Academic Technology News: April '17

RSVP for lunch and the tech tours
Limited seats
for YURT tour

Brown Tech Summit

We are excited to bring you the first Brown Tech Summit, a day showcasing innovative uses of technology that connect people and ideas at Brown. Here are some session highlights:
Lunch Keynote
Changing Mental Health with Technology,
Yuri Tomikawa, Founder of Zencare.co (Brown ‘12)
Staff and Faculty Sessions
9:00 AM Virtual Reality in the Classroom
10:00 AM Trending Globally Podcast, Watson Institute
11:00 AM Learning Spaces
1:30 PM Accessibility and Technology

You are welcome to stop by for just one session or the entire day. To help us with head counts for lunch and the afternoon tours of the Multimedia Labs and the YURT (virtual reality theater), please RSVP by April 28th.

More information about Student Context Cards

Canvas Update: Student Context Cards

You can now click a student's name anywhere in your Canvas course and view a summary of the student's progress in the course. The context card shows student's last login, current total grade, number of missing or late assignments, and points for last 8 assignments.
Learn more about Student Context Cards.

Highlight of the Month: NameCoach

Do you collect student's phonetic pronunciations for Commencement? Use NameCoach to collect audio recordings and phonetic pronunciations for Commencement ceremonies. You can also use Namecoach in your Canvas course site to make your classroom more inclusive. In addition to recording the pronunciation of names, Namecoach also allows students to enter preferred pronouns, phonetic pronunciations, and enter an alternative name or pronunciation.

Academic Technology Summer Institute

Congratulations to the participants selected for this year's Summer institute! Proposals range from online courses, creating digital resources for flipped classroom, designing digital assignments, and online showcases. We look forward to working with the participants.
The institute is open for faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate student instructors who want to experiment with integrating technology into their course design. Over the course of four days, participants will explore the relationship between pedagogy and technology through a series of expert-led workshops, discussions, and presentations.
If you missed this year's application, keep an eye on the next year's call for proposal in March. If you'd like to develop your project before that, contact ITG@brown.edu for a consultation.

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