Teacher as video producer? Well, yes. Teachers starting a career, like recent KSC graduates, are expected to be competent in various technologies in the classroom. Yi Gong...
Syncing Outlook with Google Calendar
Why on earth do something like that? Well, there are a whole host of reasons why you might want to sync your Keene State Outlook Calendar...
Do You Have Checklists You Use? Would You Share Them With Us?
Prompted by a recent post by Jon Udell, I’ve been thinking about checklists over the last few days. Checklists, we are finding out, can be...
Keene Students Publish In Chemistry Journal
From Colin Abernethy, Chemistry, via Campus News: I am pleased to inform you that the work of Anna P. McLean (Biology ‘11), Elizabeth A. Neuhardt (Chemistry ‘10), and Joel P....
CELT to work on FERPA Guidance / Syllabus Boilerplate
In collaboration with IT and the Registrar’s Office, CELT will be developing some boilerplate text for faculty to use on their syllabi regarding student FERPA...
Danger of a Single Story
Novelist Chimamanda Adichie’s short talk reveals the danger of hearing only one story about a country or person. It leaves us with an inability to...
Embedding RSS Feeds in BlackBoard
Feeds (RSS or Atom) are one of my favorite features of the web these days. Who, what, why? Really Simple Syndication makes it incredibly easy to share...
Surveys the Easy Way
You’ve probably noticed the new way that folks are taking reservations for events. It’s a clickable link to a form in an email. What is that?...
VoiceThreads for Learning
Voicethreads is a tool that allows you and your students to make comments about graphic content. It looks like this: Uses Explaining graphs and charts Language...
Embedding Videos in BlackBoard
A few steps allows you to display a video inside of Blackboard. You can embed a video in any text box that has a Toggle HTML...
Six Resources To Introduce Educators to Social Media
I’ve put up a Diigo list of some helpful links to introduce educators to the use of social media in the...
10 Foundational Quantitative Reasoning Questions: Do Your Students Know To Ask These?
Neil Lutsky and Nathan Grawe at Carleton College have developed an excellent set of 10 questions every QR-literate student should know to ask about data....
Yearly Review of Academic Affairs Technology Plan Begins
Members of CELT and the the Academic Technology Steering Committee (ATSC) met this morning to begin the yearly review of the Academic Affairs Technology Plan....
China Connections
The rich tapestry of sights, sounds, smells and experiences that is China captivated students Tom Freudenthal and Lance Whitehill during their recent visit to Shenzhen...
ISP New Media Fluency Scenarios
The ISP Council has reviewed the New Media Fluency Outcomes, and it looks like the college will be piloting them in the Fall. CELT will...
Embedding a PowerPoint Presentation
Presentation slides are handy things for students, in fact for anyone, to have after a lecture or talk is long over. PowerPoint documents, especially, can...
Google Calendar on your iDevice
To add the Google Calendar to your iPod Touch or iPhone to the following Step 1: Select the settings application Step 2: Select the “Mail, Contacts, Calendars” portion of...
Google Calendar – Simple Steps
Interested in learning how to subscribe to calendars using GCal? Here are some simple steps that will walk you through that process Step 1: Do you have...
The Networked Student
This is a non-theoretical introduction to Connectivism as it occurs in practice, made by a student in the Downes/Siemens CCK08 course. One thing to note...
Links From Community-Based Learning 2.0 Presentation
I’ll be adding more of these over the next couple days. If I don’t have the links you need up yet, please come back! Here are...
John Seely Brown on Pro-Am Astronomy
Tim Puckett stands next to the telescope he built. His team of internet-connected amateurs have discovered over 200 new supernovas.I’ll be getting other materials from...
YouTube is My Homework?
As I mentioned in the “YouTube is my Homework?!” presentation on 1/14/10, there are tremendous resources available on the net for video. These have...
Twitter: What are you Teaching Right Now?
Before we get to “Why?” I think it’s important to quickly cover what Twitter actually does. Twitter is a micro-bloging service that allows ...
Diigo as a “Learning to Learn” Tool [Library: Feb 11, 2010]
This was a presentation the Library asked me to give at a faculty meeting. The time was one hour. The basic topic asked for was...
Followup: “YouTube is my Homework?!”
Post by Matthew Ragan - - As I mentioned in the “YouTube is my Homework?!” presentation on 1/14/10, there are tremendous resources available on the...
Measuring Fair Trade
What makes a fair trade athletic shoe company better for the environment? What is certification in fair trade and when does it matter? How...
Global Engagement in Peru
What are the roles and responsibilities for those who hope to embody the ideal of global citizenship? Professors Jo Beth Mullens (Geography) and Pru Cuper...
Giving Students Audio-Visual Feeback
Let’s imagine that you’re correcting a student paper and you note an error. You wish your student was right there so you could just talk...