 O brave new world that has such courses in’t |
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| Harvard Humanities Students Discover the 17th Century Online
The most recent issue of the Chronicle has an interesting article on a course Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt is offering at Harvard that uses a different media (Google Earth, video, a website rich with visual and textual materials) to immerse students in cross-cultural encounters of the seventeenth-century. [...] |
 22-Oct-07 03:20 PM  http://tip.wm.edu/?p=257 |
| Congratulations to George Greenia |
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| Greenia receives Spanish honor | University Relations
Congratulations to Professor George Greenia on receiving Spain’s highest honor for foreign nationals for his work in medieval studies and on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage. George has been a great inspiration to many of us here at TIP for his contagious enthusiasm for learning and his exceptional [...] |
| 20-Oct-07 10:20 AM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=256 |
| A Shout Out to My Alma Mater |
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| I just received my quarterly letter from Joan Hinde Stewart, president of Hamilton College, where I did my undergraduate (graduating in 1972) and then served as the director of the Career Center for 14 years. Hamilton presidents have a long tradition of somewhat long, though generally extraordinarily well-written, letters to alumni about the state [...] |
| 18-Oct-07 08:40 AM http://generoche.net/blog/2007/10/18/a-shout-out-to-my-alma-mater/ |
| Exhibit |
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| For the last few weeks I’ve been doing some work using MIT’s Simile Project’s Exhibit. Exhibit is an application for visualizing and presenting data on the web. I’ve been using it on a new project, The Moscow Theater Project (MTP), I’m doing with Sasha Prokhorov and Elena Prokhorova in our Modern Languages Department. [...] |
| 16-Oct-07 12:20 PM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=255 |
| Lessons from the Matlab Programming Contest |
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| A conversation with Ned Gulley about the MATLAB Programming Contest
When William and Mary first purchased our site license to MATLAB, I spent some time roaming around the site, and one of the most fascinating features was the semi-annual programming contest. Each contest presents a different problem to be solved with topics ranging from gene sequencing [...] |
| 15-Oct-07 09:40 AM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=253 |
| Whither the TIP Community (Part 3) |
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| At our last meeting of the academic technology staff, we spent some additional time talking about the future direction of the TIP community site. The discussion was fascinating in demonstrating how difficult it is to develop a shared understanding of even something as “simple” as the purpose of a web site. Even after [...] |
| 13-Oct-07 10:00 AM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=252 |
| Whither the TIP Community (Redux) |
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| In mid-June our “group” launched a formal project to redo our web presence. Based on our discussions at our retreat and a couple of follow-up meetings, we identified three broad purposes for our web site(s).
The first phase of the project was launched this week, with over 100 individual questions identified and labeled. Over the [...] |
| 09-Oct-07 09:00 AM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=251 |
| A Closer look at Student Response Systems (Clickers) |
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Some faculty members are meeting this semester to discuss the use of SRS (Clickers) in the classroom. This group is one of several TIP Focus Groups where faculty members get together to test and examine different instructional technologies.
Members of the SRS group are: Daniel Cristol; Diane Shakes; Danielle Dallaire; Eugene Tracy; John Griffin; Paul Heideman; [...] |
| 04-Oct-07 10:20 AM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=249 |
| Tablet PC Focus Group |
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| During the Fall 07 semester TIP will be sponsoring some instructional technology focus groups. One of them is the Tablet PC Focus Group. The participants (selected faculty) meet once every other week to discuss and share their own experiences with the tablets in their classes. During the meetings the faculty talk about the [...] |
| 30-Sep-07 08:00 AM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=248 |
| First Brown Bag Session of the Fall 07 Semester |
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| Yesterday we had our first of a series of Brown Bag Sessions we will be offering this semester. Gene Roche, our Director of Academic Technologies gave a presentation on blogs and wikis.
