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		<title>Clicker Alternatives</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4278</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 16:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jimobersteg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you looking for alternatives to clickers? Do like the idea of polls and quizess, but want save students money and don&#8217;t need all the reporting options? Here are several alternative audience response systems ranging from simple free text-message based polling systems to quizzing and reporting systems.
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Mentimeter



PollEverywhere



GoSoapBox



Socrative





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Polls


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		<title>Teaching with Technology: David Schaal on Voicethread</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4264</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4264#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 20:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Hayden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ASSETT News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has become increasingly hard to deny that the lives of students have been permeated by social media, altogether transforming their relationship with the world around them. A simple PowerPoint no longer holds the attention of a student imbued with an expectation for interactivity. So what’s next? David Schaal, the lead multimedia instructor in ATLAS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nintendo Wii – The Lab’s Next Bunsen Burner</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4248</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4248#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 22:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sytsma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A&S Spotlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spotlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CU Boulder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Integrative Physiology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether we are standing, walking or running, the force we exert on the ground mediates all our bodily movements.   Measuring this force was a considerably difficult process, but now an easier and cheaper system exists through employing a Nintendo Wii Balance Board. Alaa Ahmed, an Assistant Professor in the department of Integrative Physiology, and her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desire2Learn Gradebook Clinics</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4252</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4252#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 17:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Matheny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Desire2Learn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Find What You Need]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Help Resources]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Academic Technology is offering several drop-in clinics during exam week to assist faculty using Desire2Learn with their semester-end grade book questions.
One-on-one consultations will be available. Advance registration is appreciated, but not required. May 8, 10, 14; 12-1 p.m.
Location: Norlin Commons E113
Contact: Academic Technology, learn@colorado.edu Additional information: http://oit.colorado.edu/faculty/events
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		<title>Teaching with Technology: Dr. Angel Hoekstra and Dr. Stefanie Mollborn on clickers</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4229</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4229#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Hayden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A&S Spotlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Help Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spotlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching with Technology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[clickers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pedagogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[questions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social sciences]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tips and tricks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As clickers gain prevalence in the common classroom environment, understanding how to use them efficiently has become increasingly important. On March 16, 2012, Dr. Angel Hoekstra and Dr. Stefanie Mollborn presented at the Teaching with Technology seminar on “pedagogical strategies for teaching with clickers in the social sciences.” At the beginning of the seminar, Mollborn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customizing Your Desire2Learn Course</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4223</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4223#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jimobersteg</dc:creator>
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Event Date:   Mon, 04/16/2012 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm


Event Location:   Norlin Commons E113


In this 60-minute workshop, Academic Technology Consultants Viktoriya Oliynyk and Cory Pavicich demonstrate ways to personalize your Desire2Learn course. Topics include how to customize a course home page; add and remove tools from the navigation bar; and, create custom widgets. If you’re already a D2L user, this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching With Technology: Eliana Colunga</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4216</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4216#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sytsma</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[arts & humanities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Study Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Ideas for Students]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assistant Professor of Psychology Eliana Colunga talked about the ways she integrated various discussion platforms into her courses to encourage student participation during her Teaching with  Technology presentation. Through her discussion, Dr. Colunga highlighted the importance of student discussion as it provides the foundation for understanding the course material.
The first method employed by Colunga was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Actively Learning through Elements of GIS</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4163</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4163#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Hayden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[class webpages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GIS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Foote]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Ken Foote of the Geography department at the University of Colorado at Boulder knows the value of increased technology capability in his classroom. For years Dr. Foote’s class, Elements of GIS (Geographic Information Systems), has been at the forefront of utilizing technology to its fullest capability – continuously changing and improving as available technology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engaging Students with Best &#8220;Clicker&#8221; Practices</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4200</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4200#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jimobersteg</dc:creator>
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Event Date:
Tue, 04/10/2012 &#8211; 12:00pm &#8211; 1:30pm

Event Location:


