The K-State Research Exchange (K-REx) at krex.k-state.edu will be unavailable on the following dates to implement a new interface:
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(Author’s note: This is the fourth in a series about the faculty demonstrations scheduled for K-State’s technology showcase March 13. Information is excerpted from the complete list of faculty demonstrations on the ksushowcase.wordpress.com website.)
The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Showcase is 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 13, in the K-State Student Union Ballroom. All faculty/staff are invited to attend free and see demos, visit with vendors, and win prizes. Pre-registration is required at ksushowcase.wordpress.com/registration and closes March 9.
Communication, collaboration, and publishing are more important than ever in the age of technology. These faculty demonstrations March 13 will show tools, techniques, strategies and resources to enhance information sharing and publication.
Using Digital Media for Collaborative Learning — See examples of tools and techniques for bringing the world to the classroom and the classroom to the world. Topics include writing for a global audience, new media literacy, the impact of digital media upon traditional education and the workplace, and online digital ethnographic research.
Using Flexbooks to Supplement/Replace the Traditional Textbook — Open educational resources (OER) provide free or lower cost alternatives to textbooks, where prices are increasing and students are slower to buy. This demo will show K-State’s Human Nutrition (HN 400) Flexbook (goo.gl/vOAnR) made in Google Docs. Learn what the flexbook is, how it was developed, students’ perceptions of it, and see this recent article.
(Author’s note: This is the third in a series about the faculty demonstrations scheduled for K-State’s technology showcase March 13. Information is excerpted from the complete list of faculty demonstrations on the ksushowcase.wordpress.com website.)
The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Showcase is 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 13, in the K-State Student Union Ballroom. All faculty/staff are invited to attend free and see demos, visit with vendors, and win prizes. Pre-registration is required at ksushowcase.wordpress.com/registration and closes March 9.
“Too much information” is a common lament, and no wonder with all the data that technology allows us to acquire. These faculty demonstrations March 13 will show tools and resources for finding, using, storing, and retrieving information.
Digital Innovations in Research, Learning, and Discovery at K-State Libraries — K-State Libraries will demonstrate the newly created “Librarian” role within K-State Online and discuss ways to “embed” a librarian into courses; its new LibGuides platform for customizing course and subject-guide research; and its new discovery tool for finding articles, books, and more with a single search. Learn about instructional videos and other learning objects that can be created and embedded into courses.
Managing Institutional Data With Data Cookbook — The Data Cookbook provides a central, highly visible Web-based location to store and manage our institutional data knowledge. K-State administrators and offices are using the Data Cookbook to define core data in collaboration with partners on campus, to make the reporting process more efficient and provide a central place to share terminology. See real-world scenarios of data requests for reports and the extraction of specific information for official reports. This tool is used by faculty to define the institutional data they need for their research and other work on campus.
Faculty and subject matter experts (SMEs) who are building online learning objects or whole courses or even degree programs will find some software authoring programs are connected to digital content repositories. One leading authoring tool not only connects to a number of photo sharing sites, learning object repositories, digital libraries, and online encyclopedias, but it facilitates the integration of these resources (as links) into a learning product.
First, open SoftChalk LessonBuilder. Go to Tools in the Menu Bar. Go to Media Search, or click the F8 key.
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