February 16th, 2010
11:00 am
Bass Library, L01
Randall Rode and Sarah Stevens-Morling will present.
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TwTT Student Created Video
February 9, 2010
Student Created Video
11:00 – 12:00
Bass Library L01 (lower level of the library)
As digital media becomes easier to create and disseminate, faculty have come to embrace the technology in course learning initiatives and objectives. One such example is the video project Professor Andre Taylor from Chemical Engineering assigned his CENG 210 students in the fall of 2009. The students of CENG 210 were charged with the task of creating short promotional videos for various target audiences of prospective engineering students at Yale. While the project served to deepen the students’ understanding of Chemical Engineering’s connections to other disciplines and fields, it also modeled the type of teamwork students would encounter as a regular component of a career in Chemical Engineering. Members from the Instructional Technology Group (ITG) and the Visual Resources Collection (VRC) worked closely with Professor Taylor and his students in offering course design, student consultations, video camera and video editing workshops, and grading rubrics.
Please join Professor Andre Taylor, Matthew Regan and Yianni Yessios from ITG, and Carolyn Caizzi from the VRC in a discussion of the project from conception to crux to conclusion.
TwTT: Google Wave
February 2nd, 2010
11:00 am
Bass Library L01
Jason Eisman and Themba Flowers will present
TwTT: Classroom Technology Expo
Next week – January 26
Classroom Technology Expo
Hosted by ITG, Stat Lab, Media Services, Library Map Collection, CMI2, & Student Tech Collaborative
10:00am – 4:00pm (Open House)
Bass Library L01 (lower level of the library)
This special format Teaching w/ Technology Tuesday will be an open house (10:00am – 4:00pm), with representatives from across campus, showcasing a wide variety of classroom technologies available for use in your courses. Are you looking for opportunities to explore project-based learning and student collaborations? Have you ever wanted your students to create a video or audio clip for an assignment? Do you want to employ GIS technologies to help your students understand geospatial content? Come and see potential technologies and pedagogical approaches to enhance the classroom experience. Select technologies include: GIS devices, Tablet PCs, blogs, media equipment for checkout, ClassesV2, digital ink devices, and much more. Coffee will be available for all attendees.
TwTT A New Digital Environment for Exploring Cultural Connections
Lecturer in Hellenic Studies and Comparative Literature George Syrimis, Gabe Rossi, & David Hirsch of CMI2 will present.
TwTT QR Codes and RFID
QR Codes are two-dimensional bar codes hat contain any alphanumeric text and often feature URLs that direct users to sites where they can learn about an object or place (a practice known as “mobile tagging”). Codes can provide tracking information for products in industry, routing data on a mailing label, or contact information on a business card.
RFID Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses the electromagnetic or electrostatic coupling in the RF portion of the electromagnetic spectrum to transmit signals. RFID systems can be used just about anywhere, from clothing tags to missiles to pet tags to food — anywhere that a unique identification system is needed. The tag can carry information as simple as a pet owners name and address or the cleaning instruction on a sweater to as complex as instructions on how to assemble a car. Some auto manufacturers use RFID systems to move cars through an assembly line. At each successive stage of production, the RFID tag tells the computers what the next step of automated assembly is.
TwTT Handhelds and the Mobile Web
TwTT Collaborative Editing Tools
November 3
Collaborative Editing Tools
11:00am – 12:00pm
Bass Library L01 (lower level of the library)
In recent years a number of very powerful tools have become available to enable collaborative work and collaborative writing and editing. Scott Matheson, Web Manager at the Yale University Library, will talk about the work the Library has begun recently with Sharepoint, a collaboration tool from Microsoft, to make documents and lists available to workgroups. The tool is flexible and integrates well with existing desktop tools like Outlook, Excel and Word. See how you can use some of the tools in Sharepoint (also available from Yale ITS) to work with groups on editing documents and tracking lists.
Michael Farina, Senior Lector in Italian, will discuss a number of collaborative text editing tools beyond the Library’s Sharepoint software. He will introduce a number of alternatives and solutions for collaborative writing, including TextFlow, DocVerse, EtherPad, doingText, WriteWith, WriteBoard, and TokBox. Alternatives such as these have finally allowed us to move beyond sharing documents through email for the coordination and editing of collaborative writing and co-authored articles.
TwTT Beyond PowerPoint: Online Presentation Tools
There are several new online presentation tools to choose from. Here is a short list:
Prezi is a zooming presentation editor. The creators liken it to sketches on a digital napkin. It’s visualization and storytelling without slides. It’s an entirely Flash-based app that lets you break away from the slide-by-slide approach of most presentations. Instead, it allows you to create non-linear presentations where you can zoom in and out of a visual map containing words, links, images, videos, etc.
Some other presentation tools: SlideRocket, Empressor, Zoho Show, and Pachyderm.
Pam Patterson and Robin Ladouceur of the Instructional Technology Group will demo.
TwTT Twitter
Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service utilising instant messaging, SMS or a web interface.
Eric Gordon of Emerson College and Joe Murphy of the Science Library will present.