TeachTech

Sharing Links with an entire class in the NEXT Classroom: Our Suggestion Box is open!

One of the features of our New, Emerging and eXperimental Technology (NEXT) Classroom is the use of wireless networking and dual boot computers for the students. We chose to build a custom toolbar for the browsers (well, most of the browsers – it doesn’t play nicely with Google Chrome yet). By keeping the toolbar centrally managed, [...]

The Next Classroom is coming together

From some scribbles on a whiteboard to a full-fledged room! If you want to see it as a super groovy slideshow, check it out here: Share This

The Class

If you are a fan of the television show, “The Office”, then you will find this parody particularly amusing. Share This

Another step in the NEXT Classroom

Can you read the writing on the wall? Share This

FUSION 2010: Architects of Education

If you are planning some professional development this summer, keep the Desire2Learn users conference in mind. This year is is from July 11 – 16th in Chicago. It is always a good time with lots to learn and share with other colleges, schools and institutions who use D2L. Share This

Setting up the NEXT Classroom

Well, the concepts for the physical technology and furniture in our New, Emerging, and eXperimental Technology Classroom are all about fluidity, flexibility, modularity and adapability. That is why we chose the furniture that we did: Desks Chairs (see it in action action) Teacher Station Our current step is the setup of computing environment. For this, the concepts of user (student [...]

What’s NEXT?

Educational Technology Services (ETS) has been working over the summer and the fall term to plan and design the New, Emerging and eXperimental Technology/Techniques Classroom – AKA the NEXT Classroom. The NEXT Classroom provides Pellissippi State with a test bed environment for trying out technologies that are cutting edge to explore their efficacy in higher education [...]

Top Tools for Learning: What are yours?

I participated in this in 2007 and 2008 and just realized that I missed the deadline for 2009, darn it. But, the work of Jane Hart at the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies to create the Top 100 Tools for Learning is always very helpful and informative for both seeing trends in popularity and discovering [...]

Faculty Poll on Factors Affecting Student Success

Please help us focus our efforts for continual improvement of our online teaching and learning: What factors do you think impact student success in online courses the most? (please pick only 3 and if you choose Other, use the blank below to share)(polls) Share This

The “EDUbrowser” – a vision

I have been thinking about this for several years now but some recent events have brought this to the forefront. The “camel meet straw” event was when our most recent course management upgrade was installed, it was extremely buggy with Internet Explorer 8, which had been installed on campus as a standard browser. Of course [...]