Methodist University
Title III Times
From the Director
Colleagues,
Volume 6, Issue 6
We are now in Year 3 of the Title III project. As you know, Methodist University (MU) received funding for a
Title III grant in October 2010. Title III funds are to be used to upgrade our technology, both in terms of installing a campus-wide integrated database and installing instructional technology in our academic facilities.
Here is a review of activities that have occurred in the last month.
February 15, 2013
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Update on the Jenzabar campus-wide student database software project:
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• OIC Programming staff continue to work on helping staff develop customized reports from the main
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Calendar
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Morgan’s Minutes
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Teaching Tips
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system (Jenzabar EX), as well as adding functionality to the JICS web portals. Our tremendous thanks
for the OIC staff’s hard work!
• Due to the phenomenal growth in data storage and data processing generated by our high degree of use
of the Jenzabar EX system, OIC Networking staff hves upgraded the server for Jenzabar, thus increasing
our storage and backup capacity. (This is a good thing in that it demonstrates how much we as a campus are utilizing Jenzabar.)
Instructional technology:
• Dr. Bruce Morgan continues to hold training sessions on the use of Smartboards, iPads, and other instructional technology. Please contact him to reserve a seat in one of his sessions.
• We continue our diligence in reminding faculty to give us their assessment reports regarding use of
instructional technology in their classrooms. These reports are being prepared by faculty members who
had a TIP funded in Year 2. I will be sending out an email to TIP-funded faculty reminding them to
turn in their TIP assessment reports.
• Please keep in mind we have faculty development money to sponsor faculty attendance to instructional
technology/teaching and learning conferences. Please contact Bruce Morgan or a member of the Title
III Technology Integration Committee (Carl Dyke, J.D. Knode, Mark Bowman, Gary Hinson) for details on how to make a proposal for such funding.
• We keep receiving Technology Integration Proposals (TIPs) for integrating instructional technology into
teaching and learning. A number of these TIPs have been funded for Year 3, while others are being
tweaked and resubmitted. There is still time to submit TIP proposals for funding. We are pleased by
the enthusiasm shown by faculty for using instructional technology in the classroom.
• A Title III faculty development event is scheduled for the morning of Reading Day (May 1, 2013). This
event will feature three speakers: Steve Anderson from University of South Carolina-Sumter, who is
currently conducting research on “flipping the classroom”; Janet Hurn from Miami University of Ohio
whose current focus is using iPads in the classroom; and our own Mark Bowman from the Justice Studies program, who wants to share his knowledge and use of Google Apps. Also, we plan to provide a
boxed lunch for attendees to “grab and go” at the end of the event so they can get to their Reading Day
afternoon tasks.
• Related to the faculty development event on Reading Day – there will be a poster session made available for those faculty who received Title III funding to attend a conference as a means for them to share
with their faculty colleagues what they learned at those conferences. Please contact Dr. Bruce Morgan
for details.
That’s all I have for this month. I hope you had a great Spring Break!
Best regards,
Don Lassiter, Title III Director
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Inside this issue:
This month’s issue brings forward two resources for your growing interest
in the world of Educational Technology.
From the Director
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Calendar
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Morgan’s Minutes
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Teaching Tips
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Education Technology Resources eBook: This eBook is a publication of EmergingEdTech.com. This digital booklet provides an introduction and easy access to many of
the wonderful free applications and resources available on the Internet for teachers to use
in and out of the classroom as part of the instructional and administrative process.
The Horizon Report: Launched in 2002, the NMC Horizon Report: Higher Ed Edition
is the flagship publication in the NMC Horizon Report series. The Higher Education Edition examines emerging technologies for their potential impact on and use in teaching,
learning, and creative inquiry in the higher education environment.
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Food for thought:
The NMC Horizon Report: Higher Ed Edition
Launched in 2002, the NMC Horizon Report: Higher Ed Edition is the flagship publication in the NMC Horizon Report series. The Higher Education Edition examines emerging technologies for their potential impact on
and use in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in the higher education environment.
