http://go.tufts.edu/tlr Every day faculty, students, and staff across Tufts are leveraging technology in smart and inventive ways to support teaching, learning, and research. The goal of TLR Innovations is to showcase this work and report on emerging technologies and model approaches for integrating technology across diverse educational and research contexts. The newsletter will also provide updates on Tufts academic technology projects, information on educational and research technology services, and faculty development resources. We hope you\'ll enjoy the newsletter, discover useful takeaways in perusing, and share your own questions, ideas, and pictures of practice for future issues. en-us Copyright 2012 Tufts University Tue, 27 Nov 2012 06:15:36 -0500 http://www.rssfeedssubmit.com/rss-generator/ https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/download/attachments/22524090/logo_small.jpg http://go.tufts.edu/tlr 144 34 https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/TLR/Fall+2012+-+Garlick+Interview Dr. Jonathan Garlick is a professor and Director, Division of Tissue Engineering and Cancer Biology at the Tufts School of Dental Medicine. On the Medford campus, he also co-taught with professors Sheldon Krimsky, David Kaplan, and Mitchell Silver the University Seminar, Stem Cells and Human Enhancement: Scientific Frontiers, Ethics, and Policy. He has been an innovative teacher for many years and has over 40,000 views of his YouTube video - Stem Cell Rap. Recently AT Fellow, Rebecca Wood-Spagnoli, caught up with Dr. Garlick to discuss technology in the classroom and how his use of Trunk, Tufts new collaboration and learning environment, has opened new doors of communication for his students. https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/TLR/Fall+2012+-+Working+with+Text+in+a+Digital+Age This past summer, the Tufts Perseus Project, run by Professor Greg Crane of the Tufts Classics Department, hosted Working with Text in a Digital Age, a three-week National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. The purpose of the Institute, which focused on linguistic sources that shed light on the human record, was to enable graduate students and faculty from all over the world to learn about and share the basic tools for text processing and analysis in use at Perseus and elsewhere. Participants not only had the opportunity to acquire new skills but also to transform the way in which they conceive of their research and teaching. https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/TLR/Fall+2012+-+Tufts+Qualtrics Have you ever found yourself needing data for a class project, blog post, or article and wanted an easy survey creator? Do you run a blog and want to poll your readership to ask for feedback? Unknown to most students and many faculty and staff, Tufts has access to a service that can do just that. https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/TLR/Fall+2012+-+Tufts+iTunes+U+Site Last Summer UITs Educational and Scholarly Technology Services group created a beta iTunes U service for a few Tufts faculty to test out who were interested in publishing open educational content to a world-wide audience via their iTunes store. This service is now available to all members of the Tufts community. https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/TLR/Fall+2012+-+iPads+for+Education+Pilot On October 17, twenty faculty from the Tufts Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering, representing a broad range of disciplines, came together to discuss how the iPad can be used to promote active learning and engage students in the classroom. The faculty are experimenting with creative ways to use the iPad in their own teaching as part of UITs university-wide iPads for Education pilot program which was launched this semester. https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/TLR/Fall+2012+-+Mobile+Health+Design Last summer, the Tufts Health Communication Program, based in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at the School of Medicine, offered its first fully online course. Entitled Mobile Health Design, the course focused on how to design evidence-based apps and included units on mobile user experience, demographics of mobile use, design, evaluation, global health, and evidence-based guidelines for weight loss. Consumer Reports was used as the case study for the course, and student teams had to design weight-loss apps in keeping with the values and goals of Consumer Reports as their course project. In addition to Consumer Reports, guest lecturers joined the class from Comscore, Alliance Health Networks, and the Boston Globe. https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/TLR/Fall+2012+-+Technology+Reviews The Tufts UIT Academic Technology Fellows are a group of students who work closely with the Tufts community to identify and implement technological solutions to meet educational and scholarly goals. They produce their own blog at http://sites.tufts.edu/atfellows. https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/TLR/Fall+2012+-+TLR+Project+Updates Highlights of some of the most recent and upcoming UIT-AT related activities.