Yale Instructional Technology Group
Just Another Team in the Yale Center for Teaching and Learning
Category: Academic Technology
General discussion about the topic
In March, the Center for Language Study hosted a Brown Bag and workshop (see blog post here) where we (Dave Malinowski, Adam Hummel, and Vincent Cangiano) discussed possibilities for creating online materials — annotated documents, instructional videos, and more — for language instructors to extend the reach of the classroom…
Read more Annotation and Screencasting to extend the reach of your classroom
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…
Read more Pixelmator v Acorn v Photoshop v GIMP :: Two Aspects
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…
The online photo album is not a complicated tool. But it can be used to do more than share pictures of junior’s first trip to the zoo. While prose writing is still a crucial skill our students can acquire, our students often need to analyze visual materials or to present…
Read more Using Online Photo Albums for a Shot Breakdown Assignment
For a long time, scholarship largely focused on words and numbers. Yes, art historians and theater scholars and radiographers thought a lot about images. But today the visual dimension of knowledge increasingly leaves mere words and numbers in the shadows. Chalk it up to the proliferation of screens–on our desks,…
Read more Visual Annotation & Commentary: Three Vernacular Tools
We’re glad to see Professor Elihu Rubin’s thoughtful use of technology in his pedagogy getting some notice. Late in the spring, Professor Rubin’s work on Interactive Crown Street caught some news, and a couple weeks back (don’t ask us how we missed it) there an item appeared in Yale News…
Julia Child was terrific at teaching us how to cook, eat and live. I have no monopoly on this insight. But it’s very enjoyable to be reminded not only how much a very effective and hard-working person can do in a very small space, but also how much Julia Child…
The gift of instructional technology is tools: little tools that do one or two things brilliantly, big tools that do many powerful things quickly, the constant innovation which makes what is hard one day just a click away the next. And the bane of instructional technology is: tools. Little tools…
I’m not thinking of suspicious packages. Rather, I’m thinking about the standards and ethics of our profession: folks who support teaching and learning with technology. In that regard, I saw several things at ELI 2014 which made me want to say something, and that something is basically "What goes on…