Creators Not Consumers: Encouraging Student Agency in Tough Times

Creators Not Consumers: Encouraging Student Agency in Tough Times

As we hit a wall the 9-month mark of the Zoomification of the classroom, I have been reflecting on Marshall McLuhan’s prescient declaration: ‘the medium is the message.’*  Writing in the sixties, McLuhan was concerned primarily with the visual broadcast (one-way)...
Quick Reads

Quick Reads

Here are a couple interesting articles I have run across lately. “Multitasking Isn’t Making You More Efficient, It’s Frying Your Attention Span” by Daniel Goleman is excerpted from his new book called Altered Traits: Science Reveals How...
Here’s the Scoop on the Newsletter

Here’s the Scoop on the Newsletter

Big news: the CIE Newsletter, the Accessibility Newsletter and the Scoop have all combined to become the new CIE & EMT Newsletter. It will come out via your email twice a month and update you on everything you need to know in terms of Moodle, technology, and...
Learning Communities Celebrates Its Second Year!

Learning Communities Celebrates Its Second Year!

 celebrates its second year! Congratulations to all those faculty and staff that made Learning Communities great this year.  Groups included Belongingness, New Faculty, e-Portfolio, Coaching, and Collaboration for Universal Design. Participants in the Belongingness LC...
Long Night of Grading – May 4th

Long Night of Grading – May 4th

Now there’s an alternative to those long, lonely hours of grading –The Long Night of Grading brought to you by CIE, the Osterlin Library and Educational Media Technologies. On Thursday, May 4th, just when you are most buried by tests and papers and...