{"id":3194,"date":"2015-09-10T09:15:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T14:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cft.vanderbilt.edu\/?p=23029"},"modified":"2015-09-10T09:15:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T14:15:51","slug":"new-educational-technology-working-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/2015\/09\/new-educational-technology-working-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"New Educational Technology Working Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Center for Teaching, we regularly consult with faculty and  graduate student instructors on ways to use technology to meet their  teaching and learning objectives.\u00a0 Although technology use should always  be driven by pedagogical priorities, sometimes instructors learn about  particular technologies and want to explore ways those technologies  might fit their teaching needs.\u00a0 This fall, the CFT is launching three  working groups to explore technologies we know have applications across  the curriculum.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/cft\/newsletter\/2015\/September_2015_clip_image002_0000.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"photo\" hspace=\"4\" width=\"240\" height=\"148\" align=\"left\" \/>Collaborative Timelines<\/strong> \u2013 Interested in having students build online, collaborative timelines?\u00a0 Tools like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiki-toki.com\/\">Tiki-Toki<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/timeline.knightlab.com\/\">TimelineJS<\/a> can be used to create interactive, multimedia timelines that can be  shared and analyzed by students.\u00a0 This working group will explore tools  for building timelines and assignments that leverage timelines.\u00a0 We\u2019ll  look at options this fall, and pilot timeline-based assignments in fall  or spring courses.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/cft\/newsletter\/2015\/September_2015_clip_image004_0000.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Description: C:\\Users\\bruffdo\\Dropbox\\FacDev Talks\\0 - Technology and Teaching\\PollEv - FRQ Practical Crypto (wide).jpg\" width=\"242\" height=\"137\" align=\"right\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) Response Systems<\/strong> \u2013 In-class polling applications like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polleverywhere.com\/\">Poll Everywhere<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/tophat.com\/\">Top Hat<\/a> use students\u2019 mobile devices (phones, laptops, tablets) to help them  engage with content and each other.\u00a0 A number of such systems are in use  around Vanderbilt today.\u00a0 This working group will help determine if  there is a single system that Vanderbilt can support campus-wide,  perhaps as early as the spring semester.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/cft\/newsletter\/2015\/September_2015_clip_image006_0000.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"photo2\" hspace=\"4\" width=\"244\" height=\"133\" align=\"left\" \/>Course Blogs <\/strong>\u2013  Our third group will focus on the use of blogs in teaching,  particularly course blogs in which students write for each other or for  the open Web.\u00a0 The group will consider the use of WordPress as a  blogging platform, with the goal of making Vanderbilt\u2019s WordPress  platform, <a href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/blackboard\/blackboard-support\/drop-in-hours\/\">my.vanderbilt.edu<\/a>, a more robust option for instructors by the start of the spring semester.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in participating in any of these working groups,  or if you have questions about the groups, please contact CFT Director  Derek Bruff, <a href=\"mailto:derek.bruff@vanderbilt.edu\">derek.bruff@vanderbilt.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Center for Teaching, we regularly consult with faculty and graduate student instructors on ways to use technology to meet their teaching and learning objectives.\u00a0 Although technology use should always be driven by pedagogical priorities, sometimes instructors learn about particular technologies and want to explore ways those technologies might fit their teaching needs.\u00a0 This&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,47,38,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-blogs","category-educational-technology","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}