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Just Another Team in the Yale Center for Teaching and Learning
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In the second meeting of the Center for Teaching and Learning’s internal Technology SIG, someone mentioned a desire for having easier event sign-ins. Honestly, I don’t recall whether there were intervening comments, but something in the discussion reminded me of the Yale Student Technology Collaborative‘s homegrown software, cardswipr, that interfaces…
On January 13 14, 2016, we expect to have a short amount of downtime (should be less than 15 minutes) for CoursePress as we implement some upgrades. Most importantly, we’ll upgrade the core of our WordPress installation from 4.2.2 to 4.4.1. This post outlines some of the more important pieces…
In an effort to find a Photoshop alternative with a significantly lower cost, we’ve purchased both Pixelmator and Acorn. Last fall I worked mostly with Acorn and GIMP, and I’m hoping to use Pixelmator more this fall with the DOCC node I work with. Creating a defined selection box of…
Teaching with WordPress Teaching with WordPress (TWP15) is an open, collaborative online course on using WordPress for teaching and learning in higher education. But choosing WordPress as a platform for teaching is only one part of the process in developing an rich, thoughtful, open learning environment. http://blogs.ubc.ca/teachwordpress/syllabus/
When Graduate Students Become Online Teachers We created this site with the goal of supporting graduate students with a basic toolkit of knowledge tools for first-time online teaching. [P.S. We do not focus on institutional support that teachers must have to be effective online teachers.] This resource is a work-in-progress.…
It’s all over but the reflection for the professors and for the CTL organizing staff, and I have finished sitting in on three classes during Faculty Bulldog Days* for spring 2015. Here are some thoughts about that. Before I talk about the teaching, I can’t thank enough the professors who…
In an item in yesterday’s Yale Daily News about Yik Yak, one professor is quoted as seeing potential there: [Aleh] Tsyvinski said that as a professor, he rarely gets feedback during the term. He added that he wishes there were an anonymous board, similar to Yik Yak, dedicated to continuous…
I prepared this brief for a pair-taught course on monasticism, in which the professors wanted to explore using chronological, locative, and narrative data from historical, ethnographic, archaeological, literary, and visual sources to facilitate sophisticated comparative analysis. In particular, they hoped students would make connections and distinctions between phenomena that were…