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Loretta Brancaccio-Taras

Professor, Biological Sciences & Director Center for e-Learning

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    Loretta Brancaccio-Taras uses the digital research tool Commons In A Box
    2 years, 4 months ago
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    2 years, 12 months ago
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    Teaching with Technology

    On April 30th, 2020 KCeL offered its first Playing to your Strengths as an Instructor session. The session description is
    Faculty have a wealth of experience in teaching dynamic, face to face classes that include […]

    5 years, 1 month ago
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    Teaching with Technology

    There was discussion about an event during the fall 2019 semester for faculty to showcase their online courses and/or to learn about online courses.  We brainstormed about what would be of greatest interest to […]

    5 years, 11 months ago
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    Teaching with Technology

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    Meeting 2 of Spring 2019 Semester- May 7 and May 8, 2019

    At our meetings, we reviewed various tools people have been using with their classes.  Most were Blackboard tools.  H […]

    6 years, 1 month ago
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    Loretta Brancaccio-Taras joined the group
    6 years, 1 month ago
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    Teaching with Technology

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    Meeting 1 of Spring 2019 Semester- April 2 and April 3, 2019

     

    We discussed the article, Gavassa, S., Benebentos, R,. Kravec, M., Colllins, T., and Eddy ,S. 2019.  “ […]

    6 years, 2 months ago
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    Teaching with Technology

    12.5. 18TWT FIG

    We talked about how to create engaging materials for students using Toondoo and Adobe Spark.

    Since this was our last meeting of the fall semester, we thought about what we would like to do […]

    6 years, 6 months ago
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    Teaching with Technology

    At today’s Teaching with technology meeting, John Acosta gave us an introduction to SCORMs, shareable content object reference model.  As John described it, a SCORM is like a box that you place all of your […]

    6 years, 6 months ago
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    Teaching with Technology

    Dorina Tila showed the group the various ways data can be gathered about students using Blackboard analytics. We reviewed:

    Course reports:  one option is user activity. A report can be generated for each […]

    6 years, 7 months ago
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    Teaching with Technology

    The TWT FIG meeting on May 30th was presented by KCeL and Peter Santiago of Accessibility Services. Peter described how certain materials can be inaccessible to some learners. Tsubasa demonstrated how to make your […]

    6 years, 10 months ago
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    Teaching with Technology

    The TWT FIG met on April 25th.  We worked on an activity about how technology has changed education.  TWT s18 worksheet how tech has changed ed

    Technology has definitely impacted how we teach and students le […]

    6 years, 10 months ago
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    Teaching with Technology

    The TWT FIG held its first meeting on March 28th and April 17th in order to try to accommodate as many interested colleagues as possible. Here is a list of tools we discussed:

    Time toast – creates t […]

    6 years, 10 months ago
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    Teaching with Technology

    The topic of the TWT FIG Meeting was Using Google Features.
    We discussed the benefits of using Google Drive and reviewed the following features:

    Docs
    Sheets
    Slides
    Sites
    Forms
    Hangouts

    The […]

    7 years, 6 months ago
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    Teaching with Technology

    Our discussion was based on the reading of the article, “A comparison of reading comprehension across paper, computer screens, and tablets: Does tablet familiarity matter?” published in the Journal of Com […]

    7 years, 6 months ago
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    Teaching with Technology

    We discussed the reading, Helping Students Make the Right Call on Cell Phones.  The article presents different points about cell phones in the classroom, from allowing students to use them, to asking students to […]

    7 years, 6 months ago
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    Teaching with Technology

    We can all use more time with our students outside of the classroom.  A webinar might be a way to connect with students and provide them with more personalized guidance on a particular topic

    Free Platforms: G […]

    7 years, 11 months ago
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    Teaching with Technology

    Today we talked about different ways you can use videos in your class.  Videos can be used as a way to help students prepare for class and engage learners is a way that might be more interesting than reading […]

    7 years, 11 months ago
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    Teaching with Technology

    Today we talked about Open Educational Resources (OERs).  Mark Eaton, KCC’s Librarian is actively involved in CUNY’s OER work.  If you are interested in developing an OER for your course, please contact Mark E […]

    7 years, 11 months ago
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    Reabeka King-Reilly and Loretta Brancaccio-Taras are now friends
    7 years, 11 months ago
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