threads that permeated those discussions; the ten hottest topics for CIOs in higher education.

See #6 for special mention.  Colgate’s CIO Kevin Lynch and Instructional Technologist Ahmad Khazaee presented on “Just Don’t Call It a Drone” @ Educause this past year.

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These are just some of the curricular uses of technology that Colgate Faculty have used this semester. Library and ITS provide support on these, and many other, types of projects.

If you are interested in incorporating technology into your curriculum and want more information please contact the faculty member mentioned, or email CEL@colgate.edu to reach a librarian or technologist for assistance.

Video Narratives

Students use video to enhance a story, report their research, describe a concept, or generate a call to action. Video Narratives incorporate photos, video, maps, charts, music, and voiceover.

• Susan Woolley EDUC101A

• Barbara Regenspan EDUC309A

• Sheila Clonan EDUC307/507A

• Shaohua Guo CHIN222

• Craig Hamilton WRIT103

• Jacob Mundy CORE185A

• Mark Stern CORE153C

CEL PROJECTS

• Jessica Graybill GEOG/REST308

• Mark Stern EDUC101B

• April Baptiste ENST321

• April Baptiste ENST390

• Catherine Herne CORE104SA

Wikis/Blogs

Online classroom workspace where faculty and students can communicate and work on writing projects alone or in teams.

• April Sweeney ENGL357

• Matthew Miller Freiburg Study Group

Wikipedia Editing

Students used what they learned from course readings, class discussions and research to contribute to and improve Wikipedia content related to the course subject matter.

CEL PROJECTS

• Aisha Musa CORE151

• Aisha Musa RELG234

iClickers

iClickers are hand-held devices that allow faculty and students to dynamically interact in real-time in the classroom.

• Doug Johnson PSYC309

• Todd Springer PHYS112

• Ken Belanger, Barbara Hoopes, Geoff Holm BIOL212

• Catherine Cardelus, Tim Mckay, Eddie Watkins, Damhnait McHugh BIOL211

• Daisaku Yamamoto CORE 167CA GEOG315A

• Steven Ludeke PSYC261A

• Catherine Herne PHYS336

• Jasmine Bailey CORE164CA

iPad Class Sets

The iPad Pilot projects are intended to encourage faculty to explore whether mobile tablet technology enhances or enables our ability to:

• Promote student engagement in the classroom, the lab, or in the field
• Assist small group collaboration in idea creation and sharing or information search, analysis, and visual representation
• Provide access to and manipulation of digital content

• April Sweeney ENGL357

• Jessica Graybill GEOG/REST308

Mellon Digital Humanities Projects

Pilot projects designed to explore the strategic use of technology in the teaching of the humanities and humanistic social sciences. The goal is to enable faculty to develop genuinely creative projects, increase the information available to faculty as they reflect on the best ways to use technology in teaching, and enable the lessons learned by individual faculty to be more easily shared.

• Carolyn Guile, Wenhua Shi, Adam Burnett – Art and GIS

  • ArcGIS

  • Google Earth

  • Camtasia Lecture Capture & Ensemble to Moodle GIS tutorials

• Sasha Nakhimovsky, Alice Nakhimovsky, & Robert Garland – Social Network Analysis

  • NodeXL

• Christopher Henke (SOCI453) & Elana Shever – Qualitative Data Analysis with MAXQDA software

  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) implementation

  • Archiving of student research data with Dataverse

• Janel Benson, Mary Simonson, Alicia Simmons, Meg Worley – Quantitative Literacy

  • PowerPoint & Easel.ly

• John Crespi, Jessica Graybill, & Ian Helfant – Across the Global Curriculum: Integrating Foreign Languages,Core Components, and Area Studies through Digital Technologies

  • JCrespi – VoiceThread

  • IHelfant – Transparent Language

  • JGraybill – Video Narrative

VisLab Classes

Using the real-time imagery of the Digistar system, students can experience detailed fly-bys of geographic regions around the globe and in the solar system. Student-created animations and models add a valuable perspective across the curriculum.

• Catherine Herne CORE104S

• Damhnait McHugh, Tim McCay BIOL211

• Connie Soja GEOL215

• Mike Loranty GEOG131

• Marcus Edino GEOG329

• William Stull LATN121

• Neil Albert PSYC375

• Jeff Bary ASTR102

TimelineJS

• Karen Harpp CORE138

• Karen Harpp GEOG220

Data Visualization

• Janel Benson SOAN250

ePortfolios

The Education department continues its use of Google Sites to create portfolios for each graduate student.

