The following was emailed to faculty via their Academic Technology department liaisons in August, 2023.<\/p>\n
I hope your summer is going well! As we all prepare to return to campus for the fall semester in a few weeks, I wanted to reach out about how Academic Technology can support you and your students. I am your Academic Technology liaison, and I can assist you with technology-related projects you might be considering for your classes. I can also assist with using Moodle, our learning management system.<\/p>\n
Gradescope is a product that will help speed up grading as well as help you provide quality and consistent feedback. We will first be introducing it to faculty in math and the sciences since those are departments where Gradescope is popular at other schools. We\u2019ll grow out from there. If you are not in one of those areas but would like to try Gradescope anyway, please let us know. If you\u2019d like a preview of Gradescope, click here for a 15 minute demo video.<\/a><\/p>\n This August, our team collaborated with the library to run the 2023 Willoughby Institute for a number of faculty. The focus was on Universal Design for Learning along with new tools in digital storytelling, ai, story maps, and virtual reality. Marni Jones<\/a> and James D\u2019Annibale<\/a> are planning on hosting further UDL workshops in the near future.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re hoping to learn about UDL and how technology can help with accessibility, please reach out to James at dannibaj@dickinson.edu<\/a><\/p>\n Moodle was upgraded to version 4.1 at the end of July. We\u2019ve prepared a video playlist highlighting<\/a> the changes you should be aware of. The main changes include:<\/p>\n AI has continued to evolve over the summer.\u00a0 Academic Technology encourages faculty to contact James<\/a> or Todd<\/a> for support of possible uses in classes and scholarship.<\/p>\n Six classrooms were upgraded to have full-room microphones and two PTZ cameras to make web-conferencing and lecture capturing easier and more appealing. The rooms are: Althouse 109, Althouse 207, Denny 311, Denny 313, Bosler 213, Rector Stuart 1113.<\/p>\n CLASSROOM ASSISTANCE<\/u>: If you have an urgent technology problem in your classroom, please email helpdesk@dickinson.edu<\/a> with the nature of your problem, the room and building of your class, and your cell phone number (if possible), and we will help as soon as possible.<\/p>\n STUDENT PROJECTS<\/u>: If you are planning to have your students work on multimedia (video, podcast, infographic, timelines), please contact me as soon as possible to schedule a consultation to plan the assignment, schedule classroom multimedia presentations\/workshops, and discuss any equipment needs.<\/p>\n Please let me know if you would like to meet to discuss projects for your classes or the spaces or equipment that we have available for you and your students. I\u2019m looking forward to talking to you about how I can help you in your upcoming courses.<\/p>\n Best wishes for a great fall semester from the entire Academic Technology team,<\/p>\n James D\u2019Annibale<\/a>, Ryan Burke<\/a>, Todd Bryant<\/a>, Anna Kerstetter<\/a>, Brenda Landis<\/a>, Ben Batchelor<\/a>, and Tom Smith\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following was emailed to faculty via their Academic Technology department liaisons in August, 2023. Greetings and welcome back from\u00a0Academic Technology! I hope your summer is going well! As we all prepare to return to campus for the fall semester in a few weeks, I wanted to reach out about how Academic Technology can support […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5252,"featured_media":62,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-email-archive","tag-email-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/academic-technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Willoughby<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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