Ever wish there were an easier, more reliable way to confirm your students are actually in class? The ETS team is excited to pilot a new feature in Qwickly Attendance: Attendance NFC Tags. With this option, students can simply tap their phone on a dedicated NFC tag to check in. This makes attendance faster, more
Last fall, many of you filled out our survey about classroom amenities and technologies. I would like to share with you what we learned from that survey and how it is informing our work in the classrooms. First off, these are the activities that faculty identified as being well-supported in our classrooms. Note: I have
Every morning, I drink my coffee from the blue cup pictured above. It’s unsymmetrical and has a rim that’s a bit thin and the glaze is uneven. However, I love starting my morning with this cup because I made it myself in a pottery class last year in my first attempt at cup-making, which was
Each classroom at Chapman University brings its own unique teaching and learning environment. With such a variety of spaces, no two rooms are quite the same, and I know this impacts your teaching experience. Thus, I’m sure many of you have “favorite” classrooms, while there are others you’d rather not be scheduled in. You may
Are you teaching in an active learning classroom, such as Beckman Hall 201, Keck Center 130, Leatherby Libraries B14, or Smith Hall 206? If so, you may be wondering how you can use the technology-enabled space to support active learning. We asked Chapman instructors and students for examples of how they use our active learning
Dear Chapman Instructors, We hope that this blog post finds you well and that you are enjoying these final days of summer. As the start of the fall term draws closer, Educational Technology Services wanted to share a few different ways that you can get oriented to the technology in your classroom and get classroom
Recently I had the pleasure of traveling to Portugal and visiting one of the world’s most beautiful libraries, the Joanina Library at the University of Coimbra. Of course I was enthralled by the grandeur of the space and the promise of knowledge housed within the covers of its impressive antique book collections. I was also