Norlin Commons E113

Classroom response systems (&#8220;clickers&#8221;) offer a powerful way to increase student engagement by going beyond simple quizzes. They provide an opportunity to gather real-time feedback on student understanding. If you are new to clickers or need fresh ideas for using clickers in the classroom, please join [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customizing your Desire2Learn Course</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4173</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4173#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jimobersteg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Desire2Learn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[·         Monday, 4/16  12:00-1:00pm  Norlin Commons 113B
In this 60-minute workshop, Academic Technology Consultants Viktoriya Oliynyk and Cory Pavicich demonstrate ways to personalize your Desire2Learn course. Topics include how to customize a course home page; add and remove tools from the navigation bar; and, create custom widgets. If you’re already a D2L user, this session will help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting to Know Desire2Learn</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4170</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4170#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jimobersteg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Desire2Learn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[·         Monday,  4/2   2:30-3:30pm   ECEE 283
·         Tuesday,  4/3   12:00-1:00pm Norlin Commons 113B
·         Wednesday,  4/11   2:30-3:30pm   ECEE 283
·         Thursday,  4/26  12:00-1:00pm Norlin Commons 113B
Planning to move your course(s) from CULearn to Desire2Learn (D2L)? This 60-minute workshop offers a guided tour of CU Boulder’s new online learning environment and aims to demystify the transition to D2L. We will demonstrate the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching With Technology: Sarah Hug</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4136</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4136#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Hayden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Teaching with Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ATLAS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can technology be effectively used as a teaching tool without knowing the benefits of its use in the learning process? On Friday, February 23, 2012 Dr. Sarah Hug joined the Teaching with Technology seminar to answer just that question. As a research associate at ATLAS and a learning scientist specializing in mixed methods research and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching With Technology: Tim Weston</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4112</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4112#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Hayden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Teaching with Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assessment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the idea of using technology as a teaching tool in classrooms holds allure, why use technology if it does not have a positive effect on learning? During his Teaching with Technology presentation, Dr. Tim Weston spoke on the importance of assessment in determining the efficacy of teaching with technology.
An expert in assessment, Dr. Weston [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ASSETT Development Awards: Spring 2012 Call for Proposals</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4094</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/4094#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Matheny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ASSETT News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ASSETT invites proposals from Arts &#38; Sciences Faculty, Departments, and Programs for awards relating to the use of technology primarily for teaching and learning.  The maximum award possible is $5000.
Faculty and GPTIs of any rank or appointment may apply. Staff also may be co-applicants. Department proposals for equipment or software that may be used in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching With Technology: John Bennett</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3963</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3963#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Hayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 With the advancement of massive multiplayer online games and simulation technology, entire classrooms and even campuses can now be found in a digitized state, existing within the online realm of gaming. But actually teaching in a virtual world? Such ideas seem fit only for the pages of science fiction and a far off future. However, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Professor Andrew Martin&#8217;s evolutionary biology course featured in national Higher Ed magazine</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3947</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3947#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaha0096</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Chronicle of Education article on &#8216;flipping&#8217; college lecture courses highlights Professor Martin&#8217;s evolutionary biology course.  Check out how Professor Martin has &#8216;flipped&#8217; his course to enhance students&#8217; learning at: http://chronicle.com/article/How-Flipping-the-Classroom/130857/
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		<title>Teaching with Technology: Benjamin Robertson</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3913</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3913#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sytsma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For every major, there is a key set of skills that students are expected to obtain and refine over the course of their educational experience. In English, the two primary skills are writing and close reading.  Close reading can be defined as the ability to look at a text, interpret the important information in it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching with Technology: Michael Klymkowsky</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3892</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3892#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sytsma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Klymkowsky is a professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at CU and Co-Director of CU Boulder’s Science Teacher Preparation and Certification Program (CU Teach).  During his Teaching with Technology presentation, he discussed the current problems facing education and the new tools available to overcome at least some of those issues.
It is increasingly apparent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Good Clicker Questions</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3938</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3938#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this symposium, faculty members will learn about and practice writing clicker questions of varying complexity.
Presented by: Stephanie Chasteen, Science Teaching Fellow, Physics
Thursday March 8, 2:30-4:00 PM, ATLAS 200
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		<title>Teaching with Technology: Tim Wadsworth</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3873</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sytsma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the Teaching with Technology seminar series, Tim Wadsworth, an Associate Professor in CU’s department of Sociology, analyzed the effectiveness of his online courses in his presentation. The biggest challenge Dr. Wadsworth encountered was to get students engaged, especially during the summer, so he needed to find a solution to this problem.
Thinking about how to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Development Awards: Dancing on the Digital Stage</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3801</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sytsma</dc:creator>
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When you hear someone say they are dancer, immediately an image of a person performing on a stage in front of an audience appears in your head. Generally, our view of dance as an art form tends to exist within a narrow scope that is bounded within the diameters of the stage. According to this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching with Technology: David Schaal</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3878</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sytsma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Schaal, the Lead Multimedia Instructor in Boulder’s Technology, Arts, &#38; Media Program (T.A.M.), discussed the digital platforms he employed in his classes over the past several years to improve accountability and student participation in his Teaching with Technology presentation. Through testing various mediums to present class information, Instructor Schaal  has been trying to figure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Summer Institute: Increasing Student Engagement and Improving Learning with Educational Technologies</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3901</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wished that your classroom was more of an intellectual community?
