To all of our returning faculty: welcome back for the 2013-2014 school year! If you are new to College of Charleston, we welcome you to campus and hope that you enjoy your first semesters here in Charleston! New faculty members are invited to attend the 2013 New Faculty Orientation on August 15 and 16, 2013…
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August 2013 Newsletter
Download the full PDF of the August 2013 Newsletter: TLTNewsletterAug2013 Topics for this month include: New In OAKS for the Fall Semester – Google Integration for Students Classroom Enhancements for the Fall Customizing OAKS for the #Techgeneration Problem Based Learning And much more! Here is a quick preview (click to download full PDF):…
Reversing Excel: Teaching Common Excel Procedures
Yana Wieckowski, a visiting assistant professor of Biology, discusses her experiences on targeting specifically challenging lessons that benefit from a “reversed” approach in the classroom. One of my teaching goals for this past school year, which led me to apply for the 2012 FTI, was to incorporate reverse learning into the classroom. I teach BIO 211 (Biodiversity, Ecology, and…
Customizing OAKS for the #TechGeneration
Samantha Bruce of Geology takes a new spin on the OAKS Homepage to make it more “Facebook-ish” for her #TechGeneration students: Customizing the OAKS Homepage to Teach the Tech Generation at College of Charleston The focus of the 2012 Faculty Technology Institute(s) was Teaching the #TechGeneration. Through discussion we attempted to define what is meant…
iPad for Classroom Management
Miranda McManus posts this week about using the iPad for classroom management tasks. Specifically, she shares a video example of on-the-fly grading and annotating of class presentations…