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Congratulations to Kenny and Harrison, our two long-term student assistants as they graduate from Wooster!  Both have helped countless students, staff and faculty members in the Taylor lab over the years and we in Instructional Technology especially thank them for their cheerful attitude as we piled project upon project at them.  We’ll miss you!

Videoconferencing uses telecommunications of audio and video to bring people at different sites together for a meeting. This can be as simple as a conversation between two people in private offices (point-to-point) or involve several sites (multi-point) with more than one person in large rooms at different sites. Besides the audio and visual transmission of…

Instructional Technology at The College of Wooster welcomes applicants for the position of Instructional Technology Intern for the 2009 – 2010 academic year. This is an eleven-month, full-time (1.0) FTE, regular, benefit-eligible, staff position. The Instructional Technology Intern provides support to faculty and staff in their use and implementation of technology in curriculum and instruction;…

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These devices are commonly referred to as “Clickers.” Each student in the class gets a small keypad which allows them to respond to questions posed by the instructor. This section provides more information on the clickers available at Wooster.

Virtual Worlds are interactive online spaces intended to foster community-building and collaboration for various purposes. This section provides an overview of current virtual world offerings and explains how they might be implemeneted for instructional use.

Web 2.0 media sharing sites allow users to upload, organize, and comment upon media socially and collaboratively. This section covers the most popular media sharing sites and discusses their relevance to instructional use.

Wikis, forums, and blogs are web spaces or tools that are specially designed to be very user-friendly and intuitive for users to share and create content together so that the focus is on the creation of that content rather than on the design of the space. This section covers the basic use of these tools…

Mashups are web-based applications that integrate preexisting data sets and tools to create a new utility or resource; for example, combining Google Earth with population and consumption data to create an interactive global map comparing the data sets by country. This section will cover other examples of Mashups and how they might be put to…

Document cameras can be seen as an evolution of overhead projectors. With a document camera it is possible to display transparencies, three-dimensional objects, slides, and a host of other objects. This section provides information on the different document cameras available on campus.