Academic Technology Solutions (ATS) Blog
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Announcing the 15th Annual Faculty Technology Receptions
Please join your fellow colleagues for the 15th Annual Faculty Technology Reception. Sample wine and cheese pairings while learning about technology resources available to UChicago professors, lecturers, instructors and researchers. Services include resources for new...
How Should You Choose between Canvas Discussion Boards and a Course Blog?
Canvas Discussion Boards and course blogs have similar functions--they offer a space for students to post a short piece of writing or multimedia for fellow students to provide feedback. In addition to being a good venue for write-to-learn exercises, they are both...
Graduate Students and Postdocs: Be a Digital Pedagogy Fellow with ATS!
Graduate Students and Postdocs, would you like to gain experience in digital pedagogy, help promote pedagogically sound use of educational technology at UChicago, and get ready to teach blended or fully-online courses? We are hiring a Digital Pedagogy Fellow for the...
Panopto Is UChicago’s New Video Management Platform
Panopto is here! Following a successful pilot, the University has contracted with Panopto as its new video management platform. Panopto is a tool for recording, organizing, embedding, and live streaming video. It seamlessly integrates with Canvas for video/audio...
Mind-Mapping Software Makes Musical Connections
Mind-mapping tools allow the user to organize multiple items of information in the form of a map or web, visualizing relationships and making connections between data. George Adams, a doctoral candidate in Music and fellow with the Chicago Center for Teaching (CCT),...
InstructureCon 2019: A Recap
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash InstructureCon 2019, the annual convention of Canvas vendor Instructure, was held from July 9-11, 2019, in Long Beach, California. During the convention, Instructure announced important updates to Canvas that are recently...
Graduate Students and Postdocs: Be a Digital Pedagogy Fellow with ATS!
Graduate Students and Postdocs, would you like to gain experience in digital pedagogy, help promote pedagogically sound use of educational technology at UChicago, and get ready to teach blended or fully-online courses? We are hiring a Digital Pedagogy Fellow for the...
Creative Assignments: Map and Timeline Exercises
This post is an installment in an ongoing series that explores possibilities for creative classroom assignments. We will showcase courses that have successfully employed creative assignments, and introduce tools and strategies that can help your students...
Implementing the Flipped-Classroom Model in Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast — A Progress Report
The “flipped-classroom” model of pedagogy, replacing in-class lectures with active learning, is rapidly growing in popularity within higher education. At the University of Chicago, Academic Technology Solutions has been working with Prof. Dorian Abbot of Geophysical...
Promoting Accessibility in Digital Learning, Part 3: Increasing Accessibility for Migrated Canvas Courses
In this three-part series, Academic Technology Solutions, in conjunction with Student Disability Services, explores how faculty and instructors can make digital learning materials more accessible for students with disabilities. The principal author of these posts is...
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