Summary Throughout April, the InTRO team was actively collaborating with other units in the development of new campus resources. We also established concrete plans for continuing our comparator research, and began to collate data for our upcoming annual report. Highlights! 20 technology staff from across UO attended the first meeting of the UO Educational Technology… Continue reading InTRO happenings, April 2015
This post was originally created for the new UO Ed Tech Community of Practice. I’m cross-posting it here for informational and archival purposes. –Lindsey Introduction For the first meeting of our new Ed Tech Community of Practice, we developed a structured activity. We asked everyone in attendance to answer four questions on a notecard: Who are… Continue reading The State of Ed Tech at the University of Oregon: Tech Staff Perspectives
Kassia and Lindsey were in Portland last week for the NorthWest Academic Computing Consortium‘s annual Instructional Technology Roundtable. The downtown Portland setting was an energizing one–it gave Lindsey, InTRO’s NYC refugee, a little taste of home! The roundtable is a small regional conference geared towards instructional technology practitioners. While overall numbers are small–roughly fifty people… Continue reading Conference Summary: Instructional Technology Roundtable, Portland (NWACC)
InTRO hosted its first on-campus event as an office at the end of October: we coordinated the University of Oregon’s participate in the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI)’s Fall Focus webinar, which were all about active learning spaces and creative classroom technologies! “Reimagining Learning Spaces: Design, Technology, and Assessment” was a two-day webinar featuring speakers from… Continue reading Webinar Summary: Reimagining Learning Spaces (EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative)
Welcome to the first InTRO monthly report! Accomplishments We accomplished quite a bit as an office in our first month. In addition to getting our physical office and basic communication methods (phone, e-mail, etc) established, we got coordinated with both the library and Academic Extension, drafted our mission statement and goal language, decided upon quarterly… Continue reading August 2014 Monthly Report