[ED-TECH] Excellence in Teaching Award Ceremony - Monday at 3:00 PM

Each year a number of faculty members are awarded Excellence in Teaching Awards through the Office of the Provost.  This year’s award ceremony will take place Monday, 4/28, at 3:00 PM in the University Center, Flamingo Ballroom A&B.  Please attend and be part of this celebration of teaching.  This year’s award winners can be found at http://snipurl.com/excellence and you can register for the ceremony and reception following by going to the http://iac.miami.edu web page.  Thank you for all you do to help the students at UM.  Please come and join this celebration of teaching and learning at our institution.

 

Bill Vilberg

[ED-TECH] Fun Friday - TODAY

To: Ed-Tech mailing list
From: Bill Vilberg

Not doing anything for lunch today?  Going crazy with all the last minute things you have to do?  Take a break  11:30 AM – 12:30 PM, in Memorial 203, and attend Fun Friday #3.  We provide the lunch if you can come and join us for an informal demonstration of a hardware device, software program, and web site.  Register at http://iac.miami.edu

 

[ED-TECH] Training: Copyright & Fun Friday

This Friday, at 11:30 AM, in Memorial 203, Scott Britton, from the Richter Library, will be presenting “Copyrights: What’s Fair?”  It is important that everyone knows as much about this subject as possible.  I wouldn’t want anyone to put themselves at risk because they were not aware that they could or should not do something one way or another.  If you have the time, please attend this session and learn more about copyrights.

 

Lunch will be served.  To register, go to http://iac.miami.edu

 

Bill Vilberg

[ED-TECH] Wikis, Blogs, and More

Friday at 11:30 AM Jennifer Clister is doing a very gentle introduction to the differences between and various uses for wikis, blogs, and discussion boards.  Don’t know a wiki from a blog?  Here is your chance to learn about them and how they might be used.

Since many faculty redesign their courses over the summer, I encourage you to take advantage of this session in order to consider the use of these systems in your classes.  To sign up, go to http://iac.miami.edu. Lunch will be provided.

In addition, there is an article “Wikis, Blogs, & More, Oh My!” in this month’s Campus Technology magazine.  I placed the article at the http://www.miami.edu/bb/wikisblogs.pdf address.  You can find the entire magazine at http://campustechnology.com/mcv/inprint/currentissue/.  You might enjoy reading this before the session, or if you are unable to attend the session.

 

Bill Vilberg

[ED-TECH] DST: Digital Story Telling

Ed-Tech list members,

Much of what our students do can be viewed as story telling. (I am talking about the learning process, not just creating excuses.) One of the things UM will be working on in the coming years is finding ways for students to use “New Media” to demonstrate their learning. Digital story telling is one of those ways. Instead of having them write a paper, have them create a digital story.

Because most of us are not trained in this area, we will be looking for material and providing learning opportunities. I just came across an excellent article that points out some of the main things to consider with digital story telling. It can be found at on the http://www.TechLearning.com site or by going directly to the http://tinyurl.com/yv5sk4 site.

You might find this valuable for your own use as you develop material that you use in class. This is primarily a K-12 site, but much of the material applies to what we do in higher education, as well.

Bill Vilberg