Have you been amazed at the social communities that your students participate in using Internet tools and wondered if they might be helpful in the classroom?
Have you been impressed at how students, and perhaps colleagues, have used digital environments i.e. discussion boards, blogs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching with Technology: Alison Hicks</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3870</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sytsma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The intersection of technology and research come together in Personal Learning Environments (PLEs), a customized learning experience and process based on an individual’s needs. Alison Hicks, the Romance Languages Research and Instruction Librarian, discussed this innovative teaching tool during her presentation in the Teaching with Technology seminar.
Personal learning environments allow the individual to gather a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching with Technology: Lori Emerson</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3858</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sytsma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Digital technology is influencing every subject within academia in numerous ways, but it is also pushing society to reinvent the art of poetry. Lori Emerson, an Assistant Professor in CU’s English Department, discussed in her Teaching with Technology presentation how technology is influencing poetry and how she presents this unique art form to her students. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching with Technology: Carole McGranahan</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3861</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sytsma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Associate Professor Carol McGranahan of CU’s Anthropology department discussed her experience with social media in her teaching when she presented during the Teaching with Technology seminar series. In her presentation, Dr. McGranahan assessed the impact that the use of Twitter and blogs in her classroom had on student learning.
Through Twitter, McGranahan tweets relevant course information, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Technology Assistants Wanted</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3812</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ASSETT has a job open for student workers. Teaching Technology Assistants (TTA), up to four positions available. Duties include assisting Academic Technology Consultants in supporting faculty use of educational technologies, such as CU Boulder&#8217;s new learning management system Desire2Learn (D2L), and assisting ATCs with other ASSETT projects. Assistance may include teaching technology skills to technical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching with Technology: Matt Koschmann</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3746</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sytsma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assistant Professor Matt Koschmann is pragmatic about technology.  In a presentation at the Teaching with Technology seminar, Dr. Koschmann argued that technology should never be the means to an end, but rather it should be one step in solving the entire problem. Pushing the other professors to reassess their teaching, Koschmann argued that the classroom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching with Technology Seminar: Terry Kleeman</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3750</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sytsma</dc:creator>
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Funding for Daoist studies is minimal compared to the money scholars of Buddhism receive, Terry Kleeman, an Associate Professor of Chinese in the department of Asian Languages &#38; Civilizations, highlighted in his Teaching with Technology presentation. According to Dr. Kleeman, Buddhism is the rich kid on the Eastern Asian religion block, meaning his field of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electronic Teaching Symposium</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3755</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The purpose of this symposium is to open up a dialog with interested faculty, instructors and administrators at CU-Boulder about digital strategies in academia in general and in hybrid and online instruction in particular.
Although Dr. Carey&#8217;s intent is to devote a substantial amount of the period to open discussion regarding developments of mutual interest in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take a Look: Flash Reader App for IPad and IPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flash Reader uses a simple technique to provide an interesting new reading experience.  This IPad and IPhone app takes content and &#8220;flashes&#8221; it 1-2 words at a time in the same place in the middle of the screen.   You can change the number of words per minute (wpm) that are flashed &#8212; the default is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Development Awards: The Story Behind the Picture</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sytsma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ 01/23/2012; 11:00 am; ] As citizens of the Digital Age, we are exposed to countless images every day; whether they are advertisements, web banners, photos from the newspaper, pictures on Facebook, or images from numerous other sources. Most of the time, these images slip beneath our perceptual radar and they disappear from our conscious thought as fast as they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desire2Learn Grade Book Clinics</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3598</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Desire2Learn Grade Book Clinics
Academic Technology is offering several drop-in clinics during exam week to assist faculty using Desire2Learn with their semester-end grade book questions:
Wednesday, December 14 – 11:00 a.m. &#8211; 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. &#8211; 2:00 p.m.
Thursday, December 15 – 11:00 a.m. &#8211; 12:00 p.m.
Friday, December 16 – 11:00 a.m. &#8211; 12:00 p.m. and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desire2Learn Workshops</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3606</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Academic Technology is offering workshops to help acquaint faculty with CU-Boulder&#8217;s new online learning environment, Desire2Learn. Getting to Know Desire2Learn (D2L) provides an introduction to the most commonly used tools. Dates are:12/13/2011, 12/15/2011, 1/9/2012, 1/10/2012, 1/11/2012, 1/12/2012. Getting to Work With Desire2Learn (D2L) is a follow-up, hands-on workshop intended to help instructors start building their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Development Awards: The Arapaho Project: A New Hope for an Endangered Language</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3364</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sytsma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like some animal species, small languages must also thwart off the threat of extinction. In particular, the Arapaho language is at risk. Luckily, though, it’s receiving some help.  Andrew Cowell, a professor in the Department of Linguistics, is here to ensure this language’s survival in the 21st century.
Reflecting on his career, Professor Cowell noted that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ditching Dewey Decimal: Information Literacy is the New Frontier for Librarians in the 21st Century</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3373</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sytsma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a librarian in the digital age is not simply about stamping books, using the Dewey Decimal system, or collecting late fees: it involves much more, contrary to popular opinion. Caroline Sinkinson and Alison Hicks, both Assistant Professors in the department of Research and Instructional Services, are deconstructing the stereotype of a Librarian, while also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Development Awards: New Tools for an Ancient Language</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3271</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sytsma</dc:creator>
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	Group Photo of the Students Currently Benefiting from the Digital Library of Tibetan Language Recordings

