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TACOMA, WASH. (March 23, 2016)- Imagine using bananas and a circuit board to create a piano. Absurd? Thanks to the maker movement and some creative minds, it isn’t. Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Education & Kinesiology is bringing that creative spirit to campus April 12…
book “Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom.” Their lecture will touch on how to effectively set up makerspaces in schools to incorporate the maker movement into basic education. But first, they’ll give teachers and PLU students studying to become teachers the opportunity to test out the technologies that makerspaces offer. Attendees will participate in hands-on learning that will demonstrate how useful the creative spaces can be in schools. Students use the spaces to
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2016 NWACC Award for Innovation in Instructional Technologies Each year the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC), a group of 33 northwest colleges and universities, sponsors an Award for Innovation in Instructional Technologies. The award recognizes faculty members and instructional technologists at member institutions for work demonstrating effective design, development, integration, and/or support of… December 15, 2016 awardNWACC
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2016 NWACC Award for Innovation in Instructional Technologies Each year the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC), a group of 33 northwest colleges and universities, sponsors an Award for Innovation in Instructional Technologies. The award recognizes faculty members and instructional technologists at member institutions for work demonstrating effective design, development, integration, and/or support of… December 15, 2016 awardNWACC
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By Michael Halvorson, ’85 This week is Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 3-Dec. 9) in the United States. I helped celebrate on Monday at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science at the University of Washington in Seattle. The event was sponsored by Code.org…
Code.org and numerous partner organizations, cities and states across the nation are committing to increased spending on computer science and building new K-12 curriculum. At PLU, we’ve just launched an Innovation program as well as numerous technology offerings in the School of Business and Department of Computer Science. Across the university, students learning how to integrate computing into their disciplines, how to build ethical frameworks to evaluate new technologies, and (for some) how to write
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By Michael Halvorson, ’85 This week is Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 3-Dec. 9) in the United States. I helped celebrate on Monday at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science at the University of Washington in Seattle. The event was sponsored by Code.org…
numerous partner organizations, cities and states across the nation are committing to increased spending on computer science and building new K-12 curriculum. At PLU, we’ve just launched an Innovation program as well as numerous technology offerings in the School of Business and Department of Computer Science. Across the university, students learning how to integrate computing into their disciplines, how to build ethical frameworks to evaluate new technologies, and (for some) how to write interesting
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GradeMaster ScannerInstructional Technologies has two GradeMaster machines available for use at the Instructional Technologies Service Desk. Students can be given an question sheet that they fill out at the time of the test. After you create a key and run it through the machine, the GradeMaster will automatically grade the tests for you. For a detailed test analysis, one of the GradeMaster machines can output the test information into a special software program. For assistance using the
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helpful FAQs and on-demand tutorials, in addition to personal support via phone or email. If you’re on campus, you can also drop by their location on the first floor of the Library.Learn More Instructional Technologies Students in blended classes with portions on-campus at PLU can take advantages of the equipment and training resources provided by Instructional Technologies. Need a piece of equipment to create or appropriately present a project in class? Interested in improving your skills in Sakai
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Matters, faculty may use (and modify) the standards for unofficial review purposes. If you are interested in seeing the Fifth Edition of the Quality Matters Rubric, it can be accessed from the Instructional Technologies site with your PLU ePass. The QM Rubric is such a great tool for online and blended course design, I found myself wishing an equivalent existed for traditional courses. Last semester, I created a short and simple checklist for faculty to self-assess traditional on-campus courses in a
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software. Instructional Technologies (iTech) provides assistance with learning technologies such as screencasting, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Google Workspace Apps. Classroom & Events Technologies provides classroom technology installation and support as well as multimedia technology support for events. The Academic Web Development team provides technical support and web integration services for web systems such as Sakai and other web applications. User Services also operates two computer labs in the
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