I try to make sure that I and my staff spend most of our time teaching faculty some basic rules of thumb that don’t change. We try to be less about what button to push than about the meta discussion. Does the tool increase student interactivity? Then try it. If it doesn’t, ignore it and focus on something that does. […]
» Read moreMy favorite rule of thumb: Anything to do with technology that has to happen for your class should happen outside the classroom. Inside the classroom you want to use that precious time to have your students talk to each other and to you. Sometimes you even want to talk to them. If you have them do online journaling or reading […]
» Read moreThere’s a lovely article in one of the New York Times’ blogs from this weekend about consumer tools to use in the classroom. I shouldn’t even call them consumer tools, as they’re programs available to everyone for free. But they’re not tools that we in faculty computing need to set up or authorize for you – they’re out there and […]
» Read moreI’ve been struggling to figure out how to publicize what we do at Hofstra in the area of instructional technology more. It’s hard to have regular “publicity” that doesn’t sound like it’s all about Me or even all about My Staff. To me the revolution is what happens every day. Like many schools, we have fantastic forward-thinking faculty who are […]
» Read moreI’m pleased to report that Hofstra’s Media Engineering group has deployed Extron’s Global Viewer product to enable remote support for all the University’s technology-enhanced classrooms. When a faculty member calls the Faculty Support Center we will be able to see if their projector is on or off and turn it on or off for them, as well as select an […]
» Read moreIt’s been rather unreasonably hot here in Long Island of late, and as July approaches I am as concerned as any faculty member with my summer productivity. As faculty we tend to make lists for ourselves for the summer: the research we will do, the articles we will write or submit, the reformatting of the bibliographies of the articles from […]
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