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Nominate Faculty for a Teaching with New Media Award
This May, faculty members will be given awards for their use of technology in and outside the classroom. If you are a student, we want to hear from you! Nominate faculty for their creative use of technology in their teaching and you could win an iPad! Click here to learn more and fill out a nomination form.

Spring 2010 Workshops
Click here to see the schedule of workshops the Instructional Design and eTeaching Services group is offering for Spring 2010. IDeS also offers custom workshops to address specific instructional needs upon request. If you would like to set up a custom workshop, please feel free to contact us at eteach@bc.edu.

eTeaching Resources
For a complete list of our teaching tools, click here.

New Teaching Tools Available
MediaKron is an easy-to-use online tool for presenting and exploring multimedia course content. Lecture capture allows instructors to create audio/video recordings of classroom lectures or presentations.

China Pop Professor Rebecca Nedostup (History) has always included music, movies and other visual arts in her course on Chinese Society through Popular Culture. She wanted to enhance the experience for students by giving them a way to continue exploring these resources outside class. The MediaKron site she created organizes audio/video clips and images in a series of inter-related topics, and encourages appreciation of the material in historical and social context by showing it on a map and timeline as well. The site is password-protected, ensuring copyright concerns are respected while allowing students to refer to the content for assignments and projects. more>>

Lecture Capture Prof. Pete Wilson is Chair of Accounting in the Carroll School Management and is widely recognized for his outstanding teaching. This year Prof. Wilson decided to record his lectures using the Echo360 lecture capture system so students could revisit them after class. The system automatically records his lecture and publishes it to Blackboard Vista, enabling students to view a video stream of Prof. Wilson speaking, along with Powerpoint Slides synchronized with the lecture. These recordings help students to deepen their understanding of what was already a rich learning experience the first time around. more>>

NU 210 Public Health NU 210 Public Health: the Science of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion is a new interdisciplinary course developed and taught by Rosanna DeMarco (CSON). To help students engage with concrete examples and concerns from the field, she is incorporating a range of technologies from Blackboard Vista to iClicker to a wiki for collaborative work on case studies. Newton Health Department personnel will share their expertise with the class and answer questions via Wimba Classroom, an online learning environment supported through IDeS. more>>