Our second Emerging Technology and Pie event of the semester will be Thursday April 3rd, 1:15-2:15. The topic for the event will be using Google Groups with students, our guest speaker is Ruth-Ellen Verock-O’Loughlin from the School of Education.
Google Groups is a free Web-based discussion tool by Google where students can have discussions about coursework and academic interests. Since Google Groups are engaging to students who are already familiar with Google’s interface and productivity tools, faculty members have a powerful tool for promoting discussion, group projects, collaborative research, and community service learning.
If you are interested in attending this event, please follow this link to the registration form:
http://www.umass.edu/accoprod/workshop/register.php?s=2008-spring-emerg-tech-pie
About Emerging Technology and Pie
“Emerging Technology and Pie” is an interest group for faculty and instructors who are interested in learning about the latest technologies being used for learning and teaching. These sessions are intended as quick overviews with discussions about the application of these tools. If you are interested in hands-on training in these tools, we are happy to provide it through the Instructional Media Lab (instruct@oit.umass.edu or 545-2823). Faculty have priority for these sessions when seats are limited. And yes, we really do serve pie.