Category: Instructional Technology Consulting
UW-Madison faculty, staff and students can now create web surveys, collect and store data, and produce reports using Qualtrics Survey Hosting Service. The best part is that there is no cost to UW-Madison faculty, staff and students! The service is being subsidized by UW-System.
The new service includes:
Since the launch of our new website in early 2009, L&S Learning Support Services has greatly expanded our collection of online how-to guides.
LSS recently provided production support to CREECA (Center for
Russia, East Europe & Central Asia) for a series of audio lectures
and "digital stories". The audio content is part of Inside Islam: Dialogues and Debates, a
new-media initiative that seeks to challenge misconceptions and
stereotypical perceptions about Islam and Muslims worldwide.
Wiscchat can be an effective way to easily incorporate groupchat into your course activities. It is important to plan carefully for groupchat activities. You may find smaller groups more effective. Ground rules can also make the chat more effective.
To keep non-rostered participants from entering the chatroom, we suggest that you use a private chatroom for any groupchat class activities.
UW-Madison departments, schools and colleges are currently working to
identify essential courses and planning to provide continuity to these
courses in the event of a disruption such as a flu pandemic. Initial plans are due September
30.
Here are some resources which may be helpful in preparing courses for social distance teaching:
Ever feel like life moves too fast? Like new technologies evolve too quickly and you can't keep up? Like there should be a way to make things easier, and you just don't know where to look?
A new website launched recently that aims to present new web tools and techniques to those in higher education. It's called Profhacker. (http://www.profhacker.com)
Recently, they presented simple articles on...
According to the 2009 UW-Madison Student Computing Survey,
- Laptop vs. Desktop: Ninety‐three percent of students report owning a laptop computer. Only twenty-six percent report owning a desktop computer.
- Windows vs. Mac: Seventy‐three percent of students use the Windows operating system on the computers they own. Thirty-three percent use the Macintosh operating system. Seven percent use Linux.
- MP3 Players: Eighty-one percent of students own portable MP3 players (iPod, Zune, etc.).
Since its launch in January 2009, the Teaching and Learning Excellence website has become UW-Madison's online home for conversations about teaching and learning.
On the site, you'll find many opportunities to dive in and get engaged with the growing community of faculty, instructors, and staff that are discussing their ideas and sharing resources.
University Communications' recent launch of iTunesU for UW-Madison offers a great new platform for instructors to share instructional media with their students as well as with a wide audience outside the walls of campus classrooms.
One of the first features on the new site, Personalidades, shows how an iTunesU podcast can serve UW-Madison students and at the same time bring the work of the University to people throughout Wisconsin and around the world.
L&S Learning Support Services is open all summer long!
Not only are LSS staff available to assist with summer and fall courses, but also items from the AV Pool and media collection are available for reservation and checkout (even when the AV Pool and Learning Lab are closed.) Summer hours are listed below.
To contact a specific LSS staff member, see our staff directory. Have a great summer!
Hours
- LSS Main Office (279 Van Hise) 262-1408
Open all summer, Monday-Friday, 8 am-12 noon and 1-4 pm. - LSS AV Pool (275 Van Hise) 262-1678 / 262-4965
Open June 15-August 7, Monday-Friday, 8 am-12 noon. - LSS Learning Lab (259 Van Hise) 262-1678 / 262-7759
Open June 15-August 7, Monday-Friday, 10 am-4 pm. - LSS InfoLab (464 Van Hise) 262-4575 / 262-3004
Open June 15-August 7, Monday-Friday, 11 am-4 pm.