How often have you heard someone say, “I speak Tibetan.”  Maybe once, possibly twice, though for most of us, the answer is probably zero. For students attempting to learn this difficult language, there are a limited number of materials available to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education assisted by the use of technology really isn’t that complicated!</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3286</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manaslu Bista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Educational institutions that are financially strapped are sometimes reluctant to integrate new technology into learning activities. There is also a misconception among academic professionals who assume that new ways to integrate technology with learning are complicated and time consuming. Travis Chillemi, a staff member at the office of the University Controller at Denver, aimed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A computer science project that leads to success</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3288</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manaslu Bista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an-out-of state student who relies heavily on public transportation, Zack Shapiro, a senior at CU Boulder, was inspired to create an iPhone app that provided RTD bus schedules for the Boulder area as well as Denver and Broomfield areas. His app, Beeline RTD 2, is an improved and redesigned version of his first iPhone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CU Denver Professor connects through Adobe</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3284</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manaslu Bista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A growing number of academic professionals are switching from traditional classroom lectures to online classes. Online learning and in person lectures are now becoming a popular combination of learning tools in academia. At the 2011 COLTT (Colorado Learning &#38; Teaching with Technology) Conference held at CU Boulder, Storm Gloor, an Assistant Professor in the Music [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Consultant is In! ATCs begin office hours at ALTEC</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3287</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3287#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aisha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An ASSETT ATC will be available at ALTEC from 10:00 a.m. &#8211; 12:00 p.m. in Room 152 (b) to answer your questions related to using technologies to support student&#8217;s learning.
We look forward to seeing you.
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		<title>Call for Proposals: ASSETT Development Awards</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3285</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3285#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ASSETT invites proposals from Arts &#38; Sciences Faculty, Departments, and Programs for awards relating to the use of technology primarily for teaching and learning.  The maximum award possible is $5000.
Faculty and GPTIs of any rank or appointment may apply. Staff also may be co-applicants. Department proposals for equipment or software that may be used in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lights, Camera, This is What Beautiful Looks Like!</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3279</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3279#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manaslu Bista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“If only I were four inches taller…,” “If only I were skinnier….,” “If only I had bigger breasts&#8230;,” “If only I had a smaller nose…,” “If only if only…”. For many young women, these thoughts accompany them in their daily lives and can even lead to harmful behaviors. From childhood to womanhood, a woman’s body [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lights, Camera, This is What Beautiful Looks Like!</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/2454</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/2454#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>packern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“If only I were four inches taller…,” “If only I were skinnier….,” “If only I had bigger breasts&#8230;,” “If only I had a smaller nose…,” “If only if only…”. For many young women, these thoughts accompany them in their daily lives and can even lead to harmful behaviors. From childhood to womanhood, a woman’s body [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few tips from Microsoft’s Doug Thomas on PowerPoint presentations</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3283</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3283#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manaslu Bista</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assett.colorado.edu/?p=1649</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An effective and interesting PowerPoint presentation can be determined by how you present your materials to your audience. PowerPoint presentations are used in almost every classroom these days. Students, too, have developed a relationship with PowerPoint lectures; some preferring heavily text based PowerPoints and some preferring to the point, image-rich slides. But the key to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CU professor spotlight: A mathematical challenge</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3278</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3278#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[


