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- Summer Opportunities at EdTech
May 2010
During June, July and August, the EdTech Center invites you to gather your colleagues and come to the EdTech Center to participate in the EdTech Center's summer learning opportunities.
- Read about Northeastern University EdTech Center's Mobile Learning Initiative on MacLearning
November 2011
Article by Alicia Russell, Director of the Educational Technology Center
Northeastern University's Educational Technology Center recently began offering iPad2s to faculty as part of a Mobile Learning Initiative. This grew out of an earlier program aimed at giving faculty members the opportunity to experiment with new technologies for teaching and learning by providing them hardware (digital recorders and digital cameras), and instructional design and digital media support.
- Teaching with Technology mini-conference 2011
April 2011
Tuesday, April 26 2011
Details and Registration
Please join us for the seventh annual Teaching with Technology mini-conference on Tuesday April 26th in the Curry Student Center Ballroom. We are delighted to announce that our keynote speaker will be W. Gardner Campbell. His presentation is titled "Integrative Learning and Digital Citizenship." Read more… - An Educause Live Webinar: A New Culture of Learning
March 2011
On March 21 the EdTech Center hosted the Educause webinar A New Culture of Learning live in our conference room. Guest host EDUCAUSE President Diana Oblinger and Douglas Thomas (co-author of the book... - Teaching 2.0: Tech Trends in Teaching
November 2010
Over 60 people attended "Teaching 2.0: Tech Trends in Teaching" on November 18th from 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. The event featured presentations by faculty colleagues about their experiences... - 3rd Annual Sloan Consortium Symposium: Emerging Technologies for Online Learning!
July 2010
The EdTech Center has registered to attend the 3rd Annual Sloan Consortium Symposium. We invite all Northeastern faculty and staff to join us, July 21-23 in 215 Snell Library and participate in the conference.
- Congratulations to the Scavenger Hunt Winners!
February 2010
Congratulations to MarySusan Potts-Santone, Genie Giaimo, Sarah Young-Hong, and Belle Adler - the winners of the four digitial voice recorders!
- EdTech Center Website Scavenger Hunt
January 2010
Chance to win a digital voice recorder!
Each day for the next two weeks, leading up to the EdTech Center's new website launch party, we will be hiding a treasure chest somewhere in the pages of the website. The treasure chest will be placed on a different page each day, with a clue leading you to the hidden location.
The scavenger hunt is complete - stay tuned to find out who won!
- CEA Grants go High-Tech
January 2005
Each semester, the Center for Experiential Education & Academic Advising (CEA) awards Co-op Grants, CEA-Way Scholarships and Study Abroad Grants to students from the College of Arts and Sciences... - Collaborative e-Teaching Day with Boston College
May 2005
Academic Technology Services at Boston College is sponsoring an e-Teaching Day in collaboration with Northeastern University. BC has invited Northeastern faculty and EdTech staff members to... - EdTech in Second Life
March 2009
The Edtech Center has worked with University architects and academic partners to design space that will house the EdTech Center and Center for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CIETL).
- Educational Technology Board Formed
December 2004
A new think tank composed of faculty from the colleges of Criminal Justice, Engineering, Arts & Sciences, Bouve, and Business Administration was formed in fall 2004 to advise the Educational... - EDUCAUSE 2004
October 2004
EdTech Center Director, Alicia Russell and Web Based Curriculum Designer, Laurie Poklop will present at the premier IT event in higher education, October 19-22 in Denver, CO. Focused on the theme... - Podcast News: EdTech Talk
December 2005
The word podcast combines Ipod and broadcast and got its start when individuals wanted to self-publish their own radio shows.
- Student Educational Technology Focus Group
December 2005
As part of its research and development efforts, the EdTech staff wants to learn from students how better to meet their educational needs. EdTech has formed a Student Educational Technology Focus... - WebGURU
December 2004
The NSF awarded $74,000 to Patrica Ann MaBrouk, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Alicia Russell, Director of the EdTech Center and two undergraduate coop students to develop and field-test a set of... - 2005 Effective or Innovative Use of Technology Awards to be Presented
March 2005
The award recognizes models of good teaching and provides an avenue for Northeastern faculty to share their ideas with their colleagues. The winners will receive their awards at the Beyond Books and Whiteboards Conference on March 17.
- Beyond Books and Whiteboards
March 2005
On Thursday, March 17, the EdTech Center hosted a mini-conference on integrating teaching, technology and library resources.
- EdTech Talk: Numb3rs Blog
December 2006
On October 18, 2006 Math professor Mark Bridger discussed educational applications for blogging, based on his experiences writing a blog for the CBS hit series Numb3rs.
- Maximizing Campus Impact: Lessons from the Trenches
March 2005
EdTech Center Director, Alicia Russell led a panel presentation at the NMC conference in Austin, TX.
- NMC Presentation in Honolulu
June 2005
EdTech Center director Alicia Russell and colleagues from Yale and the University of Minnesota will deliver a presentation at the New Media Center Conference in Honolulu on June 17 entitled, "Listening to our students: What to do with that they tell us".
- Northeastern University's Alumni Network is Growing
May 2005
A rising number of active Alumni Affinity Group volunteers is sharing information with their colleagues via "microsites." The Alumni Relations department assists these groups in designing, building, and editing these small web sites
- Offshore Geohazards Website Launched
December 2006
The launching of The Offshore Geohazards Website in summer of 2006 represents another successful collaboration between the EdTech Center and scientists who have received NSF funding.
