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Announcements from the start of class: I’m planning to do a wrap up session for the swap and share. Don’t worry, you’ll still get to swap and share–I just want to make sure to have time to tie together all the threads we’ve started this semester. It’s gonna be a good class, please come if... Continue reading “Day 12: Assessment” ›
Worrell Professor of Anglo-American Studies David Coates and Professor of Physics William Kerr are pioneers in WakeSpace, the institutional repository of Wake Forest University. Coates and Kerr are the first faculty members to place their research output in this new digital archive. Scanned books, book chapters and journal articles will be available via the ZSR... Continue reading “David Coates and William Kerr First to Join WakeSpace” ›
Right in time for spring graduation, Mark Taylor wrote an op-ed piece for the NYT Sunday edition called End the University as we know it in which he calls for major restructuring of the higher education system. On first glance it is an interesting read in which Taylor calls for more collaboration and interdisciplinary work... Continue reading “NY Times op-ed on higher education” ›
Earth Day was observed at ZSR a few days early this year, with the second annual “Celebrating Nature” program that was held on Thursday, April 16. Three speakers gave their perspectives on the importance of recycling in terms of conservation strategies, preservation techniques, and the connections on a local and broader canvas.It was also scheduled... Continue reading “The Second “Celebrating Nature: Earth Day @ ZSR” program” ›
The Z. Smith Reynolds Library offers several new technologies to enhance your class. If you would like a blog (including a podcast blog) or wiki, the library can support you, from instruction in its use to providing a web site for your course. For help getting started, please contact the Instructional Design Librarian. The ZSR... Continue reading “ZSR Offers Tools, Services and Workshops for Your Classes” ›
Faculty and students working on multimedia projects now have more equipment available for this purpose. In addition to the existing digital cameras and camcorders available for check-out from the library’s Information Technology Center (ITC), we now have Three new JVC HD hard drive camcorders, Three new Olympus audio recorders for creating podcasts, and A new... Continue reading “New Multimedia Equipment and Facilities Now Available” ›
Today’s class focused on the practical, down and dirty, aspects of classroom management. Since I knew this was a topic of interest for several people, and that we had already covered IGI and Conversation Theory a bit in another session, I decided to focus our attention on the classroom aspects of teaching. If anyone’s particularly... Continue reading “Day 11: Classroom Management Q & A” ›
President Jimmy Carter and writer Maya Angelou will speak at the Southeast regional gathering of the New Baptist Covenant April 24 and 25 at Wake Forest University. Angelou, Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest, will deliver the opening address. Carter will give the closing address. Continue reading “Jimmy Carter and Maya Angelou exhibits” ›
With “Cloud Computing” popping up all over the place, I figured we could use an emerging tech talk on the topic. Today, 13 of us got together to discuss the topic. We started with a brief overview of what cloud computing is, talking about some services we’re all familiar with that fall into the category.... Continue reading “Emerging Tech Talk: Cloud Computing” ›
This spring ZSR awarded a third and final round of grants funded by the Presidential Trust for Faculty Excellence. These “Presidential Grants” support special library purchases and collection development projects. This year the library received 35 grant requests and awarded approximately $70,000. Individual grants ranged from $400 to $10,400, and the average grant was about... Continue reading “Presidential Grants 2009” ›