TTS Educational & Scholarly Technology Services

Using Classroom Response Systems to Engage Students and Gage Understanding
Date: Friday, April 20, 2007
Presenters: Jerry Dallal, Chief of the Biostatistics Unit, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
Hugh Gallagher, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, School of Arts and Sciences
George Norman, William and Joyce Cummings Family Chair of Entrepreneurship and Business Economics, School of Arts and Sciences

Electronic Portfolios to Facilitate Learning Connections, Reflections, and Presentations
Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Presenters: Mary Evenson and Andrea Sherwin, Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Arts and Sciences

Teaching with Digital Images
Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Presenters: Daniel Abramson, Cristelle Baskins, and Eva Hoffman, Art and Art History, School of Arts and Sciences
Rob Chavez and Anne Sauer, Digital Collections and Archives

Web-Based Video Tools to Support Learning
Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Presenters: James Glaser, Dean of Undergraduate Education, Professor of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences
Daniel Cogan-Drew, Project Manager, Education, School of Arts and Sciences

GIS @ Tufts: New Developments in Spatial Exploration and Analysis for the Tufts Community
Date: Thursday, October 26, 2006
Presenter: Patrick Florance, Senior GIS Specialist, and Barbara Parmenter, GIS Research Specialist and Lecturer, Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning

Sparking Connections: Learning Tools, Learning Objects, Learning Objectives
Date: Thursday, September 28, 2006
Event Description: The session will showcase rich course resources with untapped potential available here at Tufts and via the Web from other sources (course and collaboration tools, library licensed resources and databases, discipline-specific repositories, learning object repositories). Once you’ve identified particular course objectives and challenges, where can you look to discover corresponding resources to meet your goals and a ddress learning challenges? We’ll debut the suite of Spark tools, including both a blog and a wiki tool for the Tufts community. We’ll also note how Tufts course learning platforms can provide a framework and suite of tools for delivering course content and structuring course activities. Finally, we’ll showcase education-focused repositories, which offer a mechanism for sharing peer-reviewed course materials and tools that have been designed to support specific kinds of conceptual and methodological learning across areas of study. Join us to discover some of the particularly fertile grounds for harvesting resources.
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Social Computing Tools in the Curriculum
Date: Thursday, July 13, 2006, 12:00pm-1:30pm
Event Description: The current college-age demographic is quite comfortable with social computing tools – email, blogs, wikis, instant messaging and online collaboration through multiplayer online games. Katie Livingston Vale discussed ways in which MIT has been experimenting with incorporating social computing tools into the undergraduate curriculum and admissions process, and how students’ experiences with online games may shape their ability and interest in collaborative learning projects. Katie Vale received undergraduate degrees from Brown in Cognitive Science and Anthropology and a doctorate from Boston University in Curriculum and Teaching with a specialization in Educational Technology. She is the manager of the Curriculum Integration Support team within MIT Academic Computing.

On the Horizon
Date: Tuesday, June 6, 2006, 12:00pm-1:30pm
Event Description: This “On the Horizon” brown bag session provided a chance for us to discuss the 2006 NMC/ELI Horizon Report , along with Bryan Alexander’s Web 2.0 article from the EDUCAUSE Review. We addressed the questions: What do you find most interesting, provocative, or promising in these descriptions of technologies on our horizon? How might the new technologies serve academic communities at Tufts?