It’s not too late! There are still a few spaces for Friday’s workshop: Getting Bubble Sheet Exam Results into SPARK. Friday March 28th, 10:30am to Noon. Just finished administering a mid-term using bubble sheets (i.e. OPSCAN)? Bring your exam scores and we’ll show you how to convert and upload them into SPARK as a convenient…
Journaling in SPARK
For those of you that may have missed our SPARK Community of Practice gathering on the Journaling tool; our presenters have copies of their handouts and slides that you should take a look at. Journaling can be a powerful pedagogical tool and the Journal and Discussion tools in SPARK provides one way to implement journaling…
Upcoming Events: SPARK Community of Practice Lunch and SPARK Short Topic Workshops
In addition to our returning SPARK Community of Practice lunch events we will also be offering several new SPARK workshops on short topics. SPARK Community of Practice Come join us for a the SPARK Community of Practice lunches to see interesting way that your colleagues are adapting differnt SPARK tool.The first event of the semester…
Center for Teaching Event – How to Write Effective PRS questions
Our friends at the Center for Teaching are organizing an event entitled: How to Write Effective PRS questions on Wednesday March 5th from 12:15 to 2:00pm, lunch will be provided. Prof. Randy Phillis of Biology, Prof. Nathalie Lavoie of Resource Economics and the PRS Best Practice Fellows will be presenting. The Personal Response System (also…
Upcoming Events: Grading in SPARK and Excel
To start out the semester with a bang, we are offering several events in February related to SPARK and Grading. On February 12 & 13 we are offering a “SPARK Help Clinic” from Noon-3:00 for instructors and TAs who want to drop in and get help. If you want to reserve a specific time slot,…
Useful Content on YouTube (Really!)
Nearly lost among the funny animals, back yard science experiments, and music videos in YouTube are short videos that can be useful in the classroom. In some cases these are simply captured bits of pop culture or history that can be shown in class or embedded in course Web pages. There are also well-produced, short…
2007 Numbers: Instructional Media Lab Consultations
So far this year the Instructional Media Lab have had 1,368 consultations with instructors across a variety of technology related topics. Our team of graduate students have assisted with an ever increasing range of topics and were particularly instrumental in helping instructors get started with the new SPARK system. Our intrepid team of graduate student…
2007 Numbers: Workshop Numbers
Academic Computing ran 77 workshops and events for instructors in 2007. Across these 77 workshops and events we had 651 “seats” filled. (We had a strong number of repeat attendees so 651 does not represent 651 “unique” instructors.) Particularly popular were our new SPARK Community of Practice and Emerging Technology and Pie events which we…
2007 Numbers: Fall SPARK Numbers
The end of the year is upon us, so we take a few moments to reflect on the events and look at some of the numbers for what Academic Computing has done this past year. This semester was the first non-pilot semester for SPARK, we had: SPARK courses: 753 Instructors: 529 Departments: 80 Student Seats:…
January Technology Workshops for Faculty
January is not too far off and that means it is once again time for our January Technology Workshops for faculty. Most of these workshops allow you to learn new technologies while working hands-on with content from your own courses. For workshop schedule, descriptions, and online registration, go to: Academic Computing Faculty Workshop Registration Workshop…
This Week: the Last of the Fall 2007 Workshops
This week we are offering the last of our fall workshops (or the first of our winter workshops, depending on how you look at it.). On Thursday, November 29, 1:00-2:15 pm we are offering “Overview of Teaching Technologies” and on Friday, November 30, 1:20-2:20 pm we are offering “SPARK Preview” for anyone who wants to…
Emerging Technology and Pie: Suggestions for Spring 2008 Topics?
Last week we held our last “Emerging Technology and Pie” event of the Fall 2007 semester. Again we had strong turnout and it was great to see so many instructors interested in new tools for learning and teaching. As we plan our schedule of events for the Spring 2008 semester, we need your input on…