	
	Keith Kearnes, a professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado in Boulder, stands next to a chalkboard in his office on Friday, April 8, 2011. Kearnes is a member of a four-person committee that formulates problems for a contest called &#39;Problem of the Month&#39; offered to undergraduate math students. (Photo/Esteban L. Hernandez)



Keith Kearnes is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CU professor spotlight: A virtual expedition</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3277</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3277#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[archeology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;

	
	Elspeth Dusinberre poses insider her office in the Eaton Humanities Building on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder on Monday, April 4, 2011. She was instrumental in creating a video game that helps her students learn about archeology, specifically Egyptian. (ASSETT/Esteban L. Hernandez)

A scholarly expedition to the archeological paradise of Egypt would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D2L Workshop for Language Instructors</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3282</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3282#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>oliynyk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sign up today for one of the next week&#8217;s D2L workshops facilitated by ASSETT ATCs! The workshops are hosted by ALTEC.
An online learning environment (OLE) is a web-based tool you can use to share resources, communicate with your students, assess their learning and manage your course. CU is in the process of adopting a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connect with D2L</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3281</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3281#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campus News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Desire2Learn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The new course management system on campus is called &#8220;Desire 2 Learn&#8221;, or &#8220;D2L&#8221; for short.  Some courses will start using it this fall, with more to follow in the Spring as the old CULearn is phased out.  To get to D2L, log in with your identikey at http://learn.colorado.edu. To learn more about Desire 2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iClicker Presentations: Getting started with iClicker and What&#8217;s new and upcoming with iClicker?</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3280</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3280#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>oliynyk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dustin Jensen, representative from iClicker will be on campus to inform staff and faculty about what&#8217;s new with iClicker.  You are welcome to attend one or more of the sessions listed below.  He will also be available for drop-in Q&#38;A for the duration of the event.
Friday, August 19th – UMC 245
10:00-11:00 &#8211; Session 1: Getting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC) launches new website!</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1955</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1955#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 21:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>niave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC) is excited to launch our new and improved website at http://atoc.colorado .edu. This would not have been possible without the incredibly talented and helpful team at ASSETT. They were able to provide direction and support throughout the process. The new design provides an updated and more professional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC) launches new website!</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1610</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1610#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 19:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>niave</dc:creator>
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The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC) is excited to launch our new and improved website at http://atoc.colorado .edu. This would not have been possible without the incredibly talented and helpful team at ASSETT.  They were able to provide direction and support throughout the process.  The new design provides an updated and more professional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies launches new website</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1592</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1592#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>niave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for their “What is Medieval?” panel discussion, the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies announced the arrival of their new website.  The Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies is about more than just knights and swords, so CMEMS and ASSETT worked together to come up with a clean and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies launches new website</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/2259</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/2259#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jarrod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for their “What is Medieval?” panel discussion, the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies announced the arrival of their new website. The Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies is about more than just knights and swords, so CMEMS and ASSETT worked together to come up with a clean and classic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hybrid Class: COMM 4510 Senior Sem. in Nonverbal Communication</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/2261</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/2261#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jarrod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Busy students who balance school and work are reporting that technology is increasingly an asset to their learning on campus. Dennis Carter in, eCampus News (http://www.ecampusnews.com/top-news/technology-a-key-for-students-with-hectic-schedules-study-says/), highlights the need for educational tools on campus to cater to a wider range of students with busy schedules.
According to Carter, in a national survey, seven out of 10 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hybrid Class: COMM 4510 Senior Sem. in Nonverbal Communication</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3276</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3276#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manaslu Bista</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://assett.colorado.edu/?p=1585</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Busy students who balance school and work are reporting that technology is increasingly an asset to their learning on campus. Dennis Carter in, eCampus News (http://www.ecampusnews.com/top-news/technology-a-key-for-students-with-hectic-schedules-study-says/), highlights the need for educational tools on campus to cater to a wider range of students with busy schedules.
According to Carter, in a national survey, seven out of 10 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tablet series: A battle for e-reader supremacy</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1498</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1498#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many practical and useful functions of tablets such as the iPad is to utilize them as portable e-readers. Here, Amazon had an edge over Apple, at least in creating an e-book reader in this market. So did Sony, who released the Digital Reader to compete with Amazon’s cherished invention, Kindle.
An article published [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Facebook to attract and keep students in school</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/2263</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/2263#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jarrod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Facebook is typically used to keep in touch with friends. But what if the social networking giant actually held the potential to keep students interested in school?
An app called Schools is taking advantage of Facebook’s omnipresent and powerful social engagement capabilities to help recruit and retain prospective students at select colleges.
Palpable irony aside, this app [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Facebook to attract and keep students in school</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1550</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1550#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook is typically used to keep in touch with friends. But what if the social networking giant actually held the potential to keep students interested in school?
An app called Schools is taking advantage of Facebook’s omnipresent and powerful social engagement capabilities to help recruit and retain prospective students at select colleges.
Palpable irony aside, this app [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whiteboard Animation to be used in Comm Courses</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1540</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1540#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manaslu Bista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many professors at CU are motivated to find new and creative ways to teach. Among them is Matt Koschmann, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, who has plans to use Whiteboard Animate as a creative way to orient students to his future courses.
If you are not familiar with the Whiteboard animation, this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Interesting Apps</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1543</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1543#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manaslu Bista</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Educational Mobile Apps]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[2010 was a good year for new contributions in the field of education and technology, particularly the rise of the &#8220;app.&#8217; While you anticipate the new apps that 2011 might offer, I want to remind you of four useful apps from past years that we have not covered yet on our site. These apps are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going to class, 21st century style</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/2265</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/2265#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jarrod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Some students are notorious for determining their class attendance based on whether or not notes, presentations and lecture outlines are available online.
This can cause some conflict for professors. Instructors post class material online to help those who use the resources as a secondary source. In turn, they still expect students to use the class notes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technologies for Teaching Large Lecture CoursesTecknowlogy Roundtable Discussion</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3275</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3275#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda McAndrew</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Campus News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Large Lectures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are you teaching or will you be a TA in a large lecture course now or sometime soon? All are welcome to join us for this month&#8217;s Tecknowlogy Roundtable. Our discussion topic, Technologies for Teaching Large Lectures, will be led by Academic Technology Consultants from ASSETT and Leeds School of Business. Amanda McAndrew, Jacie Moriyama, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going to class, 21st century style</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1552</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1552#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 22:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some students are notorious for determining their class attendance based on whether or not notes, presentations and lecture outlines are available online.
This can cause some conflict for professors. Instructors post class material online to help those who use the resources as a secondary source. In turn, they still expect students to use the class notes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Proposals: ASSETT Development Awards</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1582</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1582#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jarrod</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Developmental Awards]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ASSETT invites proposals from Arts &#38; Sciences Faculty, Departments, and Programs for awards relating to the use of technology primarily for teaching and learning.  The maximum award possible is $5000.
Staff, GPTIs, and faculty of any rank or appointment may apply. Department proposals for equipment or software that may be used in teaching and learning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Horizon Report Released</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1529</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1529#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching Tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In partnership with the New Media Consortium, the Educause Learning Initiative released The Horizon Report on February 8. The report identifies key areas of emerging technology that may significantly impact education.
Four key trends were highlighted by the report:

