Monthly Archives: September 2006

Professor Ross Feldberg is providing Biology 13 students with enhanced course lecture podcasts this term. The course podcast features lecture presentation slides synchronized with the audio of the lecture. Students subscribe to the podcast via iTunes and receive new episodes … Continue reading →

Building on the very successful Spring 2006 Phase 1 pilot with Mary Evenson and Mary Barnes, the Fall 2006 pilot will include the following Department of Occupational Therapy courses and faculty: Gary Bedell’s OTS 288, Mary Evenson and Mary Barnes’s … Continue reading →

This academic year at least four faculty in the Department of Art & Art History will be teaching with digital images for the first time: Danny Abramson, Cristelle Baskins, Eva Hoffman, and Judith Wechsler, supported by Slide Library staff members … Continue reading →

At least four faculty at the Vet School will be experimenting this fall with the Classroom Response System (CRS) in their 80-student lecture courses. Faculty members Joann Lindenmayer, Louise Maranda, Mauricio Solano, and Paul Waldau will be supported on the … Continue reading →

Following on the very successful Spring 2006 pilot with George Norman in Economics, Kerri Condito in Romance Languages, and Esther Zirbel in Astronomy, UIT Academic Technology has now implemented CRS as a service available to all faculty on the Medford … Continue reading →

For the first time this fall, incoming students interested in pursuing Chinese or German language studies were able to take their placement exams in electronic form, including questions with rich multimedia examples embedded. The CALT (Computer-assisted Language Testing) system was … Continue reading →

Designed to meet the growing interest in social computing tools, the UIT-sponsored suite of Spark tools is now delivering blogs and wikis to the Tufts University community. Faculty, students, and staff can create their own blogs, or “web logs,” and … Continue reading →