Problem Based Learning

Leena Karambelkar attended the Spring 2012 FTI and after that experience decided to try a Problem Based Learning assignment, a strategy that was covered in the FTI.  Here is what she had to say about that decision: PBL:  Empowering students by bringing more creativity, curiosity and interest to my Hindi Language classes Among the methods…

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An oldie, but a goodie

Another of our FTI 2012 attendees, Dr. Adam Mendelsohn, shares how he decided to  incorporate technology after the FTI. In the semester following the FTI, I spent some time mulling how to incorporate technology into my teaching. I’ve long used digital slide presentations (steering clear of the constricting hand of PowerPoint) and webtools (such as…

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Good Times with GoodNotes

This month’s FTI guest blogger is Dr. Emily Neil Skinner from Teacher Education. Attending the Faculty Technology Institute 2012: Teaching the Tech Generation last summer was reminiscent of going to the Cooper River Bridge Pre-Race Expo. Or seeing Cirque de Soleil. Like the race expo, there was so much to see and try on- only…

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Google Reader will be retired on July 1, 2013

Back in October of 2011 the College of Charleston announced  the availability of Google Apps for College faculty and staff and one of the many features, Google Reader, will  no longer be available after July 1, 2013. If you’d like to download a copy of all your Reader data before then, you can do so through Google Takeout, click…

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