With the growth of resources and their accessibility on the Internet comes a challenge for educators to determine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to cite an E-book</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1526</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1526#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-texbooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tech tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As their popularity in academe increases, e-books will fall under the same regulations as any other form of digital or paper resource. This includes citations, which without a standard method for e-books, is causing a bit of havoc for scholars.
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently explored the subject in article titled, “E-Books&#8217; Varied Formats Make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MIT OpenCourseWare for independent learners</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1502</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1502#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[online learning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On January 12, MIT OpenCourseWare launched five courses in beta phases as part of a new approach towards open education.
The new courses are being dubbed “OCW Scholar” and are heralded by MIT as an innovative step towards online learning, as these courses are structured for independent study.
As with any current MIT OCW, the courses are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School requiring e-textbooks for curriculum</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1492</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1492#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[digital textbooks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the schools at Trine University, a small private university in Indiana, will begin requiring all of its students in the School of Professional Studies to use e-textbooks in all courses come January 2011.
The plan behind the exclusivity campaign isn’t entirely out of step: the 10 available degrees sought by the school’s 500 adult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Proposals, Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology (COLTT) Conference</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1546</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1546#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The COLTT program committee is now soliciting proposals for conference presentations for the 14th Annual COLTT Conference (Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology) which will be held on the CU-Boulder campus August 3rd and 4th, 2011.
COLTT offers a great professional development opportunity for faculty, staff, and students interested in the latest innovations and current research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Proposals, Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology (COLTT) Conference</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/2267</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/2267#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jarrod</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Know What You Need]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
The COLTT program committee is now soliciting proposals for conference presentations for the 14th Annual COLTT Conference (Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology) which will be held on the CU-Boulder campus August 3rd and 4th, 2011.
COLTT offers a great professional development opportunity for faculty, staff, and students interested in the latest innovations and current research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tell us what direction CU should take in technology &amp; enter a drawing for a $100 gift certificate</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/2281</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/2281#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jarrod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
ASSETT is a program in the Arts &#38; Sciences that supports teaching and learning through technology. We need to hear from you about what you think are important directions CU should take in this area. Complete the survey and you can enter your name in a drawing for a $100 gift certificate to the CU [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tell us what direction CU should take in technology &amp; enter a drawing for a $100 gift certificate</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3274</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3274#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aisha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ASSETT is a program in the Arts &#38; Sciences that supports teaching and learning through technology. We need to hear from you about what you think are important directions CU should take in this area. Complete the survey and you can enter your name in a drawing for a $100 gift certificate to the CU [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Proposals:  ASSETT Development Awards</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1547</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1547#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Developmental Awards]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ASSETT invites proposals from Arts &#38; Sciences Faculty, Departments, and Programs for awards relating to the use of technology primarily for teaching and learning.  The maximum award possible is $5000.
Staff, GPTIs, and faculty of any rank or appointment may apply. Department proposals for equipment or software that may be used in teaching and learning are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Physics Department launches new website</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1544</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1544#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>niave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A&S Spotlight]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ 03/08/2011; 9:00 pm; ] The Department of Physics is thrilled to launch our new website at http://physics.colorado.edu, just in time for graduate recruitment! The site features a clean, new look and a simpler navigation structure, as well as updated information throughout. The content, organization and design improvements have been hailed by faculty, staff and students alike. Indeed, this updated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D2L Wrapup: How is ASSETT Supporting You?</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1535</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1535#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Campus News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that you know a bit more about what you can expect from Desire 2 Learn, we’d like to tell you how ASSETT will be supporting you. One of our goals is that the transition from CULearn to D2L is a smooth and positive experience. To help with this, we’ll be putting several strategies in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brand New for CU: D2L’s Electronic Portfolio Tool</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1530</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1530#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Electronic portfolio (aka digital portfolio) is a dynamic student-centered multimedia platform for collecting, organizing, and presenting learning artifacts. It has a variety of learning tools that can engage students in active learning and help them focus on the learning process. In Higher Education, electronic portfolios are used on the course level, the program level (e.g. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking Your Course with D2L</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1523</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1523#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda McAndrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Desire2Learn is here! This is the perfect time to think about redesigning your course site. While learning a new system, why not think about some ways to spice up your class as well? Learning management systems have been used as repositories for information like lecture notes, PowerPoints, and PDF files. But they can also be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CULearn  vs. Desire 2 Learn – What’s the Difference?</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1511</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1511#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Matheny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know that the campus is moving to a new Learning Management System, but what does that mean in terms of ease-of-use, features, and all the ways you want to engage your students both inside and outside the classroom? This article answers those questions, and gives you a visual glimpse into the new features you can expect.]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye CULearn, Hello D2L</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1509</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1509#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Campus News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CULearn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Desire2Learn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you heard the news? The system that will replace CULearn is called Desire2Learn or &#8220;D2L&#8221;.  Here at the ASSETT offices, we&#8217;re excited by the change. D2L is full of useful features and very friendly to use, making it a good tool for both faculty and students.  Our special focus for articles this week is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Education Series: A daring prediction for OpenCourseWare</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1508</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1508#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When open textbook supporters, online educational organizations and members of the academic community met at the UC Irvine campus last month, one of the top participants made a daring prediction.
As the dean of distance education and continuing learning at UC Irvine, Gary Makin predicted that OpenCourseWare will transform into the standard at both small community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tablet series introduction</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1496</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1496#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the herald arrival of tablets in early 2010, analysts, computer junkies, educators and the common consumer were all abuzz about this technological advancement. Safe to say, 2011 will be the year of the tablets.
As with many pieces of developing technology, its potential as a beneficial tool for education should be explored and researched.
