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Learning and Technology Center

The instructional technology office at Stonehill, part of Academic Affairs, assists faculty in their use of  technology in their classes and in their research. It is located in the new faculty computer and new media lab, Duffy 216, and is open to faculty and staff during regular college business hours.

Stonehill Joins NITLE!*

(National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education.  See the press release linked above.)

NITLE Workshops - Spring and Summer 2008

• Training in Photoshop--Introductory and Advanced.
• Resources for Stonehill Students Planning to Become Secondary School Teachers
• Educational Technology Resources
• How to show only the bits of video you want.  See  DVD Bookmarking. 

Promising Technologies

Advanced technologies, for which the learning curve is a little steeper

UMUC's list of easy, moderate, and hard technologies and the TLT group's "Low Threshold Applications."  (See also the LTA [Low Threshold Application] Archive.)

Some information on theories of pedagogy.

Why Would I Want to (use instructional technology)?

• Examples of things Stonehill faculty have done: 
• "Teaching and Learning with Technology: Developing a Teaching Enhancement Plan," by Jean Derco, Ed.D. and Julie Little, Ed.D. of Knoxville's ITC.
• The Teaching Goals Inventory from the Center for Teaching at The University of Iowa. (See also their Information Technology Services site.)
• New Tools for Teaching, by James O'Donnell at Penn
• For humanists, The Ivanhoe Game, developed by Jerome McGann and Johanna Drucker at Virginia.
• MIT's Media Lab, where it all began and is still beginning.

Faculty Issues:

1. Pedagogy
   • "Fair Use" of copyrighted materials for online portions of college courses.
2. Research
   • Peer Review of Electronic Work
3. Plagiarism
   • Nick Carbone, New Media Consultant, Bedford/St. Martin's: 
     • "Thinking and Talking About Plagiarism"
     • "Turnitin.com, a Pedagogic Placebo for
       Plagiarism"
   • Turnitin.com
4. etc.

Journals:

• Chronicle of Higher Education
• EDUCAUSE Quarterly
• EDUCAUSE Review
• Syllabus
• THE Journal (Technological Horizons in Education)
• The Technology Source 

Some cautionary words:  Clifford Stoll's Silicon Snake Oil and David Noble's articles on Digital Diploma Mills (see also "David Noble's Battle to Defend the 'Sacred Space' of the Classroom" from the 3/31/2000 Chronicle).

Digital Photography Workshop links :

• Digital Photography Blog.  The most up-to-date information on digital cameras and photography.
• Digital cameras and resolution; see also this article from PC Magazine.
• Basic Photo tips 
• "Beyond Point and Shoot," by David Cardinal. Discusses digital SLRs (single-lens reflex cameras), how to adjust "film speed" and focal lengths, etc.
• Shopping sites

Glenn S. Everett, PhD
Director, Learning and Technology Center
geverett@stonehill.edu
Duffy 216
508-565-1541
(fax) 508-565-1119