Tag: MSU IT

Brown Bag: Moving from Accessibility to Universal Design for Learning: A Paradigm Shift from Fear to Hope

Speakers
  • Cathleen McGreal, College of Social Science
  • Stephen Thomas, College of Natural Science
  • Casey Henley, MSU Neuroscience Program
  • Jan Bukovac Phelps, College of Communication Arts & Sciences
  • Emilia Marcyk, MSU Library

Over the last year, the Faculty Learning Community (FLC) on Accessibility Through Creative Innovation has been working with MSU IT Services to create a self-enrolled course on accessibility and curriculum development.  Read Full Article →

Brown Bag: Flipping a Music Class – Postponed

This week’s Explorations in Instructional Technologies brown bag seminar has been postponed until Spring 2017.  

Our next brown bag session will be December 2, 2016 and features Cathleen McGreal, College of Social Science, Stephen Thomas, College of Natural Science, Casey Henley, MSU Neuroscience Program. Jan Bukovac Phelps, College of Communication Arts & Sciences, who will present “Moving from Accessibility to Universal Design for Learning:  A Paradigm Shift from Fear to Hope.“ Read Full Article →

Brown Bag: Curriculum Mapping and Competency Search in D2L

Speakers
  • Mary Gebbia-Portice, College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • R. Taylor Scott, College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • Nathan Lounds, MSU IT Services

At this Brown Bag Seminar, Mary will be sharing the experiences and lessons learned by the team that is mapping the College of Osteopathic Medicine’s (COM) curriculum. She will be sharing the processes that COM is following to map the curriculum and will also be demonstrating the map and the accompanying Competency Search Tool. Read Full Article →

Brown Bag: Teaching with Social Media

Speaker
  • Christine Greenhow, College of Education

At this brown bag session Christine will present her research and teaching ideas about using social media in higher education classrooms. She will demonstrate some of the social media platforms she has used, how she and her students have used them, and what students are saying about these experiences. Read Full Article →

Brown Bag: Groups in D2L: Creating ad-hoc D2L Groups During Class, Submitting Photos of Group Work, and Grading Groups using Rubrics

Speakers
  • Jon Stoltzfus, College of Natural Science
  • Terri McElhinny, College of Natural Science

We leverage D2L features to facilitate group work in large-enrollment lecture courses.  D2L’s grouping, dropbox, and rubric features simplify the logistical challenges inherent with collecting and evaluating work from hundreds of students. These features allow informal groups that are formed at the start of a class meeting to work cooperatively during class and upload their final product, whether it by text and/or drawings, to D2L at the end of class.   Read Full Article →

Brown Bag: Results from Teaching Physics to Large Sections using the Digital Version of University Physics

Speaker
  • Gary Westfall, College of Natural Science

In this session Gary will summarize experiences in teaching PHY 183, first-year calculus-based physics for scientists and engineers, to three large sections (825 students total). The course was taught at MSU during the fall semester 2015 using the digital version of the textbook “University Physics” by Bauer and Westfall.  Read Full Article →

Brown Bag: Collaboratively Embodied Content in Synchronous Learning Environments

Speakers
  • John Bell, College of Education
  • William Cain, College of Education

Embodiment and Social Presence are important frameworks for understanding the experience of people being brought together via technology such as videoconference and robotic telepresence. Collaboratively embodied content applies these same frameworks to interactions that give priority to the embodiment of the content on collaboration, in which people are also embodied in a thinner form. Read Full Article →

IT Exchange Meeting

Tentative Agenda

Updates to MSU’s Technology Purchasing Process: Members of University Services, IT Security, and MSU’s Web Accessibility team will present changes made to the IT procurement process to minimize security and data risks and maintain accessibility compliance for both new products and renewals.

MSU IT Service Management Improvements: Mark Seyka and Kelly Wilcox, with the MSU IT Service Management team, will present new systems being rolled out to the campus community. Read Full Article →

2016 MSU Instructional Technology Showcase

This is the ninth annual event in this series, and is sponsored by the Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology and MSU Information Technology.

This year, in the spirit of innovation, we are adding a bit of a twist to the showcase model. Often times we walk away from professional development sessions with lots of ideas, but find ourselves with little time to implement those ideas. Read Full Article →

Brown Bag: Leveraging Teaching & Learning Excellence Through Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs)

Speaker

  • Patti Stewart, Faculty & Organization Development

Background

The Explorations in Instructional Technology Brown Bag series is hosted by the MSU College of Education, College of Natural Science, and MSU IT Teaching and Learning Technology. For more information, contact Sev Grabski. Learn more about other faculty development opportunities. Read Full Article →