Tag: Academic Technology Services
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A World of Strength
This past week saw a number of groups participating in StandOut, a strengths assessment program designed by Marcus Buckingham, who is a business consultant and researcher. Strengths, according to this program, are defined as things that energize, or invigorate a person. Normally a strength is designated as something a person is good at. In this…
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ClassTech Loaner Pool Merges With the Music and Media Library
In collaboration between the Woodruff Library and Academic Technology Services, the ClassTech’s loaner pool of AV equipment has been transitioned to the Marian K. Heilburn Music and Media Library Collection, making the equipment now available to a wider Emory population. For years, ClassTech has operated a loaner pool that students, faculty, and staff could use…
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It’s Easy Being Green at Emory!
You know that Blue and Gold make Green…read on to see how Emory continues to go the distance in true colors! Give yourselves and each other a hand for we have much to celebrate for 2013! In the first few years of our 21st century, Emory began making plans to reduce energy; in 2006 we…
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Overview of the Coursera Course Selection Process
The Faculty Advisory Committee for Online Education (FACOE), chaired by Judy Raggi Moore, is a newly-formed committee that handles Emory’s various online education offerings. Comprised of about a dozen faculty members from different disciplines, the committee possesses a broad mix of interests and backgrounds that lead to challenging discussions from a variety of angles. Although…
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Chris Smith, Technology Specialist II, Academic Technology Services
Chris comes to UTS as a Blackboard Administrator. Before Emory, he was at Georgia Perimeter College where he was the Desire to Learn Administrator. Desire to Learn is another learning management system similar to Blackboard and Chris did that work as well as online instructional technology and faculty support for four years. Prior to his work…
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Relive the UTS Annual Kickoff
You can now view the rebroadcast of the UTS Annual Kickoff 2013 in the media player below. This video represents the creative staffing effort for both event planning, prep and support. Special thanks also goes to those who kept operations humming during the time that these good folks were prepping for and supporting the event.…
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Dana Bryant, Business Analyst, Academic Technology Services
Dana is the new Lead Instructional Technologist for the Faculty Services team. Before Emory, she was at Spelman College as the Science Education Technology Specialist for three years. Previously, Dana worked for five years in Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health, in the Center of Public Health Preparedness, where she was an instructional content developer. A…