Contact:

Office: Lib 032
Phone: x2540
Email: rwthornton@ups.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Teaching with Technology: pedagogy, new media, Learning Management Systems (Blackboard and Moodle), Web 2.0 software: blogs, wikis, social software; virtual worlds and simulations; foreign language teaching and technology; software training.

The Details:

Please contact me for anything pertaining to this site or other information about using appropriate technology for teaching, especially if you know someone who would make a good profile for the Digital Teaching Showcase.

If you are interested in using or adopting a technology in the classroom and would like information or direction or help. I can give suggestions, do some research, point out some tools, find out what other folks are doing.

If you would like training for yourself or for your one of your classes or student groups in any of the technologies I work with, including but not limited to, Blackboard, Moodle, wikis, blogs, any other web 2.0 social software, audio recording, podcasting and other audio or video tools. If I can’t help you myself, I’ll find the person who can.

If you are interested in attending one of the OIS Info Sessions or have suggestions for future ones, please let me know.

If you would like to come down to our place and do some Serious Sandbox play with some new fangled thing, drop by any time. Or, if you have found some new fangled thing you really like, be sure and let me know, so I can help spread the word.

I am a member of the LMIS (Library, Media, and Information Systems) committee, representing Instructional Technology. If you have issues or concerns on policy, procedure, or use of technology for teaching, I can bring these to the attention of the committee.

If you want to get together for coffee anytime and talk about teaching, learning, students, your research, technology, philosophy, or even old Hindi movies, just let me know :)

More about me:

My Academic and Teaching background:  Sanskrit, Indian Literature, Philosophy & Religion; Buddhism; General Comparative and Asian Philosophy; Postmodern Philosophy, media and film critical theory.