What's New?

• Advance: "Winners of teaching awards announced"
• Advance: "UConn joins iTunes U"
• Advance: "Q Center's peer tutoring popular with students needing help in math, science "
• HuskyCT Workshops
• Friday, October 31
  Meeting the Teaching Challenge
  In a time of budget stress, faculty face difficult choices in how to continue to provide high quality teaching and learning for all their students. The Institute for Teaching & Learning presents this day of workshops designed specifically to share ideas and resources on how to meet these teaching challenges. Registration is required. Please contact Maria Hramiak, 486-2945 or Stacey Valliere, 486-2686.  For details on the workshops click here.
• Advance: "Video editing technology now available to students at Library"
• Advance: "New seminar available online to assist in course development"
• ITL Staff Recognition
• Advance: "Teaching award winners announced"
• Summer Institute
  Core Course for the Graduate Certificate and College Instruction
• Advance: "New graduate course on teaching offered"
• Advance: "Stamford Campus hosts high school conference on globalization"
• Advance: "New software helps protect against plagiarism"
• Advance: "New features added to HuskyCT course software"
• Advance: "Strategies to address diversity help faculty teach every student"
• Advance: " Barker suggests techniques for engaging students in large classes"
• Advance: "New DVD helps doctoral students in job search"
• Advance: "New book offers educators techniques to train teaching assistants"
• Advance: "New system brings technology to classrooms at lower cost"
• What Research on the Teaching and Learning of Chemistry Can Tell Practicing Chemists
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  ITL Open House
  August 27 - September 7
  Weekdays 9 AM - 4 PM, CUE 333
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• Hi-Tech Classroom Updates
  There have been significant changes in many of the Hi-Tech Classrooms on the Storrs campus, specifically to the PCs provided in the rooms.
• 2007 Campus Technology Innovators: Podcasting - David Miller [Campus Technology article]
• Due to a facilities upgrade, HUSKYvision channels 71, 72 and 73 will be off the air until August.  Please see the Media Design site for more information.
• Interactive TV Courses Connect Faculty, Students Across Campuses [UConn Advance article]
• Teaching, Learning and Assessment Task Force Faculty Forums (Slides and audio)
• Lessons for a Teacher [Daily Campus article]
• Psychology Professor’s Podcast on Animal Behavior Hits Charts [UConn Advance article]
• Retired Faculty Share Experiences, Tips for Success in Classroom [UConn Advance article]
• Writing Center Taking on New Tasks [UConn Advance article]
• Professor, Grad Students, Explore Telemedicine in Article [UConn Advance article]
• Turning TAs into Terrific Aids [Daily Campus article]
• UConn Courses in High School Help Prepare Students for College [UConn Advance article]
• ITL's Policy on Classroom Performance Systems [updated]
• 'Library Commons' Planned for Babbidge Library [UConn Foundation article]
• Teaching Fellow Encourages Students to be Confident in Own Ideas [UConn Advance article]
• Learning Resources Center - Meeting Students' Technology Needs Head-On [UConn Libraries article]