To help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An online gallery for studying artwork</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1475</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1475#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Art and Art History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[True works of art can be so powerful that the only way they can truly be experienced is by stepping in front of them, viewing them with bare eyes.
However, this can be difficult considering these works are usually housed in museum collections across state lines, and even other continents. A new online tool may help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customizing your student’s learning experience</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1408</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1408#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transforming Eucation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rarely does a singular teaching method equally and effectively reach all students. A recent article on Faculty Focus suggests educators can dramatically improve their chance at helping their students learn by switching a learning environment from teaching directed to learner-directed.
A nine-step, four-phase list outlines how teachers can begin transforming their classroom. For instance, during the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developmental Award Spotlight: A photo lab for art students</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1501</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1501#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[A&S Spotlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASSETT News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 Developmental Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Art and Art History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Lia Pileggi began conducting workshop classes for photographing artwork she noticed something. With a little help from the people she was helping, she realized her department was missing a resource of potential value for students.
“In every single workshop, someone would ask, ‘Ok, this is great, now I know how to photograph, where can I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syllabus Library: A Central Repository for A&amp;S Department Syllabi</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3273</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/3273#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carneymo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Help Resources]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://syllabus.colorado.edu/
ASSETT has now launched a new web-service that hosts a repository of syllabi. The Syllabus Library is a tool for use by any Department in the College of Arts &#38; Sciences to upload their syllabi into a central repository. Anyone who is on campus can search the repository and download a syllabus. The aim is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syllabus Library: A Central Repository for A&amp;S Department Syllabi</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1487</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1487#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://syllabus.colorado.edu/
ASSETT has now launched a new web-service that hosts a repository of syllabi. The Syllabus Library is a tool for use by any Department in the College of Arts &#38; Sciences to upload their syllabi into a central repository. Anyone who is on campus can search the repository and download a syllabus. The aim is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study tools resembling social media more than academic services</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1466</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1466#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Tech Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Student Use of Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Study Tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most students probably spend more time visiting Facebook than they do visiting their professor’s during office hours. While tremendous use of the social media site is no longer a surprise, using the social media giant’s framework to offer academic aid may be a bit of a stretch.
But if membership numbers account for anything, it seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SweetSearch: A Search Engine for Students</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1461</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1461#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manaslu Bista</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Help Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Ideas for Students]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Google, Bing and Yahoo are some of the popular and dominant search engines in the web world. However, specialized search engines might provide you with useful and faster data. One of these search engines is the SweetSearch, especially designed for students.
Sweet Search is owned by Dulcinea Mideo. This search engine is created, evaluated and maintained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Twitter help you boost your grades?</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1453</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1453#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manaslu Bista</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Ideas for Students]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A semester long experimental study showed that college students who used Twitter for educational reasons had their GPAs a point higher than students who didn’t Tweet. In addition, the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning also reported that students who tweeted also reported higher level of engagement with their class assignments.
The study was based on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shortening the lecture</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1463</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1463#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Tech Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microlectures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine if class only lasted, say, about 60 seconds.
For some students at San Juan College in Farmington, New Mexico, a 60 second class is already a part of their schedule.
These microlectures are classes cut down to snippets as short as a minute of academic information. The college’s manager of online services, David Penrose, pioneered the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New ASSETT service makes PDFs text searchable</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1485</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1485#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carneymo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ASSETT News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Help Resources]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The OCR Service
http://assett.colorado.edu/ocr/
ASSETT now offers a new service: the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Service. The OCR Service makes PDFs text searchable. In addition, this service will clean, rotate and properly align PDF files. You first upload PDFs to the service, then they are processed with our software, then they will become available for download. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile Learning: Education with the help of your cell phone</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1470</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1470#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Tech Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Learning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With growing capabilities, cell phones are found in the hands of many college student’s. With this notion in mind, also growing is the possibility for these devices to function as a microcomputer.
But not all phones fall in this category. To be more precise, smartphones are the mobile devices that fall under this continually developing group.
What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone meets Aristotle</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1459</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1459#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manaslu Bista</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arts & humanities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rhetoric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Ideas for Students]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We would like to introduce to you an iphone app: Aristotle’s complete works (with search). This app provides you with a collection of Aristotle’s work. Historically, his collection of work is categorized under the Corpus Aristotelicum. The Corpus Aristotelicum consists of concepts like logic, physics, metaphysics, ethics, politics, rhetoric and politics.  This app aims [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statistics on educators using Twitter</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1449</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1449#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educational Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study by Faculty Focus reveals educator’s participation on Twitter is increasing at a steady rate. The results are based on a survey responded by 1,372 higher education professionals. The study found 35.2 percent of respondents used Twitter in some form, up from 30.7 percent in 2009.
Published in a post titled, “Twitter in Higher Education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Book about Internet Basics</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1451</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1451#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manaslu Bista</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Ideas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Believe it or not, Google has now written a book called 20 Things I learned. The best part? It’s free and available online. This book will teach you some of the basics of browsers, HTML 5 and web pages, cookies and IP addresses. This book may be beneficial for anyone who wants to learn the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An E-learning debate across the pond</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1431</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1431#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online learning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the University of Oxford, the oldest institution of higher learning in the English-speaking world, a fierce and talkative debate took place on the merits of technology-based informal learning.

