Presenter: Stace Maples, GIS Specialist and Instruction Coordinator, Sterling Memorial Library Map Department
Description: Stace will discuss ArcGIS Online for Organizations, a new web mapping platform covered under Yale’s ESRI Site License. ArcGIS Online provides web-based collaborative mapping, mobile data collection, and map-based mobile and web app creation for non-programmers.
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Presenters: Barbara Stuart, Lecturer, Department of English
Description: From course blogs to a class full of iPads provided by the library and ITG – Barbara Stuart will use her classes as an example of how we can use technology now and how we might use it in the future. She says, “Many years ago, when students still stood in long lines to register for courses – those were also the days of desktops in every office and dorm room – a group of us noticed the one student in a large, sweaty crowd who walked in balancing an open laptop on one arm. On that laptop was a spreadsheet of the courses he might take that fall semester. That’s weird, we all thought. Now, of course, we have online registration. And we have since gone from classrooms with the occasional laptop to seminar rooms and lecture halls full of laptops. Now Yale students even have tools for laptops, iPads, iPhones, and Androids to facilitate shopping and scheduling their courses, even for finding their classrooms. We can be sure that just about every backpack we see holds a laptop – or an iPad, because now in our classrooms, the occasional iPad crops up. Soon we will likely see classrooms full of iPads or similar tablets. Portable – portable devices and portable information – is the wave of the future. We need to ride that wave by using technology to achieve our pedagogical goals.”
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Presenters: Kathryn James, Curator, Early Modern Books and Manuscripts and the Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Christine McCarthy, Chief Conservator, University Library
Description: In spring 2012, with the support of a Yale University Library SCOPA (Standing Committee on Professional Awareness) grant, staff members from Special Collections Conservation and from the Beinecke Library created the Traveling Scriptorium, a teaching kit of inks, pigments, binding samples, and paleography resources. The participants — Kathryn James, Karen Jutzi, Marie-France Lemay, Christine McCarthy, and Paula Zyats — were responding to a sense of the Yale community’s increasing interest in the book as artifact, and the need to work directly with these materials in order to understand how medieval and early modern books were written, built, and read. The idea for the Scriptorium grew out of a collaborative teaching session, in which each presenter spoke about the same objects from their related but different professional perspectives. The Scriptorium brings these perspectives together in a tangible way. The Scriptorium is available for students, faculty, and library staff to use in Yale classrooms; the creators also envisioned drawing on the kit for instructional sessions for the Yale community.
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Presenter: James Rolf, Lecturer, Department of Mathematics
Description:Learning Catalytics is a software implementation of clicker technology with the addition of many more question types and a grouping algorithm to foster peer discussion. Learning Catalytics is available on any browser-enabled device (laptop, tablet, smarthphone, etc.). Professor Rolf will talk about his experiences with Learning Catalytics and lessons learned.
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Location: StatLab, Center for Science and Social Science Information
Date: Friday, October 19
Time: Lunch at 11:30am. Talk begins at 12:00pm
Presenter: Ed Kairiss, Acting Associate CIO for Academic IT Solutions
Description: TEAL (Technology-Enhanced Active Learning) is a new way of teaching pioneered at MIT that combines lecture, recitation, and hands-on laboratory experiments into a specially designed classroom. This LuxTalk focuses on Yale’s TEAL classroom project and the technology and philosophy behind its design.
Location: International Room, Sterling Memorial Library
Date: Friday, October 12
Time: Lunch at 11:30am. Talk begins at 12:00pm.
Presenter: Maxim Thorne, seminar instructor; Ken Panko, Manager, Digital Humanities
Description: Philanthropy in Action, a seminar taught by Maxim Thorne, provides students with the opportunity to authentically engage in philanthropy. Leveraging a gift from the Once Upon a Time Foundation, students in the course give away $100,000 at the end of the semester. The course originated as a Yale College Seminar in Spring 2012 and is now also offered to students at Yale Law School and Yale School of Management.
Thorne will share his innovative pedagogical approach that challenges students to not only study philanthropy but to also be responsible philanthropists by professionally evaluating and selecting grantees. Thorne and Ken Panko from Yale ITS will also demonstrate how technology is being used to connect the students with non-profit organizations around the world, to gauge the impact of these organizations’ efforts, and to share recordings of students’ conversations with notable philanthropists.
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Location: Sterling Memorial Library International Room
Date: Friday, November 02, 2012
Time: Lunch at 11:30am. Talk begins at 12:00pm.
Presenters: Professor Laura Wexler and Trip Kirkpatrick
Description: In the spring semester of 2012, Professor Laura Wexler (AMST) expanded her use of the Yale University Art Gallery’s study gallery by collaborating with David Odo (YUAG) and Trip Kirkpatrick (ITG) on a kiosk installation within the study gallery. This kiosk, containing a computer, a large touchscreen panel, and speakers, presented visitors with audio from students in Professor Wexler’s graduate seminar, and Professor Wexler herself, discussing the photographs used in the course and the approaches covered in the course. Come hear about the pedagogy, the technology, and the project management needed to mount this uncommon example of public student scholarship in just over a month.
Presenter: Casey Watts, Assistant Manager ITS Student Technology Collaborative and recent Yale graduate
Description: Lectures, seminars, and lab classes can all benefit from collaborative learning given the right technology. That technology has arrived! This hands-on event will cover the use of many free technologies available for use in classes, including CrocoDoc, Google Drive (and Google Groups), and Slidee.
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Description: Staff from ITS will demonstrate and answer questions about a multitude of mobile technologies that can be used in the classroom and beyond. This is a hands on experience and a great opportunity to play with these devices and meet the staff who can help you find ways to utilize mobile technology in the classroom.
If you have an iPad, bring it along. Try projecting from it wirelessly. Test drive a variety of stands and cases that make it easier to hold your iPad while teaching.
Also on display: Apps for teaching and learning, a digital microscope that communicates with mobile devices, a Google Nexus 7, and more.