ACCORD's Teaching with Technology
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Teaching with Technology
web.mit.edu/teachtech
A Guide For for Faculty
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Help, Support, and Training
There are many options for help and support resources for faculty, students, and others engaged in teaching and learning activities at MIT. From personalized consulting services to help faculty integrate --from personalized help integrating technology into the curriculum (Educational Technology Consultants)classroom, to Library subject matter experts, to a broad spectrum of general technology help via MIT's Computing Help Deskgeneral computing and technology support.
- Educational Technology Consultants
If you don't know where to start, EdTech consultants can guide you step by step
Phone: Guidance on all aspects of using technology for teaching
617-253-0115 , Email: | et-consult@mit.edu - Libraries' Subject Experts
Subject-matter reference experts on every conceivable subject
Web request: For digital content and information resources
libraries.mit.edu/ask-us/experts.html - Computing Help Desk
Expert computing and technology help for the entire MIT community
Phone: 617-253-1101 , Email: | computing-help@mit.edu , | web.mit.edu/helpdesk/ - MIT Audio Visual Services
Service for classroom Classroom presentation and display equipment, installed or on-demand
Phone: 617-253-2808 , Web: | web.mit.edu/avorders - Academic Media Production Services
Video capture, production, streaming, webcasting, video conferencing
Phone: 617-253-7603 , Email: | amps-info
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- info@mit.edu
Class Management Tools
Communicating and collaborating with students; Putting your course on the web
Students and faculty today have a rich set of choices for communicating with each other and their students. From tried and true class email lists to personal blogs, web-based course discussion boards, or a class wiki.
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instant messaging and Stellar discussion boards, all the way to experimenting with class blogs and wikis.
web.mit.edu/teachtech/communicating
Putting your course on the web
Stellar is
Many MIT courses have web presences in the form of managed class spaces in MIT's Stellar course management system, free-form course web sites served through Athena course web lockers, all the way to publishing an MIT course to the outside world via MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative.
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MIT's course management system
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customizable web sites for distributing course materials to students and instructors in the class, and many other tools to support teaching and learning in and out of the classroom. OpenCourseWare (OCW) publishes unrestricted course materials to the world, sometime after the semester they are taught.
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web.mit.edu/teachtech/courses
Multimedia, Software, and Digital Documents
Creating Teaching Materials
With a wide range of services supporting the creation and conversion of course materials into digital content for web use, putting instructional materials on the web keeps getting easier.
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Many services are available for creating online course materials. These range from licensed and MIT-developed software to custom software development, video capture and production, advice on copyright and intellectual property concerns, and E-reserves support for providing readings through Stellar class web sites.
web.mit.edu/teachtech/materials
Learning Spaces
Technology-enabled places to teach and learn
At MIT you can find a variety of technology spaces specifically designed for various kinds a variety of learning activities, from classroom-style computer labs (electronic classrooms) to the New Media Center for DIY multimedia production, several technology-enabled group collaboration spaces, to traditional computer clusters or labs allowing students access to a broad spectrum of academic software.
- Electronic Classrooms
Classrooms with individual workstations for each student plus an instructor's workstation which can be projected to the class can be scheduled. - New Media Center
26-139, provides the MIT community the tools necessary to produce multimedia projects, such as digital video, photo scanning and manipulation, and web authoring in a "do-it-yourself" cluster of macintosh computers. - Collaboration spaces
Several student computing clusters provide access to features such as wireless access, large wall-mounted LCD displays, white boards/projection systems with digital capture and modular soft furniture. - Clusters
Athena, Windows, and Mac computing labs are available across the campus.
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. The Institute's electronic classrooms provide individual student workstations at each seat along with projection for the instructor. In the NewMediaCenter students can find multimedia software and digital video editing applications. Collaborative spaces and Athena clusters allow both for teams working with large shared displays and traditional computer labs with engineering applications for students to use individually.
web.mit.edu/teachtech/spaces
ACCORD
Teaching with Technology is a collaborative an effort led by ACCORD, the Academic Computing Coordination Groupgroup. Sponsored Jointly sponsored by the Dean for Undergraduate Education's Office of Education Innovation and Technology (OEIT), Information Services and Technology (IS&T), and the Libraries, it brings together the many educational technology service providers from these group areas and other Departmentsdepartments, Centerscenters, and Labs on a regular basis to share information and labs to collaborate on projects and services that support teaching and learning at MIT. To find out more about ACCORD, see https:// web.mit.edu/accord/ or email accord@mit.edu.
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