First Generation iPad in the Classroom vs. the iPad 2

by Dr. Luanne Fose - The Tweed Geek on April 25, 2012

** This is a guest post by Ms. Melanie Senn, Lecturer in the English Department at Cal Poly – SLO.

As a lecturer in the English Department, I mostly teach writing classes: English 134 (Writing and Rhetoric) and 145 (Argumentation, Reasoning, and Writing). Always interested in improving my teaching and students’ learning, I attended an awesome year-long workshop during the 2010-2011 school year in the CTL (taught by Walt Bremer, Luanne Fose, and Tonia Malone) that focused on using technology effectively in the classroom. And then in the fall of 2011, I borrowed one of the CTL’s iPads to see how I would use it in my classes.

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It’s All about the Affect: Robot Grading, the CSU Symposium on University Teaching, Student Motivation, Time and an Early Start

by Dawn April 16, 2012

Beware: my neural networks are firing on all sides today. For one, just the other day I read an article in Inside Higher Education summarizing a large study that claims that the scores given by robot-raters who assess student writing are similar to those given by human-raters.  Writing is my discipline.  Imagine. Some might believe [...]

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Board Cam – One of the Tweed Geek’s Top 2012 Educational App Picks for the iPad 2

by Dr. Luanne Fose - The Tweed Geek February 23, 2012

Over the past few months, as more and more faculty discover the beauty of using the iPad in the classroom, I have been questioned about iPad 2 applications that can be used for whiteboard projection in the classroom while simultaneously recording the content as video. Due to the delay on the market of anyone providing [...]

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A New Year’s Resolution: Get (or Stay) Active in the Classroom

by Brian January 30, 2012

As we arrive at the end of the first month of 2012, some may be doing well with New Year’s resolutions while maybe others have long ago abandoned theirs (or not set any to begin with). A popular resolution every year is to lose weight and/or become more physically active, and with the opening of [...]

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PolyLearn Course Example: BIO-161

by Tonia Malone January 9, 2012

With the new Learning Management System (LMS) PolyLearn (Moodle 2.1.3), many faculty have asked about how to organize their course content within this new and different system. The goal of this blog post is to highlight one example of how Edward Himelblau used PolyLearn to support his student needs. Edward Himelblau (CSM-Biological Sciences) taught BIO 161 – [...]

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Dear Santa: iPad 2 or Kindle Fire?

by Dr. Luanne Fose - The Tweed Geek December 5, 2011

 Over the past few weeks, several faculty have asked me whether they should ask Santa for an iPad 2 or a Kindle Fire this Christmas. To begin with, I should confess to those of you who don’t know me, that I will always be an inveterate Apple fan, come what may – my heart belongs [...]

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A Teacher Is Always a Utopian

by Dawn November 5, 2011

“A Teacher is Always a Utopian”-Victor Villanueva I just came across the above quote yesterday while viewing an interview of Villanueva, who some may know for his examination of language as a reinforcement of racism.  The youtube clip is only 7-minutes yet memorable. I particularly love Villanueva’s metaphor—defining the teacher as a good place in [...]

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Does Higher Education Need To Change The Status Quo?

by patrick October 23, 2011

An online video called “College Conspiracy” is spreading virally with almost 2.5 million Youtube hits since it’s posting in May, 2011.  The video claims that college education in the U.S. is one of the largest scams in history. Among the video’s claims: College debt has now surpassed credit card debt; tuition and textbook costs are [...]

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PolyLearn Course Example

by Tonia Malone October 3, 2011

With the new Learning Management System (LMS) PolyLearn (Moodle 2.1), many faculty have asked about how to organize their course content within this new and different system. The goal of this blog post is to highlight one example of how Megan Howard used PolyLearn to support her student needs. Megan Howard (CSM-Biological Sciences) is teaching [...]

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Leisure Anyone? Faculty Work-Life Balance

by Brian May 31, 2011

In my conversations with faculty across our campus and around the nation, the following exchange has become commonplace: Faculty 1: “How’s it going?” Faculty 2: (Head shaking) “You know, treading water, trying not to sink!” Though certainly anecdotal, this exchange is a symbol of a larger issue not only being played out in higher education [...]

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