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The Dr. Is In will be open between 10:30-3:30 from Monday, May 6th through Friday May 10th. Visit us at Bailey/Howe, Room 303 for help with Blackboard or other academic technologies. Read more about the Dr. Is In here.

As we head down the last stretch of the semester, it’s a good time to recheck our Blackboard course grade centers and make sure everything’s working as it should be. Here are a couple of tips:

First, make […]

Applications are now being accepted for the UVM Hybrid Course Initiative program! Read more about teaching hybrid coures, about the initiative, and the benefits in applying to teach one of these courses.
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We’ve recently had fun expanding our Media Resources page. There are new links to image collections, organized by Agriculture and Natural Resources, Art, History, Science, and General Collections. There are more […]

We just read about <a href="http://www.uvm.edu/partnerships/development2/?Page=news&storyID=15223&category=CUPS
http://www.uvm.edu/ctl/apps/ctlcal/">this networking event for early career faculty next week, on Wednesday, Feb. 20th, and wanted to pass on the […]

If your list of courses is long and overwhelming, guess what? There are solutions! You can either:

re-sort the list so that your current course spaces show at the top, or
hide older courses from the list […]

For many instructors, the Blackboard (Bb) Assignment Tool is a helpful time saver.  A few of the advantages are:

there are no papers to haul around because they live in Bb
feedback and grades can be […]

The recency and primacy effects—long documented phenomena related to the importance of sequence on information recall—evidence that, in short, “Following a single exposure to learning, recall is better for items […]

In short, one of the principles of Universal Design for Learning is that if you offer students multiple options for exploring content and expressing what they’ve learned, their experience is richer and more meaningful—and this gives their learning “sticking power.” Google Earth is a free, easy to learn tool and absorbingly fun! It’s an exciting…[Read more]

Tip #1: Learn names. Jonathan Leonard (CDAE) makes the effort to learn every student’s name, even in classes with over 150 students! What’s his strategy? On the class roster page he displays the students’ photos and, while studying each face, he speaks their names aloud. Over and over. And over. Occasionally he shifts the page arrangement—by [...]

Disability Awareness Month: ACCESS Office Open House Friday, October 28, 2:00-4:00 pm A-170 Living Learning Center ACCESS will host an open house (drop-in) for faculty and staff. The director, specialists and other ACCESS support staff will be available to have sit down, individualized meetings or informal chats about our topics such as…[Read more]

… of rice fields in China, and I do believe them, but it’s strangely familiar and visually confusing to me because I’ve doodled something like it so many times.

Mirror Man, aka The Collector is Gustav Troger

Rudolph Steiner actually said: “The potato takes little care of lung and heart. It reaches the head, but only, as I said, the lower head, not the upper head. It does go into the lower head, where one thinks and exercises critical faculties. Therefore, you can see, in earlier times there were fewer journalists. There was [...]

After a long, entrenched, battle of resistance to Twitter, I began to wave a teeny, white flag this week so a friend sent me this image, just because.
I twitter as “iiberrizbeitia” May my colleagues quit with the nagging.

mermaid
dr. seuss
green fish
red fish
witch
ninja
champ (the lake monster)
witch
bunny
knight crusader
lion
witch
undetermined
witch
farmer
george herbert walker bush
soldier
uncle sam
the pope
grim reaper

Beautiful time-lapse videos…

Strinberg and Helium…. (miseryeeee!!)

My conference event this year found me in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the “City of Lakes”, for the MERLOT International Conference (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching). Serving as a multimedia developer for the Center for Teaching & Learning I felt right at home amongst my peers. On the menu this year at MERLOT was WEB [...]

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

You can now send an email by an actual snail . Cecil, Austin and Muriel are equipped with radio-frequency identification chips. As they creep across the tank at 0.03 miles per hour, they may accidentally pass an electronic reader which will then deliver the mail back into the Internet for the final leg of its journey. No telling how long [...]

The Art of Jim Denevan

Here’s a fantastic ongoing project of posters designed by graduates of the University College of Falmouth in the UK to pass along advice to incoming students. See advice to sink in slowly or click the image to get to their Flickr set.

You can now buy nauseating irony in fashionable pink camo! A full text Bible … in an adorable pink camo canvas cover and just the right size for young hands. Embroidered with a cross, flowers and a butterfly, this Bible is perfect for fashionable girls. The cloth binding style offers kids a compact and cool look to carry [...]

A hobbit home in Wales.

We hope you have enjoyed participating in our workshop today. iMovie is one of our favorite software packages to learn. Below we have included a list of for the workshop for Educational Value as well as general How To’s. Feel free to suggest additional resources to add to this blog posting. We hope you had [...]

Tiny cameras mounted on an eagle give us a glimpse of her flight.

November 2nd, 2007 Here is a collection of resources both used in today’s class as well as additional resources Flickr: Search on “Vermont” under creative commons license Flickr search results In addition to the resources we have discussed today in our audio editing workshop, I have created this post with links to resources that we have collected [...]

Photo by Katie Blis

“Two students at Central Kings Rural High School fought back against bullying recently, unleashing a sea of pink after a new student was harassed and threatened when he showed up wearing a pink shirt.” Full article.

Illuminations, calligraphy, illustration, weird and beautiful, from BibliOdyssey

Onion news network

There can be no worthier crisis to achieve such special status in Google Earth than the genocide in Sudan. The Darfur layers recently added to the application allow users to zoom in on the charred smudges of what used to be homes and villages. It’s haunting and powerful. It might even mobilize a global action/reaction. All good. [...]

Architect Mitchell Joachim has conceptualized dwellings made of growing trees, shaping the form by using an ancient tree farming method called pleaching.