The LIT team is on Twitter! I have recently met with the WIT Social Media team to discuss trends, hashtags, and strategies moving forward at Wentworth. On a weekday basis, I try to maintain activity on our account, either posting LIT announcements or retweeting helpful material for faculty. To help with organization, I have utilized HootSuite […]
Continue reading →As mentioned in our January 3 Blog post, Blackboard has changed its inline grading tool from Crocodoc to a new version of Box View. Because of the change in services, you aren’t able to change the existing annotations made in Crocodoc. They are still available in Box View, but in a read-only mode. The Crocodoc annotations are […]
Continue reading →Hard to believe it’s Spring midterm time! LIT is holding drop-in sessions to assist faculty with using Blackboard to send grades to Banner. As always, we are also happy to answer any other pedagogy, Blackboard or instructional technology related questions, as well as meet with faculty individually and visit any department meetings on request. To get hands-on assistance, […]
Continue reading →Faculty Showcase: Teaching, Learning & Scholarship! March 15, 2018 Request to Showcase Faculty are the hallmark of Wentworth Institute of Technology. To celebrate and recognize the accomplishments of our faculty, the Provost Office and Learning Innovation & Technology invite faculty to Showcase their work on March 15th, 2018. Faculty who participate in Professorships and Sabbatical are […]
Continue reading →VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia tool that extends the idea of collaborating online using a simple text-based discussion board by incorporating images, documents, and videos to allow people to navigate slides and leave comments in several ways – text, voice, audio file, or webcam. VoiceThread’s transition away from Flash has been an ongoing project over […]
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