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Four Ways to Cultivate Community & Connection in Pandemic Classrooms: Insights from a Student Research Project
Contributed by Kelly Hamshaw Community Development & Applied Economics, CTL Faculty Associate With the Fall 2020 semester in our collective rearview mirror and with preparations for the Spring 2021 semester ahead of us, we have an opportunity to reflect upon … Continue reading
Online Proctoring Tools: Balancing Academic Integrity with Student Access and Privacy
By Dianna Murray-Close With the recent move to remote teaching, faculty have raised questions about how they can ensure academic integrity when students take exams online. Concerns include students taking the exam together, exam questions being broadly shared with future … Continue reading
Celebrate Earth Week with Burack Lecturer Teresa Balser
On April 20th and 21st, UVM welcomes Teresa Balser, Professor of Soil and Water Science, University of Florida and 2016 Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair to India. Dr. Balser is an internationally recognized scientist and educator. She has received numerous educational accolades … Continue reading
Building your Stress Toolbox
This semester I had the privilege of presenting the workshop “Building Your Stress Toolbox: Minimizing the Impact of Stress on Your Life & on You.” I held the workshop twice, once for the Womyn@Noon program offered through the Women’s Center … Continue reading
iClickers and Universal Design for Learning
The iClicker is one of many types of student response systems and, at the University of Vermont, we have adopted the iClicker as our preferred version of a student response system. We are in the process of installing iClicker base … Continue reading
iPads, Second Adopters and an upcoming Apple event (iPublishing anyone?)
iPads are continuing on pace in terms of the adoption curve. Though technology adoption is not as simple as first adopters/second adopters/third and so on, there are some definite patterns that seem to recur with depressing regularity. Glossing over complexities, … Continue reading
ACCESS Office Open House
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 … Continue reading
eReaders: What’s on your iPad?
“Which ebook app should I buy for my iPad?” I was recently asked to recommend an ebook reader app for a new iPad owner. At first this seems like a difficult choice: are the features of the iPad’s own iBooks … Continue reading
iPad Projecting Update: Now it’s easy
If you have a new iPad 2 you may wonder what all the fuss was about. Now built into the device is the ability to project whatever is on the iPad screen, no special apps needed. Together with the built-in … Continue reading
Zotero
If you have been using Zotero, the bibliographic management plug-in for the Firefox browser, you may have wished for a standalone version that you can use offline as well as online. Just announceed today are two changes that will be … Continue reading