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Choral Music from the Jewish Traditions

This web site is designed to help choral conductors, students and researchers find repertoire from the Jewish traditions. This is not an exhaustive list of everything that is out there, but rather a list of recommended pieces. We have included sacred and secular; music for mixed, all-male and treble choruses; for beginners and advanced ensembles; pieces that are short and long; works that are...

Josue David Cisnero's Faculty Site

Using and EdTech template, created a website for Professor Cisneros.

project, template program, web development
Clark Lab

Website developed for Professor Heather Clark's research and lab.

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ePortfolio Pilot with TaskStream

During the 2008-2009 academic year, Northeastern piloted the eportfolio system TaskStream (www.taskstream.com) through eleven pilot projects, funded by the Office of the Provost. The projects represented each college in the University, as well as every level of education. TaskStream is an externally hosted system, through which students are provided accounts on a subscription basis. TaskStream...

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Learning Communities

A learning community is small cohort of students who enroll in a cluster of two or more courses. Because the courses are thematically linked, students have the opportunity to work with two or more faculty members to gain a deeper and more meaningful understanding of the material. Course clusters can focus on a profession, major, or area of interest, and are often comprised of courses that satisfy...

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Language Instruction Support

EdTech worked with the Library Media Center to develop flash based method of delivering stream audio files to students enrolled in language courses at NU. Currently serving both Chinese and Italian classes the project served as a pilot and prototype for exploring the viability of offering such services for all language courses that currently have audio that must be signed out and listened to in...

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Journalism - Digital Story Telling

Liz Matson's Online Journalism class explores, among other things, different ways a story can be published online. Image and audio production were part of the course; building from there EdTech produce a web based tool to allows her students to configure an XML and Flash based digital story telling slideshow. This digital story slideshow can play an audio file and show images and captions at...

digital story telling, project
Planet Biology

An EdTech Center team worked with Professor Dan Scheirer to develop a web site to support a new course, 'Biology & Society'. The site includes a content management system that allows Professor Scheirer to add and manage the display of content in multiple areas of the site. The site works in conjunction with a Blackboard site, used for testing and digital homework submission features.

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Early Intervention Hybrid

An EdTech Center instructional designer worked with three faculty members over the course of a year to redesign this five-course graduate certificate program to be presented 75% online. The project resulted in a portal web site for the program and five Blackboard courses. The EdTech Center provided Blackboard training and consultation on course design, coached faculty throughout the first...

hybrid, project
Urban Teaching Connection

Provides pre-service and novice teachers support to move from beginning to accomplished practice. Students, teachers, A&S faculty, and researchers form a community dedicated to enhancing students' learning and increasing retention among urban teachers.

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European Union (Sociology ETAC)

This project involved the planning, design and development of ten undergraduate web-based tutorials on the European Union (EU). In line with Northeastern University's goal to promote international education and to enhance students' use of new technologies, these tutorials provide an interdisciplinary introduction to the EU.

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Physical Therapy Student Portfolios

The portfolio project allows students enrolled in Northeastern's Doctor of Physical Therapy Program to build a reflective portfolio that showcases their work and personal development over the six and a half year program. Students upload artifacts during each year of their program that demonstrate the integration of both academic and experiential learning. The artifacts selected represent the...

eportfolio, project
Biocapstone Student Portfolios

An early stage of the biocapstone project, a web based content management tool was created which allowed students to upload artifacts. This included options for PDFs, images, audio, and video files.

eportfolio, project
Chalk Talk with Jonas Chalk

Jonas Chalk has been offering advice on university teaching and learning in his Chalk Talk column since 2001. More than 100 columns on a wide range of topics are now available in a searchable database on this site.

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Numb3rs Blog

A blog where a professor from Northeastern University's Math department, Mark Bridger, posts mathematical comments weekly on the television show 'Numb3rs'.

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TTF - School of Education

This project included development of a course and supporting website for ED1101, an introductory education course that included a community service component. Funded by the Teaching with Technology Fund.

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TTF - Communications

The goal of this project was to coordinate and consolidate teaching objectives, forms of assessment, and learning experience in multiple sections of first year courses. EdTech support included design and development of both department and course websites, and Blackboard course site organization. Funded by the Teaching with Technology Fund. Course specific websites included: cmn 101 cmn 112 cmn...

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