This was my summer project – updating a sadly old computer lab on campus into a collaborative learning and study space for students. You need more photos to get the full effect but here’s an article from Hofstra’s Chronicle, the student newspaper. My student staff did a great job doing the design and managing the build and so far the […]
» Read moreAt the first Boot Camp in 2006, recipients received laptops (presaging the laptops we were able to offer to all full-time faculty members beginning in 2007). I don’t want to tell any stories out of school, because what happens in Boot Camp stays in Boot Camp, but it’s fair to say that mobile computing was new for those first few […]
» Read moreSome of the Boot Camp participants have already heard me describe how I used clickers this past spring for peer feedback on presentations in my global media class. It was based on an idea I got from Ling Huang, a colleague from the chemistry department and also a Boot Camp graduate. He had students use clickers to effectively “grade” each […]
» Read moreFor fall 2010 we’ve acquired two new tools at Hofstra that we think faculty will find very useful. All faculty now have access to VoiceThread. VoiceThreads can be embedded right in your Blackboard course. In a VoiceThread, there’s something that takes center stage; it can be a video, a chart, a photo, a document, an equation, a proof, anything. Students […]
» Read moreI 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 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 […]
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