The title of his presentation was: Blogs and Wikis: Inside and Out
The session description stated that blogs and wikis [...] |
| 27-Sep-07 10:00 AM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=242 |
| Common Craft Releases Introduction to Google Docs |
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| Google Docs In Plain English
The folks at Common Craft, producer of the “paperwork” series that includes a great introduction to RSS and Wikis in Plain English have released this new explanation of Google Docs. The main message: email attachments of Word documents filled with “track changes” balloons are recipes for frustration. There [...] |
| 20-Sep-07 01:20 PM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=241 |
| A Virtual William and Mary? |
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| Several months ago an explosion of interest in the use of virtual programs for educational purposes occurred. As massively multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPGs) became huge successes in the gaming industry, eyes turned to see how this powerful method of networking could be harnessed to further educational goals. The College of William and Mary’s own [...] |
| 16-Sep-07 08:00 AM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=240 |
| Coolest Tool No One Can Use |
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| globeandmail.com: Take some Tablets
John Moore shared this article about the evolution of tablet PC’s, formerly known as the “Coolest Tool No One Can Use.” Our focus group is already experimenting with most of the functions mentioned in the article–using the tablet as an electronic blackboard or whiteboard, marking up essays or annotating storyboards. [...] |
| 14-Sep-07 09:20 AM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=239 |
| Welcome IT News Readers! |
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| The TIP blog was featured in the IT News feature this morning, so we expect a few new visitors. We hope you’ll find somethings that grab your interest and might justify few more visits as the semester unfolds. If you’re new here, you can break the ice by hitting the comment button at the [...] |
| 13-Sep-07 09:40 AM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=238 |
| Life in the Grey Zone |
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| I spent an hour yesterday responding to a request from a colleague to write a clearer statement defining what level of support academic departments could expect from staff in our Academic Information Services group in maintaining their departmental web pages. She noted, quite correctly, that our service-level agreement (SLA) was a tad mushy when [...] |
| 13-Sep-07 09:00 AM http://generoche.net/blog/2007/09/13/life-in-the-grey-zone/ |
| The Messages We Send |
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| How to Read My Comments on Your Paper Drafts:
Every once in a while I read about some educational practice that makes such perfect sense I can can’t help but wonder why everyone isn’t doing it. Steve Greenlaw periodically directs posts in his blog specifically to his students. In a recent post he [...] |
| 07-Sep-07 08:20 AM http://generoche.net/blog/?p=203 |
| The Art of Building Virtual Communities |
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| 21st Century Collaborative: The Art of Building Virtual Communities
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, who was a student in the planning class a couple of years ago, has been putting together some extremely valuable posts on her blog. (I loved the news reel clip on progressive education from her post on John Dewey.) This essay on building virtual [...] |
| 04-Sep-07 09:20 PM http://generoche.net/blog/?p=201 |
| Bar Association Web Redesign |
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| IT Conversations: Edward Adams
This is an interesting discussion of the process of redesigning the American Bar Association Journal. Previous versions of the site featured one story a day with no persistent links. The new versions features a number of updated features to move from a fairly traditional professional magazine to site that is [...] |
| 29-Aug-07 09:40 PM http://generoche.net/blog/?p=199 |
| They’re Back |
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| Anne Truitt Zelenka » Get That Back to School Feeling
Our first year students arrived yesterday, and Anne Truitt Zelenka, editor at large for Web Worker Daily, captured many of the feelings I have every year about this time.
…I love the motion after summer’s pause. I love the thrill of new projects and the [...] |
| 25-Aug-07 05:40 PM http://generoche.net/blog/?p=198 |
| Use a Wiki for Better Note-Taking |
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| Advice for Students: Use a Wiki for Better Note-Taking - lifehack.org
In the last year, wiki’s have clearly entered the mainstream, as shown by this article in Lifehacker suggesting that students begin to use a wiki as general a general notetaking tool, providing some good suggestions to how to organize and get the most from the [...] |
| 25-Aug-07 05:00 PM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=236 |
| Moving to a Evidence-Based Culture |
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| Social Innovation Conversations: Jeffrey Pfeffer
Now that Open Source Radio has closed, I’m having the opportunity to catch up with some other other podcasts in my five hours a week on the Arc Trainer. Yesterday was the first time I’ve listened to an offering from the Social Innovations Conversations, with a presentation by Stanford Business [...] |
| 23-Aug-07 10:40 AM http://generoche.net/blog/?p=195 |
| Is Crummy Service Better Than No Service At All? |
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| At Seminars in Academic 2007 I participated in a discussion with a group of colleagues on the topic of What to Faculty Expect From Higher Ed. IT? The discussion was described in the program:
