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June 17, 2008 – 3:18 pm

Moodle Users Community

After attending last week’s “Instructional Technologists at Liberal Arts Colleges” NITLE workshop, Jon B. and Joe B. turned right around and flew to Tacoma, WA to attend NITLE’s Moodle Community Meeting. Our hopes were high after the first workshop and the Moodle group did not disappoint. There are a some excellent changes coming down the […]

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June 6, 2008 – 2:58 pm

Instructional Technologists at Liberal Arts Colleges

Jon B. and Joe B. recently attended a NITLE workshop hosted at Depauw in southern Indiana for Instructional Technologists at Liberal Arts Colleges. The event was incredibly productive and thought-provoking for the both of us and covered a very broad range of instructional technology topics. This sort of thing is especially useful for us because […]

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April 7, 2008 – 2:26 pm

Students Create Online Writing Resources for the Writing Center Website

In the fall of 2007, students in Bill Macauley’s created online writing tutorials for the Writing Center’s website. The tutorials ranged from advice on how to avoid redundancy to creating metaphors and the proper use of commas. Each student or group chose their own method for creating the sites. Many are still works in progress, […]

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May 22, 2007 – 9:33 am

Second Life

Many institutions of higher learning are expanding into the online virtual world of Second Life. It provides a unique interactive environment useful for a variety of purposes. The most common uses include distance education and collaboration, but many organizations are finding new ways to use the digital world to their advantage. Online conferences, trade shows […]

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March 12, 2007 – 4:26 pm

International Video Chat using Skype

Professor Rujie Wang and College of Wooster students studying Chinese had a video chat with faculty and students at Xi’an International Studies University in Xi’an, China. The program used to do this is called Skype. It is a free program which allows you to text message, audio chat and video chat with other Skype […]

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