Hugh Crumley, CIT and Graduate School

The mobile furniture in the Link classrooms allows instructors to easily reconfigure classroom spaces to facilitate different kinds of student activities. In this brief presentation, you can see a number of different arrangements and talk with other instructors about how to take advantage of this flexibility.

Susan Wynn,  Program in Education

Today’s students create, consume, and share information using an array of technologies. This is true for both university students and students in K-12 schools. Undergraduate and graduate students in the teaching licensure program explored a variety of ways to integrate technology into instruction. This session specifically focuses on storytelling through the use of digital video editing software. Users can synchronize images and sound and add special effects with iMovie. I will share the process for getting started with digital storytelling, showcase some sample stories students created, and provide some resources for those interested in further exploring this technology.

Deb (Deborah) Reisinger, Romance Studies

In this presentation Reisinger will demonstrate how she has used the unique space of the Perkins LINK to rethink course design in two courses she taught during Spring 2009. In one example, Cultural and Literary Perspectives (FR 100), she illustrates how access to instructional technologies has facilitated student training, time management, and the implementation of new technologies. In another course, Business and Culture in the Francophone World (FR 109), she shows how the physical space of the LINK allows students to work on team projects and complete group activities in innovative ways that echo real-world experiences.