Did you know that the average college student spends 8 to 10 hours per day on a mobile phone? Whether texting, using social media applications, or browsing the internet, we can all agree that students are more connected than ever. But what does this mean for our teaching?…
Category Archives: collaboration
Join a Professional Learning Club for the next academic year
TLT is offering the opportunity for faculty to join a Professional Learning Club (PLC) that will take place during the 2015-2016 academic year. A Professional Learning Club is a group of faculty that meet to collaboratively reflect on and improve their teaching practices. It involves examining the relationship between teaching practices and student outcomes, evaluating those…
Record a Screencast of your iPad/iPhone from your Mac for Free!
This is for all my Mac users running Yosemite (OS 10.10). Here’s a handy tip that you may not know that allows you to record what you are doing on your iPad or iPhone to a movie that you can share with your students or others. In the past we’ve been able to do…
Easy Brainstorming and Voting with Tricider
There have been many times during my teaching career that I’ve wanted to gather my students’ input to make decisions. Would they be amenable to a due date change on their upcoming paper? What resolution would they like to research for their next in-class debate? Would they like to meet in the library or the…
Track Your Teams with Score Keeper by Learning Dojo
Score Keeper – What is it and how can I use it? Platform – iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad Price – free in the App Store (NOTE: this is listed as an iPhone app) Download – https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/score-keeper-by-learning-dojo/id954956153?mt=8 Overview Using Team Based Learning or Gaming in your classroom? Having a hard time easily keeping or resetting the score? Score…