 
In early October, academics, corporate officials, public figures and a self-described practitioner gathered in the noble halls of the Oxford Union to decided on a single [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School in Britain offering MBA courses on Facebook</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1465</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1465#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online learning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Using Facebook for educational purposes is now common practice among savvy educators hoping to appeal to their students. But what about actually teaching classes through the social media giant?
For Facebook, the reality of hosting classes as a part of a full-fledged university curriculum is already taking place. The London School of Business and Finance made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C4LPT: The top 100 tools for learning 2010</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1443</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1443#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Tech Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learning tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Centre for Learning &#38; Performance Technologies (C4LPT) recently announced their annual list of the top 100 most helpful tools for learning.
C4LPT is a resource site dedicated to the use of social media for learning in K-12 schooling, colleges and businesses. Founded by business and educational consultant veteran Jane Hart, her focus lies on social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enhance classes with mini video clips</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1450</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1450#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manaslu Bista</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pedagogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Study Tools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Effective learning requires timing and delivery of the right amount of lecture content available to the students. Geoff Klock, in eLearn MAGAZINE, mentions that if anything is done for more than 20 minutes, students get restless. He states, “a well-paced, technology-enhanced class feels like it’s going by faster and is more enjoyable for students” (http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=best_practices&#38;article=70-1). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transforming Education Series: Gauging the quality of online learning</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1441</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1441#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Tech Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online learning is in a constant state of expansion and revision as its popularity grows. But whether or not its quality is keeping pace with this growth was the subject of a recent discussion on the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Collecting responses from several “thinkers,” the discussion was titled, “Forum: Has the Quality of Online Learning Kept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basecamp Project Management Software</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1438</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1438#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manaslu Bista</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Tools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Managing multiple projects can be a challenge. Not to mention the series of due dates approaching with each project. Basecamp is an online software package that assists with project management and collaboration. One good feature of this software is that its entire system is online, which saves you from using your computer to store all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Five Myths of Mobile Learning</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1425</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1425#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manaslu Bista</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Student Use of Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching Tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The increasing rate at which students are using their mobile devices in classrooms is causing some teachers and professors to view the use of mobile phones as a threat to effective learning in classrooms and lectures. However, there are times when we overlook the importance of mobile learning in education. To shed light on some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plagiarizing or just reusing material?</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1407</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1407#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[pedagogy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask a student about plagiarism. Many will recount stories of a sentence missing a citation or a rewording gone horribly wrong. Others may admit to using essays, assignments or projects for more than one class.
Completely unacceptable, say most professors. But then again, don’t most educators recycle class material semester after semester? Comes off as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Series: A statistical overview</title>
		<link>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1401</link>
		<comments>http://assett.colorado.edu/post/1401#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We get it. We know of Facebook and Twitter’s enormous popularity. We know only teens and musicians regularly use MySpace nowadays. We know social media holds an enormous marketing opportunity for businesses and organizations alike.
So how about telling us something we don’t know? Welcome Social Media Today.
A list compiled by PR and marketing executive Tom [...]]]></description>
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