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Connecting with Students Using WordPress
Dr. Matthew Hooley, visiting Assistant Professor in the English department, sat down to chat with us about how he has been using WordPress.
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Flu-proof your course: Discussions and student engagement
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?
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Seeing Languages differently: Visual culture and language learning
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…
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Site update
You may notice that the site looks a little different. I have changed the theme a little bit. I did a couple of things. First I changed the site over to the 24 column 960 Grid System. This makes it much easier to layout page templates and such. A side effect of this change is…
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Blogging in the curriculum
Wooster has recently gotten some notice for what Instructional Technology has been doing with the Voices blogging service. We are one of the first schools to begin making use of the new BuddyPress extension and specifically to make use of its group functionality. This semester we have a few professors making use of this new…
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Useful copyright tool
Determining whether a published work is protected by copyright can be very confusing. Was the work published before 1923, without the © symbol, was the copyright renewed? These are just a few of the things a faculty member must determine before distributing copies of a work to their class. Luckily there is a Web tool…
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Faculty Members Document Trip on Blog
In May of 2008, a group of faculty members from The College of Wooster embarked on a trip across India as part of the College’s emphasis on diversity and global engagement. The twelve professors were part of a larger group of Wooster Faculty who formed a reading group to discuss Martha Nussbaum’s book The Clash Within:…
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Wooster’s Newest Learning Community
Is the age of blackboards and chalk over? Probably not, considering blackboards have been a central feature in classrooms for the past two hundred years. First introduced into the US educational system in 1801, blackboards remain ubiquitous in the 21st Century instructional environment despite the continual evolution of instructional needs and requirements. Is there a…