Traditionally faculty have needed technical support for the ways in which they use computers in teaching and research. Innovative faculty [...] |
| 23-Aug-07 10:40 AM http://generoche.net/blog/?p=194 |
| You Are Who the Search Engines Say You Are |
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| I’ve been looking for an reason to get back to blogging, and spending some time with Jon Udell at the Educause Seminars for Academic Computing helped provide the motivation to stop looking and start posting. In a presentation on disruptive technologies, Jon made the point that, for all practical purposes, you are who Google [...] |
| 23-Aug-07 10:40 AM http://generoche.net/blog/?p=193 |
| GW Blackboard Tour |
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| Blackboard Introduction Tour
The GW Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning has put together a very comprehensive set of support tools for BlackBoard. GW uses the BlackBoard Content Management System, so some of the materials don’t map exactly to our system, but many of them do. The folks at the Center offer a [...] |
| 22-Aug-07 06:20 PM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=234 |
| Increasing the Return on Investment |
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| Using a wiki to provide support materials
Most of us have probably already seen this presentation that started out as a PowerPoint presentation for a faculty meeting in August 2006 at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado. (Even though the audience was high school teachers, there are some good insights for those of us [...] |
| 19-Aug-07 08:40 AM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=233 |
| Swem Media Center on BLIPTV |
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| Troy and the folks at Swem have posted their latest series of videos to their BLIPTV Channel They’ve posted both academic and administrative projects. Many of the are from the 24 hour film contest, but I found the How I Use the Media Center to be the most interesting. (A couple [...] |
| 14-Aug-07 10:40 AM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=232 |
| Making Use of TEI Markup, Part 3: Relationships Between Texts |
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| In my last post (posted some time ago) I outlined how we’re using TEI markup on what we’re now calling The Serpentine Wall: Resource Center for the Principle of Separation Between Church and State to produce polymorphous documents that respect the multiple ways to which we hope the site’s put to use (e.g. teaching students [...] |
| 13-Aug-07 04:20 PM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=231 |
| Wow! Cool! I love it!…Can your computer do this? |
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| “Wow!” “Cool!” “I love it!”, “Can your computer do this?”… were some of the reactions and feedback we got from some of our Tablet PC focus group participants. This past July the Technology Integration Program (TIP) held the first meeting for this newly formed focus group.
A little background: TIP decided to award several tablet PC [...] |
| 03-Aug-07 12:00 PM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=229 |
| The Faculty Orientations are on the way! |
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| This August, the Technology Integration Program (TIP) is offering technology orientations for new, adjunct, and returning faculty.
Participants have an opportunity to learn about technology resources available to them on campus. Some of the topics covered include: Faculty Digital Center services, classroom support (AV and computer), departmental liaison project support, Blackboard, Webmail, Banner and more!
If you [...] |
| 02-Aug-07 02:00 PM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=228 |
| Making Use of TEI Markup, Part 1: Data-Rich Texts |
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| For the past few months I’ve been working with Jim Harris on a prototype site for a “Resource Center for Principle of Separation of Church and State,” a site that will eventually house a wealth of materials—primary source documents, introductions to those documents, analytic essays, lesson plans, multimedia materials. (The site isn’t yet public, [...] |
| 06-Jul-07 05:00 PM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=224 |
| Social Networking at IBM |
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| Social Networking at IBM | Tom Werner
I never really thought of IBM as a a bastion of Web 2.0 innovation, but, according to Tom Werner’s blog, employees at IBM are embracing many of the communications and collaboration tools that we’re experimenting with in the Technology Integration Program.
More than 26,000 employees have blogs.
The company has more [...] |
| 22-Jun-07 09:20 PM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=219 |
| A brand new set of grants! |
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| TIP has awarded eight technology grants to W&M faculty for the 2007 - 2008 Academic Year.
Here are their project proposals:
Dorothea LaChon Abraham (Business School)
The TIP funds will provide the basis to establish the ability to use SAS Data Mining tools in regularly offered information systems courses in the Mason School of Business. There is a [...] |
| 12-Jun-07 03:15 PM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=216 |
| Wikipedia Coverage of the Virginia Tech Tragedy |
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| The Latest on Virginia Tech, From Wikipedia - New York Times: “”
According to a recent article in the New York Times, the Wikipedia served as “an essential news source for hundreds of thousands of people on the Internet trying to understand the shootings at Virginia Tech University.
The Times reports that at least 2074 editors [...] |
| 12-Jun-07 12:03 PM http://generoche.net/blog/?p=189 |
| Meet our student fellows for Fall 2007 |
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| This coming semester three TIP fellows will be working with William & Mary faculty members in technology related projects.
