ATS in the news

2012 UDaily coverage

March 2, 2012 | UD Capture: Professor Lian-Ping Wang discusses value of technology in classroom
February 6, 2012 | Global Agenda series looks at espionage in digital age. Academic Technology Services is a co-sponsor of this series and make session recordings available here.
February 3, 2012 | Feb. 10: Speaking of Teaching Magee featured in Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education series. Academic Technology Services is a co-sponsor of this series and make session recordings available here.
January 27, 2012 | Speaking of Teaching Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education sets series. Academic Technology Services is a co-sponsor of this series.
January 24, 2012 | 2012 Winter Faculty Institute Preparing students for life in an information age

2011 UDaily coverage

December 6, 2011: Jan. 10: Winter Faculty Institute National expert on media literacy to present keynote and workshop
November 30, 2011 | Dec. 9: Technology and learning Stelzer to discuss transforming student learning through technology
October 5, 2011 | Oct. 19: IT Tech Fair. IT Technology Fair to be held in Trabant University Center.
September 15, 2011 | Political rage in National Agenda talk, CNN's Crowley offers bad news and good. ATS provides live video streaming and archival webcasts of the National Agenda series.
August 29, 2011 | After the storm: Course continuity IT recommends technology options for course continuity after Hurricane Irene.
August 26, 2011 | Classroom technology: New active learning pilot classrooms on campus.
August 24, 2011 | UD Capture registration: Faculty encouraged to sign up for UD Capture service by Aug. 29.
August 5, 2011 | Aug. 22-23: Graduate TAs: Conference for newly appointed graduate TAs announced. ATS will be co-presenting at this conference.
July 27, 2011 | $5 million USDA grants: CANR researchers Chen, Kniel receive funds to fight foodborne illness ATS has contributed to this effort previously.
July 27, 2011 | Fashionable education: UD fashion students spend the summer as interns in Hong Kong. ATS supports the Hong Kong internships with video conferencing.
June 8, 2011 | Summer Faculty Institute: 90-plus faculty members attend 'Passport to Success' programs.
May 9, 2011 | Summer institute for faculty: 2011Summer Faculty Institute offers “passport to success”.
April 13, 2011 | Special presentation: Indiana University’s Robert Gonyea to speak on writing practices April 21. ATS is a co-sponsor of the 2011 "Speaking of Teaching..." series.
April 11, 2011 | Wikis and research. ATS supports faculty use of wikis, such as the one highlighted in this published article.
April 5, 2011 | Student to student, across 7,000 miles. ATS supports videoconferencing on campus and around the world. "The two groups have been meeting by videoconference throughout this semester, in the fourth year of an unusual UD Honors class."
March 23, 2011 | April 8-29: Faculty roundtable series considers student engagement.
March 9, 2011 | March issue of Teaching, Learning and Assessment available. A featured article in the newsletter is, "Winter Faculty Institute a Success: Faculty provide their comments."
March 8, 2011 | World Bank president to speak at 3:45 p.m., Wednesday, March 9. ATS delivers a live video stream to Second Life for the Global Agenda series along with an archival recording to the UD podcast page.
February 25, 2011 | Videoconferences on federal grant funding opportunities set; first workshop March 1.
February 18, 2011 | Faculty Roundtable Series announced.
January 31, 2011 | Feb. 6: Deadline for spring UD Capture registration.
January 18, 2011 | Impactful learning theme of Winter Faculty Institute.
January 4, 2011 | Winter Commencement to be webcast Jan. 9.

