Episode 177 - FSI2015 and Summer Plans

05/31/2015

It's Sunday, May 31st, 2015 and welcome to Episode 177 of TechTalk4Teachers, I'm Tom Grissom.

Welcome to Episode 177 of the TechTalk4Teachers podcast, the show about teaching and learning with technology.
I am starting out solo this month but we do have a pre-recorded segment with Cindy about our summer plans.

I am back from the #FSI2015 Conference and reflecting back on some of the approaches we take for teaching and learning. We end with our Technology Picks of the Week.

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(38 minutes 55 seconds)

In this episode...

I am freshly back from the Faculty Summer Institute 2015 Conference and share some of my thoughts about the conference.

Cindy and I recorded a segment earlier this month about our summer plans that we share and we end with our Technology Picks of the Week.

Show Notes

Faculty Summer Institute 2015 Conference:

http://www.conferences.illinois.edu/facultysummerinstitute/

#FSI2015 Full Program PDF
http://www.conferences.illinois.edu/facultysummerinstitute/docs/FinalFSI2015Program.pdf

My OneNote Notebook of the Teaching and Learning with the Cloud presentation from #FSI2015
https://goo.gl/G2ugYG

Mobile Phone Bans Lead to Rise in Student Test Scores
https://news.utexas.edu/2015/05/18/mobile-phone-bans-lead-to-rise-in-student-test-scores

Technology Picks of the Week

Tom's Pick
NMC Horizon Report - Higher Education
http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2015-higher-education-edition/

Cindy's Pick
Campaign for Commercial-free Childhood
http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/

That wraps it up for episode 177 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment or suggestion, please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the Tech Talk for Teachers blog. Until next time, this is Tom Grissom, Cindy Rich, go make those backups and keep on learning.

Keep on Learning,

Tom Grissom, Ph.D.

Twitter: @tomgrissom

http://eiu.edu/itc/

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