Instructional Technology

With the posting of Annette Gordon-Reeds celebratory talk and Dr. Richard DeProspo’s presentation to the American Corner in Baia Mare, Romania today, iTunes U has officially hit 300 pieces of audio and video content.  If you haven’t visited iTunes U or haven’t been in awhile, definitely make a point of checking out this unique repository [...]

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Keeping your computer and gadgets current can be a real challenge, even with all the time in the world.  With a busy teaching schedule, it becomes next to impossible.  That’s why Instructional Technology within OIT has scheduled every Tuesday from 1:30 - 3:30 as a “Tech Tuesday.”  During these two hour timeslots, Beck Lab (on [...]

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Did you know that you can access all of Washington College’s iTunes U content while you are out and about?
If you have an iPhone or an iPod Touch, you can browse iTunes U materials anywhere you have a data connection.  Just tap the iTunes Store app, then choose More.  Tap iTunes U and browse the [...]

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Instructional Technology just completed an expansion on the Speakers Series section on iTunes U.  Now its own category in the left hand navigation, Speakers Series content is even easier to find with more in-depth description of each item than ever before.
More content has been (and is constantly being) added to iTunes U, so if [...]

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If you haven’t visited our Emerging Technologies page on the Instructional Technology website, now’s as good a time as ever: we’ve just updated! Head on over to:
http://mellon.washcoll.edu/emerging.html
If you’ve got an Emerging Technology you’d like to see us explore this semester, let us know in the comments.

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To assist you with supporting your classroom during a mild Pandemic Flu outbreak, Instructional Technology is offering an advanced Blackboard workshop entitled H1N1: Sustaining the Classroom with Blackboard 9. This one-hour workshop focuses on using the features in Blackboard that help faculty create an interactive and collaborative online experience for students. This workshop will cover [...]

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Instructional Technology is holding four Blackboard 9 Overview hands-on workshops on Thursday, 9/10 at 10:00 am and 1:00 pm, Wednesday, 9/16 at 11:30 am and Thursday, 9/17 at 10:00 am in the Beck Instructional Lab. Come to one of these 60 or 90 minute sessions to discover all that Blackboard 9 has to offer. During the workshop, you [...]

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When naming assignments that you intend to grade in Blackboard 9, be sure to avoid using symbols like # in the name. The reason being: when collecting these assignments from the Grade Center using the Assignment File Download option, an error will prevent a complete ZIP archive from being created. So, as an [...]

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Don’t forget: there are still two Blackboard 9 Open Labs available this coming week.  Instructional Technologists will be on hand in Beck Instructional Lab during the following days and times:

Monday, August 31st from 1:00 - 4:30
Tuesday, September 1st from 1:00 - 3:00

Please stop by with your Blackboard 9 questions and projects for one on [...]

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Have you created Assignments for your students but now you can’t find where they’ve gone? Assignments (not of the SafeAssign or TurnItIn variety) can be found for review and grading by going to the Grade Center. If this doesn’t seem intuitive, we’ve created a step by step tutorial that you can view under the [...]

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