Category: Learning and technology

Compute for critical thinking

Academia, Learning and technology, Teaching and technology

I really enjoyed Michael Bérubé’s visit to Hofstra yesterday to discuss the future of liberal arts. I love his presentation style – I am a recovering English student, I love presentations sprinkled with Searle and rescues of Habermas. But more importantly I always find Dr. Bérubé to be a clear-minded thinker, as clear about the value of separating social facts […]

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New tools make video integration easy

Classrooms and labs, Learning and technology, Teaching and technology

For 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 […]

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