Initiating new technologies into complex institutions can be a challenge, especially when hundreds of users with varying technical skills, disciplinary approaches, and time commitments are involved. Integrating new technologies into teaching and pedagogical practices within widely disparate experience groups only increases that challenge. Creativity, innovation – and skill – can grow organically with “passionate users”… Continue reading →
Comparator research was the focus of InTRO’s efforts during February. Initial findings indicate that peer institutions centralize the services that deliver instructional technology and digital learning to a much greater extent than UO. Organizational structures and objectives differ to some degree, but the majority of our peers have initiated innovative digital education programming through strategic… Continue reading →
UO faculty, instructors, and GTFs can join training sessions to gain an understanding of creating, developing, and implementing course sites in Canvas, the new Learning Management System going live in Spring 2015. There are multiple workshops for creating a course from scratch and for migrating a course from Blackboard to Canvas. Register today for this… Continue reading →
Join the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics and the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication for a discussion on “Media, Democracy, and Technologies: Possibilities and Challenges.” Speakers will include representatives from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, WITNESS, and a co-founder of the Zone9 blogging collective. Details: Media, Democracy, and Technologies: Possibilities and… Continue reading →
On Friday, February 20, the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics will be hosting a symposium on “Living Data: Inhabiting New Media,” addressing the timely topics of new media theory, data histories, network culture, and information ecologies in an interdisciplinary format. The symposium will be held at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and features keynote speaker Wendy… Continue reading →
The beginning of winter quarter brought a number of new referral projects to InTRO, due in part to increased outreach efforts! Six new projects came our way this month. Four of these projects have been completed, one other has been referred out. One project, in progress, is waiting for responses to plan and proceed, Our referrals… Continue reading →
An initial timeline for the UO Canvas migration has been made available. While the schedule remains subject to change, the timeline is quite helpful for planning purposes. Faculty and staff interested in becoming an Early Adopter can signup with Academic Technology to get a jump on the use of this new system during the upcoming… Continue reading →
Spooky! Want to know more about the “dark web” or “deep web”? On Friday, February 27, the Digital Scholarship Center will be hosting Robert Gehl from the University of Utah for a talk on Dark Web Social Networks. While the “dark web” has been in existence for quite some time, the integration of social media… Continue reading →
Looking to enliven your teaching this quarter? Check out this upcoming workshop from the Teaching Effectiveness Program! Blended Courses: Combining Online with Face-to-Face Instruction Week 8: Fri, Feb. 27 2:00-3:30pm, Proctor 42, Knight Library Facilitator: Robert Voelker-Morris Discover how courses combine face-to-face instruction with online teaching in ways that increase student engagement and learning. Participants… Continue reading →
Curious about physical computing? Want to play around with “sensors, blinkers, and bits”? Want to try programming an awesome little Arduino? On Friday, February 6, the Digital Scholarship Center will be hosting an Introduction to Physical Computing Workshop, where participants will learn the basics of the Arduino Uno. This event is open to all UO faculty, staff,… Continue reading →
