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Lunch & Learn: Janet Temos on TED Ed

Posted on October 4, 2012 by John LeMasney

This week at Lunch & Learn, Janet Temos talked about flip­ping lec­tures using TED Ed. TED, a global con­fer­ence and learn­ing orga­ni­za­tion, has many ini­tia­tives, and TED Ed is one focused on teach­ing and learn­ing. TED Ed ben­e­fits instruc­tors and … Con­tinue read­ing →

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The Productive Scholar: Ben Johnston on using maps in teaching.

Posted on April 23, 2012 by John LeMasney

Thursday, Thursday, April 19, 12:00 noon, Frist Mul­ti­pur­pose Room A Using Maps in Teach­ing with Ben John­ston In this ses­sion we will inves­ti­gate the use of Google Maps and Google Earth as a teach­ing  tool. Google Maps have become so com­mon on the Inter­net … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Alternatives to Physical Clickers in the Classroom

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Angel Brady

Click­ers are a great tool to help you engage your stu­dents, receive instant feed­back from your stu­dents about under­stand­ing con­cepts you are teach­ing, and to get an over­all feel for your stu­dent audi­ence. The one hur­dle that is attached to … Con­tinue read­ing →

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ETC offerings for the week of March 26th, 2012: Seminars and tech spotlight

Posted on March 30, 2012 by John LeMasney

This week we had three inter­est­ing events offered by the Edu­ca­tional Tech­nolo­gies Cen­ter. First, in an ETC spot­light on Tues­day, John LeMas­ney gave an overview of Picasa, Google’s image and video cat­a­loging tool. In the ses­sion, John showed users how … Con­tinue read­ing →

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The Productive Scholar: Angel Brady on Augmented Reality in Education

Posted on February 23, 2012 by John LeMasney

Thurs­day, Feb­ru­ary 23, 12:00 noon Frist Mul­ti­pur­pose Room A Aug­mented Real­ity (AR) in Edu­ca­tion Angel Brady Click on the fol­low­ing link to view the pre­sen­ta­tion slides, with links. https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=djrsswm_18zmhtgh48 Angel also added “I found this link on how to export objects out of Sec­ond … Con­tinue read­ing →

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