As a regular service, OIT’s Academic Computing staff is available to come to your department and talk to the faculty or graduate students about the teaching technologies available on campus. In particular, we think new faculty or graduate student instructors would find these sessions particularly helpful.
Are you and your colleagues interested in learning more about teaching technologies on campus? Perhaps you’ve heard about tools like UDrive or SPARK, but are not quite sure what they are are for? Interested in putting materials online for students but not sure what tools to use? Want to see what is happening across campus with faculty uses of podcastings and digital video? Academic Computing is available to come to your department to present on a variety of instructional technology topics.
We have three standard presentations we offer, but we can tailor any presentation to the specific interests of your group:
- Choosing the Right Technological Tools for Teaching: An overview of the many software tools instructors are using to create content as well as the computing resources and services available across campus.
- Putting Materials Online: UDrive, SPARK or Blogs? A discussion of the different tools available for posting materials to the web.
- Overview of Emerging Technologies: An overview of the latest tools and how they can be applied to different teaching goals. Special focus will be given to Virtual Worlds, Digital Storytelling, and Collaborative Editing Tools.
We met with 13 departments or programs last fall and hope to meet with several more this semester. Contact us to schedule a visit with colleagues from your department to discuss any of these topics! Email tony@oit.umass.edu or call 577-0072