Teaching Talks and Teaching Tech Talks scheduled for Spring 2013
CEIT has now posted its list of Teaching Talks and Teaching Tech Talks scheduled throughout the Spring 2013 semester. The talks are scheduled on various dates and times to make it possible for faculty...
View ArticleGoogle Apps available for educational use
BU has made the core set of Google Apps available to faculty and students for classroom use. Among the apps with the most educational promise are: Google Drive (formerly Google Docs), which allows easy...
View ArticleEnhance and save time on your grading with Turnitin features
At his Teaching Tech Talk today, Turnitin representative Shawn Lowney demonstrated some features of the Turnitin software that many users may be unaware of. Most faculty know Turnitin for its...
View ArticleWelcome to our new home!
The Educational Technology Blog has moved to a new home at sites.bu.edu/edtech/. We hope you like the new look. Please update any links in your browser accordingly, but the old blogs.bu links will...
View ArticleNVivo qualitative data analysis software available campuswide
Good news for social scientists: NVivo, the software package for qualitative and mixed-methods social-scientific research, is now available free of charge to all BU faculty, staff and students. NVivo...
View ArticleWordPress trainings resume
WordPress is a straightforward and state-of-the-art technology for designing websites and blogs. If you’re interested in learning it, we’re pleased to announce that WordPress training sessions have now...
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Are you interested in educational technology at BU but can’t come to regularly check the blog page? We’ve had our Twitter feed @edtechbu up as one way to keep up, but now there’s another way. If you...
View ArticleWebinars on audience response systems
Want to learn more about using audience response systems in your classes – whether with traditional clickers or via mobile devices? Turning Technologies invites BU faculty and staff to a series of...
View ArticleUpcoming NVivo webinars
In the coming months, BU Educational Technology, Training and Outreach plans to offer free training workshops on NVivo open to all interested BU faculty, staff and students. But if you can’t wait, or...
View ArticleRecording internships in ePortfolios
BU’s School of Hospitality Administration (SHA) has recently adopted ePortfolios as a way for students to display their accomplishments in the program’s required internship courses. ePortfolios allow...
View ArticleePortfolio Showcase
To highlight the best work of their students, the College of General Studies – where all students produce an interdisciplinary ePortfolio as part of their program curriculum – recently introduced an...
View ArticleScanning and scoring services available
BU offers a scanning and scoring service for a variety of paper-based needs including course evaluations, surveys and exam scoring, as well as data collection and professional form design. The scanning...
View ArticleTutorials on TechWeb training calendar
Many new tutorials on educational technology tools are now being offered through the training calendar within TechWeb. In July and August there are sessions available on Blackboard Learn, WordPress,...
View ArticleQualtrics: an easy online tool for surveys
Boston University has something new to offer those who use a survey tool to conduct research or course evaluations, offer tests and quizzes, get student feedback, and analyze data. A group of IT...
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Submit directly from Google Drive to Turnitin
Turnitin, BU’s supported software for academic integrity and faster grading, has recently introduced a “Cloud Submit” feature that allows students to submit assignments directly from Google Drive or...
View ArticleGoogle+ (including Google Hangouts) at BU
The social networking site Google+ is now officially available as part of BU’s Google Apps, accessible through your BU and Kerberos accounts. This includes the popular service Google Hangouts, which...
View ArticleNVivo license renewals now available
If you’ve been using NVivo through BU over the past few months, you may have noticed that current NVivo licenses will be expiring in just over a month. Renewal licences are now available to all BU...
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Digication interview with Professor Joseph Bizup
Joseph Bizup, Director of BU’s CAS Writing Program, was recently featured in the monthly newsletter for Digication, the ePortfolio software BU uses. We’re including the text of the interview here, by...
View ArticleWebinar: Using NVivo as a research tool
QSR, the makers of NVivo, invite you to a complimentary webinar about using NVivo as a research tool. NVivo is software, available free of charge to the entire BU community, that helps you organize,...
View ArticleFour BU MOOCs open for registration
Registration for BU’s first four MOOCs (massive open online courses) opened on the edx.org on 2/25. The four BU courses – Sabermetrics 101 (Andy Andres), War for the Greater Middle East (Andrew...
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