Email Newsletters: A Jumping Off Point

by Marya Figueroa November 7, 2012

There’s a lot to be said about how to create a great email newsletter. However, you don’t have to be an expert to get started. Here are some things to know when you create an email newsletter.   First of all, you don’t have to start from scratch There are several sites that I happily [...]

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Greetings from the New CTLT Director

by Patrick O'Sullivan October 17, 2012

It is my delight to contribute my first-ever posting to the CTLT blog. As the new director of CTLT it seems appropriate to use this to introduce myself to our loyal blog readers and share some details about the recent changes. I came to Cal Poly six months ago as the new (and first for [...]

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PolyLearn Information & Course Example: COMS 101

by Tonia Malone May 31, 2012

** This is a collaborative post with Mr. Martin Mehl, Lecturer in Communication Studies at Cal Poly – SLO. I asked Martin if he would mind if I shared his PolyLearn (Moodle) course design. During our conversation, he also shared with me his experiences with transitioning to PolyLearn. Martin said: “When I learned nearly 2 years [...]

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Wireless Display of iPad on HDMI Device

by Patrick Kammermeyer May 21, 2012

It appears that iPad use is up on Cal Poly’s campus. I’m seeing them show up at meetings more and more. The CTL’s most recent iPad workshop had over 40 people in attendance, making it one of our better attended workshops of the year. One of the most common questions we hear from faculty with [...]

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First Generation iPad in the Classroom vs. the iPad 2

by Dr. Luanne Fose - The Tweed Geek 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 [...]

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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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