- Portfolios at Northeastern University
December 2006
For the past several years e-portfolio projects have been percolating in different departments on the Northeastern campus.
- PT Portfolios Presentation
June 2005
Faculty and students from the PT department and EdTech staff will present at the American Physical Therapy Association annual conference and exposition.
- EdTech Center Co-op Students Develop Digital Stories
April 2007
In addition to assisting staff with building and designing websites and consulting with faculty on Blackboard and other Web-based tools, EdTech Center co-op students write and produce a digital story about their “Northeastern Experience" during their six-month tenure.
- Faculty Workshops
December 2006
Take time out from grading student exams and papers and attend one of EdTech Center’s interactive workshops.
- New EdTech Website Launched
January 2007
The new EdTech Web site has everything members of the Northeastern University faculty need to learn to use technology effectively in the their teaching.
- New Home
September 2008
Come visit the EdTech Center in our new home in 215 Snell Library!
- Online Advising Receives Award
December 2006
To increase the number of services online, the EdTech Center is partnering with College advisors on three major advising programs: freshman online advising, pre-med advising, and a university-wide early warning advising system funded by the Davis Educational Foundation.
- OSP Presentation in Amsterdam
April 2007
This June Biology professor Kostia Bergman and EdTech Center instructional designer, Laurie Poklop, will present their work using Open Source Portfolio (OSP) software, now a component of the Sakai open-source learning management system, for creation of student ePortfolios and curriculum assessment at the 7th annual Sakai Conference in Amsterdam.
- Tech Trends 2008: Great Day
March 2008
Tech Trends for Teaching Day was a hit!
A small but dedicated crowd joined EdTech Center, ATS/IS and the Snell Library's Digital Media Design Studio for a day of Tech Trends for Teaching. Attendees saw short demos of current trends in technology and learned how to get started using them in their teaching.
- EdTech Demonstrations: Spring 2008
April 2008
Podcasting, Educational Blogging, Virtual Worlds and More.
This semester the Educational Technology Center offered a number of short demonstrations to introduce you to new technologies and ideas you can use to enhance your teaching. Although the demos were not hands-on, we offer links to self-paced tutorials so you can try out the ideas on your own. Or you can come to the EdTech Center at your convenience for help from one of the EdTech Center’s co-op students. We will offer similar demos summer semester, so if you missed out, look for these topics again this summer and in the fall.
- Exploring ePortfolios at Northeastern
April 2008
The use of electronic portfolios to collect, reflect on, and display student work is growing at all levels of education. For students, eportfolios provide a means to reflect on their educational experiences and to showcase their best work in a digital repository. For faculty, eportfolios provide concrete evidence of student learning. For institutions, eportfolios are used to evaluate progress on meeting institutional goals. The artifacts and student reflections serve as a vehicle for assessing learning outcomes at the course, program and/or institutional level.
- Interactive Course Development Project
January 2010
Opportunity to receive digital recorder or camera for participating!
Attend one of our demonstrations and submit a RFP for a project or student assignment. If your project is approved, you will receive a digital camera or voice recorder to develop it.
- Teaching with Technology Day 2008 - Biggest TWT Event Ever
August 2008
On April 29th over 120 Northeastern faculty, and guests from other local universities, attended Northeastern’s Teaching with Technology Day 2008, sponsored by the EdTech Center, The Center for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CIETL), Information Services (IS), College of Professional Studies (CPS) and University Libraries.
- EdTech Center Hosts Faculty Workshops
December 2005
Each semester EdTech hosts nearly 30 faculty training workshops. The two workshop tracks are web applications training and teaching with technology. Titles include Planning and Designing a Website... - EdTech Director Invited to Sloan Conference
March 2004
EdTech Center Director Alicia Russell attended the Sloan Invitational Conference on Hybrid Learning in Chicago this spring. Drawing on results from a national Sloan survey which indicated that "... - ePortfolio Initiatives Underway
December 2004
Three Northeastern portfolio initiatives were presented at the first Northeastern portfolio project workshop, sponsored by the Provost Office.
- Northeastern University's Second Life Island Launched
January 2009
The Educational Technology Center and Marketing & Communications have completed phase one of Northeastern's presence in Second Life. Second Life is a online 3d immersive experience used by many businesses and educational institutions for meetings, demonstrations, conferences, research, collaboration and an array of other creative endeavors.
Events
- Turning Technologies Clicker Training
Turning Technologies PowerPoint virtual training 5/16 10:30-11:30 a.m. Turning Technologies Anywhere virtual training 5/17 1:30-2:30 p.m. Click here to register. - Turning Technologies Clicker Training
Mon, May 16, 10:30 - 11:30
Turning Technologies PowerPoint virtual training 5/16 10:30-11:30 a.m. Turning Technologies Anywhere virtual training on 5/17 has been cancelled due to low enrollment. Please click here to... - Teaching with Technology mini-conference 2011
Tue, April 26 (All day)
Download the Keynote presentation » Links to resources that were discussed at TWT 2011 CIETL Information Services Library EdTech About TWT 2011 Please join us for the seventh annual Teaching...
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- Past Newsletters
The EdTech Center newsletters contain articles about our educational technology initiatives, our partners and our collaborative projects. Spring 2008 Spring 2007 Fall 2006 Spring 2006 Winter 2005...
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