Contact:
Office: Collins Library, Room # 034
Phone: x-3613 (253-879-3613)
Fax: x-3614 (253-879-3614)
E-mail: ggilbert@ups.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Contact:
Office: Lib 030
Phone: 253 879-8637
Fax: 253 879-3614
Email: wlandrews@ups.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Walter is in charge of planning and support for projectors and media equipment in electronic classrooms.
Walter provides and supports reliable, current electronic classrooms for both student and faculty use. Walter works with faculty to ensure needs are addressed in planning for and operation of electronic classrooms and that faculty have access to training in the operation of electronic classrooms. He also assists with the daily functions the check out and check in of media equipment.
Walter provides support to non-classroom sponsored events, including faculty, administration, alumni, conferences, lectures and banquets. Support includes consultation, planning, and equipment setup for out-of-the-ordinary needs such as satellite events and instruction and training of equipment use.
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.
This is the support and information site of the The Instructional Technology group at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington in the US. The Instructional Technology group is part of Technology Services, formerly know as the Office of Information Systems.
Our primary mission is to support the appropriate use of technology for teaching in the classroom.
The Director of Instructional Technology position has been vacant since July 2006. Gordon Gilbert was interim director until September 2007; Theresa Duhart is the current acting director.
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We are located in the basement of Collins Library in the Tech Center area.
Walk down the stairs from the first floor, turn left and follow the sign that says Tech Center. Our office is by the sign that says “Instructional Technology.”
Please go here for technical information about this site and how we built it.
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