The Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning
While faculty have a myriad of technology based tools that can be applied to teaching and use many of these tools everyday, it can be difficult to think about how …
Blackboard Great Ideas: Collaborative writing
Cary Moskovitz Director, Writing in the Disciplines, Thompson Writing Program An essential part of Cary Moskovitz’s Writing 20 courses is collaborative writing, encouraging students to work together to improve their …
Blackboard Great Ideas: Peer review and discussions
Vicki Russell Senior Lecturing Fellow and Director, Writing Studio Vicki Russell expects students in her Writing 20 course to actively participate in discussions of readings and peer review of writing …
Blackboard Great Ideas: Organizing your course
Christine Beaule Mellon Lecturing Fellow, Professor in University Writing Program Christine Beaule’s Writing 20 course syllabus and her Blackboard course site have evolved together over time. In this video, Christine …
Keeping up to date with Twitter
In a previous post on the CIT blog, we looked at the “micro blogging” and social networking tool, Twitter. The service has become quite popular as a way to keep …
Avoiding “Death by PowerPoint”
Recently, the CIT offered “Death by PowerPoint”, one of our regular workshops that look at using technology in your teaching. We offer ideas for improving student learning and engagement or …
Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts and social bookmarking
The Chronicle of Higher Ed has a blog post highlighting the Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts, an online database that links to digitized materials in various collections. While many libraries …
A Digital Humanities Manifesto
How will new technologies impact teaching and research in the Humanities? The Mellon Seminars in Digital Humanities have been exploring issues around changes in the Humanities brought about by these …
Second Life Education Support Faire
January 25th through 30th, Linden Labs will be holding a Second Life Education Support Faire. Bringing together faculty and students using Second Life in education with professionals from Linden Labs, …
SmARThistory – A teaching aide for art history
The site smARThistory is a unique, growing resource that aims to be an enhancement, or even a replacement, for the traditional art history textbook. It allows users to browse styles, …