Gaining Empathy for End Users

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In this session, we’ll explore the variety of people we encounter in our daily work, and use empathy mapping to build our understanding about what they are Thinking, Seeing, Feeling, Hearing, and Doing in a challenging context. This exercise gets us into the mindset of end users and helps us to consider their views in […]

Trek Tech Apps: Using iPads to ‘Engage’ Your Audience

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This workshop will showcase five iPad apps for creating different types of presentations including: presenting images and information, sharing micro-video content, mind-mapping information, and managing real-time collaborations. Participants will work in small groups to create and present their own themed projects. Bring an iPad2 or higher. Very limited number of extra iPads available. Download the […]

Illinois Future Tech Report: What’s on the Teaching, Learning, and Research Horizon?

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Inspired by the New Media Consortia Horizon Report, this session will launch the brainstorming, sharing, and gathering of information for a spring 2014 release of the first ever Illinois Future Tech Report. If you have an interest in learning about and sharing what’s new and what’s coming in the way of technologies for teaching, learning, […]

WORKSHOP: Building an Interactive ‘Bat eBook’ with iBooks Author – Part 1

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iBooks Author is free Mac software (Lion and higher OS) that can help you build interactive manuals, user guides, training materials, reports, etc. In this workshop you’ll create a sample ‘Bat eBook’ with several interactive features: photo galleries, videos, 3D objects, quizzes, and more. Required: Macbook preloaded with iBooks Author. All other workshop materials provided, […]

Successes and Challenges of Tablets on Campus

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In 2011 CITES launched a Tablet Initiative devoted to exploring the teaching and learning potential of these devices. iPads were tested for classroom presentations, student group assignments, media production, and discipline-specific work. Early results confirm widespread enthusiasm and great potential across disciplines for teaching, research, and engagement. Next steps involve developing institutional procedures and policies […]