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iPad, Therefore I Am?

From Jean Everett of the CofC Biology Department (and resident Plant Taxonomy expert), this post is an honest, questioning, and insightful look at applying the iPad to daily instruction. I participated in the very first Faculty Technology Institute in 2003.  That week transformed my teaching primarily by honing my skills in PowerPoint and introducing me…

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Using Dropbox in Teaching and Research

For this guest post to the TLT Blog, Dr. Ana Oprisan, who received this year’s CofC Distinguished Teaching Award, reflects on her use of Dropbox.com both inside and outside of the classroom: During the summer of 2012, I attended a weeklong session of the summer Faculty Technology Institute (FTI) that presented new potential technologies for…

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Using an iPad Keyboard for Math LaTex

The following guest post is from CofC Math Department’s Stephane Lafortune.  As hinted at in the post, his research is highly technical; his most recent work through the NSF is RUI: Stability analysis for soliton solutions of the Vortex Filament Equation and beyond I recently acquired an iPad and then was awarded an Ungrant for the…

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Faculty Final Exam … Twitter Style

With the end of the 2012-2013 school year approaching, we thought a Final Exam for the CofC Faculty would be fun (and a good distraction from grading exams). Via Twitter, using the hashtag #CofCFacultyFinal, please tell us the most important thing you learned this year as a Faculty at CofC.  All entries are due by…

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