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Apr 27, 2016

Mediasite Administrator Update, May 2016(Archive)

As part of an ongoing effort to keep Mediasite administrators on campus informed, we created this DELTAwire article specifically for you! For help with any Mediasite questions, please contact us at mediasite-help@ncsu.edu. This article includes information on the following topics: Mediasite Software Upgrades Mediasite Server Maintenance Record Your Lectures in Summer 2016: Sign Up Began April 12 Unable… 

Apr 22, 2016

Telling Ain’t Training: DELTA Instructional Technology Training Team Recaps Recent Conference

by Yiling Chappelow, Suzanne Edmonds and Allie Giro From March 6 through 8 in Atlanta, Georgia, the ISS Instructional Technology Training Team attended the ATD (Association for Talent Development) event “Telling Ain’t Training.” Based on the popular, best-selling book of the same name, “Telling Ain’t Training” was led by Harold Stolovitch, Ph.D., CPT author and Emeritus… 

Mar 1, 2016

Mediasite Administrator Update, March 2016(Archive)

As part of an ongoing effort to keep Mediasite administrators on campus informed, we created this DELTAwire article specifically for you! For help with any Mediasite questions, please contact us at mediasite-help@ncsu.edu. This article includes information on the following topics: My Mediasite Workshops Mediasite Server Maintenance Captioning Grant Available for 2016 Courses Did You Miss the… 

Dec 15, 2015

Developing Gamification within Moodle

Photo caption: (l-r) Dr. Ed Lindsay, Martin Dougiamas from Moodle, Amanda Roberston and Steve Bader are pictured. In 2012-2013 Michelle Harrolle was awarded a DELTA Exploratory Grant. During the span of the past three years, the grant for gamification was handed over to Dr. Ed Lindsay, a teaching assistant professor in Parks, Recreation and Tourism… 

Nov 3, 2015

Summer Shorts Connects Faculty with Technology

Have you ever felt like you knew what you wanted to do, but you just didn’t know where to start? Instructors face this dilemma semester after semester as they question whether or not online resources are appropriate for their courses. While many faculty only need polishing up on skills and technologies they are currently utilizing,… 

Nov 3, 2015

Reflections on the 2015 Educause Conference

Donna Petherbridge, Lou Harrison & Steve Bader attended the EDUCAUSE conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, October 27-30, 2015. We wanted to take a moment to share some of what we saw and learned with our colleagues. Words from the Wise: Some Notes from the Keynotes Daniel Pink, author and host/co-executive producer of National Geographic’s Crowd Control… 

Oct 28, 2015

East Coast Game Conference 2015

A number of DELToids attended this year’s East Coast Game Conference and captured their thoughts and impressions of the different sessions, speakers, and tech! Cathi Dunnagan “I need a weapon!” I shouted out loud as my first immersive experience built to its climax. Heart-pounding, I turned and twisted around to avoid flying rock and shrapnel… 

Oct 19, 2015

2015 Online Learning Consortium Conference

On October 14 – 16, 2015, I attended the Online Learning Consortium Conference in Orlando, Florida (@OLC Today #OLC15). As usual, this was a great conference with many ideas about teaching and learning online. Following are some highlights. We’re adults, we don’t need badges. There were a number of sessions on micro-credentialing, badging and gamification,… 

Aug 28, 2015

NC State presents at Va. Tech’s first Teaching Large Classes Conference

contributed by Emily Ligon On July 23, Virginia Tech’s CIDER program held its first annual Teaching Large Classes Conference. The conference focused on challenges faced by instructors teaching in a classroom where it is difficult to interact one on one with students. As a result, the class sizes discussed ranged from 50 to 1,000. Faculty… 

Aug 24, 2015

Teaching and Learning Conference 2015

The 2015 Teaching & Learning Conference in Elon, N.C., started with a captivating keynote speech about pink hippos and infinity dreams. Dr. Michael Palmer from the University of Virginia spoke on deep learning, and how to encourage a high level of engagement in students. One of the key take-aways was the relationship between engagement and…