Through a series of virtual presentations, lightning rounds, and discussion sessions, we’ll explore an approach to learning that engages students in the active construction of collective knowledge, empowering them to build meaning together and challenging them to examine issues from multiple perspectives. The event is designed to be interactive and participatory; our on-campus team will be watching the presentations as a group and then engaging in guided group discussion and reflection around the issues, helping us drive home the lessons learned and laying the groundwork for future classroom collaborations.

The event is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, September 23-24 from 10a-3p and CU’s Academic Technology team invites you to join them in Stadium 367.

By participating with the team, you’ll have an opportunity to meet new colleagues, learn about projects already under way on campus, and begin building connections that will last beyond the event. If you’d like to join us, please e-mail Mark Werner by the end of the day Monday, September 21st to reserve your space.

For further information, please contact Mark Werner. Full program details can be found online at the EDUCAUSE website.

For the past half-year or so, the Digital Humanities Initiative has been meeting to strategize about how to promote digital humanities scholarship and teaching here at CU-Boulder.

Today, they launched a new website aimed at communicating with the campus community. Have a look when you have a chance.

As opposed to how transitions were handled in years past, the transition from one platform to another will include a year-long “overlap” period, during which you will have the option of using either one. After that period, the campus will switch to the new platform.

As always, please feel free to contact me if you have questions about the process.

• 11 Google Search Tips in 4:45min

For a more detailed guide to Google search shortcuts, check out the great site Google Guide.

In the interest of serving faculty that will use classroom technology to
administer final exams, the IT Service Center will be available to take
calls this Saturday, May 2 from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. To contact
the IT Service Center call 303-735-HELP (5-HELP from a campus phone) or
e-mail help@colorado.edu.

For all other technology-related issues, faculty and staff are
encouraged to contact the IT Service Center during normal business hours
Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

If you need more information, give them a call or feel free to contact me.

The first introduces a useful function in Excel called VLOOKUP. The second provides a quick overview of CULearn’s gradebook, giving you five reasons to consider using it in your own classes. And the third gives a quick overview of formulas you can use with CULearn’s gradebook.

• Merge Excel Spreadsheets Using VLOOKUP
• 5 Reasons to Use CULearn for Grading
• Weight Grades and Drop the Lowest Grade in CULearn

I hope you find them helpful.

According to her findings, the more time you surf in class, the less material you’ll absorb and thus the worse you’ll do on tests.

The highly successful COLTT conference is back!

Building on last year’s highly successful event, the Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology (COLTT) conference has put out a call for proposals for this year’s installment.

The conference will take place from August 12-13, 2009.

We encourage faculty, instructors, staff, and vendors to submit proposals for sessions at the upcoming Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology conference.

The deadline for submissions is Friday, April 24, 2009.

Requirements for presentation proposals include an abstract, a description of the session, the session’s learning objective and pedagogical impact, and a description of how the presentation will further COLTT’s goals.

Read more….

Please feel free to contact me with further questions.

TTAs can assist any A&S unit with general tasks relating to teaching and technology. The intent is to help with the tasks that are outside of the domain of central IT services (Bugbusters, Classroom Support, or DATCs).

For example, they can help enter or maintain content for websites related to the educational mission of your unit. TTAs can provide an “extra set of hands” to an instructor working on a project, as a classroom assistant, or to staff with teaching & learning related projects. TTAs can also perform preventative maintenance on instructional equipment to help decrease the number of times that problems might occur.

All services are free-of-charge. If you would like to request TTA help, please contact ASSETT’s program assistant, Jaime Moreland, at 303-735-3813 or assett@colorado.edu.

For more information about the TTAs or other resources now available through the ASSETT program, please visit their website.

Select Microsoft products and upgrades are now available to CU-Boulder faculty and staff (including student employees) at no charge.

You can request the software for installation on a university-owned computer through your departmental Computer Support Representative (CSR), or request installation assistance from an ITS BugBuster by contacting the IT Service Center (303-735-4357).

You can learn who your CSR is at:

http://www.colorado.edu/its/tier2/lookup.html

Please feel free to contact me if you have questions.