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if illness makes it impossible for some of your students to attend class sessions, how do you keep them engaged and in touch with you and their fellow students?

In today’s world, images are becoming central to communication. In a multilingual and increasingly globalized society, these images do not always translate well. This talk explores both theoretical and practical examples of how visual communication and visual elements of language vary from culture to culture. These differences have implications on how languages are taught, especially…

Do you need a quick and easy way to create a website to share your research, projects, course materials or programs on the web?  Instructional Technology will be conducting a website development camp August 9th, 10th, and 11th showcasing the wonders of WordPress – the college’s web publishing platform. Each day there will be a…

This year the Instructional Technology department is happy to provide an exciting new professional development opportunity for the campus community.  From February 14 – 16 we have subscribed to the online version of the Educause Learning Initiative  (ELI) Annual Meeting.  There is no cost for you to attend any of the sessions.  To view the…

As everyone relaxes during the holiday break, we technologists at Instructional Technology buckle down to log in some hours to improve the services that we offer to make your technological projects at the College of Wooster even better. That being said, we’ve got a variety of things in the works that will be implemented before next…

As the first phase and one aspect of a project funded by a grant from the McGregor Fund to establish an undergraduate research center, over 60 students will be preparing digital abstracts in the 2010-11 academic year. Subsequent phases will expand the number of students completing digital abstracts until all seniors are preparing digital abstracts,…

If you were curious as to what Instructional Technology has to offer, here are a couple of answers to common questions we have encountered. If you’re curious as to the services we offer, simply click on the program you’d like to find more information about, and you’ll be redirected to an informational Wiki Page for…

What is it? Polycom is one company that provides video conferencing capability for the institutions using its services.  Polycom offers various products providing varying levels of video and voice collaboration. Key features Virtual face-to-face meetings Cut down on travel cost Who uses it? Video Conferencing systems are popular within business and increasingly within academe. How…

What is it? Elluminate is a suite of tools.  The tool used at The College of Wooster is Elluminate Live.  This tool allows for synchronous meeting with an unlimited number of users across a distance with audio and video conferencing, a common whiteboard space and text chat. Key features Integrated teleconferencing Voice over internet protocol…