by Adrianne Wadewitz | Dec 18, 2013 | Archives, FLC
Step 1: Pedagogical goals and technical tools Sometimes a pedagogical problem presents itself without an immediately obvious technological solution. One of us had the idea of creating an interactive repository of information and images related to an architectural...
by admin | Mar 25, 2013 | FLC, Projects
Occidental faculty gathered on March 5 in the Dumke Commons to listen to a panel of six professors speak about their experiences with teaching with technology. The use of technology in the classroom has become more and more frequent on our campus, and its application...
by Jonathan Williams | Feb 7, 2013 | Archives, FLC
My interest in using the iPad for teaching was, and still remains, multi-fold. My goals included more complicated and ambitious ideas, like using the iPad and mapping apps for fieldwork with research students, and also simpler things like grading and returning graded...
by Kirsten Wandschneider | Jan 22, 2013 | Archives, FLC
After integrating the I pad into my regular workflow via Dropbox, GoodReader, Docs to go and Evernote, I was eager to find ways to expand the iPad’s classroom use. Some applications were obvious and easy: iAnnotate PDF for grading papers, Dropbox for distributing and...
by Paul Nam | Jan 14, 2013 | Archives, FLC
Ever since I started using iAnnotate PDF to grade papers and read articles, I wanted to further integrate my iPad into my pedagogy. One of the easiest ways was to get rid of the attendance sheet planned and printed out from Excel. After talking with Daniel...
by Nalsey Tinberg | Jan 14, 2013 | Archives, FLC
My interest in using the iPad centered on finding ways to help my calculus students, especially those who needed assistance with pre-calculus concepts (generally centering on skills from algebra or dealing with functions), to understand the course material. While...