Teaching & Learning Center
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THE TEACHING AND
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Teaching Excellence at UCCSFaculty and Teaching Excellence at UCCS: Video interviews with award winning faculty UCCS Faculty Award Winners Roll Call
Drs. Greg Plett and Michael Ciletti, College of Engineering, 2004 Campus Teaching with Technology Award Winners |
WHAT'S NEW ON CAMPUS?
The New Look of Campus Webages
The long-anticipated implementation of Serena Collage, the campus web management system, has begun by the Web Services Department. You'll notice that this site now has a cleaner, uncluttered feeling with the same look and feel of the official home page. Our new pages were created using a campus template and edited through a web browser. This will make updating pages easier and can be done without using a webpage editor like FrontPage or Dreamweaver for simple updating, although it the user can still edit with Adobe Dreamweaver. The TLC can help faculty and staff update webpages only after the website has been set up by Web Services. If you would like to make your courses pages and personal web pages to look like the other official pages in the UCCS website, follow this link to have them set up. http://www.uccs.edu/~webdept/tickets/Course Management News:
eCollege course shells can be ordered now for the F08 term; the deadline is August 1, 2008. Information about eCollege and instructions for ordering may be found at this link: Online Teaching and eCollege Support.Campus Subscription to The Chronicle:
UCCS has a campus subscription to the Chronicle of Higher Education which may be accessed through a computer logged into the network or through a Library VPN. For instructions to log into the network from home, go to the IT Helpdesk helpsheet link here: http://www.uccs.edu/~helpdesk/connectcampus.htm
Teaching with Technology discussion list
For those on campus who would like to join a discussion list about ideas and issues regarding the use of technology for teaching and learning, there is a new discussion list called teaching_tech-l. This list is an opportunity to find out how people are using technology to enhance student engagement and learning, best practices for online and face-to-face teaching, the issues regarding learning management systems, and recommendations and advice for using new technologies such as the iTunesU capabilities that we should have by next fall. teaching_tech-l is a moderated list; you may subscribe by sending me (kandrus@uccs.edu) and I will add you to the subscribers list. Please join us.
Planning for Fall 2008
iClickers in the classroom: Try out the iClickers now so that you can order them for your class in the bookstore. Audience response devices (aka clickers) can be an effective means of engaging students, assessing the learning happening at any given moment, and giving feedback about your content delivery. Call the TLC at 262-4108 or 262-4287 and we can bring a demo setup to your course including 30 clickers and a radio-frequency receiver so that you can decide whether or not you would like to use them next fall. If you do decide to use clickers, you need to order them from the Bookstore as a requirement for your course.
Teaching and Learning Center | The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs | Monday-Friday 9am - 5pm | Columbine Hall 203 | 719.262.4872 | eMail the TLC | Last Updated : June 3, 2008 |