Tag Archives: collaboration

Effective Strategies for Online Disscussions in Your Course

by cmosier Posted on October 9, 2015

Online discussions can serve as a great opportunity for your students to reflect on the ideas presented in your course and allow them a safe place for challenging academic discourse. This blog post shares a few starting points for thinking about the … Continue reading →

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Using Box for Collaborative Cloud Storage in Your Courses

by joanat Posted on February 6, 2015

Box is a cloud storage and collaboration solution available to St. Edward’s University students, faculty, and staff. With Box, you can create, store, collaborate, and access files and information securely from anywhere, on a multitude of devices. Faculty, you have … Continue reading →

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Enable Student Creative Work with Digital Scholarship Projects

by Rebecca Davis Posted on October 30, 2014

We invite all faculty to join your colleagues for a tech snack on how to engage students with digital scholarship projects on Wednesday, November 5 from 3:30 – 4:30 in Library 141.  This tech snack will feature three innovation fellows … Continue reading →

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Managing the 21st Century Classroom

by brendaa Posted on September 23, 2014

What is the 21st Century Ecosystem and how do the face-to-face classrooms fit into that ecosystem?  Most faculty at St. Edward’s teach face-to-face so the classroom layout and technology is important for classes.  The ability to display content, interact with … Continue reading →

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Experiential Learning at Wild Basin

by Rebecca Davis Posted on March 18, 2014

Join Instructional Technology staff and John Abbot, Director of the Wild Basin Creative Research Center on Thursday, March 20 at 11 am in the FRC (Faculty Resource Center, Premont 110) to explore experiential learning at Wild Basin. How can you … Continue reading →

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Technology and Intercampus Teaching Expand Networks, Opportunities

by Rebecca Davis Posted on March 11, 2014

Recently, Dr. Rebecca Frost Davis, Director of Instructional and Emerging Technology at St. Edward’s University was interviewed for the New American Colleges and Universities (NAC&U) newsletter about her experience facilitating intercampus teaching.  Davis is also a fellow for the National Institute for … Continue reading →

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Collaborative Student Assignments Outside the Classroom

by Rebecca Davis Posted on February 12, 2014

On Wednesday, February 12 at noon Instructional Technology hosted a tech snack on collaborative student assignments outside the classroom featuring Kendall Kelly, Assistant Professor of English, Writing, and Rhetoric. Dr. Kelly led a discussion that focused on these questions: How … Continue reading →

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Tips for Using Blogs to Improve Student Outcomes

by Rebecca Davis Posted on February 12, 2014

Kendall Kelly, Assistant Professor of English, Writing, and Rhetoric, is our guest blogger for this post: Student blogging can create valuable learning opportunities.  Blogs can provide students the chance to work on particular skills like writing, audience analysis, or critical … Continue reading →

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Improve Students’ Ability to Function as a Team

by Angel Tazzer Posted on November 1, 2013

Students need to know how to work in a team if they want to succeed in any organization. Unfortunately, students are often left to their own devices when it comes to actually working together as a team. Faculty share several … Continue reading →

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