2010 UDaily coverage

December 21, 2010 | Academic Technology Services holds session on clickers, learning.
December 15, 2010 | Deadlines to sign up for UD Capture announced.
December 10, 2010 | Jan. 6: 2011 Winter Faculty Institute set.
December 3, 2010 | Dec. 10: Clicker event set for Trabant, also available via webcast.
November 16, 2010 | Dec. 10: Faculty luncheon-workshop on classroom clickers.
October 25, 2010 | Save the date: 2011 Winter Faculty Institute kick-off is Jan. 6.
October 13, 2010 | Oct 19: IT Technology Fair set at Trabant.
October 13, 2010 | Watch Delaware Debates 2010 online or on TV. ATS streams videos from events such as this one on a regular basis. The archive of the Senate debate is available here.
October 4, 2010 | Video from conference on "Delaware's Race to Deliver" now online. ATS hosts videos from events such as this one on a regular basis.
October 1, 2010 | IT Tech Fair scheduled Oct. 19.
August 25, 2010 | Tech help available to students during move-in days.
August 24, 2010 | UD, teachers use food-borne illness outbreaks to teach science. ATS provided video production services and interactive online tools for this project
August 23, 2010 | Faculty: Sign up for UD Capture by Aug. 30.
August 5, 2010 | August 23-24: Conference for new graduate TAs set. ATS staff will be contributing to the session, "Learning and Teaching with Technology."
July 16, 2010 | Schell appointed interim director of School of Nursing. "At UD, [Schell] has been involved in curriculum development and the integration of problem-based learning and 'clickers' in the nursing classroom."
June 18, 2010 | History professor wins national book prize. ATS staff assisted with the customization of Dr. Suisman's web site, which is based on the WordPress publishing system.
June 9, 2010 | Summer Faculty Institute: 'Teaching through design'.
May 27, 2010 | June 4: Enjoy fun, food at Summer Faculty Institute Technology Fair.
May 26, 2010 | LearnIT@UD: Finding the right IT training for you. Using UD Capture, the session was recorded and is linked from the course page on the LearnIT@UD website. It was also viewed live from remote locations through real-time streaming.
May 12, 2010 | June 1-4: Top 10 reasons to attend the Summer Faculty Institute.
May 7, 2010 | May 17: Celebrate student video projects at Student Multimedia Showcase. ATS supports faculty use of the Student Multimedia Design Center through in-class instruction and design of multimedia assignments.
May 6, 2010 | June 3: University Museums schedules workshop on using its visual database in class. This event is part of the Summer Faculty Institute, June 1-4, 2010.
April 23, 2010 | Summer Faculty Institute keynote set for June 1.
April 13, 2010 | Clicker selection process moves forward.
April 7, 2010 | Library, IT issue call for nominations for Student Multimedia Showcase. ATS supports faculty use of the Student Multimedia Design Center through in-class instruction and design of multimedia assignments.
April 1, 2010 | Warsaw, UD psychology departments discuss future collaborations. ATS is in discussions about "preparing for such possibilities as shared online courses."
March 22, 2010 | Summer Faculty Institute issues call for proposals.
March 9, 2010 | Shorter, Relache to perform in Philadelphia. ATS recorded a Skype conversation between Shorter and composer Gavin Bryars.
March 9, 2010 | Spring series on teaching excellence to run March 19-April 30.
March 2, 2010 | LMS Committee examines innovations in Sakai@UD. Fred Hofstetter, professor in the School of Education, demonstrated his use of Dimdim, web conferencing software that allows a presentation to be shared from one computer to multiple locations without any software installation. The meeting was recorded using the UD Capture classroom capture system.
February 22, 2010 | UD student documentary receives top honors. This article features a statement from Paul Rickards.
February 21, 2010 | March 3-4: EDUCAUSE webinar to highlight mobile technology, education.
January 22, 2010 | UD study abroad sends 1,103 students around the world. ATS provided consulting and setup assistance for Sue Barton and Jules Bruck to use Google Blogger and for Jon Cox to use WordPress.
January 19, 2010 | UD to provide free live Webstreaming of men's, women's home basketball games.
January 13, 2010 | Course redesign, e-portfolios focus of Winter Faculty Institute.
January 6, 2010 | Winter Commencement to be Webcast live on Jan. 9. ATS will be delivering winter commencement to iPhones and iPod Touches, as well as to computer viewers.

2009 UDaily coverage

December 16, 2009 | UD joins iTunes U to deliver educational materials.
December 9, 2009 | Jan. 5: Winter Faculty Institute expands its opening day program.
November 11, 2009 | Faculty Senate updated on Sakai, reaccreditation.
November 4, 2009 | UD's Winter Faculty Institute kicks off Jan. 5.
November 3, 2009 | LMS Committee explores focus for the future.
October 20, 2009 | Center for Educational Effectiveness awards grants for general education research. Lou Rossi received funding for a project based on the original Math Placement Exam that was programmed by Becky Kinney, IT-ATS.
September 14, 2009 | IT recommends technology options for course continuity in event of H1N1 outbreak.
September 10, 2009 | EDUCAUSE virtual event to highlight collaboration in classroom Sept. 23-24.
June 26, 2009 | Using technology and social networks to educate today's students.
May 13, 2009 | Summer Faculty Institute keynote set for June 5.

News coverage other than UDaily

February 20, 2012 | The Review: Poli sci prof offers teaching tips, insight. Academic Technology Services is a co-sponsor of this series and make session recordings available here.
September 20, 2011 | The Review: Gore classroom gets gadget update
September 6, 2011 | The Review: Experts evaluate local disaster response
February 22, 2011 | The Review: Injured professor Skypes into class. Creative solution highlights trend of video conferencing use in academia.
May 4, 2010 | UD Research Magazine: Australia Outback 2010, Travels in Tasmania. This ATS-hosted blog was featured in the Blogosphere section on page 48.
April 20, 2010 | The Review: New clickers: now just one 'click' away.
March 23, 2010 | The Review: New program lets professors film lectures, post to Web.
March 5, 2010 | UD Center for Educational Effectiveness Newsletter, Volume 1, February 2010. Syllabus Template -CFEE and IT-Academic Technology Services are collaborating to develop templates that faculty may use as an organizing framework for their syllabus construction. We anticipate the templates to be available mid-March 2010 and will keep you updated in the next newsletter issue.
January 12, 2010 | Philadelphia Inquirer: Number of free, noncredit courses on Web increasing. "The University of Delaware started a page on iTunes last month with courses currently restricted to staff and students, but with some likely to become public."
October 13, 2009 | The Review: Text messaging incorporated into classroom curriculum.

Off-campus presentations

March 24, 2011 | Google Docs to Foster Collaboration presented by Sandy McVey at the e-Learning Conference 2.0, Drexel University