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With the return of the students comes the return of our regular Dr Is In schedule.
The Dr Is in Program offers faculty one-on-one help in using instructional technologies in their teaching. Activities that faculty receive help with include:
- preparing WebCT course content,
- working with course blogs,
- scanning and editing images,
- creating and editing websites,
- building image collections,
- learning about new applications like wikis or podcasts,
- using supported software like EndNote, Office programs, etc.
Our “doctors” are instructional technology professionals from Academic Computing, Media Services, and the Center for Teaching & Learning. You can see who is available, when, on our schedule.
To ask a question or set up an appointment, send e-mail to ctldoc@uvm.edu or stop by the CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library, during our open hours: Monday through Friday, 10:00-3:00.
Blackboard to Resell e-Suds Internet Laundry to Higher Ed
Blackboard Inc. said it has become a reseller of the e-Suds online laundry service. e-Suds’ parent, USA Technologies, said Blackboard will start to offer e-Suds to customers that use the Blackboard Transaction System. e-Suds is an Internet connected laundry system that lets students monitor the availability and status of washing machines and dryers via the Internet.
Users will swipe their Blackboard transaction card to activate the laundry system, and will be notified by e-mail on their PC, or receive a cellular phone text message when the laundry is done. The cost of the service will be automatically deducted online from a student’s Blackboard account.
For more information, click here.
External Research & Programs: Tablet PC Technology, Curriculum, and Higher Education 2005 RFP Awards
BSAD and SoE have received funds from MiscroSoft to explore enhancing student use of TabletPCs in their respective departments. According to the blurb they also intend to “develop training seminars on Tablet PCs and associated software.”
After a month or so of design, development, edits and fixes, we’re pround to announce the launch of the Systems at Civil & Environmental Engineering website.
The site serves as a launch pad for a curricular reform initiative, sponsored in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation, whereby students will be asked to think about civil & environmental engineering problems as being part of a greater system. In other words, how one problem/solution set might impact many other problem/solution sets.
Over the course of a student’s civil & environmental engineering education, they will work with their classmates to help solve a particular problem in a particular town. These Catamount Communities are signing on for four years of service learning work with an entire graduating class of budding engineers, which promises to help enrich and enhance the overall educational experience.
Visit Systems at CEE
Well, we (the Center for Teaching & Learning staff) decided it was finally time to set up our own blog. We’d like this to be a place for all of us, and our colleagues and friends, to exchange ideas, discoveries, and even ruminative meanderings
As you might gather from the nature of the posts, and even the banner images, we like to have fun. That’s part of what this space is about (even if we’re up burning the midnight oil crafting a new post or putting together funky banner images).
If you arrived here by accident, you might check out the official CTL site.
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