Helping you accomplish all of the things you need to do before breakfast remains the focus of many technologies. Some software helps us remain productive; to-do lists, notes, and all the other digital nags and sound effects that remind us what we should be doing, when we should be doing it, and where. And then there’s…
Author: Zach McDowell
Things I wish someone told me when I started Grad School
As graduate students, some of our responsibilities include either being Teaching assistants or teaching our own stand-alone course. Sadly, this leaves us more often than not in a “sink or swim” situation regarding instructional technology. We are often told to “go do” and often not given much guidance or support in the practical instruction portion…
Instant Message Us for Help!
Academic Computing’s Instructional Media Lab is constantly in pursuit of the best ways to help serve our faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants to best utilize technology in (and outside) the classroom. For this reason we are announcing a new way of requesting help for all of your Instructional Media needs, instant messaging! Chat Clients / …
Emerging Technology and Pie: Using Wikis in the Classroom
If there is one thing more enjoyable than learning new ways to utilize technology, it is learning about new technology while eating delicious pie. Yes. Pie. Three types. But we’ll get back to that. The Wiki (made popular by the ubiquitous Wikipedia) was the topic for the first Emerging Technology and Pie workshop of the…