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Welcome Furman University Trustees! The following includes selected highlights of recent activities and projects at the Center for Teaching and Learning. |
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CTL (extension 2835) is located in office 003 on the lower level of James B. Duke Library. Please contact us if you're interested in developing a new assignment or course, evaluating the impact of a particular instructional activity, exploring technology to support a learning goal in your class, and more! |
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NEW TUTORIAL!! Prezi is an extremely powerful tool for enhancing presentations, but it also holds the potential to help students develop their understanding of conceptual relationships. For projects, students will need to explore and better understand relationships before they can put together an effective Prezi on a particular topic. PowerPoint tends to let the presenter off the hook and 'stick to the facts', oftentimes at the expense of showing and developing a conceptual understanding. Check out StudioLab Consultant, Michael Jiang's overview , and give Prezi a try . If you're interested in exploring this technology further contact Mike or Jane . |
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The flu season notoriously takes its toll on class days for both students and faculty, and this year's looming H1N1 strain appears poised to take a greater toll than usual, especially since we are being urged to stay home until 24 hours after cessation of symptoms without the use of suppressive medication. The prospect of a week or more of missed classes is not something to take lightly, but, with a little planning, it is possible to maintain momentum. Here are some suggestions for how to use Moodle to keep on track , whether you or your students are sidelined by H1N1. While Moodle supports a variety of more complex activities, we've chosen to focus here on several simple but effective basics: file upload, forums, journals, and chat. |
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Project Wins Campus Technology Innovation Award |
Furman University was named a 2008 technology innovator by Campus Technology Magazine in the area of Interactive, Remote Learning. The project was a collaboration between Professor Lloyd Benson's Urban History class, Computing and Information Services, and the Center for Teaching and Learning. Off-the-shelf and homegrown technologies were utilized to allow students to explore New York and Boston from a classroom in Greenville, SC.
For additional details see the project FAQ document as well as a schematic outlining the technology that helped provide the interactive experience. See the full story from Campus Technology Magazine. |  |
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2009 Faculty Forum - Resources Available This year's Teaching and Learning Forum featured some wonderful presentations on teaching innovations and rich learning activities engineered by Furman colleagues.
Thanks to all the presenters and participants, and especially Tammy Sightler for all her work on pulling everything together! See below for resources and presentations. 
The image above was created using Wordle. TagCrowd is similar to wordle and also allows for the creation of tag clouds from text documents. |
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RSS Webinar Available Online |
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Check out Mike's lunchtime overview of RSS feeds, podcasting, and feedreaders as a mechanism for pulling together disparate sources of information. Session recording Slides from presentation |
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We've been working diligently to update our site and add new features and content. See our site FAQs for a more detailed overview. Here are just a few of the useful features we've added. - Customizable Themes - Change the look and feel of the site by choosing from themes developed by Furman's own Dian Hall using images on flickr's creative commons site (see FAQs for attributions).
- Event Registration - Create an account and register for events online. Registered users with a valid Furman email address will have access to additional resources. Why wait? Register now!
- Search - Find documents, events, and resources with our new search engine.
- Dynamic Content - When events or documents are added to the site, they automatically appear on relevant site pages. This helps ensure that helpful information isn't buried on a single page on the site.
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RSS, Podcasts, and Feedreaders Slides
Funding Request - Dean of Faculty
