SITETL Day 3

Every participant participating in the Summer Institute for Technology Enhanced Teaching and Learning is asked to make a 10-minute presentation on the final day–outlining some innovation that they are going to make to one of their courses.  Friday is that final day . . . and I am in something of a muted panic.  We've been introduced to so many different tools and techniques, and have heard so many interesting ideas for how to incorporate these things.  I'm…

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SITETL Day 2

One of the great things about emerging digital technologies is the conversations they spark regarding old practices. How can those practices be enriched by the new? That's really the fundamental question that drove much of our morning session on "flipped courses" for the Syracuse University Summer Institute for Technology Enhanced Teaching and Learning (#SITETL2014).   The flipped course (or classroom) is not new. Rather, it is a pedagogical approach the…

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SITETL Day 1

It is June and the weather is glorious here in Syracuse. We've waited so long for this. It was a "long, cold lonely winter." But the need to keep retooling for what happens on campus between September and May doesn't necessarily stop for truly fine weather. This week, 18 SU faculty–from recently arrived assistant professors to long-Orange full professors–are participating in the Summer Institute for Technology Enhanced Teaching and Learning…

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