| March 6, 2008 | ||
| 11:30 am |
Kathy Kyzer and Suzanne Cadwell, ITS Teaching and Learning, will demonstrate a few of VoiceThread’s applications for teaching and learning. Participants will be invited to share their ideas. The event will take place 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 6, in Health Sciences Library room 328.
On March 6, the Instructional Applications Interest Group (IAIG) will demonstrate the multimedia application VoiceThread. According to the VoiceThread Web site, “A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways — using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) — and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.”
Kathy Kyzer and Suzanne Cadwell, ITS Teaching and Learning, will demonstrate a few of VoiceThread’s applications for teaching and learning. Participants will be invited to share their ideas. The event will take place 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 6, in Health Sciences Library room 328. Continue Reading
On Monday, March 3, ITS non-exempt and student/temporary employees will begin recording time worked and leave hours online in the Time Information Management (TIM) system. Exempt employees will also enter any leave hours taken into TIM.
The pay period starting March 3 and ending March 16, 2008 will be a “practice period” and will require paper timesheets and leave sheets to be completed in the usual manner. Although hours will be recorded in TIM, pay will processed by the Payroll Services Department from the paper timesheets. Staff is asked to continue to submit paper timesheets and leave sheets until otherwise notified. Continue Reading
| February 29, 2008 | ||
| 2:30 pm |
World of Warcraft (WoW), an online game popular with Generation Y and Millenials, may be a way to teach important concepts outside the classroom.
Laura Christopherson, doctoral student in the School of Information and Library Science, will present “Games4Learning: Learning and Entertainment in World of Warcraft” to explore potential lessons from games designed for entertainment. No experience with WoW is necessary. The event will take place at Toy Lounge (in Dey Hall) on Friday, Feb. 29, at 2:30 p.m.
World of Warcraft (WoW), an online game popular with Generation Y and Millenials, may be a way to teach important concepts outside the classroom.
Laura Christopherson, doctoral student in the School of Information and Library Science, will present “Games4Learning: Learning and Entertainment in World of Warcraft” to explore potential lessons from games designed for entertainment. No experience with WoW is necessary. The event will take place at Toy Lounge (in Dey Hall) on Friday, Feb. 29, at 2:30 p.m. Continue Reading
Having an honest discussion about race and racial stereotypes can be intimidating. So when the Carolina Union Activities Board (CUAB) and the Student Government Association (SGA) planned to hold an interactive event, “Let’s Face It: Race in
Welcome Jason Coleman to Infrastructure and Operations, Paul Szabady to Communications and L. Craig Baker to Telecommunications, all effective Feb. 18…and Michael Seda to Infrastructure and Operations, effective Feb. 19
Educators know that motivation and a spirit of inquiry translate into better learning. Why, then, is much of the work that takes place in classrooms, especially classrooms that feature writing, seen as uninteresting and uninspiring?
The next ConsiderIT event will offer some answers to this question. “ConsiderIT: Amusing Learning: Easy Paths to New Media Composition and Educational Change” will take place Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 2:30 in Toy Lounge of Dey Hall. Continue Reading