• Barbara Regenspan MAT candidates

Online Class / Learning

• Karen Harpp CORE138

Lecture Capture

A tool that allows for the recording of a class or student presentations that can get uploaded to Moodle or another platform. Video, audio-only, and powerpoint presentations can all be integrated into the recording.

• Beth Parks PHYS432

Prezi

A cloud-based presentation software and storytelling tool for presenting ideas on a virtual canvas, which allows users to zoom in and out of their presentation media.

• Monica Facchini – ITAL201A

Website Creation

Students creating websites to communicate with public audiences

CEL Project

• Nick Rutter – HIST200

NodeXL

• Susan Cerassano ENGL321B

MaxQDA

Qualitative Data Analysis

• Emilio Spadola ANTH211A

Video Conferencing

Connecting with people off campus and around the world

• Karen Harpp CORE138 – BlueJean conferencing

• PCON Faculty Conflict Lab

Digital Mapping

Using ArcGIS or online tools such as Google Earth, EJView, and other online mapping and geospatial data sites

• April Baptiste ENST 232

• Danny Barreto SPAN 353

• Marcus Edino GEOG/SOAN 314

• Jacob Mundy CORE 185

• Jun Yoshino PSYCH 109

Academic Posters

• Catherine Herne PHYS3356

CEL Project

• Anna Rios-Rojas EDUC303

• Susan Woolley EDUC241

• Marcus Edino GEOG329

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In its infancy lecture capture was mostly focused on providing a class record for students to review. This article by Michelle Fredette in Campus Technology, November 2013  relates how lecture recording can provide:

• Interactivity
• Increased instruction
• Cross-disciplinary sharing
• Customized content
• Language instruction
• “Khan Do” — short, instructional modules

• Lecture Capture: Capturing the Imagination (alternate viewer)

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Project Gutenberg offers over 42,000 free ebooks in ePub and kindle format that may be downloaded or read online. The works are proofread with the help of thousands of volunteers. No fee or registration is required.

Visit at: http://www.gutenberg.org/

Here is a list of notable classic works available:

Agamemnon (Aeschylus)
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
Hippolytus/The Bacchae (Euripides)
Iliad (Homer)
Odyssey (Homer)
The Aeneid (Virgil)
Summa Theologica (Thomas Aquinas)
The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians (Budge)
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci – Complete (Da Vinci)
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Sir Isaac Newton)

Top 20 titles by viewership:

1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (1547)
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1301)
3. First on the Moon by Jeff Sutton (834)
4. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (791)
5. Grimms’ Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (752)
6. Alchemy: Ancient and Modern by H. Stanley Redgrove (663)
7. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (625)
8. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana (623)
9. The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated by Dante Alighieri (606)
10. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (552)
11. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (543)
12. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (540)
13. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (530)
14. Space Viking by H. Beam Piper (518)
15. How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict (512)
16. The Art of War by Sunzi (487)
17. Ulysses by James Joyce (441)
18. The Spirit Land by Samuel B. Emmons (436)
19. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (435)
20. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville (434)

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Steven Schwartz explains why more universities should start publishing ebooks and how they benefit students, claiming “Ebooks, I believe, are the format of the academic future.”

Read more at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/mar/15/ebooks-academic-future-universities-steven-schwartz

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http://www.edsocialmedia.com/ is a portal site dedicated to exploring the role of social media in education. Through a series of bootcamps and events they explore policy, implementations, trials and tribulations,  and how to measure and control the adverse aspects that come with social media.

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Social Media in Education: The Power of Facebook is an amusing article from the perspective of a primary educator but still relevant to higher ed. Author Heather Wolpert-Gawron’s musings draw attention to the power of social media as an awareness, program and campaign tool.

Read more at: http://www.edutopia.org/social-media-education-examples-facebook

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Preparing for Effective Adoption and Use of Ebooks in Education is a report commissioned by JISC that details the evolution of the ebook, the challenges of ebooks in academic contexts, the potential for ebook and various scenarios for the adoption and implementation of ebooks. Very thorough.

Read more at: http://observatory.jisc.ac.uk/docs/ebooks-in-education.pdf

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