Read here the description of their projects:
Jenna Ogden will collaborate withTimothy Barnard (American Studies Program)
Title of their project:
Integrating Oral History Data into The Williamsburg Theater Project (WTP) Database and Website
Description of their project:
“For the past two [...] |
| 11-Jun-07 03:15 PM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=215 |
| Digital Humanities and Interactivity |
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| In an essay “What is Humanities Computing and What is Not?,” John Unsworth makes the point that just because some a piece of humanities scholarship involves a computer in either its production or its distribution, that doesn’t make it a humanities computing project. By Unsworth’s measure something qualifies as a humanities computing project not [...] |
| 10-Jun-07 03:15 PM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=214 |
| Web 2.0 at the New Media Consortium |
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| At the University of Mary Washington Faculty Academy, Alan Levine did a presentation including some explanation of the redesign of the web site of the New Media Consortium. The NMC is an international consortium of nearly 250 learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies. (http://www.nmc.org/about)
In April, [...] |
| 09-Jun-07 03:15 PM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=211 |
| Video: Wikis in Plain English from Common Craft |
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| Video: Wikis in Plain English | Common Craft - Social Design for the Web
The folks at Common Craft have released a new video that introduces the concept of the wiki in just three steps: edit, save, and link. It highlights the weaknesses of email in coordinating the activities of a group and [...] |
| 08-Jun-07 03:15 PM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=212 |
| TIP the Scales |
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| (Posted by Pablo Yañez for Dr. Chuck Bailey)
Over the past year- Erik Haug (W&M ‘07, TIP Fellow Fall ‘06), Pablo Yañez, and I have worked on developing Google Earth “flyovers” and other educational resources for the Geology of Virginia website (http://www.wm.edu/geology/virginia- hosted by the W&M Geology Dept).
In part as a result of [...] |
| 07-Jun-07 03:15 PM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=210 |
| Aggregated Tweets |
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I’ve just returned from the University of Mary Washington Faculty Academy. Wiki’s were probably of the most popular topics by faculty presenters, but the buzz among the geek set was all about Twitter and Tweets. A tweet is a message sent with Twitter and twitter is
….a social networking and micro-blogging [...] |
| 06-Jun-07 03:15 PM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=209 |
| Every Disk Fails; The Only Question is “When?” |
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| PC World - Hard-Drive Failures Surprisingly Frequent
A friend of mine in the IT department at Hamilton had his desk in front of a huge bulletin board covered with the the innards of hundreds of floppy disks that his staff had been unable to recover for students along with a sign warning that every disk fails [...] |
| 05-Jun-07 03:15 PM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=207 |
| Choosing an RSS Reader |
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| Web Worker Daily »Head to Head: iGoogle vs. Netvibes «: “”
As I mentioned in this semester’s brown bag, I’m still using three distinct RSS readers to “consolidate” my news and blog reading– iGoogle, Netvibes and Bloglines, plus the occasional foray into Google Reader. The three load up as individual tabs when I launch my [...] |
| 04-Jun-07 03:15 PM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=206 |
| Whither the TIP Community Blog? |
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| Blog Models: Ways to Use Blogs « Lorelle on WordPress: “”
William and Mary’s Technology Integration Program (TIP) is nearing it’s first year of operation. One of our first activities was to launch this blog, and now we’re beginning to try to assess our progress–both for the blog and for the program as a [...] |
| 03-Jun-07 03:15 PM http://tip.wm.edu/?p=203 |
| The Importance of Authenticity in Teaching |
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| NPR : Just Like Pastrami
Garder Writes: First Resolution for 2007
I’d been meaning to return my blog, but thought maybe I’d wait until later in the month, since so it wouldn’t seem quite so much like a New Year’s resolution. (Didn’t want to seem like all the new folks that will show up at [...] |
| 02-Jan-07 09:00 AM http://generoche.net/blog/?p=188 |
| The Importance of Authencity in Teaching |
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| NPR : Just Like Pastrami
Garder Writes: First Resolution for 2007
I’d been meaning to return my blog, but thought maybe I’d wait until later in the month, since so it wouldn’t seem quite so much like a New Year’s resolution. (Didn’t want to seem like all the new folks that will show up at [...] |
| 02-Jan-07 07:00 AM http://generoche.net/blog/?p=188 |
| Introducing Life-Long Learners to Web 2.0 |
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| Learning 2.0 - Main
This program came to my attention through a brand new blog that I’ve just added to my aggregator. (Welcome to the blogosphere, Charlotte!) The project was designed to introduce members of the staff at the Public Library Charlotte and Mecklenburg County in North Carolina. PLCMC Staff members who [...] |
| 24-Oct-06 07:00 AM http://generoche.net/blog/?p=184 |
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