Teaching and Technology

Software

Varsity Buys is a site for discounted software for students, faculty and staff. The prices are especially good for Microsoft products, given the larger contract the college has with Microsoft. You need to identify yourself as a faculty/staff member in order to get the good prices. After this, create an account using a .edu e-mail address. Varsity Buys will send you a verification link and all you need to do is click to verify. In the future, this link will be immediately available on the portal in the Quick Links section, labeled Discounted Software.

On Campus Resources

• Technology Information and resources available in the Faculty Technology Lab
• Technology Support For Faculty - Support for using Blackboard and Moodle in teaching, preparing and using digital content for teaching, Microsoft office help, social networking, blogs, Google apps, copyright consultation
• Instructional Media Center - A/V equipment, smart rooms, video production, interactive rooms for distance education and equipment for checkout
• The college has a large format plotter for posters in the Faculty Technology Lab. Information on using the plotter is available on the library's Poster Printing Resources page.

Other Resources

• Effective Practices in Online Education - From the Sloan Consortium
• Merlot - Teaching Resources from the collaborative Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching
• ProfHacker - a blog in The Chronicle for "Tips about teaching, technology and productivity"
• Teaching Strategies for Online Teaching - a collection of links from the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching University of Michigan
• Research in best practices in teaching online A summary from San Juan College
• Illinois Online Network by the University of Illinois has a nice collection of instructional design articles.
• Tips and Tricks for Teaching Online - an article by Kaye Shelton and George Saltsman in the International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning
• Seven Principles of Effective Teaching: A Practical Lens for Evaluating Online Courses from The Technology Source Archives at the University of North Carolina
• Online Education in the United States, 2011 - A report from the Babson Survey Research Group