Welcome Back! Just a few reminders to help you start your semester: Rolling your OAKS Class Don’t forget if you’ve taught a class before using OAKS then you can copy all of the content, quizzes, assignments, etc. from your old class into your new class. The instructions are available on the TLT Tutorials blog at http://goo.gl/Xe4KP1…
New in OAKS for the Fall Semester — Google Integration for Students
This Fall we are launching Google Apps integration for OAKS. This integration will allow students to login and access their Google Apps email, calendar, blog and Google Drive from a widget on every course homepage. In addition, they can access files in their Google Drive when submitting to the OAKS Dropbox. When they are in…
Never miss a TLT deadline or event
TLT is launching a new notification service to help you stay abreast of events and deadlines. You can now sign up for text alerts, via Remind101, for events such as Faculty Roundtable Discussions, Faculty Technology Institutes, and Ungrant application due dates. Don’t worry, we won’t spam you, probably less than 20 texts a year…
Faculty Guest Post: Course Changes as a Result of the FTI
This week our guest faculty blogger is Dr. Richard Southgate from the Biology Department. In May 2012, I attended the College of Charleston’s (CofC) Summer 2012 Faculty Technology Institute (FTI) for the very first time, which was a great personal learning and eye opening experience, especially as I learned a lot about the potential…
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…