The NMC Horizon Report > Higher Education Edition, from 2002-2012:
> Download on the NMC Publications Page
> Read from the official NMC Horizon EdTech Weekly App
Description
The NMC Horizon EdTech Weekly App delivers curated, relevant, and timely edtech projects and news to your
iPad or iPhone every weekend. It also includes the entire NMC Horizon Report series on emerging technology
across various learning sectors, and a rich, searchable, re-mixable database of educational technology and innovation resources. Whether you are in higher education, K-12, or the museum world, the NMC Horizon EdTech Weekly App delivers the best of the NMC Horizon Project.
The NMC Horizon Project charts the landscape of emerging technologies for teaching, learning, research, creative inquiry, and information management. Launched in 2002, it epitomizes the mission of the NMC, a not-for
-profit organization, to help educators and thought leaders across the world build upon the innovation happening at their institutions by providing them with expert research and analysis. This extensive and ongoing
work is now available in one convenient app for the first time. All proceeds from the sale of this app will fund
the NMC Horizon Project and continue to fuel important EdTech research, analysis, and reporting.
HZ News
Every weekend, view a top ten list of the news, projects, and reports that are must-reads for anyone in the education world. Plus, check out free resources, classics, and reports.
NMC Horizon Report Series
With over a million downloads over the past ten years, the NMC Horizon Report series is the preeminent forecasting tool in the EdTech world.
NMC Horizon EdTech Database
Search, save, and discover the best EdTech projects, news items, resources, and publications from our constantly updated NMC Horizon Project Navigator database.
> Download on iTunes U
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Inside this issue:
From the Director
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Calendar
2
Morgan’s Minutes
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Teaching Tips
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2013 Edition of the Free Education Technology Resources eBook
EmergingEdTech’s 2013 Free Education Technology Resources eBook
This eBook is a publication of EmergingEdTech.com. Introduction
This digital booklet provides an introduction and easy access to many of the wonderful free applications and resources available on the Internet for teachers to use in and out of the classroom as part of
the instructional and administrative process.
This is the 2013 update of this eBook (the 2011 edition was the first one) and there have been a lot of
updates made this year! I’ve added several new sections, including “(More) Flipped Classroom Resources”, “MOOCs”, “Teaching with Cell Phones & Smartphones”, and “(More) Cloud Apps”. I’ve also
added a good deal of new iPad related content, and lots of other material throughout the book. The
Facebook and Twitter chapters have been grouped under a more general “Social Networking and Social Learning Tools” chapter that includes articles about other popular social apps like Pinterest and
Tumblr. As always, existing links have been checked for validity and some older material has been
removed.
The majority of content in this eBook consists of edited articles originally published as blog posts on
EmergingEdTech.com. After some chapters, a section of links to additional related articles is provided. I hope you find some great, fun, and productive tools here. Please feel free to share these resources with your colleagues, and to come and participate in the dialogue on EmergingEdTech.com!
– K. Walsh
EmergingEdTech is a blog and website focused on the use of Internet and other instructional technologies and how they can be used to engage students and enhance learning outcomes. Every week
we publish three blog posts that look at many different types of education technologies and ways in
which educators, administrators, and students can use them in and out of the classroom.
Please stop by EmergingEdTech.com today and take advantage of the wealth of free resources and
materials available there. We are also have an active presence on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, so
feel free to use these social media applications to tap into these valuable and informative resources as
well!
• Check us out on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/EmergingEdTech
• Visit the EmergingEdTech YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/EmergingEdTech
• Or Follow Us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/EmergingEdTech
Click here to download your copy of the free eBook PDF and thanks for subscribing!
Note: The following pages are samples of the table of contents from the book which will give you an
idea of what topics are covered.
Inside this issue:
From the Director
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Calendar
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Morgan’s Minutes
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Teaching Tips
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Teaching Tips
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